Yesterday there was a huge earthquake in Hawaii (a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean) and after the earthquake CNN started showing what was happening afterwards....and what happened afterwards was shocking.
The Hawaiians were lined up orderly in front of stores and following the instructions of the shop keepers. Two people at a time were allowed in, they would quickly and politely buy what they needed using shells or flowers as money, leave, and then the store would allow two more people in and on and on it went all day long.
If that earthquake had happened in the United States you can bet your stolen boots there would have been massive looting. Rioting. Guys with TVs on their shoulders. But not in Hawaii.
Hopefully we can learn from our foreign friends in the Pacific.
(and it even makes me more proud knowing I have 3% Hawaiian blood running through my veins....or is that Cherokee blood I have running through my veins?....whatever)
Maybe this is because nobody wanted too loot the pig-on-a-spit, and poi store. I'm sure somewhere else on the island it was TVs and fur coats a plenty.
ReplyDeleteDid you know...
ReplyDelete1) ...that Don Ho kept people calm and orderly by singing "Tiny Bubbles"?
2) ...that, in one of the pictures on his official Don Ho Web site, Don Ho looks a little like Monkee Mickey Dolenz?
http://www.donho.com/index2.html
3) ...that Don Ho just became my personal new monkey/pirate/bear?
4) ...that if you did an all-Hawaiian version of the Monkees you'd have Don Ho. And, uh, Don Ho. And, uh, Don Ho. And, uh, Don Ho. Skippy and Israel Kamakawiwo-ole could have joined. But they're dead.
http://www.answers.com/topic/israel-kamakawiwo-ole
5) ...that "The Barefoot Hawaiian" is "the number one Hawaiian entertainment company in the Midwest"? And they have SO many competitors there in Des Plaines, Illinois!
http://www.barefoothawaiian.com/bhi_home.htm
6) ...that it is NOT POSSIBLE to purchase a Don Ho bobblehead doll on his Web site...and I NEED one, now that Don Ho is my new monkey/pirate/bear.
7) ...that the b-side to "Tiny Bubbles" is "Really Effin' Big Tsunami"?
Ho! Ho! Ho!
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Okay, so I'm blognapping the blog today instead of hijacking it. These Maybe Mormon Utah parents kidnapped their daughter before her wedding and now they're in the hoosegaw and face 15 years of hard time?! It's all wicked weird (unless the daughter's new husband ends up axe-murdering her, in which case Father and Mother know best). But somehow, I'm most disturbed when Mr. Matt Today Show turns to the bride, asks her if she'll drop the charges against her parents, and she turns to her lawyer with a cheerily vacant, I'm-21-years-old look on her face and says, "Omigod, I don't know...can I do that?" Perhaps this lack of mental acuity is what made the parents criminally worried...So: They're making an example of these parents so all those other parents who kidnap their daughters before their wedding will be scared straight?
This blognapping is officially over. Sorry! Trying to avoid work.
Are they Hawaiian Mormons?
ReplyDeleteSparkle,
ReplyDeleteSince there is no license required to become a parent, one of the skills even the most vacuous among us can master is multiplying. Hence the offspring.
Perhaps the Concerned Morman Parents were worried that their daughter wasn't old enough to get married yet, which, in MormanLand I think is 12.
NoOpie: Hawaiian Mormons? Like Donny Ho and Marie?
ReplyDeleteBemisdown: Excellent points--as always! Plus, maybe the 'rents were peeved she wasn't marrying a super-creepy old guy with a pantry stocked with existing wives? Like that nifty old musical the Osmonds did a skit of in their variety show: "Seven Brides for Just One Old Creepy Dude."
I've heard that the earthquake measured a Hawaii 5.0
ReplyDeleteDonny Ho and Marie!!! HA!
ReplyDeleteAre they going on tour anytime soon???
You see what happens NoOppy? You take a vacation and your readership falls off.
ReplyDeleteSorry, what's been going on? I was asleep in the corner after fighting off rabid pirate monkey bears all weekend.
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