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In reply to:
I thought it was in scotland that all the men where strong, the woman stoic, and sheep scared!
A little clarification of my earlier post may be in order.  Among certain sectors of NZ society, lamb's tails are considered a delicacy. Theses are normally obtained, or so I'm told with a simple, swift, slash. For male lambs the cut is extended to remove their "mountain oysters" at the same time. The farmhand in question would bite them off from the severed tail, not while they were still attached. That misconception was waht made me feel sick, although the clarification provided little amelioration. 
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And then there is the refugee family who have been here a little over a year, and last week wanted to celebrate their baby's first birthday with party food that they were used to. I wasn't there, but my friend tells me it involved a goat on the hoof and the bathtub...bushusuru time for me,
just about, from the ...oh, I can't even think of it enough to write any more.
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Ah yes, Ovaltine as in: "We are the Ovaltinies, little girls and boys Make your requests, we'll not refuse you We are here just to amuse you Would you like a song or story? Will you share our joys? At games and sports we're more than keen No merrier children can be seen Because we all drink Ovaltine We're happy girls and boys." Of course I'm too young to remember it in full but its amazing what you can find in Louisville: http://www.louisville.com/loumag/oct/online10.htmPS They didn't spellcheck with Aenigma when thinking up the name Ovaltine!
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ovaltine
Don't tell Little Orphan Annie.
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>ovaltine - Don't tell Little Orphan Annie
I wont if you wont.
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Speaking of happy children and food ads... http://www.vegemite.com.au/music.html...and I don't think Kraft would be happy with Aenigma's spoof "We're happy little vegetables" either.
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Dear Marty,
The song was a hoot! Loved it!
Tried vegamite .... gleeech.
Sorry.
wow
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Tried vegemite .... gleeech.
Sorry.
No need to apologize, wow, I'm with you on that one. Axle-grease is the word that comes to mind. Sorry is what I feel for the people who do like it. I prefer my salt spread over a lifetime rather than one piece of bread.
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I prefer my salt spread over a lifetime rather than one piece of bread.
[instructive rant]
This sounds like another philistine who spreads Vegemite as though it were jam, or peanut butter. Vegemite should be smeared thinly, heavy stress on thinly, in order to truly appreciate its magnificence. A 5 gram container, the sizer you get with hotel breakfasts should do for at least three slices of toast. [/instructive rant]
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Here's a VERY local idiom for soft-serve ice cream. Though I've lived in Boston my whole life, I had never heard a soft-serve ice cream cone called "a creemee" (pronounced like creamy). That's what it's called here in Vermont, though. On warm summer nights the whole town can be found at the local creemee stand.
What I wouldn't give for a warm summer night...
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