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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 16 April 2007 - Volume 02<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_wes.parish@paradise.net.nz" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">
Wesley Parish <<a href="mailto:wes.parish@paradise.net.nz">wes.parish@paradise.net.nz</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Demographics" 2007.04.15 (02) [E]<br><br>On Monday 16 April 2007 04:50, Lowlands-L List wrote:
<br>> <snip><br>><br>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Demographics<br>><br>> Hi, Wesley!
<br>><br>> You wrote:<br><snip><br>> I hope the mutual free migration deal is still in place between Australia<br>> and New Zealand, though. I really like that.<br><br>So do I.<br><snip><br>> > To the best of my
<br>> > knowledge, I'm still an Australian Protected Person! ;)<br>><br>> Oh, we do love protecting you, Wes!<br><br>Now you're frightening me! ;)<br>><br>> > I apparently share a common first name with one of
<br>> > the culture heroes of a people who live in the Torricellis, and who<br>> > consequently regard me as one of them - my parents lived there for a<br>> > number<br>> > of years after my birth, and got on famously with the locals because of
<br>> > me! ;)<br>><br>> You could be crowned king yet. Things like that have happened. But what if<br><br>No, not them. They don't have kings - tribal leaders are only "elected" on<br>account of character, mostly strength of character if my memory serves me
<br>rightly - and the ability to serve up goods for followers -, not descent.<br>Thank $DEITY! It's the northern coastal people - Austronesian language<br>speakers - who have this "hereditary" leadership nonsense - Michael Somare is
<br>apparently a chief's son, so it doesn't always turn out badly, but I'd say<br>he's a rarity. And the morons in the British Bollocky are more the standard.<br>> they only give credit to your parents for giving you that name and they
<br><br>The person they named me after was an American they had a lot of respect and<br>liking for; then they turned up at this place in the Torricellis! ;)<br><br>As they say, if you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined! ;)
<br>> couldn't care less about you? ;-)<br><br>Who knows! Indeed, who knows! ;) Pity Rider Haggard never wrote about that<br>sort of situation - but once he got onto his "hidden civilization/s" theme he
<br>only got off that to rave about "She Who Must Be Obeyed" - presumably because<br>she insisted he do so! ;)<br>><br>> Cheerio!<br>> Reinhard/Ron<br><br>Wesley Parish<br>--<br>Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish
<br>-----<br>Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are<br>impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla<br>warfare means up to their monkey tricks.<br>Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom
<br>of the foolish.<br>-----<br>Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?<br>You ask, what is the most important thing?<br>Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.<br>I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.<br><br>
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