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Pastimes : G&K Investing for Curmudgeons

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To: Uncle Frank who started this subject7/19/2001 12:46:06 AM
From: kumar  Read Replies (2) of 22706
 
dont count on New Zealand for a CDMA tornado :

NZ to be disbanded: PM claims nobody's using it anyway
AUCKLAND, Tuesday:

Following the successful disbanding of the
armed forces the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark,
has unveiled a new bold plan to totally disband the entire
nation. In a statement to the world's press Prime Minister
Clarke unveiled her "Great step nowhere" plan. Launching the
plan Clark suggested that reports that their armed forces had
been forced to say "bang, bang" during war exercises had been
the final nail in the coffin for the once-almost-proud nation.

"For years now we've been doing nothing of value. All our
really profitable industries have gone overseas. Music, kiwi
fruit, Russell Crowe. After that it's basically just a bunch of
sheep and a once proud rugby team. Even the Cricketers are poor
by world standards" Clark said.

Clark went on to outline the timetable for disbanding the
nation following the sale of the Navy's two dinghies and after
the Army gives its shotgun back to the British.

In a sometimes emotional presentation Ms Clarke outlined the
difficulties facing the former country. "Every nation has its
problems but, as the leader, you can always look at some other
loser nation and say "They're worse off than us". We finally
realised that we could no longer do that."
The final nail in the coffin came last Monday when the New
Zealand treasury tabled a report that found that Adam
Gilchrist's new contract with the Australian Cricket Board had
him earning more than the entire New Zealand GDP.

"When that hit us we realised that the ship of state was pretty
much Gunwale deep in sediment and it was time to turn off the
bilge pumps and move to a real country," a treasury spokesman
said.

All industry and businesses are expected to have left the
Island by the end of June and all Government responsibilities
will cease at the first of July. Any farmers wishing to remain
will do so on a purely subsistence basis with the possibility
of a feudal system developing by the end of September. The All
Blacks will maintain a training facility near Otago until the
end of August after which time New Zealand in all its forms
and pursuits will cease to exist.

When asked how the loss of the entire nation of New Zealand
will affect the region a world bank spokesman called for an
atlas.
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