Date:         Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:45:06 +0100
Reply-To:     Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
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From:         Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject:      Re: Caught offside!
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> Kiwis can't spell bungee, either. A local tourist-frightener called A
> J Hackett runs bungee-jumping in various places. He misspells it
> "bungy". He must have a bung up his... arse.

We hear they also misappropriate its origins, and apart from those macho
tribesmens undergoing their initiation rights in a rain-forest (somewhere)
using whippy timber towers and stretchy rope, I think it was two guys from
the Oxford Dangerous Sports club who first did the calculations, and then
went and jumped off Brunel's lovely Clifton suspension bridge - and
survived.

Clive



Don't forget the woest of the lot... 'aliminium". >> aluminium surely
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Caught offside!


> >Brill!  >= Brilliant - another for the book!
> >I'll try and think of some Brit classics along these lines for the list
>
> Polynesians call sweet potatoes kumara/kumera. Here in dog's own they
> say "sucked the kumara" when something craps out.  Or thay say it's
> stuffed. With kumaras?
>
> A vision of lots of smoking Vanagons sucking on kumaras in the States...
>
> Kiwis can't spell bungee, either. A local tourist-frightener called A
> J Hackett runs bungee-jumping in various places. He misspells it
> "bungy". He must have a bung up his... arse.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut