G'morning James, 

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

I can only imagine - the lack of accessible archives of TV 
programmes is a worry, generally - but particularly when such a 
series is mentioned and one cannot review them from the local 
library...

 MM> In NZ, there's nothing fatal -

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

Oh, now and then a sea-snake washes ashore; a shark knocks off a 
surfer;  or a funnel-web spider is found inside an imported car - 
but very much once in five or ten years. 

 MM> Obviously, neither an Ocker nor a Kiwi, therefore !
 JB> Now I get beheaded or anointed? 

Anointed, probably - Kiwis are very impressed with overseas 
experts, particularly if they have North American or Bavarian 
accents...

 MM> Naw ... just surfeits of good grape at harvest time...
 JB> OK... Where's the translation dictionary? Where on earth do
 JB> you derive a word like "surfeits" to mean oodles? 

Being British (born and bred in Rugby, Warwickshire), I draw the 
word from the Middle English, which in turn flogged it from the 
Old French "sorfe(i)t" or "surfe(i)t" to convey the idea of an 
excess `at harvest' - particularly when I'm talking of stuff I 
drink...  (hic)  ...particularly when the first cork is drawn 
before dawn on birthdays.

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

Yup - New Zealand is 1400 miles long, running from the sub-tropics 
to the deep South,  with huge vineyards distributed up and down 
the coasts in the Middle Earth regions...

 MM> Our lot have passed that mark,  and show no signs of allowing male
 MM> Kiwis any second chance of `equality' ever again...
 JB> The pendulum swung. See, if they were allowed some latitude
 JB> when subservient, you wouldn't have this backlash now.  f/cover>

Ain't no shielas here, mate, no reason to duck !  Some latitude, 
y'say ?  Jeez, they were allowed to get the cows and the wood in, 
given the run of the kitchen - and all the kids they wanted - 
why'd they want to run the country as well ?  At least it keeps 
them out the pub,,,,

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

Or any good British history book .. Guy Fawkes was hung, drawn and 
then quartered...    `drawn' being the disembowelling shown in 
Braveheart, `quartering' being cut into four parts, each part then 
dragged through the streets behind a horse to impress the public 
with the need to behave... and then his head left on a spiked 
staff in a main street for the same purpose...

If you ever get to tour Warwick Castle, visit their dungeons; the 
equipment is original,  and the displays leave nothing to the 
imagination over the administration of medieval justive...

I'm trying to get our local government to resurrect the HD&Q trick 
for minor traffic offences;  I reckon it'd suppress the careless 
use of SUV's very, very quickly....

(Mmmm ... NZ has 1000's of very dangerous SUV's, now I think of 
it!)


 MM> Which is why the bubbly is so important to me...
 JB> You need an excuse to say what you please, just to blame it
 JB> on the intoxicants, Miles? 

No ... I'm supposed to extend my extended existence by avoiding 
anything harmful - like bread and water;  fortunately, some 
ocassions overwhelm the guardians and I get to reduce the 
stockpile in the cellar...

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