>>>Boy are you lucky you are an island on the other side of the world.
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>Next week I'll be back in the Land of the Free.
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>FWIW, NZ has one other attribute that people aren't attuned to yet: clean water, and plenty of it.... and a heck of a lot of the more salty variety between us and anybody else who decides they want it. Australia, of course, is a giant desert with the opposite problem. ;-)
I think they have Fosters instead.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
