Unless, of course, it was a trap laid for moi which moi has just fallen into up his neck.

Put simply, it was intended as a trap for you, mon ami, but I was delighted that at least one other person got the joke. This is the text of a private message I received today, unedited, but without reference to the identity of the sender:
kotanga is the Maori word for car aerial"

Thanks for my best laugh of the day, Max. It sounds like the Maori are intimately acquainted with my history of car ownership. My car repair kit used to consist of a hammer and duct tape.

As my 5th form English teacher was fond of saying: Quite Enough Done.