I'm not British or from New Zealand.

[zoobyshoe]

Main Question or Discussion Point

I'm not British or from New Zealand.

 

[Berislav]

That's nice. Neither am I.

 

[zoobyshoe]

That's nice. Neither am I.

Glad you mentioned it. Now I won't be jumping to any conclusions.

 

[honestrosewater]

You'll always be a Mountain Man to me. Incidentally, I was born of the sea foam.

 

[Berislav]

You'll always be a Mountain Man to me. Incidentally, I was born of the sea foam.

Which one of us, Aphrodite?

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

I'm not British or from New Zealand.

This is a trick, no? You did not say: "I'm not British or a kiwi," nor "I'm not from Britain or New Zealand." It could be you are not British because you are a nationalised New Zealander, but you are not "from" New Zealand because you were born in Britain.

Or it could be you're from somewhere else.

 

[honestrosewater]

Which one of us, Aphrodite?

zooby. I don't know what you are yet - I need a map. Croatia is somewhere in the middle, right?

 

[zoobyshoe]

This is a trick, no? You did not say: "I'm not British or a kiwi," nor "I'm not from Britain or New Zealand." It could be you are not British because you are a nationalised New Zealander, but you are not "from" New Zealand because you were born in Britain.

OK, OK. I was neither born in the UK nor in New Zealand. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a citizen of the UK or New Zealand. I do not now, nor have I ever, lived in the UK or New Zealand.

I have also never tried to smuggle a coconut out of Haiti.

 

[zoobyshoe]

zooby. I don't know what you are yet...

I am a zoobie!

 

[Berislav]

I don't know what you are yet - I need a map. Croatia is somewhere in the middle, right?

Something like that... It's east of Italy.

 

[honestrosewater]

I am a zoobie!

Okay, okay, you are a zoobie - descendants of the Mountain Men and mountain goats.

Berislav is a gondolier who got lost and rowed across the sea.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Okay, okay, you are a zoobie - descendants of the Mountain Men and mountain goats.

Goats? Are you high? I'm prolly some kind of post- simian, prehomonid kinda thing.

 

[Berislav]

Berislav is a gondolier who got lost and rowed across the sea.

I must be a strong gondolier then.

 

[hypatia]

I've never seen goats while visiting the 'ol man of the mountains, but I have seen lots of chipmunks there. So zooby is a chipmunk/mountain man hybrid? Which would make him firm, yet oddly fuzzy.

 

[zoobyshoe]

What are these "Mountain Men" you guys are talking about? (I know what goats and chipmunks are.)

 

[matthyaouw]

Incidently, I'm British, but also not from New Zealand

 

[zoobyshoe]

Incidently, I'm British, but also not from New Zealand

Is anyone, really, from New Zealand?

 

[matthyaouw]

I'm not sure... Most people around here seem to be British. Funny, that.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'm not sure... Most people around here seem to be British. Funny, that.

Here where? PF, or there, England?

 

[matthyaouw]

Here in England.

 

[honestrosewater]

What are these "Mountain Men" you guys are talking about? (I know what goats and chipmunks are.)

Mountain men were trappers and explorers that roamed the Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. These were primarily beaver trappers but included some who mainly wanted to explore the West.

The stereotypical mountain man was depicted as a loner dressed in animal pelts, sporting bushy facial hair and carrying a muzzle loader and buck knife. Some mountain men were gruff, while others were well-mannered, however, they were romanticized as honorable men with their own chivalrous code who would help their brethren, but were more at home in the wild...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_men

Sounds like a zoobie to me...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Sounds like a zoobie to me...

Well, that's what I thought a Mountain Man was too. (A trapper, not a zoobie) Hypatia, though, says she goes and visits one. Does that involve time travel, I wonder?

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

I have also never tried to smuggle a coconut out of Haiti.

You are still a young zooby. Plenty of time for that.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Are you from, in, or a citizen of Australia?

 

[zoobyshoe]

You are still a young zooby. Plenty of time for that.

Yeah, I'm only five.