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echo: barktopus
to: Don Hills
from: Phil Payne
date: 2004-05-04 11:22:08
subject: Re: Proud of your troops, Mark?

From: Phil Payne 

> 50 years ago we might have been characterised as lazy, when we could export
> all we could produce (mainly wool, milk products and mutton) but the gravy
> boat stopped a long time ago. Nowadays we're a small country a long way
> from anywhere, and we have to work hard and provide excellence in order to
> sell our products overseas. There's no tariff on any US made goods imported
> into NZ, unlike the tariffs the US places on many NZ origin products. So
> who's jealous of who, Gary? And I suspect you know it, which would explain
> your bitterness.

I'm sitting high up on a hill overlooking Sheffield - a 180 degree panorama
with the Derbyshire moors in the distance and a glass of port (Yes, I konw
it's early) and some very pleasant Brie made by the surrender monkeys.

Jealous?

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  Phil Payne
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  +49 173 6242039

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