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Sorry to do this, but Get Fuzzy today has Bucky displaying that he knows more of the words to the All Blacks' haka than most Zilders!
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2004305040603.gif


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That's not a bad link, except that it calls "ka mate" THE Maaori haka. It is a haka, one of a great many, and by no means the best, imo. The composing and performing of haka is now an organised sport in NZ, called kapa haka, and some of the compositions, especially from areas where Maaori is still the first language, can be quite inspiring. Not surprisingly, the NZ Maori rugby team has its own specially-written haka, which knocks "ka mate" into a cocked hat.


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I *thought that was Maaori.

Understand any of it, wow?


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May I please have a wav file of you singing this or any other haka, Max?


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>Singing Max

cfunspeakable horror, crime against humanity. I will, however, record the haka as a spoken WAV for you asap.


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Sorry, ASp, I wimped out. The haka really is best seen and heard, and not when spoken by one weedy little pakeha. I found a nice mpeg of the AB's performing the haka for an Adidas ad. It's about 3MB, so I suggest saving the file to disk before playing it if you're on a dialup connexion (I nearly said, "right-click, then save as", but I remembered that Apple meece don't have no right button). The ad is a pretty good performance, actually. I once saw footage of the 1905 All Blacks performing the haka - a bunch of skinny, gangly, white guys - utterly pathetic! Now that the All Black team is dominated by Maori and Pacific Island players, they really look the part when performing it.
http://maxqnz.com/kamatehaka.mpeg


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After the New Zealand memorial service on Chunuk Bair (at Gallipoli, in Turkey) on April 25, the male members of the NZ army contingent (aided, impressively and competently by two Australian liaison officers) did "Ka mate". They invited anyone in the crowd who felt like it to join in, which several did. Even those who didn't do the actions shouted the words out, including me, who had bothered to look them up after the embarrassment of not be able to remember them at a restaurant a week earlier. The Maori women - and non-Maori as well - called out in support. There must have been 40 or 50 voices all told, and the army guys put everything into the actual haka, as did the Maori/part Maori guys in the crowd. It was intensely moving, even for cynical little me.

The Australians and Turks in the crowd were just blown away. I think they thought it was like a Masonic handshake, only you had to be a New Zealander to use it.

Which, I guess, it was!


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Apple meece don't have no right button

I'll listen to the file tomorrow at school on the fast line, but I did want to say I have a lovely little two-button Kensington mouse with a scroll wheel. works great on my OSX...





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intensely moving, even for cynical little me

Doncha just hate it when that happens?


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