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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (142034)	7/30/2004 4:36:37 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Chicken feathers? ... ya think? ... is that what happens when the Sky Is Falling? That's connected, all right .... you might find some distant relatives in Godzone, you know, there were 'dalmatian' and 'yugoslav' inmigrants there in the 1800s, quite a few .... i've heard croatian and serb mentioned, don't know about slovenes .... this was in the North Island, north tip, quite near Ninety Mile Beach, it's where they used to dig kauri gum ..... i've met several kiwis with slav-gumdigger roots around Dunedin and Otago, so they're likely all over the country Ancestors of mine were once clerks to tsars, tsarinas, and a king of England who needed translators because he neglected to learn english, does that count -g- ...... nations should probably be smaller, keep them down around one or two millions souls each, then you have more chance of knowing each other, forming a society with a glue to stick it together, and a single phone book you can stand on to reach high shelves ..... no, wait, just reflecting on a recent family reunion that went distinctly non-united, maybe that's not such a good idea -g-