>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. :)

Sorry to disappoint you. I'm neither genetically jailbait (at least as far
as I know!) nor Polynesian. Born in England, spent a few months there,
moved to Nigeria for 3 years, then to Edmonton, Canada until 67 (whence my
introduction to VWs, as my father bought a Type 3 fastback there) and on to
Victoria, BC. Moved to NZ in 73/74.

So where am I really from? Derned 'f I know!

Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
VW & mollusc nut
1984 VW Type 25 Caravelle (currently SVX engine; waiting for a Porsche trans)
1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel (extaxi)
1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel wagon
1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (taxi)