Explaining Rugby

Jo Bryant

This was seen on the streets of New Zealand…

A taste of Kiwi humour.

Published by Jo Bryant

I was born in the land of Banjo Paterson, gum trees, and weather extremes. I am a freelance photographer. I love to make images that make people happy. To capture forever a precious moment. I am also a freelance writer/editor. I live in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, but still like to claim my Australian heritage. I graduated with a Bachelor of Communications in 2008. I am writing my first novel. I love to write poetry, short stories, and also write for the web. And there is nothing that is on a par with a sunny summer's day spent at Waihi Beach.

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    2. Hi Jo; thanks for stopping by my blog; nice to meet you here! I love NZ …i wanted to share a little ditty I heard on local radio recently; I loved it ….hope it doesn’t offend though.

      Sign on country road said ———– SYDNEY SUX!!

      Someone had written underneath ……….

      NZ NIL!

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    1. Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer and the first to reach here, and map it out, in his ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen. Tasman stayed at the South Island in Golden Bay (which he named Murderers’ Bay due to clashes with Maori) in December 1642. He mapped out sections of the two main islands’ west coasts, calling the islands Staten Landt, after the States-General of the Netherlands. It is Staten Landt that appears on his first maps of this country. Dutch cartographers would later change the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, then Nieuw Zeeland, it being actually named after the Dutch province of Zeeland. When Captain James Cook arrived some 100 years later he anglicised it to the now New Zealand.

      Me – twisted ???
      Whatever do you mean ???
      😉

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