<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:00 god drinks were expensive at armadillos how much were they oh like easy fucks were quick fucks were seven dollars each FAR <{><[>OUT <[>i know cos we ordered three and um it was janette's round and i sort of thought oh four bucks each <{><[>you know sixteen bucks that's cool cos <.>m like macs gold were four dollars wine was four dollars <[>coughs yeah really expensive <{><[>cos i was just <[>macs gold's a really nice drink beautiful i know cos i ordered linton was at was gone to the toilet tut and he said oh get me a drink so i ordered me and b a couple of wines and a macs gold for him and the <{1><[1>guy goes oh twelve BUCKS and i like FELL off the barstool <,> yeah yeah whatever and um and then kev <{2><[2>asked for <[1>mm <[2>did you guys all pay for yourself last night for dinner? mm nah cos we said we'd put it on the visa and split it and do it <{><[>as a flat account <[>whose coughs whose visa linton's? <{><[>clears throat <[>because we decided anyway that the flat's gonna go out to dinner and we're gonna go to armadillos so then we thought well we may as well we might as well clears throat term yesterday <{><[>as the flat dinner <[>good idea so did ann and bevan pay for themselves NO they didn't we <.>well well we said look we might as well just slap it all on the <.>vi visa and we'll split it up clears throat later this week and take it off the <&>5:00 flat account and um bevan paid oh ann paid and bevan put his visa on and then ann goes nah nah nah put her visa on and she paid for everyone? yeah and i said to her you don't HAVE to oh how awesome oh it was really nice of her but she didn't have to do it <,> so we're <{><[>word <[>splitting it yeah oh oh bit about <{><[>just word <[>fuck you guys are getting into this going out to dinner quite a bit aren't you spending quite a bit of <{><[>money <[>oh i'm spending far too much money that's my problem <,> GOD i can't believe the COPS were at the hog though ugh scary scary scary i'm gonna tell the whole world that i went to a pub and the cops were there and i walked straight past <{><[>them <[>laughs it was so exciting eh it was awful cos you guys were all in flats and i was in shoes and like you guys were ALL upstairs and i was still starting to go yo guys wait up this is my mum wait for me mum laughs mm cos did you think that they were looking at us quite funny i didn't see it but i thought i thought oh they're just looking at us like um trying to yeah see er oh they're all with this couple kind of thing i was thinking <{><[>word <[>but it doesn't matter because she's not our legal guardian true i mean only like i was going to say i was <&>6:00 anita i'd like to see you and susan say you were sisters laughs yep we're <{><[>sisters <[>we are laughs it's true trust me <{><[>i know what i'm doing <[>laughs that guy in the suit that unemployed guy was such a loser oh no no <{><[>he was beautiful <[><.>like he <.>was no no no no no the dork no he was BEAUtiful laughs but he gave me word it was quite disgusting laughs slightly longer <{><[>oh <[>mm he was such a goober i remember when he started working at <&>name of business yeah everyone was going <{><[>oh my GOD what did you hire him for <[>ugh laughs we were <{><[>desperate <[>cos there was this really cute guy <{1><[1>who they were gonna hire but um he was over qualified <,> <{2><[2>apparently according to bevan according to bevan and <{3><[3>bevan <[1>yeah <[2>how neat was he <[3>what what's over qualified tut um oh they they wanted to get someone and bring them up through the ranks <,> like show them work that you'll <{><[>need in business kind of thing <[>word he's not there any more though is he he got fired after four months why cos he's a loser and he didn't know how to work anything he didn't know anything about laybys mm he didn't know anything about <&>7:00 customer relations and all that kind of shit what a DORK tut so i didn't get any mail today i did i got lots what did you get i got lots of bills <{><[>well they're not bills they're like old things that my mum just sent that have been sitting at home like um a land transport thing <[>oh no yeah and um action down under brochure and community services card renewal information mhm how long does it take to renew it i don't know mine doesn't expire till the ninth month and it's only the eighth month so mm it's been sitting at home for a while and on the back of each of the letters i got SIX or something they're all sent from home cos mum told me the other day when she rung up that she was going to send them and um <,> tut on each of them there's a there's a message from my mum and my sister <{1><[1>on each and every one i mean they're so cheap they don't even write a letter they just write on the back of other <{2><[2>letters <[1>oh cool <[2>why not that's the way to do it i always <{1><[1>i <.>g i get pissed off with my mum sending things down and all she does is cross it out and rewrite the address <{2><[2>and she doesn't even write <{3><[3>hi <[1>laughs <[2>mm <[3>it's <&>8:00 got HI karla love to you <,> love mum and then it's got love debbie and then deborah's like drawn little pictures on the back of them laughs little cheapskate laughs she's such a <{><[>cheapskate oh um mm mm got a letter from sonya jones <[>mm oh great and she said laughs she reckons that i <.>li cos we went to christchurch but either um poor students er now or something or something i don't know she's going on about something and she sent some <.>e envelopes cos she thought we might be a bit poor to write a letter laughs poor bitch we can answer that laughs and in the letter she wrote um oh i already knew this anyway cos mum told me but um happy tav got busted hugely last weekend oh did it like huge time um so the cop hang on sorry the cops that were there at the hog last night are they the ones that they're the ones that would have taken um trish and um <,> what's her friend from the pub eh yes the same ones <{><[>it's a police it's a it's squad of people that go around each and every a pub <[>why yeah <&>9:00 they go round they have a paddy wagon they have couple of cars kind of thing and they go around all the pubs they think they'll like they'll go to molly's they'll go to the lord nelson the george loaded hog <{><[>where they think all students will be kind of thing <[>mhm yeah and just try and break everyone's neck off oh it works mm the <{><[>boys <[>word tut yeah but anyway kevin and a couple of his friends got taken out happy tavern at like HA HA cos how old is he he's seventeen going on eighteen and he's enGAGED <{><[>SHIT <[>he's not enGAGED he wants his girl to marry <{><[>him though <[>he wants to have word so he got busted bummer for him hugely i don't see the point in them taking them away in paddy wagons i really don't it's just to <.>sc it's just to scare people i think i don't know well most of us get scared when we get asked for i d true <,,> only ten more months to go ten more months to go mm what are we now april may june july august september october november december eight months eight months to go <&>10:00 when in november november the ninth can't wait and i hate it my flattie's supposed to be twenty by september it sucks i can't even go out with them <{><[>to <[>hey i can't figure it out is mike going to be twenty or nineteen this year twenty i think that's what i thought <,> you'll be nineteen in may eh <,> person in the corner laughs yep yeah god i'm not the youngest of all that was i think that was so sweet of rob look the cops have rode up and you're going get pinged as soon as you walk in can you handle it yep yep yep NO laughs i can't course i can i've got i d see that guy max that guy that was speaking to me when we were outside the yukky one yeah right he did educ with me and he was the one who was worried about he what he did EDUC with me <.>ed education <{><[>one one one <[>right mm oh <{><[>how embarrassing <[>and um me and him are big mates from way back and i can never remember <{1><[1>his name but oh god he's all you can see him out on the dance floor um with us friends and then i decided <&>11:00 to come off and she grabbed um layton and started to dance with <{2><[2>layton i don't know some loser who she's trying to set me up with he's a dark guy who <{3><[3>word looked nice but he looked like a bogan so i took off anyway i walked to the dance floor and max puts his arm around me and says are you all right then it's like <&>shrieks i'm fine and run off <{4><[4>crying don't touch me i don't know what you got <[1>bit of a goober <[2>who's layton <[3>oh yuk <[4>don't touch me mm oh those suits were <.>they they did <.>ma they made me laugh <{><[>because they were so obvious <[>that other guy sitting behind was <,> all rightish he was nice but he didn't even say a word <{1><[1>word i kept trying to catch his eye going <{2><[2>laughs <[1>word ring <[2>i was waiting for him to say something like <.>in join in <{1><[1>in the conversation or something like <{2><[2>come on babe <[1>yeah <[2>yeah his friend was pretty rude though his friend just hoed on in i just cracked up when janette <.>st started doing her bit though <{><[>laughs <[>word that was great and susan's sitting there going does she know him and i go no and she goes why <.>isn't why are they talking to each other and i say i don't know and janette so how are you chris how's your week been and all this and susan's going are you SURE they don't know each other they're not they DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER laughs she's just taking the mickey they don't know <&>12:00 each other i promise mm i'm going to steal linton's bike oh i like that little red light that flashes on the back except it might be a bit too high for me mm that seat's a bit high eh hey who are they playing for avalon at avalon at avalon oh no wonder that's why <&>passing vehicle obscures speech i get to go word that's miles away miles <{><[>and miles away <[>janette word know how to get there? yeah cos er grandpa gave us oh grandpa gave us a map gem of a grandpa eh you know grandpa's thing the guy who's on the sideline word <{><[>word <[>yeah yeah he is the <{><[>guy <.>that <[>no that invited janette out to dinner i didn't you hoe i know <.>i <{1><[1>i told you that last week and oh i don't remember and you know she said cos <{2><[2>like word <[1>oh mate <[2>tht's word and she'd said no <{><[>no no <[>yeah he came in and i was there and he said hi to me and and mike and linton and then he said oh well i'll be back cos he just put the ties down cos neither lintie or mike had ties and when he <{1><[1>came back oh he's starting relieving at <{2><[2>the moment he's gonna get his DICK lashed <[1>is mike and linton word <[2>oh yeah <&>13:00