PNG News # 17: Like every Place you have never Been (Air Nuigini slogan from David Millar’s time) (September 11, 2004) Firstly, you need to note that the above is how people Capitalize letters here. It drives me bananas. And related to going ‘bananas’, this morning a man came to my house selling bananas from my own garden. Two trees had recently fallen due to the heavy weight of the fruit and the lack of rain. ‘Why did you take the bananas?’ ‘Because they were there.’ Any Way, back to the punctuation that thanks to sister Janet who bought me the book Eats, Shots, and Leaves, puts the whole stickler problem into perspective. But does the Panda eat bananas, you ask? Overwhelming does not last forever. No matter how astonishing my initial contact in the land
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