On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:57:22 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


"Herodotus" wrote in message
.. .



The Buggis Schooners, from S. Sulawasi are still trading between the
Indonesian Islands but they are all motorized now.

Real sailors -- the people that actually make their living from being
on the water are pretty unanimous in thinking that internal combustion
is good.



Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)

Bruce,
A thought just leapt into my somewhat disheveled mind.

In New Zealand as small children we were threatened by the "Bugi man"
along the lines of "If you don't be good, go to sleep etc., the Bugi
man will get you" I think it has since fallen out of favour, probably
to someone like Darth Vader.

The Bugi man is derived of course from the fierce Bugis sailors,
pirates and traders.

Was the Bugi man used in the USA to frighten children or is it a
colonial legacy you didn't inherit?

regards
Peter


People in New Zealand are retarded then. It's not a Bugi man its a Bogey
Man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman

All U.S. Americans, when they were kids, were routinely threatened with the
coming of a bogey man. If you were bad the bogey man was gonna get you, etc.

Bugi Man??? Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahh! No wonder Kiwi's can't sail.
They can't even think.

Wilbur Hubbard


Ah! Wilbur the english teacher.

But you spelled "Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahh" incorrectly. If you
want to be taken seriously then you simply must learn to spell.... or
use one syllable words that you do know how to spell.

Didn't your Mama teach you that it is better to keep your mouth shut
and be thought a fool then to open it and prove to the world how
stupid you really are?


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom)