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Dunno much about merinos, but there are many (non-hybrid) varieties of sheep that are particularly good at storing fat during the spring and summer and absorbing it during the winter, thus surviving to eat in another spring-time.
The fat-tailed sheep are excellent examples of this - their tail is where they stor the fat!
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Actually, Shrek became very big news here, but only because he became big news overseas. The coverage here was more about the coverage from overseas than about the sheep itself.
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ah, gloating about pulling the wool over our eyes, no doubt...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Having foreigners talking about New Zealand *must have been quite exciting. (run & hide - e)
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>Having foreigners talking about New Zealand *must have been quite exciting.
Having so many of them flock in to be shorn of their hard currency by a well-spun yarn that played on their stereotyped preconceptions of Zild was rather entertaining, yes.
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dxb - At least he ain't bitter about it.
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People are always talking about New Zealand. Particularly about how they can go there to live. It's clean and green and the lifestyle is really laid back, doncha know?. And after 50 years of looking for all of this, I've given up. England is pretty green, it's passably clean if you squint and it's less stressful than my previous life in New Zealand was. Go figure ...
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...doncha know?.
If I didn't know different I'd be thinkin' you's from Canada... or at *least Minnesota.
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>It's clean and green and the lifestyle is really laid back, doncha know?. And after 50 years of looking for all of this, I've given up. Don't worry, Pfranz, everything will be all right here after next year. Helengrad will become Brashville, or, just possibly, St. Petersburg. 
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Well, just so long as it's not Prebbleton or Turianaton. I guess. 
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