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November 1999 |
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ALL DAY in the New Zealand Friends Yahoo Club Sat 6th Nov CA time Sun 7th Nov NZ time Add this event to your Yahoo Calendar by clicking here. This Club is Invitation Only, so if you have not received your invitation to join the NZ Chat Friends Yahoo Club please contact Whiffle, Daggy, Daila or Maggie2 |
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To help us all stay in touch we've decided to publish ICQ numbers each month If you'd like to add your number to the list please forward your details to nzchat@hotmail.com or contact Daggydog, Daila or Maggie
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October saw the beginning of the 'America's Cup' yacht racing on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. With Challengers from all over the world, the first round of racing was an exciting time for Sailors and spectators alike. Numerous close encounters resulted in considerable damage to a several yachts and the postponement of race days, and the inevitable black flags flying in protest. Pictured is the Italian entry 'Prada', with maximum points from all
races so far she is definitely the boat to beat. For those interested
the official America's Cup Site
will provide up to the minute reports from the next round of racing due
to start November 6th.
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Its that time of year, Oct.31, Halloween. When ghosts, witches and ghouls
appear! Halloween is the nite when kids dress up in costumes and go door
to door saying the infamous saying, "Trick or Treat" and upon which
their halloween bags would open to receive candy.
When I was growing up, one of the joys of childhood was Halloween. I remember shopping for a pumpkin, carving it (at least helping) to resemble a Jack-O-Lantern, dressing up in costumes for Halloween parties. Later that evening, my friends and I would go out and get bags full of candy! In one instance or two I did go some pranks. Halloween is not only celebrated in the US but in such countries as Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland and many others I am not aware of ...but I hear it is somewhat catching on in New Zealand and maybe one day in Australia. Halloween isn't new by any means..... The concept of Halloween was brought to the US by the Irish in the mass migration in the 1840's but had beginnings as early as 1500 B.C. by the Celts. They held a festival every year to celebrate the end of summer and the onset of winter which was the beginning of the new year, called Sahmain. One of the beliefs was that on this day, the dead souls of the previous year would make journey to another world. Bonfires and sacrifices were used to appease the dead and hideous costumes were worn to keep the dead at a distance. Even though today, Halloween is celebrated in some countries it is still controversial because it is a pagan holiday with beliefs in the supernatural and clashes with the beliefs of the Church. Many customs of Halloween are still in use today. Such was the practice of dressing in ghoulish costumes so spirits wouldn't take possession of the living. The jack-lanterns supposedly from a blacksmith named Jack, who was a mean person in life that he was denied entry in Heaven and Hell thus he roamed the earth with a light inside a turnip..later it was replaced with a pumpkin when the Irish came to America and found there was abundance of pumpkins! But the practice of getting treats came from the holiday of All Souls day when early Christians would beg for food in exchange for saying prayers for donor's recently deceased relatives. Today, Halloween is celebrated by the young and the young at heart. So, when you hear that knock come Halloween and you peek out to see who it might be..it will someone who will shout "Trick or Treat"
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Welcome to " Quaton's CUAS " a new feature in the nzchat newsletter on cooking and a recipe with each issue! About me, first, I am a Kiwi who was breed and raised in Sunny Otaki (about 1 hour north of Wellington) a place famous for it's market gardening and tramping in the Tararua's. Since leaving this wonderful small town, my travel bug started and have traveled the world supplementing the income with an interesting mixture of jobs including labouring, petrol pump attendant, tyre fitter, management trainee, insurance broker, parrot selling!!, bar tending, green keeper, wood turner, timber mill supervisor....till settling on the vast world of cooking. Now, I am not a qualified Chef, but, I have almost 10 years of commercial experience and have now been managing a highly successful restaurant in Perth, Western Australia for the last 6 years specializing in Mexican food! Obviously the local Chef and Training Institute have recognized this legacy as they keep shoving new apprentices to me to which I am now training a 4th apprentice!!!! I am no rush to open my own place as I'm highly paid without all the headaches owners do have to suffer, but in time, we will see...... Anyway......this is a brief history, to which there are more tales which will be let on in coming issues of nz chat newsletters. Now, please note....these recipes have been tried, tested and the results are outstanding!!!!! As follows is our secret recipe for Guacamole which we use in our restaurant, namely (Acapulco Annies Mexican Restaurant)....which, incidentally, should have its own Web Page within two weeks....hence my lack of time for long chats as this has been a project for some time. If anyone has any questions, they can email me! EMAIL: quaton@hedgehog.highway.com.au
Ok....so please make it and most of all, enjoy!!! Last but not least....there is a free secret recipe for the first person who guesses what "CUAS" means!! The winner is announced in the following newsletter. The Quaton
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Search engines...links...dead links....ahhhhh what is a person to do! You say to yourself...no problem, I can find it but end up the spending alot of time looking for it. Help is here! One chatter wrote looking for emblems particularly of nations. hmmm...found some websites that might do:
Talk to you later,
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from Squiffy`s Joke Emporium For all of you who don't understand Cricket, I give you this.... There are two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes back in and the next man goes in, (that is out) until he's out at which point he comes in. When all the men in the side that's in are out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out! When both sides have been in and out including the not outs, that's the end of the game. Unless the game is washed out, in which case no one gets to go in, but everyone stays inside and no one gets out. The bowling takes place in overs, in which the bowler can hurl the ball as fast as he can at the wicket to get the batsman out, and the batsman who is in tries to hit the ball as hard as he can. They seem to enjoy this sort of thing, though no one knows how the ball feels about it all. An over lasts six balls, after which the over is over, unless it is Australian, when there are two more balls before the over is really over. Each match takes five days. It takes this long because they need time to figure out who is in, i.e. out, and who is out, i.e. in, and who is not out, but not yet in. There are one-day matches, which oddly are usually played at night these days (which may make you wonder why they don't call them one-night matches), in which everyone is in a hurry to get in and stay out. -----oooooooooo----- |
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The winner of the Quaton's CUAS competition More true rumours about SforSam |
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