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Topic: McGillicuddy Serious Party

	Scoop: McGillicuddy Serious Party List Announced
		Party Secretary Bernard Smith has expressed great pleasure in the team the selection committee has got together.
		Since no other party appears to have so long a range vision as us, we are certain that this election will be a doodle, with the understanding that voters really do know just how drastically bad things really are.
		The McGillicuddy Serious Party believes that with policies such as reducing hospital to zero, whilst maintaining a funding policy of user prays, voters can't go wrong, and government will end up where it belongs; far removed from peoples lives.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO9911/S00048.htm (910 words)

	McGillicuddy Serious Party biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The McGillicuddy Serious Party was a satirical political party in New Zealand.
		The party's logo, the head of a medieval court jester, was indicative of McGillicuddy Serious's status as a joke party.
		The McGillicuddy Serious Party was founded in the 1980s as the political arm of Clan McGillicuddy, which had been established in the previous decade.
	mcgillicuddy-serious-party.biography.ms (421 words)

	Textbookx.com - Buy and Sell New and Used College Textbooks.
		The party condemns whatever it perceives as anti-marriage, anti-family, and anti-Christian, and bemoans both fatherless families and the decline of strong male leadership.
		The raison d'etre of this party is "to raise national conscience and inspire freedom, creativity, and development" in Greece by thwarting the influence of all foreign economies, cultures, and ideas.
		This nationalistic party was originally established in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, and has several branches, the largest of which-Provisional Sinn Fein-is the only political party to be represented in the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
	www.textbookx.com /journal.php?scheme=atz (1835 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/McGillicuddy Serious Party
		The McGillicuddys could not decide whether native trees should have the option to vote in Māori electorates, whether male trees as well as female trees should vote, and the status of shrubs.The demolition of the Auckland CBD: In order to create a giant sundial, using the Sky Tower as the gnomon.
		Post-natal abortion: The McGillicuddys would make abortion illegal, but any mother could kill her child up to the age of 18, provided she did it with her own hands.
		The fundamentalist Christian Heritage Party used abortion as a major policy.Mandatory homosexuality for 33% of the population — also devised to annoy the fundamentalists.Free Tongan citizenship: National's Brian Neeson accused Dan McCaffrey, Labour's 1990 candidate for Te Atatu, of promising some Pacific Islanders New Zealand citizenship if they joined the Labour Party.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party (1515 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Rhinoceros Party of Canada
		The Rhinoceros Party of Canada may have been seen as a 'joke' party, in much the way as Screaming Lord Sutch's Monster Raving Loony party, but they were in fact a registered party in Canada from about 1960 - 1990.
		The rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are 'thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, can move fast as hell when in danger, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces'.
		The party also claimed to be spiritual descendants of a Brazilian rhinoceros who had been elected member of Satilde;o Paulo's city council in the 1950s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A5287845 (972 words)

	Child Idea New Party Years
		The 20-year-old party founder and county chair, Victor Rodriguez ran unsuccessfully for Supervisor of the Town of Bethlehem, New York in 2005.
		McGillicuddy Serious Party - The McGillicuddy Serious Party (McGSP) was a satirical political party in New Zealand.
		For three decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was in power.
	www.webgoni.com /childideanewpartyyears.html (922 words)

	McGillicuddy Serious Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The McGillicuddys could not decide whether native trees should have the option to vote in Māori electorates, whether male trees as well as female trees should vote, and the status of shrubs.
		Both the Labour Party and the National Party used the All Blacks' victory in the 1987 Rugby Union World Cup in their 1990 campaigning — the All Whites stood about as much chance of winning the Soccer World Cup as Brazil have of winning the Rugby version.
		The Labour Party had a policy of protecting and extending the Queen's chain, forcing farmers and iwi to allow public access to waterways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party (1906 words)

	Greens refute McGillicuddy Serious comparisons (David Farrar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Oh dear it is a bit sad when the Greens feel they have to actually refute a statement from Gerry Brownlee that have policies that even the McGillicuddy Serious Party would be proud of.
		FYI: When the McGillicuddy Serious Party registered with the Electoral Commission for MMP in 1995, its 'Mission: Anti-(state)ment' clearly stated that if the party was unsucessful in getting into Parliament by direct means, it would infiltrate other parties to achieve its ends.
		A couple of significant differences between the greens and McGillicuddy Serious Party are: 1) MGSP supported the firing of all MPs the greens (unfortunately) don't.
	www.kiwiblog.co.nz /2005/08/greens_refute_mcgillicuddy_ser.html (1205 words)

	WYSIWYG NEWS - 29 June, 2002
		Party leader Bill English says people are genuinely concerned about MMP and he says it is time they had another say on the issue.
		Party leader Laila HarrÃ© says the policy is the most comprehensive ever released by her party.
		Metiria Turei is a former candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party and the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party.
	www.mail-archive.com /nznews@nz.com/msg00023.html (12404 words)

	McGillicuddy serious about avoiding census - Newstalk ZB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Hamilton's Laird McGillicuddy, Graeme Cairns, is once again going out of his way to avoid the census.
		The founder of the now defunct McGillicuddy Serious Party says he will be frozen until he is legally dead, for the duration of the national head-count next Tuesday.
		His determination not to fill in census forms in 1996, led to him to claim he was out of New Zealand's legal air space, as he hovered in a hot-air balloon.
	www.newstalkzb.co.nz /newsdetail1.asp?storyID=90703 (240 words)

	Guardian \| The Twickenham factor
		The governing National party was already trailing as the November 27 general election approaches.
		Ms Shipley had clawed back some ground with her chairing of the recent Apec regional summit and her decision to send troops to support the UN in East Timor.
		Even New Zealand's raving loony equivalents, the McGillicuddy Serious party and the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis party (Aotearoa, aptly, means Land of the Long White Cloud), have failed to dispel this depression.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3925058-103609,00.html (319 words)

	Fridgehenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It was erected for the summer solstice, partly as a comment on the way that this occasion has changed over the past 4000 years, from a time of religious observance to a festival of material acquisition, and partly because it was a really good excuse for a party.
		Affiliations to the McGillicuddy Serious Party and Claudelands Visionary Society mentioned in another message to this newsgroup are incidental.
		The original plan was to have a ceremony to mark the solstice at 3.24pm on December 22, at which time the sun stood directly over the Tropic of Capricorn, but since the Waikato Times and TVNZ both reported a dawn event we thought we'd better be there for the sunrise as well.
	www.etete.com /torrie/Fridgehenge.html (632 words)

	Interesting NZ Issue.... - DiscussAnything.com -
		The NZ election is a month away, and all the parties are going into the usual frenzy.
		This is important, as some parties have a charismatic leader who will win his electorate due to his strong personality and speaking [Winston Peters, NZ First in Tauranga], whereas others have good policies so may get in off the party vote.
		All those parties I listed are major enough to make it into parliament, in however small a role.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11408 (627 words)

	Institute of Commonwealth Studies - Contact
		In the case of Zimbabwe, there are sizeable collections of both material issued by ‘white’ parties in the pre- and immediately post-UDI period and of material published in exile.
		The largest collections are those of the Liberal, Progressive Conservative and New Democrat parties, but other organisations represented in the collection are as varied as the Reform Party, the Bloc Quebecois, the Parti Rhinoceros, the Committee of Anglophones for Sovereignty Association, the Canadian League of Rights and the Parti Quebecois.
		There are materials from some of the provincial organisations of some parties and from some parties which only operate in particular provinces.
	commonwealth.sas.ac.uk /archives/commparty2.htm (642 words)

	CoffeeWaffle
		Today I've been reading the McGillicuddy Serious Party - 1999 Election Manifesto.
		It even has a sealed section (in the printed version) containing the hidden agendas of the party, labelled "Do not open until after the 1999 general election".
		The strange thing is that even after laughing my way through the whole manifesto, it had a ring of truth to it.
	radio.weblogs.com /0128644/2004/10/22.html (190 words)

	Message Forum: Re: Of course I'm not joking!
		Yes, the great McGillicuddy Highland Army Serious Party has quit the political arena after 22 years.
		They are also the only political party in the world, as far as I know, whose leader claims to be possessed by a four million year old spirit.
		Yes Spider-Boy, the party is the McGillicuddy Serious Party, and their official army is the McGillicuddy Highland Army.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/view.cgi?post=13099 (379 words)

	Bio at BlinkBits. hedgehog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Hedgehogs are fairly vocal, and communicate not only in a series of grunts and snuffles, but sometimes in loud squeals (depending on species).
		Hedgehogs are fairly vocal, and communicate in a series of grunts and snuffles.
		New Zealand's McGillicuddy Serious Party were unsuccessful in their attempt to get a hedgehog elected to Parliament.
	www.blinkbits.com /bits/viewforum/hedgehog_bio?f=8173 (2589 words)

	Comments on 13657 \| MetaFilter
		These are broadcast slots allocated to parties by an Electoral Commission using a complicated formula based in part on the proportion of the votes a party received at the previous election.
		It has the added advantage that since perhaps 0.5% of the population votes for the McGillicuddy Serious Party, the MGSP usually gets two or three ad slots.
		I still treasure the spectacle of the Laird McGillicuddy addressing the nation from his bath, promising Full Unemployment for All as part of the Great Leap Backwards.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/13657 (1470 words)

	No GE backdown, say New Zealand Greens HELEN TUNNAH New Zealand Herald 28jul02
		However the Green Party made it clear today they would not back away from their bottom-line policy, to withdraw support for any government that lifts the moratorium on the commercial release of genetically modified organisms in October next year.
		In a choice between the Greens and Peter Dunne's party hers was a far better fit, she said.
		He said because of the falling-out in the past two weeks, a lot of voters thought the two parties wouldn't be able to work together and had looked elsewhere, hence the rise in fortunes of United Future.
	www.mindfully.org /GE/GE4/Greens-Say-No-GMOs-NZ28jul02.htm (1258 words)

	NZ Folk Song * Pretty Girl
		But NZ's greatest skiffle band was the 1980s street-busking Big Muffin Serious Band who made up to $200 an hour on the street with their tea-chest-and-three-ukulele rock band.
		And tea-chest player Graeme Cairns, whose McGillicuddy Serious Party was the political arm of the band.
		Too many buskers I've seen seem to be tense and serious, and frown obsessively at the fretboard of their guitar, whilst completely ignoring the passing throng.
	folksong.org.nz /pretty_girl/index.html (883 words)

	frogblog > Print > Brownlee blathering
		Gerry Brownlee has today brought to three the number of press releases the National Party has released in the past week attacking the prospect of a Labour-Green Government.
		Saying that the Greens and the McGillicuddies have a lot in common is a little like saying the National Party and the Natural Law Party are similar.
		The Greens and Labour are the only parties to recognise this - National’s approach appears to be to stick its head in the sand and hope the problem goes away.
	blog.greens.org.nz /wp-print.php?p=701 (1575 words)

	Political Parties and Elections in New Zealand
		There were 22 registered political parties as at July 2005.
		WIN Party - registered by Electoral Commission on 13 May 2005.
		Full text of the New Zealand First and The National Party Coalition Agreement (104k) on GP Print.
	www.enzed.com /elect.html (190 words)

	Waikato Times: local, national & world news from Waikato's daily newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Waikato's public-spirited McGillicuddy clan is offering a pharmacological solution to the teenage drinking problem which has so concentrated the minds of politicians.
		But Aunt Dottie, former health spokeswoman for the now defunct McGillicuddy Serious Party, has a "simple but effective" idea to knock out unruly teenage drunkenness.
		A fellow McGillicuddy, Aunt Mavis, said: "This is an idea we need to peg on the clothesline and see what the rest of New Zealand makes of it."
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,,3860769a6579,00.html (312 words)

	Manure Summary
		Animal manure is often a mixture of animal's feces and bedding straw, as in this example from a stable.
		There is no serious risk of spontaneous combustion in smaller operations.
		The McGillicuddy Serious Party of New Zealand campaigned on a policy of Free Dung, though it was not immediately clear which dung they were referring to.
	www.bookrags.com /Manure (943 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Kit Boyes - U1528921
		Kit crossexamined the minister on the defence budget while generously inviting himself to a free lunch at the Labour party conference.
		Kit was subsquently unique in being the only person thrown out of the conference for non-political reasons, (the Minister discovering he was not a journalist shortly after Kit corrected his knowledge of the air force's A4K fleet, and shortly before desert arrived).
		In 1990 Kit stood for parliament as McGillicuddy Serious Party Candidate for Te Atatu, campaigning on a platform of full employment through slavery, and saving the environment by the total destruction of civilisation.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/U1528921 (902 words)

	Metiria Turei - Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand People
		For her, becoming an MP is a serious step - in her maiden speech she referred to "infiltrating the power structures".
		During that same speech she sang the Maori-language McGillicuddy version of There is no Depression in New Zealand, although she doubts the irony of the song's lyrics would have been noticed even if she had sung in English!
		Now Green Party spokesperson for Education, Ethnic Affairs, Immigration, Justice (Assoc - Family Law), Maori Affairs and Pacific Island Affairs and Member of the Maori Affairs Select Committee and the Privileges Committee, Metiria says cheerfully that being an MP is the 'best job she ever had'.
	greens.org.nz /people/turei_m.asp (1473 words)

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