At a recent Auckland gathering of the Bumptious Bores Pudding Club, otherwise known as a fundraiser at Viaduct bar HQ to raise money for the mayoral flood-relief fund, the wine presumably flowed. So did the f-words. The wit, alas, did not.
There was a debate – to use the word in the very loosest sense of the word – with the moot “that all media are drongos”. The drongos reference came courtesy of Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, who, while dealing with January’s Anniversary Weekend storm, excused himself from his weekly tennis game on the grounds that he had to “deal with media drongos over the flooding”.
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