Thanggyou... thanggyou vurry much... goodnight

Oh yeah. Awesome. Good ole' Marion Hobbs won the election-night battle agin' Battlin' Mark Drunk-ski and retained her Wellington Central electoral seat. In a fit of euphoric altruism, Hobbs instructs her staff to spare no expense in plastering a huge "thank-you" message to her supporters, outside her electorate-office.

And so they do; on a budget of about $2.30, and laying waste to more than 10 sheets of A4 printer paper, this is what they came up with.

It's a damn shame she's no-longer the Minister for the Environment. She could really show industry - nay all of the rest of us - a thing or two about sustainable celebratory practices.