>some dastardly trouble-stirring miscreant spoke thusly: >> So, Andrew of NZ. You're descended from ex-cons in a place named by >mental >> midgets and short order cooks? > >why, he MIGHT be descended from the proud and fierce Maori, who >"discovered" New Zealand yeeeeeeeears afore the white man ever set >foot on the place! :) or one of them johnny-come-latelys who came much >later. we have no idea how long his fambly has been there. :) > >> Man, ain't unca joel a MOM (mean old man) for rattling your >ancestral closet? > >hey, History is nothing if not mean. :) > >unca joel >historian, philosopher, ancestral closet rattler. :) Sorry to disappoint you. I'm neither genetically jailbait (at least as far as I know!) nor Polynesian. Born in England, spent a few months there, moved to Nigeria for 3 years, then to Edmonton, Canada until 67 (whence my introduction to VWs, as my father bought a Type 3 fastback there) and on to Victoria, BC. Moved to NZ in 73/74. So where am I really from? Derned 'f I know!
Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand VW & mollusc nut 1984 VW Type 25 Caravelle (currently SVX engine; waiting for a Porsche trans) 1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel (extaxi) 1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel wagon 1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (taxi) |
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