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  Encyclopedia: Jandals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jandals are the stripped down essence of foot wear - essentially a thin rubber sole with two simple straps running in a Y from the sides of the foot the join between the big toe.
In footwear and fashion, flip-flops are a kind of flat, backless sandal that consist of simple soles held on the foot by a V-shaped strap that passes between the toes and around either side of the foot, attached to the sole at three points.
Jandals have come to be seen as an important iteam of Kiwiana and are often referenced in New Zealand and Pacific Island Culture.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jandals   (674 words)

  
 Pacific Students - Student Services - University of Canterbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jandals is a social evening organised at the start of each semester to introduce students to the Pacific Tutorial and Mentoring programmes and meet with tutors and mentors in a relaxed and informal setting.
Jandals is about creating a comfortable, culturally familiar and supportive environment where you will flourish and succeed in your studies at UC.
Jandals is organised as a fun and interactive evening so that students become familiar with their tutors and mentors and are aware of what help and support is available should they need it.
www.canterbury.ac.nz /student/equity/pacific.shtml   (955 words)

  
 Flip-flop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Jandal.
In New Zealand English they are known genericaly as jandals (Japanese Sandals), a name used by one manufacturer.
However intellectual property law prevented the term Jandals being used when sold in other countries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flip_flop_(footwear)   (496 words)

  
 PS Wiki Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Use of jandals as simple warm climate beach or outdoor wear has spread through much of the world, although it is most common in Australia, New Zealand, other Pacific islands, and East Asia.
The use of jandals has also been encouraged in some branches of European and North American military as sanitary footwear in communal showers, where wearing jandals slows the spread of fungal infections.
Following on from this some soldiers and other trampers or hikers have taken to carrying jandals, or a pair of jandal soles sewn to socks, as a light weight emergency replacement for damaged boots.
70.84.119.226 /~puresear/PSWiki/index.php?title=Jandals   (409 words)

  
 shopenzed.com - Jandals - Flip Flops - Black (PAR014) -
Jandals (otherwise known around the world as flip-flops or thongs) are a Kiwi institution.
These classic New Zealand jandals have been given a smarter look with the addition of a print depicting New Zealand images -the Silver Fern, Tui bird, Pacifica Tapa image, the Tuatara reptile, Southern Cross stars, whale tail, and a map of New Zealand.
The jandals are Black with details in white, orange and red, and the words New Zealand Aotearoa at the heel.
www.shopenzed.com /xurl/function/viewprd/prd_id/101690/jandals-flip-flops-black.html   (293 words)

  
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I went up stairs to my sister's large room, finding it difficult to walk in the jandals, and found Paula waiting for me. She gestured me to kneel at her feet and be silent.
Against my wishes, she told the barber to cut off all my hair and shave my head and to leave no hair longer than it had to be.
Similarly, she had me try on numerous pairs of sandals: I ended up with girl's sandals in blue, candy and a white pair, which were as childish as could be.
www.asstr.org /files/Collections/nifty/transgender/control/juvenile-discipline   (2174 words)

  
 New Zealand Election news & blogs on Stuff.co.nz: Get a mullet and jandals, Westie tells Brash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The tips came during a meet and greet session at St Lukes shopping mall in Auckland yesterday, after Dr Brash was coaxed into a picture opportunity with four "bogan" actors on the set of a live LandP advertisement.
Jandals and socks, he said, were coming back in.
Raine Tottenham, her husband Quinton and three-year-old daughter Pearl were herded toward Dr Brash, whose tax cuts calculator showed they would have more money in their pockets.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3392427a14095,00.html   (272 words)

  
 Orcon ComputerChat - Technology Talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I am using 'xtra' and have the same problem, i live in a rural area so that may have something to do with it, but this is what i have found....
When i try and connect normaly, i usualy get around a 38,400 bps or greater connection, i find it is no where around this, most of the time it does as 'Jandals' said and just sits there no RD or SD lights flashing.
I have tried asking the xtra help desk about the connection problem but they say taking the phone off the hock would make no difference, but is does.
www.computerchat.co.nz /stories/02/11/03/6179636   (672 words)

  
 Jandals - Canvas Photo Print : Gifts New Zealand Online : Art - Canvas Nature Photo Prints : Shop New Zealand
Images are printed on high quality canvas with pigment inks and finished with a special coating of varnish that waterproofs the surface.
Jandals are the stripped down essence of foot wear — essentially a thin rubber sole with two simple straps running in a Y from the sides of the foot to the join between the big toe and next toe.
Use of jandals as simple warm climate beach or outdoor wear has spread through much of the world, although it is most common in Australia, other Pacific islands, and East Asia.
www.shopnewzealand.co.nz /en/cp/Jandals_Canvas_Photo_Print   (171 words)

  
 National Heart Foundation -- News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
William is running from Picton to Bluff in jandals, raising funds for the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand.
He made headlines in September when he ran the Dunedin Marathon in his jandals, finishing in just over four hours.
He has also previously walked the whole country barefoot, but says it's quicker to run in jandals due to New Zealand's tough roads.
www.heartfoundation.org.nz /news.asp?PageID=2145820705&RefID=2141729340   (317 words)

  
 AAP and Racing and Sports Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tuesday, 6 April 2004: The final G1 in a New Zealand racing season is contested at Ellerslie on Saturday, with the Easter Handicap (1600m) to be run although there is as usual an anorak alert for the meeting.
Punters wearing shorts, jandals and a Best Bets hanging out the back pocket are a thing of the past at the track judging by some statements from recent highly placed personnel.
Enjoy the race, no matter what the weather and remember these unwisely singled out “shorts and jandals” bettor’s do supply a constant turnover that has much more voting power and value than many to their detriment actually realise.
www.aapracingandsports.com.au /racing/newsnz.asp?NID=38737   (2495 words)

  
 WTMC - There's No Limit to Where a Pair of Jandals Will Get You
You'll regret it if you don't." We were headed off to the us of A for a holiday and in between planning on how many hundred miles a day we would drive and the quality of the barbecue, I had mentioned that Montana was famous for its fishing.
There was a certain satisfaction in dropping your line into American waters and trying in some small sense to restore the balance of all those good Kiwi trout slain by visiting anglers here.
As I walked I noticed that hoppers were leaping in panic over my jandals and a fair number leapt too far and fell with a satisfying plop into the river.
www.wtmc.org.nz /stories/little.htm   (1508 words)

  
 nzgirl - These boots were made for kicking ass
I wear jandals to most functions but if I think I might get tidily and possibly lose a jandal I’ll wear my sneakers.
But you know as you get older jandals tend not to be the most appropriate attire for every function.
I noticed that when I went to work related events that I was the only one there flip flop flapping around in $10 ‘beach feet’ jandals.
www.nzgirl.co.nz /articles/550   (519 words)

  
 Art and Photography | The Lens Flare | Slippers at Sunset
I have a photo like this but without the "jandals" that I took at Waikiki.
The only reason I didn't straighten this one was because my photoshop program was down for a while.
These "jandals" were abandoned on a beach in Hau'ula, Oahu (on the north shore of Hawaii).
www.thelensflare.com /gallery/p_beach_17060.php   (376 words)

  
 Social and Political Cartoon Satire: Lesson Six [English Online]
The signifiers include language, headbands and home-boy scarves, tattoos, cigarette smoking, jandals, jade/bone earrings, shades, talismans and beer-guts imply lay about, lazy, unemployed "professional" troublemakers.
Note that even a band member appears to wear jandals implying that, the band too, are Maori radicals.
The coming conflict at the Waitangi celebration is clearly implied in the way that the band is attired.
english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/cartoon_satire/lesson6.html   (331 words)

  
 Númenna - Nan Annûn: I had a lovely day today!
T and I went downtown and T did some shopping (mostly for other people who he'd visited and asked him to get things for them)....well he also bought himself a pair of jandals from Tommy Hilfiger, which was nice.
At least I don't have to listen to him whining about not having a proper pair of jandals any more.
Anyway, he then needed to get some cards and I told him to go to this card shop in Sendlingerstrasse (Sendlinger Street)....I was really am ready to flop down then.
numenna.blogspot.com /2005/08/i-had-lovely-day-today.html   (477 words)

  
 maria von trapp: go fug yourself   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Also, if you are bigger than a size 10 you SHOULD NOT wear a mini skirt.
What's so difficult about throwing on a decent pair of jeans, a longish white singlet, and cute red jandals (what I have on today).
Now all over pink may be a bit overboard - I agree that she should have been a bit more subtle.
mariavontrapp.blogspot.com /2005/10/go-fug-yourself.html   (482 words)

  
 shopenzed.com - Jandals ( Thongs) Charm (CHM067 ) -
The Kiwi Jandals (flipflops, thongs) are a true icon of New Zealand.
Not only are they essential footwear for summer, they epitomise Kiwi summers at the beach - sand, sun, boating, and barbecues.
But I digress....The Sterling Silver Jandals charm is a cool pair of dangly jandals.
www.shopenzed.com /xurl/function/viewprd/prd_id/79306/jandals-thongs-charm.html   (257 words)

  
 ChooHoo! Samoa ARCHIVE:: Message Boards - View topic - YOU KNOW YOUR SAMOAN WHEN..........   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
-you visit some distant rallies house, and you cant find your jandals because one of your new "uncles or aunties" is wearing them.
LON366 wrote: -you visit some distant rallies house, and you cant find your jandals because one of your new "uncles or aunties" is wearing them....
Turtle wrote: LON366 wrote: -you visit some distant rallies house, and you cant find your jandals because one of your new "uncles or aunties" is wearing them....
www.choohoo.com /boards/archive/o_t__t_53__start_270__index.html   (789 words)

  
 Forums » Artists » Robert Scott - NZMusic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jandals was shot, edited and produced by skilled Dunedin film-maker Hector Hazard.
Hector is known for his charming documentary about the colourful canine sub-culture of Port Chalmers and other film and video projects.
Jandals is a track from their 2005 album of Gina's songs, "SeaTulip" and it is also available on the Powertool Records compilation "Bulletholes 2".
www.nzmusic.com /post.cfm?i=235543   (306 words)

  
 Lord of the Rings Movies Information | TheOneRing.net™ | News Archives
Ringer Spy Ataahua writes: The sight of Peter Jackson accepting his Academy Awards while looking scruffy was a particularly warming one for Helen Brown, a New Zealand columnist in Australia.
(Translation help: ‘jandals’ are the same casual footwear that some inhabitants of some country somewhere on the globe seem to call ‘flip flops’, and it aint the Australians, as a lot op people have pointed out today - leo) [More]
This site is maintained and updated by fans of The Lord of the Rings, and is in no way affiliated with Tolkien Enterprises or the Tolkien Estate.
www.theonering.net /perl/newsview/1/1078959036   (173 words)

  
 Dec 2001 - Farewell Rob, faithful servant of Jesus Christ : UCB Pacific Partners - Christian radio for the South ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Faded shorts and rubber jandals were his trade mark.
(I wish I had taken a photo of Rob as he walked in to stay with his shorts, jandals and rucksack.) Anyway, the next day I phoned him and said I was coming to pick him up and take him somewhere nice for a meal.
I had to explain that he wouldn't be allowed into a restaurant without trousers.
www.pacificpartners.org /Story?Action=View&id=1097   (1708 words)

  
 New Zealand Sustainable Business Conference and Expo 2005: Sustainability is Core Business - Auckland, NZ - hosted by ...
The above image shows the workings for the initial stages of our conference sustainability project — sustainable jandals!  These odd looking tools are the knife shapes that will cut out jandal soles made from recycled tyre rubber.
We will keep updating the image and the story as conference planning progresses as well as outlining the processes, materials and businesses involved in the production of our sustainable jandals.
Paradigm, a design and print management business and a member of the Sustainable Business Network, developed the concept behind the sustainable jandals.  For more information on Paradigm please phone John Ringer on 09 360 7104.
www.sustainable.org.nz /conference2005   (407 words)

  
 Recycling Provides Opportunities Learn to Do It Right the First Time:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Years ago a friend of mine in New Zealand came to our door sporting a pair of jandals (thongs to North Americans), the likes of which I had never seen.
In summertime in Godzone, everybody wears jandals, and they seldom last through the season.
Nevertheless, the new shoes my mate was wearing would last a lifetime.
www.rechargermag.com /article.asp?id=199702182   (329 words)

  
 Mens Leather Dress Jandals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Looking for information on mens leather dress jandals, we can help.
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Refer to the categories in the menu to find more information on mens leather dress jandals from our site.
www.dress-cache.com /mens-leather-dress-jandals.html   (612 words)

  
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I couldn't possibly waste 40 minutes mapping (I was losing daylight) so I tried jandals for 10 minutes.
I got rid of the jandals and walked around for 7 hours in bare feet.
Somewhere on the world cup map is two chicken rolls in glad wrap waiting to be eaten.
www2.aos.princeton.edu /rdslater/orienteering/mlists/orienteering/199409/19940925.html   (1832 words)

  
 And so it begins.... - JandalsnAll - BootsnAll Travelogues
And socks to wear with my jandals so I don't get frostbite...in Ireland...in March...a time of year that may not be entirely pleasant I am told, especially for myself a New Zealander, beach enthusiast and lover of sunshine.
But summer will surely be right around the corner (blind optimism) at which time I will travel on to conquer Europe and possibly Asia - just if I feel like it.
Tis my day off and I too shall soon be travelling...into the bowels of your (two) room(s) to seek tidiness and cleanliness of spirit.....my heart quakes but I shall be strong like our intrepid eldest daughter...in your honour I shall even don my jandals.
tblogs.bootsnall.com /emily/archives/009099.shtml   (1128 words)

  
 NIKE SHOES SHOX WITH FREE NIKE JANDALS WOMEN SIZES for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand
Please discuss the size you require directly with the seller when you have won the auction.
NOTE : Measure BOTH feet and select according to the larger measurement.
Including a FREE pair of NIKE womens jandals of same or similar size, retail $45.
www.trademe.co.nz /nz/auction-20933915.htm   (210 words)

  
 Xtra: Search: Boolean Logic
The illustration above is a search for information about jandals.
In this search, we will retrieve web sites in which AT LEAST ONE of the search terms is found.
OR logic is most commonly used to search for synonymous terms or concepts.
www.xtrasite.co.nz /search/greattip.html   (428 words)

  
 TheOneRing.net™ | Scrapbook | Keep the jandals, Peter
Keep the jandals, Peter - Original: 1248x965, 253kB
Kiwi-columnist Helen Brown declares her love for Peter Jackson.
TheOneRing® is a registered service mark with exclusive right to grant use assigned to The One Ring, Inc. Unique Design by DesignHeroes.com
www.theonering.net /scrapbook/press/view/12603   (158 words)

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