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Dunno, but I got that handkerchief!  And your head is a really funny shape. Have you seen a doctor for it?
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Rod, you can't say I didn't warn you: I didn't mean to burst the bubble but thought the references to the sources might help others in future.
No, not much you didn't. Typical - the Ozzies pinch it (as they do everything which isn't nailed down) and then only half define it and then others perpetuate the myth. Instead of posting, I'm going to go postal, I can tell ... is dropping copies of Webster's on people's heads a crime in the US/UK?
And, C.K., as to my self-justification--it is entirely
justified! [so there emoticon](Watch it, Bub, or I'll call you an a-er, as in jafa...)
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jafa...
Hmmm, a Ex-Dunedinite Wellingtonian jafa. Jafa the Hutt, perhaps, CK?
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Jafa the Hutt, perhaps, CK?Oh, Max, that's great! Glad to have company in front of the firing squad.
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Oh, Max, that's great!
Glad to have company in front of the firing squad.
I'm glad you liked it. Surprised, and very impressed, as it was a reference to Wellington geography, but glad. 
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Yeah, OK - public apology to CK. Hoon is a great word and thank you for sharing it with us. It has absolutely the right kind of sound to express the intended contempt. I promise to use it each day this week, and when anyone asks me, I will tell them it is ZILD!
And Jackie, warning me after the event is no use. Warn me beforehand next time, please.
In my defence your honour, I thought that references to resources such as http://www.yourdictionary.com/ and http://www.onelook.com/ might be useful to those who didn't know of them.
I always drive at the posted speed limit (of course that's often 70mph here in UK, plus VAT (US=sales tax), plus tip.
Oh and that's per occupant of course!
Off subject: does NZ have the equivalent of sales tax or Value Added Tax? I know a certain small island somewhere to the West of NZ changed last year to a type of VAT.
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Is it true that the Pope's phone number is VAT69 ?
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: does NZ have the equivalent of sales tax or Value Added Tax? I know a certain small island somewhere to the West of NZ changed last year to a type of VAT.NZ has had a universal Goods and Services Tax since around 1985. Australia's bizarrely complicated version has caused much amusement on this side of the Tasman. The only way the Oz GST could get passed was by making all sorts of exemptions. A friend of mine who was working in an accountants' office in Queensland was told to brush up her NZ accent prior to the introduction of GST, as they planned to advertise that they had on their staff a NZer with 15 years experience of GST. (She was about 5 when it was introduced here)
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RIGHT YOU LOT! I'm away for two - count 'em - (2) days, and you guys are fighting over the carcass! Reminds me of the old joke about the two vultures on a branch looking v-e-r-r-r-r-y hungry, with one saying to the other "Patience, my ass, I'm gunna kill something!"
For those of you poor benighted ayleurs out there who lack awareness of what's been going on, "Hutt" is a reference to the city I live in (Lower Hutt). It's about nine miles from Wellington (which is where I work). "Jafa" is an acronym for "Just Another F***ing Aucklander". Auckland is where I've been. It has a population of just over 1 million, and they promise faithfully that they'll either have electricity next time I'm there or the whole place will have been blown off the face of the earth by the volcanic activity which the geologists and vulcanologists have been promising. You can tell I like the place.
And Oz's GST system looks amazingly like the VAT system. And will generate thousands of jobs as the Government struggles to make it work.
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Is it as archane as NY Sales tax?
In NY Food is not taxable-- unless it is prepared food, ready to eat immediatley-- and cost more than $1.
So a $1 hot dog can (and should) be taxed-- but a frozen TV dinner-- any price no tax. but a ready cooked BBQ chicken at the deli counter -- Taxed! but slice meat at the deli counter? not taxed (since it is presumed that the meat will be put into sandwiches-- so its food, but not in a ready to eat form (even though you could just eat a slice of cheese or salami!)
More interesting is Candy is taxed (not food) but peanuts and raisens-- not taxed-- food items
so chocolate covered peanuts (goobers) and chocolate covered raisens (raisenettes?)
Chocolate covered peanuts are taxed as candy, but chocolate covered raisens are not! (why? who knows!)
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