<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:06 did you see the news though what news last night when they were going on about blinking <.>how what was it they <.>to they took a poll for m m p and they said that fifty two percent of people polled would vote for m m p sixteen percent wouldn't oh undecided anyway and um tut oh the rest obviously were um mm against it but they reckoned <.>the the blinking er <,> parties are trying to er especially the labour national parties are trying to discourage everybody before the referendum comes out <{1><[1><.>they they're only fifty one percent anyway so <,> <{2><[2><.>y <[1>nah <[2>yeah but i don't know about m m p anyway what would you vote for anyway tut what would i vote for? yeah oh don't know i don't know enough about it oh i <.>d oh for m m p yeah oh i'd vote m m p i think <&>1:00 well i think it's better than what we've got now i just get <.>nar narked off at <.>th voc er <.>these the word parties well you can get what <.>f forty percent of the vote and become the government laughs yeah or the other way round where you get twenty percent of the vote and get nothing <,,> like social credit did in <.>ninety in seventy something or eighty something eighty one what <.>about blinking <.>old i don't <.>know i don't know how old um we'll see what winston peters is going to do yeah he'll get probably about six percent of the vote six tut yeah cos i don't think he's got enough build up anyway yeah i don't know if he's got <.>any <.>just well <.>he's reckons <{><[>he's <.>got <[>you know it's not a one person party you can't be <.>the yeah and he's probably crapping on <.>about <.>b buying back railways after selling it that's stupid you can't do that who's going to invest in this country <.>if in that threat yeah exactly <.>buy buy something and oh we'll buy it back at the same price but flipping heck i should have got more coffee oh well well my coffee's quite NICE here at housing new <&>2:00 zealand laughs mm just a small plug there yes yeah it's <.>all should be paid for so what has been your worst holiday job worst holiday job well my best holiday job was when i was at varsity working at porirua hospital <,> mowing the lawns that was great fun would have been fun that's where i got <.>my my lawnmower tut voc trapped in a flax bush <{><[>laughs <[>laughs what happened the flax got caught around the mower laughs oh lose the blade did you no i lost the whole mower <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh what the mower went in the bush <,> yeah so i got it out those mowers you know you walk behind <.>the pull the things down and you just walk behind them yeah i went too close to the bush laughs yeah i'll always remember like um in the past we were doing um what was it we were cabling fibre optics and we got told well you got to push down here and all the rest and well like we stuffed about a few thousand dollars worth of cable i'd say is that right yeah because <.>it you're meant to <{><[>bend it slightly <.>but <&>3:00 <[>oh you snapped <{><[>it <[>word yeah <,,> oh well we didn't know we got told to shove it through there so we did i remember the good old days eh we used to <.>go you could just turn up at the labour department during <.>the at the varsity holidays and they'd give you all these bloody these jobs at <.>the at the hospitals and that yeah jeez they were just chucking money at students it was just really at the end of the day it was just a waste of money eh oh well the students enjoy it yeah and they <.>got i suppose they got good money out of it eh yeah well somebody has to live yeah what's the er yeah i've never had a bad job oh i suppose working for i r d was pretty bad <,> <{><[>but <.>that was normal job though <[>yeah but that <.>was yeah word was your first girlfriend bill word laughs cor don't <.>say don't say kelvin laughs what WAS your first <.>girlfriend do you remember your first girlfriend no there's been so many <&>4:00 yeah <{><[>i know that <.>if i know all the girls who ring you <[>laughs oh well you got <.>th you've got it or you ain't oh i don't know <.>t i can't remember my first girlfriend can you remember you first boyfriend laughs tut oh yeah definitely oh i can't remember i'm just trying to think <,,> way back then must have been pretty bad that's why you can't remember it oh it was a lovely experience i think <,> i can't remember any complaints you what i can't remember any complaints yeah well <.>i five <{><[>year olds <,,> <.>don't <[>i can't even remember any of them <.>five five year olds don't complain much laughs oh just trying <.>to just trying <.>to can't remember those things eh <,> i'm getting so old now i probably <.>everything's going vague becoming a blur yeah thirty one years yeah you shouldn't mention that bill it's confidential information laughs do you think the samoans will win next week only if they beat the all blacks well that's obvious isn't it laughs yeah i think they're going to struggle eh <&>5:00 nah they haven't got enough <.>w height in the line out so they're pretty well shot they can tackle pretty hard though oh i think they've <.>got the backs have got it i think they're um their backs are better but i don't think their forwards have got enough power or <{><[><.>stam stamina <[>voc yeah they just haven't got the <.>w weight advantage in the <.>ball um the binding and the height i'd say it'll be close <{><[>be about fifty points in it <[>i'd <.>laugh i'd laugh if they won eh? i'd laugh if they won oh doubt it somehow <.>y <.>y you never know well they're going to put a full <.>t <{><[>test team in so that's saying something about it at least they've got respect for the samoans <,> which is good <[>sniffs half the blinking all blacks are samoans nah no three three all right <{><[>what's that fifteen percent laughs is it fifteen percent is <.>fifteen is three of <.>fift what's three of fifteen laughs <[>four enough yeah twenty percent isn't it <,> well fives into <&>6:00 fifteen jeez <{><[>not mathematicians are we laughs <[>laughs <&>knock at door oh no <&>6:06 <&>tape is stopped due to knock on door <&>6:08 well thank you you can talk about your thing billy oh that thingie there have you decided where you're staying in levin er in a motel yeah which one that's a good question either the panorama ploughman redwood totara lodge or travel lodge i'm glad you've narrowed it down yeah i have i actually thought the travel lodge but it hasn't got a spa pool one of them <.>ha which one was it panorama? yeah i might go for that one actually it's got a spa pool i think mm tut yep it's even got a gas barbecue that's it you <.>can well kelvin can er come up and have a <.>b barbie yeah we'll all have a barbie together yeah did you <{><[>hear <.>about <[>so do we have to book for him probably <.>b kelvin's you know <.>he's thinks ahead all the time yeah kelvin is the most i would suggest <{><[>forward forward thinking planned person i've ever met <[>forward thinking laughs <&>7:00 anyway did you hear about the old mayor of porirua how he's <.>r stuffed up himself a bit no <{><[><.>but <[>for <.>s for signing for that was it that councillor <{1><[1><.>before before the elections <{2><[2>what a dork <[1>tut oh yeah yeah <[2>yeah oh he can't help it <,,> you've got to expect that from mayors <{><[>occasionally <[>mm i <.>wonder i wonder if they if they <{><[>can <.>just <[>at least what is it the great rabbit <.>m warren club or something they had in wellington central a great big rabbit mm i wonder if they can charge him for that <,,> what <{><[>five fifty plus g s t laughs <[><.>using no <.>th isn't that using a document to <{><[>defraud <[>defraud yep oh well better <.>g ring <.>up better ring up kelvin he can sort him out laughs <,,> oh well noone's knocked on the door again yep fancy that yep we were interrupted before because someone knocked on the door we had an important meeting to go to <{><[>pretty high <.>power <[>how important was it pretty boring pretty boring laughs yes <{><[>liar <,> word <[><.>so <.>so so what happened in the <&>8:00 weekend of excitement tut back door key broke yes that's <{><[>right <[>it took several hours to fix yes and the americans um fired rockets at the iraqis again and missed did they i don't know didn't one hit the um i thought it was the <.>r israelis oh yeah <,> oh arabs israelis mm same thing nah nah i think it was iraqis the iraqis word what was it their batteries locked on to an american fighter <{><[>so and the <.>r iraqis reckoned the americans were um tut isn't <.>it there was an illusion that the pilot had <[>oh yeah after so <.>he but he fired back anyway laughs hey did you see that um thing on that murder last night amazing isn't it yeah can't believe they couldn't think that out something so logical as like they couldn't reach <.>a the gun gun to shoot your <.>place yeah shoot you <,,> and the family had to <.>f for YEARS basically he had to try and conVINCE <{><[>the politicians <[>it's amazing i just couldn't believe that you know you'd think they'd do that test you know okay it must have <&>9:00 been two hundred millimetres wide so you think oh yeah we'll just try and DO that without a bullet of course yeah without a bullet yeah yeah it was amazing eh they don't <.>normally unless they had the long arm of the law doing it laughs yeah because they reckon he <.>had <.>th <.>the they reckon at the same time like those police detectives <.>were were looking for that <.>th <{><[>hoglins <[>word swedish couple the <.>swedish the swedish couple <,,> the blonde woman laughs yeah they were looking for her so maybe they were more focused on that than they were worried <{><[><.>about this <[>yeah i'd say so there was more <.>pu there was more voc was it overseas voc publicity <.>pub yeah because of <.>the <,> yeah it was amazing though eh mhm couldn't believe it at the time the guy said he was going to shoot himself if <.>she if she had the <.>ur er that abortion mm there was something over that voc you didn't watch that stupid film last night did you which one switch yeah <{><[>laughs <[>i'd already seen it before so voc can you relate to that <.>th that woman the way she was sitting <,,> <&>10:00 laughs word she was a bloke she was a bloke <.>with <.>in in trapped inside a woman's body yeah some of the rubbish on t v's <.>just <.>just <.>just amazing yeah well look at it we've got neighbours paradise beach then shortland street do you watch paradise beach when do you love women <.>in <,> in skimpy togs laughs babewatch man laughs now i was listening to pauline on the radio this morning i told sharie what you did last week on friday when you nearly caused an accident mhm? <,,> YOU nearly <{><[>caused an accident <[>laughs it was your fault laughs my fault look at a bird in that car laughs ah yeah look at the red light i was meaning voc no you didn't that was afterwards voc i couldn't believe it <{><[>ah well <[>i can't <.>be i can't believe it either i thought flipping heck voc you actually looked that's the thing voc laughs yeah i looked BEFORE i went through the red light yeah so did you <.>get oh you <.>would don't listen to z m do you no oh there was a joke on the <.>r radio <&>11:00 remember how it went there was this lion who caught a bil <.>a a BULL in the jungle <,> and trapped the bull and it ate it ALL of the bull all the bull yeah cos he was so satisfied he ROARED AND ROARED AND ROARED mm and along came a <.>h a hunter heard this and came stalking him and shot him bang one shot there's a moral to this tale when you're full of bull keep your mouth closed yeah so we better not say <{><[>anything <[>word i think that's the conversation gone yeah now that was a deep and meaningful conversation voc yeah <.>see well there was something else on the <.>r some <,> thing on <,> radio this morning about <,> clinton's wife is it hillary hillary clinton it is yeah that's his wife <&>11:50