Question for our NZ friends

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: Question for our NZ friends

If you guys are living in NEW Zealand, where is OLD Zealand? Its amazing the questions that come up when my buddy and I are on road trips...

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

Gee, guess I should have searched the internet before I asked...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

dhc4ever · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

They'll all be out tending the sheep, so I just jump in to helpem out.....

Here apparently is the "old zealand";
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand

Magnificent looking places, both of them.

Aloysius · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

Pumpkin, that's a part of Belgium stolen from us by the Dutch. They did the same on the Eastside of our country where they have stolen Limburg.
In Limburg there was cole. In Zeeland you can put a brake on the harbour of Antwerp (and favorise Rotterdam).
They always have been clever businessmen. So when you meet them, keep you pockets closed and don't always believe what they are telling Smile

Without knowing it you're touching the origine of Belgium. We play buffer between the Dutch and the French (and Germany and Great-Brittain).

Isn't so that to immigrate New-Zealand you have to bring a respectfull amount of cash with you? Who voted that rule? Do I smell dutch influence?

Don't be mistaken: some of my best friends are from the Netherlands, but we keep the difference alive (all be it with jokes).

dhc4ever · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

"Don't be mistaken: some of my best friends are from the Netherlands, but we keep the difference alive (all be it with jokes)."

Stand back when the aussies and kiwi's start in on each other, the jokes are to say the least "cutting" at times, usually in the nicest possible way.....

Elvis · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

we also have a city called New PLymoth. another called Palmeston North in the central north island with a wee town (1 pub )in the mid south island called Palmeston.A major tourist lake in the north Lake Rotorua and funnily enough a wee lake in the south called (you guessed it) Lake Rotorua. wtf

Vince · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

dhc4ever wrote:

"Don't be mistaken: some of my best friends are from the Netherlands, but we keep the difference alive (all be it with jokes)."

Stand back when the aussies and kiwi's start in on each other, the jokes are to say the least "cutting" at times, usually in the nicest possible way.....

We would never do that would we mate...we would never take the mickey out of our mates across the Tasman...never mention sheep, or underarm bowling or anything like that, surely.

Cheers, Vince

dhc4ever · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

Vince wrote:

dhc4ever wrote:

"Don't be mistaken: some of my best friends are from the Netherlands, but we keep the difference alive (all be it with jokes)."

Stand back when the aussies and kiwi's start in on each other, the jokes are to say the least "cutting" at times, usually in the nicest possible way.....

We would never do that would we mate...we would never take the mickey out of our mates across the Tasman...never mention sheep, or underarm bowling or anything like that, surely.

Cheers, Vince

The sheep jokes are a given, both sides know that.
The under arm bowling incident and the resulting fallout, that would be the closest that the anzacs came to being in a real shooting war with each other.

radar · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

Your road trips sound like a hoot, but my question back; is "Wank" a real town in USA - my kids reckon it is, you gotta be kidding me!
I know of Wankie National Park in South Africa!

English Mike · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

radar wrote:

Your road trips sound like a hoot, but my question back; is "Wank" a real town in USA - my kids reckon it is, you gotta be kidding me!
I know of Wankie National Park in South Africa!

No town according to Wiki but there is a mountain in Germany called Wank, a German skier with the name & a Hungarian architect.

Then of course there's the Austrian town with an even worse name...... Shocked

TRBLSHTR · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

We got a pub here in the portland area called "wankers's corner"....A couple of Brits' I used to work with said they drove over there just to get a look at it!Maybe they are just closet voyers! wtf

Ominivision1 · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:27 am Post subject: Re: Question for our NZ friends

No town called wank in the US, but we have some rather unique town names.

Ballplay (Tennessee)
Beaver Crossing (Nebraska)
Climax (Colorado)
Cockland (Ohio)
Cooter (Missouri)
Ding Dong (Texas)

and the list goes on, but I think Spain has the #1 city name, cun*.
close 2nd would be Fu*king, (Austria).