In the end, we had three sketches we really liked, two local and one from China".
In my brief use of it, most of the recommendations the app made didn't seem like they required much genius — since I liked one local pub, it recommended another — but it did suggest a few intriguing-looking eateries I had never thought to visit.
"It's like ninety-nine local elections happening simultaneously," he said, referring to Iowa's ninety-nine counties.
Like one local paper said, in a letter to the editor this morning, What if Curley and Schultz are found to be innocent?
Only, where your dad had his special Kiss The Chef apron and his gas-powered BBQ and went to like five different local butchers for all the meat, your mate whose flatmate is in Berlin and has a balcony is rocking three packets of Tesco Finest sausages, two tinfoil-base BBQ disposables, a ketchup so on-the-dregs that the bottle has to be stored upside down and one thing of Kingsmill burger buns.
Tim Rocks, a strategist at Macquarie Equities in Sydney, who did a June study seeking local companies with pricing power, says he especially likes two leading local insurers, Insurance Australia Group and QBE Insurance Group.
Nobody seems to be able to call it just yet, but it seems like one of the big two will edge a vote and form some sort of crap dream team that everyone will hate, like when two local football clubs merge and alienate all of their fans.
Whilst musing that this match-up actually sounded more like a legal stoush between two local radio stations rather than a football match, I noticed that in the centre of Heart's defence was one Patrick Kisnorbo, once of Hearts".
Our two local papers, like yours perhaps, are awash in articles about embattled teachers, increased class sizes and diverted education money.
The Singapore Exchange's $8.3bn £5.3bnn) takeover of Australia ASX to form Asia's fourth-biggest stock exchange may at first sight look like a tie-up to give two local players more firepower.
When the military had a serious problem they would give us a call; we might not be able to solve problems like killing a hundred locals in an airstrike, but we could put the right people in a room to try to work it out.
