Wacky Wonders

I recently saw the kiwi comedian Te Radar do his current show which was (quite aptly at the time) titled "eating the dog"! He started off by mentioning that it was sheer coincidence that the title had such relevance, as there had been a news report just days earlier around the country about a family in Auckland literally eating their dog...That is very messy and I shant dwell on it in this particular post..

However, I would like to mention a couple of real doozys I learnt of while at the show. The first of which was that back in the day in our tiny little country we managed to build and launch a submarine of sorts. Now before ya'll get to excited it must be said that this particular vessel was made for the sole purpose of getting to the bottom of a rather shallow lake in the Otago area to retrieve some gold deposits inorder to bring riches to the nation...Great idea you may be thinking...Alas, the manner of retrival left much to be desired. The idea was to delve down to the bottom of the lake and once there, open a hatch on the underside of the vessel and as quickly as possible extract the gold from the lake bed pop it in the sub, re-seal the hatch and bobs your uncle we would have all been rich

Of course this idea had a reasonable flaw which is to say, it was rather better at retaining water inside it than keeping the water out...Stay tuned for part two of this blog