Not a total newbie, but still in boot camp

[Weasel]

Hurrah!
Dan is here to save our honour!
Hurrah!

he he...you seem to have stirred up a decent response eh Chris.

We may name ourselves after a small brown flightless bird, that ironically enough often becomes weasel food....but we have claws, a bloody long beak and move like lightening through the tussock!
How's that for scary!
Grrrr!
or...eep!
Or whatever noise a Kiwi makes....

sigh...it's a bit hard to make national - animal - scary threats when you are from Aotearoa.
Maybe we could sic a weta on your arse...but that's about it.

have at 'em chaps!
Kia Kaha

All I know is the little bastard sat on the lid of my shoe polish for 23 years while in the army. Kiwi shoe polish, do they have that down there? I tried other brands and always went back to it, just the right mix of wax and oils to give a deep glass shine when done properly. I always thought the American dress shoes where great (wow what a shine, how did they do that?) until I found out they were patent leather! WTF? When we get issued our new oxfords they are bare black leather and then you start melting the cans of kiwi onto them to build up the layers to get a deep shine (it cannot be just shinny, it must be deep or else the Sgt Maj yaps at you). The best part is if you do it wrong they will look great until you walk in them and then the wax will crack and begin to flake and fall off...looks like shit!