On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:03:07 +0000, Nico Coesel wrote:
> "Ken Taylor" <ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>"Nico Coesel" <nico@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:41dee5c8.1580411121@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Jim Thompson <thegreatone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> >See...
>>> >
>>> >http://www.analog-innovations.com/Musings/Funnel.gif
>>>
>>> I recently visited Auckland (New Zealand). Its now supposed to be
>>> summer over there. I've had rain, hail, clouds and sun****ne in one
>>> day. According to a taxi driver its not uncommon to have all four
>>> seasons in one day.
>>>
>>> --
>>Geez, I'd settle for four seasons in a day! We're getting four seasons
per
>>hour at present! It really sucks the big wiener down here at present.
:-(
>
> I'm glad I'm back at home. I expected New Zealand to be something like
> Spain. Sunny, 30 degrees Celcius or so in the summer (get a bit of a
> teint). But now I know why Abel Tasman called it New Zealand and
> didn't set foot on the land.
I've just had an incongruous thought - There's a "New York" a "New
Jersey",
a "New Mexico", and so on, but there's also an actual York, and an actual
Jersey, and an actual Mexico.
So, where in the world is the original Zealand?
Thanks,
Rich
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