# This just in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192 "2002-12-03T10:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/41 "2002-12-04T21:27:25Z")
Major suckage, Bad News Baboon. I can’t find anyone who knows anything about Neil Finn tickes going on sale. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/42 "2002-12-04T21:46:25Z")
Woah. It’s really important you know that model’s wearing something foreign before you view that link. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/43 "2002-12-04T21:59:01Z")
wolfie- couldnt get link to work. anya- it’s ok. I see he’s playing in San Fran two days before valentines… hmmm. a trip might be in order! lieu- that’s what I said! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/44 "2002-12-05T03:47:55Z")
Eh, dang links. My apologies to anyone offended by the picture – I took a look and didn’t think it was particularly pornified or anything. Wouldn’t be anything _I’d_ wear, anyway! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/45 "2002-12-05T04:12:56Z")
I cuddled a baby possum this weekend. He was so damned cute! There were supposed to be sugar gliders too but they didn’t arrive ☹ Whittaker’s peanut slabs. Chocolate fish! L & P. I’m racking my brains here to think what the NZ shops sell. Pineapple chunks. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/46 "2002-12-05T04:38:08Z")
Chocolate fish – uh, are they Kiwi? Might be more international, I dunno. I’d like t’ think they were ours. 🙂 Hmm. Same probably with pineapple/banana choc chunks (haven’t had any in an age. Yum.) L&P, for th’ folks up there in th’ North, is a soft drink. Stands for “Lemon & Paeroa” (Paeroa bein’ the place, so they say, where they used water from springs to made the drink originally. S’all part an’ parcel of the Coca Cola consortium, now.) And yup, I mentioned Whittakers, only they do more than peanut slabs these days, **Primaflora**. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/47 "2002-12-06T00:28:53Z")
Forever Loyal! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192/48 "2002-12-06T18:36:10Z")
IIRC, there’s also one of the little islands in NZ (I think on the outside of that inlet that almost bisects North Island) that has the only surviving members of a species of wallaby – one that was introduced there in the 19th Century and then became extinct in Australia. (This may be a UL, though – anybody know anything about it). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in/140192.md?page=2)