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There's something about Xmas that brings out the bad composer in a lot of New Zealand advertising copywriters.
Aah, but Xmas also gave us John Clark's "We Three Kings":
We three kings of Orient are
One on a tractor, two in a car
One on a scooter
Tooting his hooter
Following yonder star
Oh, oh
Star of wonder
Star of light
Star of bewdy, she'll be right
Star of glory, that's the story
Following yonder star . .. "
A true Antipodean anthem! 
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A true Antipodean anthem!
Truly Antipodean, Max, in that it is an extended variation of something British. (run and duck for cover emoticon!) I grew up with all of that except the 'Star of bewdy, she'll be right' line.
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I have somewhere on tape "A child's Christmas in Warrnambool" by John Clarke. [Warrnambool is a country town in the Australian state of Victoria]. I'll have to find the tape before Christmas and enjoy it again.
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The Sunlight soap parody occurs in the Molesworth books, 1950s Britain.
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We Three Kings
One of my sons, ca. age 6, asked, "If the kings were from Orey and Tar, how come there were three instead of two?"
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"If the kings were from Orey and Tar, how come there were three instead of two?"
Two must have come from one place, else how could we have,
"We three kings from Orey and Tar,
One on a scooter and two in a car" ??
This doesn't help us to establish which country had a dual monarchy, though.
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Lever Brothers?
Port Sunlight, Lord Leverholme's worker's estate, which is on the Mersey opposite Liverpool, is a "Heritage Centre" these days.
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a dual monarchyThanks, Rhu - I never did understand the meaning of Duchy before this! 
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This doesn't help us to establish which country had a dual monarchy, though.
Maybe either Tar or Orey should have been the WTO.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I didn't get it:
This doesn't help us to establish which country had a dual monarchy, though.
Maybe either Tar or Orey should have been the WTO.
Maybe you are saying that somewhere there was something similar to Bush vs Gore election?
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