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The week kicked off in fine style, with the brilliant Baypark Drive-In Movie experience.

The RR team loaded up the truck with grandchildren and headed off for a cool evening of family bonding with 'ET”.
Poor old ET is still locked in the nineties time warp back on earth. It was a bit of a shock to consider that if the movie had been made now, the famous catchline 'ET phone home” would more likely be 'ET text home…or at least update your Facebook status.”
It was great to see so many families at the Drive-In for some relaxed social time. There was a real sense of community. All credit to the organisers for a wonderful event.
Fine Wether report
The passing of Shrek the sheep this week was notable, if for nothing else, the outpouring of sick jokes. Here at RR headquarters we find it distasteful that people are making fun over the demise of a national icon.
My wife started it; by declaring that Shrek was a Fine Wether. (We should have forecast that one.)
Then some wag chimed in with the question: 'Would it be in bad taste to take mint sauce to Shrek's cremation?”
Well at least the sheep won't have to endure a Celebrity Roast. That would be shear poor taste.
TV dredged up an old clip (haha) of Helen Clark declaring that Shrek was 'good company”. Doesn't say much for husband Peter's ratings as a buddy, does it?
I can see how Shrek would have suited Helen as a model companion. He was the epitomy of a good citizen. If only the rest of NZ had followed like sheep, Helen could have continued fleecing the rest of the sheeple, too.
Speaking of sick animals
Scam of the Year Award goes to The Boxing Beneficiary.
Sonny Bill Williams managed to swallow any pride he may have had, to jump in the boxing ring with Alipate Liava, the dumpy benefit scammer from Tonga. He's a 'Sickness Beneficiary” by profession, after finding gospel singing didn't pay as well. So he's developed tennis elbow, which apparently, stops you from singing gospel for a living, but allows you to train and fight for a boxing match against an All Black.

(Clearly they couldn't have just had a game of tennis, due to Alipate's elbow.)
Now this is disturbing on a number of levels.
Why do we allow foreigners into the country to become bludgers on our health system?
Exactly how sick do you need to be to get a sickness benefit? Too sick to work, too sick to sing, but not too sick to be able to train and fight in a boxing match?
And then there's SBW's pride. What sort of fighter goes into a ring against a failed gospel-singing sickness beneficiary with tennis elbow? If SBW had competed with one hand tied behind his back, it might have been a fairer match. This bout made a mockery of the so-called sport, of our welfare system and the inept management of our country's tax resources.
I had tennis elbow for eight months last year, but I didn't get any handouts from the taxpayer for my disability. Nor was I able to continue with sport – let alone jump into a boxing ring with an All Black.
Oh no, like the rest of the suckers, I kept working and paying tax to support the likes of these bludgers.
This episode has marked a low point, not only from a sporting perspective, but pretty well sums up the absurd everyday waste of taxpayer resources in this country. No wonder the workers have a heavy burden when there are those happily and openly scamming the system.
About time the government took the gloves off and knocked the daylights out of the shameless queues of ripoffs.
Just like Shrek, the wool has been over our eyes for too long now.
Parting shot
Unfortunate news intro of the week:
'Health Minister Tony Ryall to turn the first sod for a $40m older persons and rehabilitation building…”
I wonder which of the poor old sods will be the first?