[shaggy eel]

,,, first to split the atom; first to climb Mt Everest; first to give women the vote; first to introduce a queen to a Queen. What a country.

[Brian Allen]

..... first to split the atom; first to climb Mt Everest .....

You're stretching a bit there, shaggs.

The Hunt Everest Expedition was British and Ernest Rutherford worked in Britain at Manchester's Victoria University. It follows, I therefore venture, that his achievements, too, were -- and should be seen as -- British.

But the obscene Clarke is New Zealand's. And New Zealand is welcome to -- and apparently deserves -- that foul and common and vulgar cow. And all of her/its appointees.