New Zealand - Dress Making

[Deuce Bigolo]

Had to happen

They've taken it to the next level

In canterbury NZ some barn stroming deseigner has come up wit the idea to have dresses made out of real living grass(non smokable)

I'd expect its to keep the family pets(sheep-especially the black ones ) happy

cheers
B....OZ

[eduardo]

Still doing that kiwi bating thing in Oz then?

You've got me all nostalgic trying to think of some of the corking kiwi jokes that I was told on my visits there.

Perhaps you care to jog my memory mate?

[Deuce Bigolo]

Its good natured fun and was probably at its height in the seventies/eighties

To be honest Kiwi baiting hardly rates a mention these days

What do call a Kiwi with 2 or more sheep?...A Pimp

or the ultra pathetic How do you make a big business small?
Sell it to a Kiwi

The Irony is when one of them becomes successful we Aussies name them as our own....bizarre behaviour by anyones standards

cheers
B....OZ

[eduardo]

Yeah I gree with the last bit. I thought the bloke from Crowded House was Australian but I believe he is a Kiwi. He seemed to have been accepted as one of Australias own.

Kiwi's do get funny if you mistake them for Australians though so it's a good job that I can tell the difference between the accents.

[Deuce Bigolo]

The Finn brothers who started Split Enz(Tims) followed by Crowded House(Neils) are Kiwis

Plenty of Australian greatist hits albms around with monster hits by Kiwi acts like Dragon,Split Enz & Crowded House included

Nobody could mistake a New Zealand accent for an Australian

Then again I can't pick the difference between Canadians & Americans and thats one mistake you don't want to make

Safer to ask so where they are from

Its like the migrant generations that have been in Australia for ages but fools still keep asking "where are you from" even though they were born here

The thought that people other than white folk are also being born in OZ
Some thick clowns out there

cheers
B....OZ

[mart]

My favourite is the remark made by a Kiwi Prime minister who on being asked what he thought of Kiwis moving to Australia said "When that happens the IQ of both countries goes up".

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

Let me guess Piggy Muldoon or David Lange?

Shame the current crop of political correct Politicians aren't as colorful or interesting

cheers
B....OZ

[mart]

Muldoon. Lange was a pretty sharp guy but he was very erratic. And he let some of his colleagues have their head about selling off national assets.
Do you have an investigative magazine in OZ anything like the UKs Private Eye? I see that John Pilger has dedicated his latest book to Paul Foot who was PE's main man for digging the dirt.

Mart

[eduardo]

I can tell the difference between the accents but then I have been there several times and spent 18 months in Sydney so I should know.

However if you've never been there then one antipidean accent would be the same as the next one.

With american and canadian accents then I can slightly tell the difference. Canadians say "out" like "oot".

There's a reason why most Canadians and Kiwis when travelling abroad have their flags on their gear.

As for your point about fools asking where people are from then this reminds me of a time in my local Indian Takeaway. Whilst waiting for my food I was talking to Abdul who was born in Birmingham but whose families origins were from Bangladesh and he was a mate of mine.

The guy next to me chimed in the conversation and asked Abdul where he was from. "Birmingham" replied Abdul in his broad West Midlands accent.

"No where are you really from" asked the tosser.

"I'm really from Birmingham" Abdul stated.

"But you can't be from Birmingham originally" the bloke said.

"Whys that" Abdul replied.

"Because you have a sun tan".

I came close to punching the bloke myself so god knows what Abdul must have been thinking.

PS What was the famous Split Enz song? I can't remember.

[eduardo]

I spent 18 months in Sydney when Paul Keating was Prime Minister. Now he was a colourful bloke.

I remember seeing him on the TV in Parliament making "didums" and baby noises to the leader of the opposition.

Great stuff.