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From: Scotty on 5 Oct 2009 03:33 "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:lcdic5hr58a3641k3q1950e9kod08ku4e6(a)4ax.com... : Noddy wrote: : > : >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 :) : : The only one on the list who's famous for his brain is Ernest : Rutherford, so I'm guessing very few Kiwis will have heard of him. : Interesting also that his knighthood isn't recognised, or his peerage, : whereas Edmund Hillary (famous for climbing up a mountain while : assisted) is SIR. :) : : Most notable absentees are of course Piggy Muldoon, who presided over : 'em for a decade while the rest of the world laughed, and Terry Clark : (alias Sinclair) who they'd probably like to pass off as Australian. : : You might also note that Burt Munro isn't on the list either. : : -- : John H Pearse, he was the first to fly! Who the hell cares about Robert Muldoon. Most famous for what, eating burgers!
From: Scotty on 5 Oct 2009 03:34 "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message news:4ac94244$0$3874$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... : : "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message : news:lcdic5hr58a3641k3q1950e9kod08ku4e6(a)4ax.com... : : > The only one on the list who's famous for his brain is Ernest : > Rutherford, so I'm guessing very few Kiwis will have heard of him. : > Interesting also that his knighthood isn't recognised, or his peerage, : > whereas Edmund Hillary (famous for climbing up a mountain while : > assisted) is SIR. :) : : Yeah, I find it somewhat amusing that a bloke gets a knighthood for walking : up the side of a hill and becomes world famous for it, yet the "guide" who : was with him, a Sherpa named Tenzing Norgay, hardly rates a mention in : history. : : To be fair to Hillary though, he and Norgay were great friends and it was : through no fault of Hillary's that he received most of the credit for : climbing Everest. Hillary also did a great deal in helping the people of : Nepal, building hospitals and schools. : : > Most notable absentees are of course Piggy Muldoon, who presided over : > 'em for a decade while the rest of the world laughed, and Terry Clark : > (alias Sinclair) who they'd probably like to pass off as Australian. : > : > You might also note that Burt Munro isn't on the list either. : : Yeah, an interesting omission I thought. : : -- : Regards, : Noddy. : : The origional post was about Burt so thats why he was excluded in my list. Thought that was kinda obvious.
From: John_H on 5 Oct 2009 04:23 user(a)domain.invalid wrote: > >There a lot not on the "list" and many you would not know of but looking >at the real makers of things look as an example for the Robinson's and a >lot of seemingly Eu names working on the bomb circa 1941/5 all from >Unzud , even a couple of Au's there Rutherford's protege was Mark Oliphant, who most certainly was Australian. Rutherford died sometime before WW2, it was Oliphant who oversaw the Manhattan Project. He also happens to have been one of the most thoroughly decent people I've ever had the honour to have been in the same room with (back when I worked for Govco). :) -- John H
From: atec 7 7 "atec on 5 Oct 2009 05:19 John_H wrote: > user(a)domain.invalid wrote: >> There a lot not on the "list" and many you would not know of but looking >> at the real makers of things look as an example for the Robinson's and a >> lot of seemingly Eu names working on the bomb circa 1941/5 all from >> Unzud , even a couple of Au's there > > Rutherford's protege was Mark Oliphant, who most certainly was > Australian. Rutherford died sometime before WW2, it was Oliphant who > oversaw the Manhattan Project. He also happens to have been one of > the most thoroughly decent people I've ever had the honour to have > been in the same room with (back when I worked for Govco). :) > I never met the bloke but I did meet several Kiwis who worked on the secrete stuff during wwII including Heath Robinson apparently a many times removed rello who worked on the big banger Shame we didn't inherit the "smarts" gene ?
From: jonz on 5 Oct 2009 05:26
Scotty wrote: > "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com... > : 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 > : > : -- > : John H > > Your thinking of Burt Munroe and the Bonniville Salt Flats in Utah. > > 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, ZoÎ 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............... > > > The list just goes on and on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ onya Scotty.... > > -- jonz "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford,1992 |