some dastardly trouble-stirring miscreant spoke thusly:
> So, Andrew of NZ. You're descended from ex-cons in a place named by
mental
> midgets and short order cooks?

why, he MIGHT be descended from the proud and fierce Maori, who
"discovered" New Zealand yeeeeeeeears afore the white man ever set
foot on the place! :) or one of them johnny-come-latelys who came much
later. we have no idea how long his fambly has been there. :)

> Man, ain't unca joel a MOM (mean old man) for rattling your
ancestral closet?

hey, History is nothing if not mean. :)

unca joel
historian, philosopher, ancestral closet rattler. :)