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RE: Kiwi Legends: the humble Jandal
Well, well, well.......it is about time someone 'stepped up' and shed a light on this humble but important topic. I can now speak with confidence on this subject and throw in some trivia to 'Boot' about the number of left-footed jandals being washed up, in comparison to right footed ones and the possible reason why @ravenruis.
And just to back up the left footed theory......look what I found washed up on the beach at Tangalooma last year. Very interesting indeed.
The topic - of which you are now thoroughly versed in - should make a pleasant change at social gatherings from having to resort to the weather. I would say people could speculate upon this phenomenon for weeks, nay, months!
How fortuitous that you even have photographic evidence of one such event!! :D
Fortuitous indeed @ravenruis and what you say is so very true. With a chilled glass of chardonnay and a carefully selected group of 'Jandal' enthusiasts gathered in the lushest of conference rooms of the nearest Sheraton Hotel we could discuss this subject til the proverbial cows come home........but if the conversation was inadvertently directed to the bovines of which I speak the initial subject could easily disintegrate to that of another well known Kiwi foot attire......The Gumboot! I wonder which boot gets left behind in the cow dung when farmers have needed to climb a fence in a hurry? Hmmmmmm !
Oooh, now that topic could take you forward yet another few months I'm sure! The chardonnay of course would have to morph into a large brown bottle of the beer-verage variety to help set the room's new mood.
One may even easily imagine a hearty round of karaoke Fred Dagg impersonators waxing lyrical being quite the show-stopper, especially if there were any Trev's who happened to be staying at the hotel.
The braver, and more scientifically-minded in the group might in fact arrange a round of tests of this gumboot-leaving theory.
I suspect a fully charged phone or camera would be appropriate to have on hand ...
Fred Dagg came to mind as soon as the word 'Gumboot' was formulated. Now wouldn't he have added some insightful and scintillating thoughts to that conversation?.........a brown bottle (or two) waving precariously in the air to accentuate his point. It would have been difficult to get a word in but never would the subject of a gumboot stuck in the middle of a cow pat been more entertaining. Where are all these braver, more scientifically minded gumboot-leaving theorists when you need them??????
lolololol probably at Uni still in the stages of theorising instead of field-testing ;)