04-21-05  05:24, Miles Maxted told James Bradley about EatingDirt/FrenchGeograp

 How do, Miles?

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

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

I can't even recall on which companys' broadcast I saw them on. (Of course
they would have been converted from PAL/SECAM/whatever to NTSC, so that
info would surely be superfluous.) It was before Paul Hogan became a
household name, so it was just a jolly way to spend some time. No
significance was imparted, besides it was making my side hurt.

 JB> Odd, how - what - a thousand miles can detox the wildlife.

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

"Curiouser, and curiouser..."

I just saw a TV show about the globalisation of species. One Marine
Biologist in Oakland California spotted *one* native species in a trap set
off their coast. Zebra Muscles are taking over our seaway. Caribou herds in
Alaska are down... We get it everywhere I guess. I'm close to being on a
desert here, so we tend to remain rather immune to *much* encroachment.

 JB> Now I get beheaded or anointed? 

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

Well, I have a Canadian (eh) accent, but I'll have to work on the 'expert'
part. 

 JB> you derive a word like "surfeits" to mean oodles? 

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

You start the night before, or the morning of? 

As for the 'surfeit' part. I did look it up, though at the time I suspected
the word was just another colloquialism, or one of those "cute"
rhyming things locals do. Imagine my surprise! Just when I thought I could
make sense of you upside-downers, you throw an *English* word, albeit
adopted, at me. 

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

The top soil would be ancient volcanic, but shallow?

 MM> male 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>

 MM> Ain't no shielas here, mate, no reason to duck !  Some latitude, 

You're forgetting we *are* speaking in the company of females, Miles. <-;

 MM> y'say ?  Jeez, they were allowed to get the cows and the wood in,
 MM> given the run of the kitchen - and all the kids they wanted - 
 MM> why'd they want to run the country as well ?  At least it keeps 
 MM> them out the pub,,,,

...And if you can keep 'em barefoot, and pregnant? 

 JB> You know where, "Drawn and quartered" came from? You can

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

On a spire, as I heard it. I guess a staff could be described as
spireificationistic. (NOT a real word. ) 't would simplify
erecting the monument!

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

What was it called, "Displaying the implements." Guess they still are! 0-8

When you say "original", do you mean that they are novel
inventions to Warwick Castle, or - more likely - 'tools' indicative of the
era?

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

I've heard there's a country in S. America that shoots their speeders. Talk
about an incentive for a car chase!

 MM> (Mmmm ... NZ has 1000's of very dangerous SUV's, now I think of 
 MM> it!)
 
Imagine Thousands of SUV drivers EAGER to evade capture. I'll sponsor the
in-car camera system if you make any headway with your petition.


 JB> on the intoxicants, Miles? 

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

Those with an "Extended existence" tend to get themselves
incarcerated here. [-|{ Just be sure to feed the rest of the system, whilst
you bolster the spirits would you? 



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