Posted on 07/25/2016 11:45:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
New Zealand is a nation that takes its birds seriously, and its got very special ones. The countrys currency is adorned with images of winged species found nowhere else, including the yellow-eyed penguin and the black-masked kokako. The logo of the national air force is stamped with the famed kiwi a chicken-sized puff of feathers that cannot fly.... For the first time, technology is starting to make feasible what previously seemed like an unattainable dream, ... In 2013, environmental activist Gareth Morgan suggested hunting down and killing every feral cat in New Zealand (a proposal that, Morgan told The Washington Post, elicited lots of hate mail from Americans.)
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Very creative. Maybe Dr. Seuss was thinking of Kiwis when he wrote Green Eggs & Ham.
The Chinese restaurant in my small town is called Golden City....or as us locals like to say Golden Kitty.
Well, coyotes would take care of the feral cats, but they wouldn’t bother with the rats and I doubt they could catch the weasels.
Snakes could kill the rats, but the weasels would eat the snakes... what is good at catching weasels? Some kind of raptor maybe?
Kiwi is the name of the bird and yes I saw a few fruity looking people in NZ.
“Well, there goes New Zealand from the Where Might Obama Retire List.
Quote of the day!
Napalm.
Look for a mass exodus of politicians from NZ.
No they don’t...
someone else dubbed New Zealanders as Kiwis...
I lived there 22 years and never called myself a Kiwi nor did my mother, father, grandmothers, siblings, aunts, uncles cousins etc ever call themselves Kiwis..
“what is good at catching weasels?”
Certainly not the FBI.
Lot of supposed Solon's would be gone...........
Too bad we can’t see such enthusiasm for controlling muslims.
The NZ Air Force roundel has a kiwi on it:
How did you end up here?
I've been to Auckland...and there are many places I might like to live there.
what is good at catching weasels?
“Certainly not the FBI.”
Actually they’re pretty good at catching them it’s just that they have a “catch and release” policy.
“someone else dubbed New Zealanders as Kiwis...”
Probably an Aussie :)
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she’ll die!...
thats funny right there...
Do you call yourself an Allblack?
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