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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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 Posted - 02/05/2009 : 12:19:00 AM
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I think Mark would like the Hello Kitty model.
I applaud da Poi Dog for his most excellent and enlightening lesson in counter-island addressing conventions. It actually makes sense now.
I love this taro patch. Can learn anykine.
Ed- bettah stop flirtin wit Momi. Else you musta did sometin bad and chrai fo make up for it. You must got one nodda giri-giri. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 02:51:54 AM
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I think I shall never forget when we went to W. Va. to visit my oldest sister. Her instructions on how to get to their new abode was to go over 6 little bridges over the creeks, bear left at the fork in the road and then turn left at the road where the old commode is laying in the creek. Oh, she also said turn left where there is a big white house. Well, the house may have been white at one time, but when we went, the paint was mostly all faded away. Looked gray to me.
And then, another W. Va. kine direction is to go up or down. Go up Millers Fork and then go down Crockett fork. Makes Paul crazy. Is down supposed to be left or right. Is up left or right. Better they should use makai and mauka or ewa and diamond head. At least that way it is all relative - no matter where you are on the island can see the mountains and know which way makai. In W. Va. either get one mountain on one side or fall down the cliff on the other side into the creek. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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Momi
Lokahi
402 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 06:28:30 AM
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Originally posted by guitarded
Momi-san kawaii desu ne.
I might be if I actually looked like dat.
Yeah, Braddah Ed, watchu did dis time dat you tryin' fo' get on my good side now? (Hmmm, mebbe I don't wanna know.)
Aunty Rochelle of the NW HI Times tells the story of directions being given to Frank DeLima go to go a school in Hilo. "Turn by Taniguchi Store" the locals told him. Well, Taniguchi Store has been KTA for long time, so he was back in da lava fields before he realized he was lost.
I think I've said this before, but Retro teases my family about using landmarks in Kane`ohe that are long gone. "Go past where the taxi stand used to be, turn left where Dodie's used to be, then go past the old District Park." Aisus. |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 08:13:29 AM
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| I read about dat drive-in obake in one of those Glen Grant books. Somebody said he wen make. If he did I wondah if he flits around in da dahk. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 08:20:30 AM
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| I forgot to say - I wondah y da obake, like da chocking ghost or the sitting on you chest ghost -- why they mean to someone who neva hurt them? Dey should be aftah da ones what did da pilikea if dat da case. I can undastan about da night marchers, dey ali`i so you bettah show respeck. An why Pele need fo catch a ka`a ride wit someone? She can go whea she wan fo go. And I wondah why sometimes she like be beautiful lady and sometimes like be ugly ol lady like me or sometimes no even have a face. And why the obake get no wawae, jess float....? Hmmmm? |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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Momi
Lokahi
402 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 08:26:56 AM
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Originally posted by wcerto
I forgot to say - I wondah y da obake, like da choking ghost or the sitting on you chest ghost -- why they mean to someone who neva hurt them? Dey should be aftah da ones what did da pilikea if dat da case. . . . And why the obake get no wawae, jess float....? Hmmmm?
Well, we only know the story of the living person whom the obake are tormenting; we don't know the story of why the obake is doing what it's doing. Maybe the person did something to anger the obake. Some obake are tied to specific places. Some are tied to specific people.
I've read that Japanese ghosts don't have feet just because artists depicted them that way, not because of any basis in "fact." |
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PoiDog
Lokahi
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Posted - 02/05/2009 : 08:28:59 AM
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| Dis I wen witness wit my own maka. As fah as I no, it iz close to 100% tru. Da alive ones wen kill mo peepo den da ded ones. Iz chru. No sked da ded. |
Aloha,
da Poi Dog |
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PoiDog
Lokahi
245 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 10:47:18 AM
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PoiDog, dat was brilliant, braddah. I could feel laughter ascending from my consciousness.
Re addresses in Japan: I can only speak to addresses in Kyoto and Tokyo.
In Kyoto, the address describes the location from larger land divisions to smaller. The address of the Kyoto Dai-Ni Tower Hotel, f'rinstance, was Kyoto-shi (Kyoto City) Shimogyo-ku (Lower Kyoto Ward), Higashi-Too-in (East Too-in Street), Nanajo sagaru (below Seventh Avenue). There's no "house" number (but there is a postal code).
In Tokyo, addresses can be so obtuse that strangers have to ask the local police office where such-and-such an address is. F'rexample, the address of the Hotel Grand City was Toshima-ku (Toshima Ward), Higashi Ikebukuro (East Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo) 1-30-7. The last three numbers are descriptive, but are not an address number that we'd recognize. The numbers refer to ever-smaller district/block/lot numbers. The only time we ever saw an explicit map of lot numbers was outside of the subway station in Ebisu, another Tokyo district, trying to find a raamen shop (that didn't exist any more). We finally found that out because we asked a local.
Y tank you! Fo some reason, I tink I might get lost ovah deah on dat uddah chain of islands... |
Aloha,
da Poi Dog |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 11:18:37 AM
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| Oh, Ed, you are really stahtin pilikia. Oh my.... I neva like see Momi give whoopin to Retro. That must be why you was so sweet to Momi earlier....just waitin...just waitin till you can pounce, jess like a spaidah. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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PoiDog
Lokahi
245 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 11:43:15 AM
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Yeah brah, real easy fo get lost in da geisha houses ovah deya. Dass what Retro told me anyways. 
I watch Soko Ga Shiritai on Channel 10 (KIKU) almos every nite. I like visit some mountain hot springs...fo real. Look some calming...I ste watching re-runs of re-runs. Same like Hawaii 5-0, and dey ste on da same time. Which evah one I seen befo, I goin change da channo to da uddah one. Sometimes dat no work awreddy...I tink I seen 'em about chree-fo mebbe fi times.
No need geishas...Unless I like get cracks from Mama!
You herd about da lady in da plane almos wen down. Seattle to Honolulu flight.
When da engines went konk-out, da lady wen lose 'um.
Screaming, she wen jump up in da front of the plane. "I'm too young to die," she wen scream out loud. Den, she wen yell, "If I'm going to die, I want my last moments on earth to be memorable! Is there anyone on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN before I die?"
Da plane was sooooome quiet. Everyone wen foghett deya own peril. De all wen stare, makas riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.
In da back, one kanaka named Kimo wen stand up in the back of the plane. He iz one hunk: tall, beeg muscles, with long, black hair in one maku`u and deep dahk makas. He walk slo up da aisle of da plane, hemo-ing da buttons on da Sig Zane aloha shirt.
One button at one time........
Nobody move..................
E'rebody ste looking at Bruddah Kimo........
Kimo hemo da Sig Zane shirt...............
His ches muscles pump out like one balloon-fish..........
Da wahine from da front of da plane, she ste breething heavy....................
Kimo ste holding da Sig Zane shirt all crumple-up in his big kanaka hands.....
He whispa, "You like feel like won woman, eh?"...............
She geev Kimo da look. Da eye lashes ste goin up an down........
"Hurry up," Bruddah Kimo says..............
Den da engines wen come back on Kimo wen back to his seat and da lady wen ste all fruscharated.
You know dat bring up one million-dolla question. How you kick-staht one airplane?
OK...Peetah...By da tone (an I hope I ste wrong) I wen wad you up. But 'jes in case, I wen fix 'um 'jes fo you. Was won joke my friens Attorney wife wen sen me, anyhow. What was dat about attitude? |
Aloha,
da Poi Dog |
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 11:59:27 AM
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| We ge won winna ova hea wid da mokulele. Kden Poi Dog waz won reel screem. Take won bow, lift yo leg oa squat, whateva. In da tru tradition of da Kamehameha Warriors you still get won attitude da Princess would be proud of. |
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Momi
Lokahi
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Posted - 02/05/2009 : 12:31:01 PM
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Soko ga Shiritai - one of da many tings I miss from home. Dat an good kine shave ice, shohts and slippah weddah, and my maddah's cooking. An Deelite Bakery custard pie. An taro duck from Pahke's.
Braddah Ed - "omoshiroi" can mean strange interesting (you) as well as interesting interesting (Retro).  I guess both can apply to Soko ga. |
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PoiDog
Lokahi
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Posted - 02/05/2009 : 12:43:10 PM
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Originally posted by Peter Medeiros
We ge won winna ova hea wid da mokulele. Kden Poi Dog waz won reel screem. Take won bow, lift yo leg oa squat, whateva. In da tru tradition of da Kamehameha Warriors you still get won attitude da Princess would be proud of.
Look up... |
Aloha,
da Poi Dog |
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PoiDog
Lokahi
245 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 12:49:36 PM
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[quote]Brah, all you gotta do is tell Kimo wit da Sig Zane shirt dat he get one hukipau Sanitation Engineeyah job waiting fo heem at da C&C yahd anden quick da buggah going outsai push da ayaplane mo fast fo kick staht da buggah. Erebody knows dat da perks at Christmas time wit da tousands of cases of beeyah is unreal.
Someting la dat anyways.
Das why dey make da one-man trucks, now. Dey make-um hard fo da drivah hop out-an-in, out-an-in, out-an-in. Plus...now peepos steel da Heinekins. Da olden days, my bruddah-out-law bring home easy 100 cases soda and (mostly) beeah fo da holidays. |
Aloha,
da Poi Dog |
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Momi
Lokahi
402 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2009 : 06:18:43 AM
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Eh, brah, glad you ste back! (On da 'patch dat is - I not glad you back in Frozenland.) Tanks fo teenkin' ov me, but I jes glad you wen get to grind opihis - no save 'em fo me. By da time dey get up heah, not as ono.
About middo ov las mont I wuz wonderin' wea you wuz. Now I know. |
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