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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Feb 6, 2014 13:58:58 GMT -5
Did Frodo turn into a huge jerk after he got all famous?
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Professor Chaos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Feb 6, 2014 14:22:17 GMT -5
Are you a Luke or a Butch man?
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 6, 2014 20:15:14 GMT -5
Did Frodo turn into a huge jerk after he got all famous? No as Frodo is still a what we in New Zealand a good c*** after all these years. Are you a Luke or a Butch man? Butch
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Post by dodgykiwi on Feb 7, 2014 1:58:02 GMT -5
You get hit with any of the quakes the last few years? I've got a friend who lives in Christchurch and they shook her up bad. As a local I can say we don't get them as often and when we do we normally just brush them off as the norm. The North Island area near Wellington seems to be getting the most recent ones. There was a 4.5 I think last year and you could tell who the tourists were because they all ran towards the doors and the locals sat there in the food court eating like normal.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Feb 7, 2014 5:49:17 GMT -5
What happened to Old Zealand?
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Post by dodgykiwi on Mar 1, 2014 20:21:44 GMT -5
What happened to Old Zealand? Zeeland (not Zealand) is a province in Holland, a coastal strip bordering Belgium. It contains a number of islands and about half of its area is water - hence the name, meaning sea-land. How New Zealand got its name: In 1642 the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman became the first European to discover New Zealand, which he named 'Staten Landt' on his maps, thinking it was an island off Chile sighted in 1616. When it was realized that they were two different places, the Dutch mapmakers gave the archipelago the Latin name 'Nova Zeelandia' after the Dutch province. The Latin became the Dutch 'Nieuw Zeeland', which was in turn misspelled 'New Zealand' by the English explorer Captain James Cook. Abel Tasman also discovered an island off Australia which he named Van Diemen's Land, but was later given the more appropriate name of Tasmania.
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