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October 11, 2003
Niue
The Flea's international readership is a constant source of fascination to me. It is gratifying to learn these posts have some passing import to people in Macedonia or Malaysia. Truly, love of Kylie unites us all. My stats package thoughtfully puts a national flag next to each country domain as it pops up on the server so it was easy to spot one I did not recognize.
The Flea rattles its ghostly chains in welcome to visitors from Niue. Niue, it turns out, is a beautiful island east of Tonga in the south Pacific. Niue is the smallest independent national polity in the world with a population somewhere in the range of 1800 people. I do not know if Niue has diplomatic representation in Toronto but the Government of Niue should feel free to deputize me as I shall be in need of somewhere warm and pleasant to think about in the next few months of winter. Niue used to have the somewhat more dramatic, if arguably problematic, name of Savage Island. This was perhaps due to these tree-climbing monster crabs which are crying out for garlic-butter.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 11, 2003 11:39 AM
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Those coconut crabs can grow up to three feet across and weigh up to 40 pounds. You'd need a lot of garlic-butter. You won't find me catching them, though. They look too much like Giant Armoured Spiders from Outer Space.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at October 13, 2003 11:06 AM