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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (62476)4/22/2005 3:19:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
The reason Kiwis know about Ockerland is that humans have a natural level of curiosity. New Zealand is very small and its history goes:

Maoris sailed there in dug-out canoes and spent a few hundred years killing each other and eating each other as there wasn't much meat to eat once they'd killed all the moas. You can get tired of eating pipis all day every day, blended with kumara.

Captain Cook sailed the ocean blue in 1692 or thereabouts and the Maoris tricked him into telling the British to go to New Zealand [Abel Tasman and the Dutch weren't taken in because they didn't like being invited to dinner by the Maoris, but they named the place Zealand and of course it's New].

The British duly arrived and started giving Maoris money and stuff [like booze and tobacco] in the hope they wouldn't be eaten. The Maoris sold them land to grow cows and sheep which the Pakeha sold to their Pommy Bastard cuzzies.

I invested in QUALCOMM which invented CDMA and now both Maori and Pakeha use it and can therefore afford to buy better food than pipis and "long pig" and now live in peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love.

It doesn't take long to learn that history, and there isn't far to travel even though there are two islands [and a few little ones], so Kiwis travel a lot and learn about Ockers and Yanks and Pommy Bastards and everywhere else. There are 1 million Kiwis overseas and only 4 million here.

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