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Quote (david @ Oct. 20 2012,12:11) Terrarica, you are from Alberta? Cool. Or, more to the point, cold. We are almost neighbours. What city?
edmontonQuote (t8 @ Oct. 20 2012,18:51) Quote (mikeboll64 @ Oct. 20 2012,13:23) When the time comes that the 88% of us need your water, we'll just take it from the 12% of you like a big kid takes a smaller kid's lunch money!
He he. If you do that, then we won't sell you any kiwifruit and will withdraw all future episodes of Flight of the Conchords.
Quote (terraricca @ Oct. 19 2012,20:23) ……….I told him that I was very happy about it ,he look at me stun,so I told him that he was now one competitor less that I have to deal with Quote (t8 @ Oct. 20 2012,06:51) Quote (mikeboll64 @ Oct. 20 2012,13:23) When the time comes that the 88% of us need your water, we'll just take it from the 12% of you like a big kid takes a smaller kid's lunch money!
He he. If you do that, then we won't sell you any kiwifruit and will withdraw all future episodes of Flight of the Conchords.
Quote (david @ Oct. 20 2012,00:14) Mike, you wouldn't be American would you? :-).
How'd you guess?Actually, I'm proud of many things my country has done, but bullying weaker people is not one of them.
“The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” – Samuel P. Huntington
“Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.”
Quote (david @ Oct. 21 2012,01:57) “The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.” “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” – Samuel P. Huntington
“Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.”
davidQuote they did it by killing all those who opposed them.” when did it changed
this his the devil world ,what do you expect ???LOVE
Quote (david @ Oct. 21 2012,09:54) Who else here is basing their whole concept of T8 on the characters from flight of the Concorde?
Me.Funny thing is these guys are from my city.
My son had a school play and there was going to be a special guest appearance and you guessed it, it was one of them. Bret McKenzie to be precise. It turned out he went to the same school as my son.The only reason you know about them too is because they could not secure a television show here in New Zealand, so they went to the States instead. Good for them.
- Russell Crowe (actor)
- Lord of the Rings and Narnia trilogies. Directors, special effects, location all from NZ. LOTR won 11 Academy Awards, the most ever.
- Weta Graphics who did special effects for above movies and Avatar and other cutting edge movies, (James Cameron the director of Avatar and Titanic now lives here),
- Gotta mention Peter Jackson the man behind these movies.
- Sir Edmund Hillary the first man to climb Mount Everest,
- Sir Lord Rutherford, first to split the atom,
- Harold Williams the world's greatest linguist according to Guinness Book of Records.
- Robert Burchfield – Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “the greatest living lexicographer”. Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and responsible for its revision.
- Alexander Aitken one of the world's most brilliant mathematical minds.
- Nancy Wake – the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo's most wanted person.
- Keith Park. His strategies won the Battle of Britain and turned the war (ww2) around.
- Bruce McLaren (champion driver and founder of the McLaren Formula One Team
- Scott Ronald Dixon – the most successful all-time driver in the Indy Racing League (IRL) championship in the United States
- Burt Munro – world record motorcycle speedster and subject of the film 'The World's Fastest Indian'.
Famous inventors:
- John Britten, won Daytona on a bike he completely made by his own hands in his own garage and cast the engine parts himself. In a poll compiled by the world's leading motorcycle writers to rank the Motorcyclist of the Millennium, John Britten was placed equal with the four founders of Harley Davidson.
- Richard Pearse First Man to 'Fly' a Mechanically Powered Aeroplane. He did that twice before the Wright Brothers. Not a well known fact. He also did this with little money while the Wright Brothers had US government sponsorship.
Then of course there is me, the first man to make a post on Heaven Net.
