Posts Tagged ‘kumara’

How the Kumara came to Aotearoa

July 7th, 2005 by Sarah King

Pt Chevalier School is lucky enough to have a wonderful teacher called Chris Moore. Every second year he puts on a “whole school production” and it’s a mammoth effort. Read the rest of this entry »

Sucked a Kumara

November 29th, 2004 by Sarah King

I was driving around today thinking about blogs and forums and how you need to be careful about colloquialisms and the thought hit me to see if the web knows about “sucked a kumara“. Seems Google does, there are 7 pages listed with the phrase. Will this make it 8?

I wonder what the history of the saying is, given that Kumaras are never actually sucked!