Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Marmite, the UK pastime!
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:41:49 -0900

on 12/21/01 7:49 PM, Gary Elshaw at godard@hotmail.com wrote:

> I wrote:
> 
>> Shame on you, Kyle, Marmite is a New Zealand condiment and no one, and I
>> mean no one, with the exception of New Zealanders seem to like it.
> 
> Tim wrote:
>> Sorry, but it's a UK condiment borrowed by he Kiwis because they can't stand
>> that disgusting Vegemite stuff the Aussies put out...
> 
> Shame on me then! I always thought we invented it, now I can finally blame
> it all on my forebears! You weren't kidding about the Vegemite were you Tim.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> 
> "The university has, in fact, become a sausage-machine which turns out
> people without any real culture, and incapable of thinking for themselves,
> but trained to fit into the economic system of a highly industrialised
> society. The student may glory in the renown of his university status, but
> in fact he is being fed 'culture' as a goose is fed grain- to be sacrificed
> on the altar of bourgeois appetites."
> 
> -Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1968)
> Obsolete Communism:
> The Left Wing Alternative
> 
> OO  
> [_]<|    
> /|\
> Gary Elshaw
> Film and Media Studies Tutor
> Victoria University
> New Zealand
> 
> 
> 
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fyi Wizers Foods in Lake Oswego has both Marmite and Vegemite should any
yanks want to order any area code is 503  Mark

both are icky


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