|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Your counter-antipodean friends thank you for the true story and the updating tidbits, Marty. You too, Bridget, for the shaggy dog story 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 544
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 544 |
Slice and toast a doughnut, butter, drizzle REAL maple syrup over it.
As a native New Englander, I was pleased to learn that the cafe around the corner from my house in Berkeley, CA makes a bread pudding from maple doughnuts - has to be tried to be believed. [licking my chops emoticon]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
In reply to:
Trouble is, without a tea party, war of independence or like event of national (and unifying) significance, it's the best we've come up with.
You could always make a holiday when Howard finally manages to get his tongue around the, for him, nefandous "S" word! 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 347
enthusiast
|
|
enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 347 |
A word of explanation about Max Q's ' You could always make a holiday when Howard finally manages to get his tongue around the, for him, nefandous "S" word!' for anyone not up with Australian political issues (and anyone who didn't catch the subtle message on the front of Midnight Oil's T-shirts at the Sydney Olympics): Our Prime Minister John Howard has repeatedly - and pointedly - refused to say "Sorry" to the Aboriginal people of Australia for all the past wrongs inflicted upon them by generations of white immigrants. He has gone as far as saying he personally "regrets" past injustices, but has stopped short of using what Max calls the "S" word, apparently on legal advice that it may be construed as an admission of guilt and hence open the floodgates to compensation claims. If he does say it, I hope he does it in September, as we desperately need a public holiday thereabouts to break up the long bleak stretch of all-work-no-play that lasts from June (Somebody Else's Queen's Birthday) to Christmas, although it is punctuated in my metropolis by a horse race in November.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Mind splainin' that to us foreigners, Max? 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Thank you!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
In reply to:
apparently on legal advice that it may be construed as an admission of guilt and hence open the floodgates to compensation claims.
Heaven forfend that survivors of attempted genocide should ever be entitled to compensation! I mean, gosh dang it all, they got the vote 33 years ago, what more do they want?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146 |
Heaven forfend that survivors of attempted genocide should ever be entitled to compensation! I mean, gosh dang it all, they got the vote 33 years ago, what more do they want?Possibly what the Maori got? And it was only attempted genocide, after all. If the genocide had succeeded, I'm sure Howard's government would be the first to say "sorry!" and give billions in compensation to.. to.. um.  Someone. Oh, yes, the Government!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,773
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,773 |
My calendar says it is Waitangi Day. And may all our NZ friends have the best Waitangi Day ever.
Please educate me - what tangi?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 347
enthusiast
|
|
enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 347 |
Please educate me - what tangi?
Or more to the point - why tangi?
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts229,845
Members9,197
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
437
guests, and
0
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
