From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Sat 30 Apr 1994 - 11:59:46 EEST
This is one rumour I haven't heard, though I suspect it may have come about because Elle MacPherson (who seems to be shedding more and more of her gear every week) is a towering 183cm tall.
My wife, whom you may have met at RQ Con, is a 6th-generation Aussie (some ancestors came out as convicts), and she ain't all that tall. But hey, she's cute!
I didn't notice that American women were unusually shorter than Australians while I was in the UK, though I did notice many more people, both males and females, were obese. But before you accuse me of living in a glass house and lobbing stones, I hasten to point out I'm no mere slip of thing meself.
Australians, like Americans and other decadent Westerners are characteristically taller and heavier, due to their rich diets (a friend of mine who was bornin India but came here as a baby said he looked like a freak when he wentback to India, as all his relatives were a good 30cm - that's one foot - shorter than he was, and much slighter in build).
Sandy writes:
>MOB: in April 22, what a GREAT Pamaltela publication list. Thanx.
I just posted it to the RQ DAILY after we unfortunately had to squeeze it out of TALES #11. Thanks should really go to Troy Bankert/Stephen P. Martin who I asked to compile the list.
When we were putting TALES #11 we were unable to get into contact with Sandy - this was before both he and I got onto e-mail and I think he was on the move to Texas at the time? This was unfortunate in a lot of ways, as we would have appreciated his special input as well as that which we received from Greg. However, we, that is John Hughes and I, went ahead trying to remain faithful to the previously published Pamaltela material, which encompasses Sandy's original vision, though I guess we took a number of sharp turns along the way!
TAELS is planning *another* Pamaltela issue some time down the track, in which we intend to focus on either the traditional Right Hand Doraddi or the coastal regions of Pamaltela. Now that we have the cyberspace information highway to communicate along, we relish the opportunity to work closely and interactively with Sandy on the zine content, and other e-mailers keen to explore the Land Down South...
Cheers
MOB
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