Dennis, What are "Rodgernomics"? Similar to the Reaganomics that revitalized the US economy? Andy "Plunkett, Dennis" on 09/24/2000 08:27:06 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: [OT]: NZ polies 25/9/2000 Without Lange, you would not have had "Rodgernomics!" From the outside this seems to be one of the best things that occurec in NZ. From the other side of the pond Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell McMahon [SMTP:apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ] > Sent: Monday, 25 September 2000 8:51 > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [OT]: Sydney Engineering Heart Attack <-- > > >Russell McMahon wrote: > >> > >>Or, as one of our more colourful PMs retorted when people noted that > many > >>Kiwis who had had enough in NZ were leaving to go to Oz > >> > >> " Thereby raising the average I.Q. of both countries." > >> > >>It MUST have been pre-done by a speech-writer. Nobody, even Piggy, is > THAT > >>quick on their feet. > >> > > > > > >I don't know internal OZ/NZ politics, Russell, but I sure hope > >this wasn't a slur on "Miss" Piggy - she is a nat'l hero here > >in the USA: > > No. > "Piggy" ws the popular universally used name for the then Prime Minister. > Possibly due to his appearance which was unusual. > He took it well enough - he had a poster of a pig on the wall of his > holiday > home in recognition. > > It was a slur on the "dole bludgers" as he called them who were leaving to > live in Oz and simultaneously on all Australians. > He was world famous in NZ for making smart commenst which he should have > known better than to make. > > He referred to Jimmy Carter as "that Peanut farmer from Georgia" (which of > course he was) and never got to talk to him at all as a consequence. > He said of some leader that he could recommend him to a good taxidermist > and > that caused him substantial backlash too. > Our best was arguably David lange "When you lean towards me I can smell > the > Plutonium on your breath" (in the Oxford pro/anti nuclear weapons debate) > but he ultimately turned out disapoiting as well (as all do and all must > alas). > . > > > RM > > > >"Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift" - Miss Piggy > > > >And one for the road: > > > >"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the > >pig" - Paul Dickson > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:" PIC only "[EE]:" engineering "[OT]:" off topic "[AD]:" ad's -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics