04-17-05  06:02, Miles Maxted told James Bradley about EatingDirt/FrenchGeograp

 How do, Miles?

 JB> No... I just ran the Paul Hogan movies. Used to watch a
 JB> couple of comedy shows from Paul. Ever seen 'em?

 MM> Yes and no..  love the movies, but the shows were Australian TV, 
 MM> not NZ...and therefore `barred' as too Ockerish for Kiwi eyes...

Must say, I enjoyed the first movie, but the comedy shows were the REAL hoot!

 JB> to learn what would kill me first. But thanks for the invite!

 MM> In NZ, there's nothing fatal - apart from gravity, drivers and all 
 MM> the usual stuff;  no snakes, predators and only one or two 
 MM> somewhat nasty but rare spiders.

Odd, how - what - a thousand miles can detox the wildlife. I mean, for not
even a BLue Ring to accidentally catch a current on one unfortunate
typhoon...

 MM> Obviously, neither an Ocker nor a Kiwi, therefore !

Now I get beheaded or anointed? 

 MM> numbers and have required control measures...  stupid, stupid
 MM> people, homesick for the places they abandoned....

Hawaii has similar problems. What a shame. But I tend to think
"thining the herd" is an inevitable process, but us bi-peds just
hurried it along... A LOT!

 MM> Naw ... just surfeits of good grape at harvest time...

OK... Where's the translation dictionary? Where on earth do you derive a
word like "surfeits" to mean oodles? 

So, you have colder climates to grow sweet grapes than us Northerners would imagine?

 MM> As a moderator of several near-extinct echoes,  let me aver that
 MM> I'd give my eye-teeth for this amount of traffic, on- or off- 
 MM> topic, couched in couth language ! 

OK, but you started it! 

 JB> ... Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

 MM> Our lot have passed that mark,  and show no signs of allowing male 
 MM> Kiwis any second chance of `equality' ever again...

The pendulum swung. See, if they were allowed some latitude when
subservient, you wouldn't have this backlash now. 

 MM> Just this last week,  our lady PM ripped the guts out of a male 
 MM> member of her party for making remarks about the sexual imbalance 
 MM> in our leaders  -  and then hung him out to dry in much the same 
 MM> fashion as Elizabeth I's administrators placed offenders' heads on 
 MM> wooden spikes around the streets of London...

You know where, "Drawn and quartered" came from? You can watch
another `Oggie' (How's my terminology?) movie Braveheart to find out the
first part.

 MM> Good keen men all over Kiwiland winced, crossed their legs and 
 MM> buried themselves in accountable work...  not a pretty sight.

Whence they might be `Thirded'?

 MM> Its put the offender, one John Tamihere, right OFFLINE politically 
 MM> and forever - which is bad news for someone once said to be a 
 MM> future PM...

If the subordinate - ahem - member had the audacity to question the
testosterone levels of a bulldog, maybe he needed a trim? 0-8

 MM> Which is why the bubbly is so important to me...

You need an excuse to say what you please, just to blame it on the
intoxicants, Miles? 



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