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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7315)	11/28/2005 9:01:17 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 12255

Well, it depends, Snowc(o)raft or who, what in Texas, 2006 kinkyfriedman.com (note, Austin is not all of Texas,nor is NZ all of the London worldwide sheep-market, never really was) Wrong bay, as the last quack said, free sheep to another funny sheep. (sad thing, that british freedom of the sheepling-market, tough NZ stuff) Anyway, signing that FRAND paper was big news, then as well as quacking now. (OK, maybe Iraq will still attempt to go non-standard) Btw, howis that funny modern sharecropping thing, PR going, locally?? Whare horoi ablution block, bathroom The marae These words are not alphabetical, but in the order they would be encountered: Hui a meeting of any kind, conference, gathering (WCDMA global funny stuff, hui-hui-hui, as we say) Marae the area for formal discourse in front of a meeting house, or applied to a whole marae complex, including meeting house, dining hall, forecourt etc. Haere mai! Welcome! Enter! (Fell free to shit,as we say) Nau mai! Welcome! (shit-shit, great shit) Tangihanga funeral ceremonies, when body is mourned on a marae. "if you can read this, you are standing on my head" Tangi short (verbal version) for the above (gerund), or to cry, to mourn Karanga the ceremony of calling to the guests to welcome them to enter the marae Manuhiri guests, visitors "you are still standing on my head" Tangata whenua original people belonging to a place, local people, hosts Whaikorero the art and practise of speech-making Kaikorero or kaiwhai korero speaker (there are many other terms) Haka chant with dance for the purpose of challenge. (See an example of a haka dance from our Centennial Exhibition film) Waiata song or chant which follows speech (ouch, all that blood) Koha gift, present (usually money, can be food or precious items, given by guest to hosts) Whare nui meeting house; in writing this is sometimes run together as one word - wharenui Whare whakairo carved meeting house (funny, two-party-system, but NZ has provided 1.25 neuron) Whare kai dining hall Whare paku lavatory, toilet