Clearly ate some mouldy bamboo, can be somewhat hallucinogenic (I've been told....)
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Clearly ate some mouldy bamboo, can be somewhat hallucinogenic (I've been told....)
RugbyFuture
Lord Logo
also, rather than just plain old founder of the scarf for scarfy, can we have something better such as "forger of the scarf"or something, we're men here after all...
TheRiddler
Dave Cowper (27)
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Ted Fahey (11)
I have noted several correspondents using the nickname "Scafie" for our most esteemed Scarfman "Founder of the Scarf".
Four your info a "scarfie" is a term used in New Zullund to refer to a university student. Believed to come from the fact that in Dunedin where it is soo bloody cold for much of the year, and it is a University town with a huge population of students who are typically on the bones of their bum financially. The students therefore can not afford decent cold weather clothing and take to wearing scarfs to combat the cold. Hence "Scarfie" or "Scarf Dragger" is commonly used to refer to said university students.
Across the Land of the Long Flat Vowel, "Scarfie" is almost universally used in lieu of uni student. Less popular/relevent in the northern bits of the country (Auckland) where my Kiwi mate tells me that they are simply refered to as JAFA's.
Not sure that OUR Scarfman deserves to be lumped in with a bunch of unruly Otago Speights drinking, Nude Rugby playing, Carisbrook Lounge burning, university students. Apart from the farking coldness, it sounds like a good way to be though!
Four your info a "scarfie" is a term used in New Zullund to refer to a university student. Believed to come from the fact that in Dunedin where it is soo bloody cold for much of the year, and it is a University town with a huge population of students who are typically on the bones of their bum financially. The students therefore can not afford decent cold weather clothing and take to wearing scarfs to combat the cold. Hence "Scarfie" or "Scarf Dragger" is commonly used to refer to said university students.
Across the Land of the Long Flat Vowel, "Scarfie" is almost universally used in lieu of uni student. Less popular/relevent in the northern bits of the country (Auckland) where my Kiwi mate tells me that they are simply refered to as JAFA's.
Not sure that OUR Scarfman deserves to be lumped in with a bunch of unruly Otago Speights drinking, Nude Rugby playing, Carisbrook Lounge burning, university students. Apart from the farking coldness, it sounds like a good way to be though!
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfie
Scarfie is a nickname for a student of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Derived from the cold local climate and the tradition of wearing gold and blue striped scarves. Although current students rarely wear the bright scarves, it is a commonly used name for the students in national press and by the University - including by the Otago University Students' Association's "Scarfie" magazine. In plural form, it was used for the title of a 1999 film Scarfies about a group of Otago students who discover a large crop of marijuana in their basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfies
Scarfies (or Crime 101 in the US release) is a low-budget 1999 New Zealand film set in the southern university city of Dunedin. The film's original title comes from the local nickname for university students, scarfie, so called because of the traditional blue and gold scarves worn by students during the city's cool winters in support of the Otago Rugby Football Union.
Scarfies starts off as a light comedy centred around a group of five of students who get together after moving into a flat that is seemingly abandoned, but still has the power on, making for free if filthy accommodation.
The film twists into something darker part way through, with elements of both black comedy and thriller. The discovery of a large crop of marijuana being grown in the basement leads firstly to euphoria, then paranoia and arguments amongst the flatmates about what will happen when the real owners come back to collect it. When Kevin, the crop's owner appears, the students, fearing for their lives, lock him in the basement. Events unfold against a backdrop of the city's biggest sporting event for years, the final of New Zealand's national rugby championship.
Despite the deliberate use of shots focusing on the city's dowdier and darker elements, much of the film's photography and soundtrack is an homage to the city, including the use of several Dunedin Sound songs in the soundtrack (top local band The Clean even make a cameo appearance during the film).
The film was well-received, described as "...the most outlandishly entertaining New Zealand film for years...", and did well at the box-office.
Scarfie is a nickname for a student of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Derived from the cold local climate and the tradition of wearing gold and blue striped scarves. Although current students rarely wear the bright scarves, it is a commonly used name for the students in national press and by the University - including by the Otago University Students' Association's "Scarfie" magazine. In plural form, it was used for the title of a 1999 film Scarfies about a group of Otago students who discover a large crop of marijuana in their basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfies
Scarfies (or Crime 101 in the US release) is a low-budget 1999 New Zealand film set in the southern university city of Dunedin. The film's original title comes from the local nickname for university students, scarfie, so called because of the traditional blue and gold scarves worn by students during the city's cool winters in support of the Otago Rugby Football Union.
Scarfies starts off as a light comedy centred around a group of five of students who get together after moving into a flat that is seemingly abandoned, but still has the power on, making for free if filthy accommodation.
The film twists into something darker part way through, with elements of both black comedy and thriller. The discovery of a large crop of marijuana being grown in the basement leads firstly to euphoria, then paranoia and arguments amongst the flatmates about what will happen when the real owners come back to collect it. When Kevin, the crop's owner appears, the students, fearing for their lives, lock him in the basement. Events unfold against a backdrop of the city's biggest sporting event for years, the final of New Zealand's national rugby championship.
Despite the deliberate use of shots focusing on the city's dowdier and darker elements, much of the film's photography and soundtrack is an homage to the city, including the use of several Dunedin Sound songs in the soundtrack (top local band The Clean even make a cameo appearance during the film).
The film was well-received, described as "...the most outlandishly entertaining New Zealand film for years...", and did well at the box-office.
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