Subj : EatingDirt/FrenchGeograp To : James Bradley From : Miles Maxted Date : Sun Apr 17 2005 07:02 am G'morning James, MM> `Sheilas' ? My very good Sir, dost speak Strine or Noo MM> Zland ? JB> No... I just ran the Paul Hogan movies. Used to watch a JB> couple of comedy shows from Paul. Ever seen 'em? Yes and no.. love the movies, but the shows were Australian TV, not NZ...and therefore `barred' as too Ockerish for Kiwi eyes... JB> With too much land to barb-wire, I get uncomfortable. Besides, I'd have JB> to learn what would kill me first. But thanks for the invite! In NZ, there's nothing fatal - apart from gravity, drivers and all the usual stuff; no snakes, predators and only one or two somewhat nasty but rare spiders. MM> "A fair suck of the sav" JB> Oh... I've eaten *those*. Obviously, neither an Ocker nor a Kiwi, therefore ! MM> Visitors talk of `Noo Zeelanders', but both Ockers and the locals MM> term them `Kiwis' - after the small, flightless and near-blind MM> indigeneous bird that survived most of the dinosaurs (we've still MM> got one surviving in our bush called the tuatara) but probably not MM> the humans that arrived a few hundred years ago. JB> You're not allowed cats there, are you? Yes, unfortunately; we've also imported rabbits, ferrets, stoats, opossums, deer and a variety of birds - all of which exploded in numbers and have required control measures... stupid, stupid people, homesick for the places they abandoned.... JB> Technically, it has to be "sparkling wine" unless brewed in JB> the region of France. I trust your local wines don't suffer JB> from ethyl glycol, like the Aussies are reported to use? Naw ... just surfeits of good grape at harvest time... JB> But seriously... I get a little nervous about keeping on- JB> topic. Maybe MEMORIES needs more business? As a moderator of several near-extinct echoes, let me aver that I'd give my eye-teeth for this amount of traffic, on- or off- topic, couched in couth language ! JB> ... Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Our lot have passed that mark, and show no signs of allowing male Kiwis any second chance of `equality' ever again... Just this last week, our lady PM ripped the guts out of a male member of her party for making remarks about the sexual imbalance in our leaders - and then hung him out to dry in much the same fashion as Elizabeth I's administrators placed offenders' heads on wooden spikes around the streets of London... Good keen men all over Kiwiland winced, crossed their legs and buried themselves in accountable work... not a pretty sight. Its put the offender, one John Tamihere, right OFFLINE politically and forever - which is bad news for someone once said to be a future PM... Which is why the bubbly is so important to me... :-)) ___ MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.45 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: === Maxie BBS. Ak, NZ +64 9 444-0989 === (3:772/1) .