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From: D Walford on 4 Oct 2009 06:35 user(a)domain.invalid wrote: > John_H wrote: >> Scotty wrote: >>> "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message >>> news:59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com... >>> : >>> : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro >> >>> Your thinking of Burt Munroe and the Bonniville Salt Flats in Utah. >> >> Nope, I'm thinking off Burt Munro (without an "e"). :) >> >>> And dont forget......Possum Bourne, SIR Edmund Hillary, (Sir?) Peter >>> Blake, Rod and Scott Dixon, Rachel Hunter, Sam Neil, Neil and Tim >>> Finn, Anna Panquin (Spelling?), Bruno Laurence, Peter Jackson, Rita >>> Angus, Zo� Bell, Michael Campbell, Jane Campion, Keisha >>> Castle-Hughes, Russell Crowe (Of course), Dave Dobbyn, Roger >>> Donaldson, Gareth Farr, Lucy Lawless, Ernest Rutherford, Kiri Te >>> Kanawa, Sarah Ulmer, Keith Urban, Hayley Westenra, Jona Lomu, Nicole >>> Kidman, Lucy Lawless, Richard Hadlee, Richard Pearse, Mark Todd, John >>> Walker............... >> >> If you're thinking of Nicole Kidman, the movie actor, she was born in >> USA. She's also an Australian citizen. Most of the rest I've never >> heard of. ;-) >> > SOunds bit like many other insulars > your not living in arsend Usa are you by any-chance ?:P > mind after tdays fishing nothing you say can bother me Out of the 34 or so on the list I have heard of 13, seems like the rest are only famous in their own lunch box:-) Daryl
From: Atheist Chaplain on 4 Oct 2009 07:23 yeah it can be a bit hard when they spent most of their childhood in another country :-) -- [This comment is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology International] "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi "Scotty" <scoter1(a)warmmail.com> wrote in message news:4ac8718b$0$1785$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > "Atheist Chaplain" <abused(a)cia.gov> wrote in message > news:4ac84f7b(a)news.x-privat.org... > > : > : and in typical Kiwi fashion he mentions Lucy Lawless twice :-) (well I > : suppose that's fair, she has two great assets :-) ) > : and from that list I recognize Possum Bourne, SIR Edmund Hillary, Rachel > : Hunter, Sam Neil, Neil and Tim Finn, Peter Jackson, Russell Crowe (you > can > : have the drunken lout), Dave Dobbyn, Lucy Lawless (but only once), Kiri > Te > : Kanawa (isn't she a Dame??), Keith Urban (another drunk you can keep), > Jona > : Lomu, Richard Hadlee. > : Anna Paquin (correct spelling if your talking about the actress) was > born in > : Canada. she grew up in New Zealand > : Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii though she is still an > Australian > : citizen and her parents are now and always have been Australian :-) > > > Opps, I threw Nicole Kidman in there to see who picked it up but didnt > realise that young Anna was a > Canadian. > > >
From: Noddy on 4 Oct 2009 07:58 "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:b9hgc5pmthb1f4h3ahhu6jki97dso6tjr8(a)4ax.com... > If you're thinking of Nicole Kidman, the movie actor, she was born in > USA. She's also an Australian citizen. Most of the rest I've never > heard of. ;-) I've heard of *some*, and my wife being a rabid fanatical Kiwi just looked over my shoulder and had heard of about three more than me :) I'm actually surprised that anyone blurting about famous Kiwi's wouldn't rate Bruce McLaren at the top, or near the top, of their list in terms of significant achievements on the world stage. A brilliant race car driver and engineer, he was at one point the youngest driver ever to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix at age 22 (from memory) and went on to form his own team that still exists to this day. His death in 1970 in a race car testing accident was a great loss, and had he lived he would most likely be the only other man aside from Jack Brabham to win a Formula 1 World Championship in a car of his own construction. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: user on 4 Oct 2009 08:40 D Walford wrote: > user(a)domain.invalid wrote: >> John_H wrote: >>> Scotty wrote: >>>> "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message >>>> news:59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com... >>>> : >>>> : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro >>> >>>> Your thinking of Burt Munroe and the Bonniville Salt Flats in Utah. >>> >>> Nope, I'm thinking off Burt Munro (without an "e"). :) >>> >>>> And dont forget......Possum Bourne, SIR Edmund Hillary, (Sir?) Peter >>>> Blake, Rod and Scott Dixon, Rachel Hunter, Sam Neil, Neil and Tim >>>> Finn, Anna Panquin (Spelling?), Bruno Laurence, Peter Jackson, Rita >>>> Angus, Zo� Bell, Michael Campbell, Jane Campion, Keisha >>>> Castle-Hughes, Russell Crowe (Of course), Dave Dobbyn, Roger >>>> Donaldson, Gareth Farr, Lucy Lawless, Ernest Rutherford, Kiri Te >>>> Kanawa, Sarah Ulmer, Keith Urban, Hayley Westenra, Jona Lomu, Nicole >>>> Kidman, Lucy Lawless, Richard Hadlee, Richard Pearse, Mark Todd, >>>> John Walker............... >>> >>> If you're thinking of Nicole Kidman, the movie actor, she was born in >>> USA. She's also an Australian citizen. Most of the rest I've never >>> heard of. ;-) >>> >> SOunds bit like many other insulars >> your not living in arsend Usa are you by any-chance ?:P >> mind after tdays fishing nothing you say can bother me > > Out of the 34 or so on the list I have heard of 13, seems like the rest > are only famous in their own lunch box:-) > > > > Daryl It's called local insulation (and media filtering) very common in the continental USA rather like when the Ozzies lose in rugby its a near thing on a 30 points spread but a 4 point win in airial pingpong is a thrashing... perceptions eh wot ?
From: Jeßus on 4 Oct 2009 15:22
In article <59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com>, john4721 @inbox.com said... : :Jason James wrote: :> :>Is he the old guy who did time-trials at Bonneville with an old but fast :>bike, on the salt-flats or whatever they call them? : :Yep, and famous Kiwis are so few and far between he's probably the :next most famous to Edmund Hillary... if you don't count Piggy :Muldoon. :) : :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro Footrot Flats and Fred Dagg are probably better well known :) |