Gil wrote: > Good on ya, mate! ;-) > > According to my Far Side Of-the-Wall Calendar, February 6 was Waitangi Day > in your neck of the woods. What's up with that?
Nic to see you've picked up a good Kiwi colloquialism there, mate! Warning - gross simplification: February 6 (Waitangi Day) is the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (kind of like Independence Day in the US), where lots of Maori chiefs signed over their land to the British. It's now in hot dispute, and the Maori tribes are demanding their land back. I say they should give back the guns and blankets (and tuberculosis and influenza and measles) first. Hell P.S. Extracting the michael, obviously - I don't really want to get into another debate about the wrong-doings of my British ancestors! ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
