NOT the Scottish Thread

[Banditbandit]

Yeah nah that sounds to complicated.

How about $20 billion and some KFC?

We'll take that money - but hold the Kentucky Fucked Duck ... we've had enough of that already

[avgas]

We'll take that money - but hold the Kentucky Fucked Duck ... we've had enough of that already

Good news lads!

Going to our current plan of payments, we should have it all settled in 400 years.

We will however have sold everything to the Chinese to pay for this.

Suddenly a $1b fiscal envelope doesn't sound so bad, we could have had it all paid off in a years time.

[Banditbandit]

I do have one question for you BB as you are probably the most informed person i have come across regarding Maori info and i truely mean no offence but somethings been bugging me for a while
as i understand it Kamate Kamate was conceived by Te Rauparaha as he hid from rival Maori/soldiers beneath a wahines skirts as she tended a kumara pit...........So......My question being how did it make the jump from,and again no offence intended here,a guy hiding under a womans skirt......to the haka we see today.sorry i just dont get it..........when was it first actually used as the challenge we see today.

Sorry - I missed this one. It's old but deserves an answer.

Yes, Ka mate a Mate was written by Te Rauparaha after his escape fleeing from a rivasl group's war party. The haka itself is a lot longer than the ABs perform . The whole thing tells the whole story ..

What the All Blacks use celebrates the man with the hairy legs who let down a ladder into the pit so he could climb out after his narrow escape ... Yes, as I understand it, he hid in the kumera pit under "a woman's skirt". A chief sitting under the bum and vagina of a woman was such an offence against tapu that the war party never thought of looking for him there ... an interesting idea that he breached tapu in such a way to save his own life ... this haka actually belongs to the wi called Ngati ToaRangatira, who are descendents of te Rauparaha, which was why Kapa o Pango was written as an All Black haka instead of them using Ngati ToaRangatira intellectual property rights. Kapa o Pango can be translated as "All Blacks" ...

Have a look here . this is not bad, but doesn't really answer your question - I'm not sure anyone can answer it ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haka_(sports)

[admenk]

Yeah nah that sounds to complicated.

How about $20 billion and some KFC?

Are you sure you're not on the Treaty settlements tribunal (or whatever it's called)

[Banditbandit]

Good news lads!

Going to our current plan of payments, we should have it all settled in 400 years.

We will however have sold everything to the Chinese to pay for this.

Suddenly a $1b fiscal envelope doesn't sound so bad, we could have had it all paid off in a years time.

Jeez .. anyone in the right mind would have taken that offer of $20billion .. way beyond what anyone has offered us so far ...