Re: CHAT: Secret questions - need to went some anger ...

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:33, andrew wrote:
> On 06/10 21:18  Wesley Parish wrote:
> > to?  Petersburg...  And then there's the possibility of giving the
> > foreign name for your birth city - just think, if I had been born in
> > Windy Wellington, NZ, I could give Poneke, and baffle anyone who was
> > lacking in Te Reo.
>
> If you were bored of living in Port Nicholson, you could always say
> Whanganui-a-Tara, which is more euphonious if you ask me.
>
> I was born in Murihiku, the tail of the land, in the deep south.
Gore and/or Invercargill, unless I'm much mistaken.  One of my earlier known
ancestors set up a jeweler's shop there around the time of the gold rush.

> I
> expect to be buried there.  For now I live in Otepoti, where the boats
> landed.
Dunedin, where you have the House of Pleasure, aka Carisbrook Stadium.

> That should be enough hints to figure out the pakeha names. :)
Currently I'm living in Waitaha/Otautahi, where the current Super 12
champions are.  Not that I'm a great Buggery Football Union fan, - I much
prefer more open field codes like Aussie Rules - and I never grew up among
the bum-sniffers (bad luck if your favourite gas is selfproduced methane!) -
but it doesn't hurt to keep in touch with popular culture.

Wesley Parish

>
>
> - andrew.
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Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
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