On 7/8/2015 3:58 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 11:40 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
>> On 7/8/2015 3:23 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 7/8/2015 10:12 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:55:37 -1000, dsi1
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/7/2015 9:40 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> On 7/7/2015 9:57 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It is indeed, life needs a LOT more hugs!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We're one big happy family. The young people call their elders
>>>>>>>>> "uncle"
>>>>>>>>> or "auntie" so we do have a tendency to treat others as clan
>>>>>>>>> members
>>>>>>>>> here.
>>>>>>>>> I suspect it's the same way on all the little rocks across the
>>>>>>>>> Pacific.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's how it used to be here, but now the youngsters call their
>>>>>>>> seniors
>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>> their first names. It is not an improvement.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My wife's auntie came over from Washington state last week. Boy
>>>>>>>>> was she
>>>>>>>>> full of hugs and kisses. She was quite a jolly sort. It was not
>>>>>>>>> what I
>>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>>> expecting because her son died about 2 months ago. I thought that
>>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>>> curious but I don't really know her that well. Boy, life is one
>>>>>>>>> dangerous
>>>>>>>>> place - any one of us can go at any time!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It was probably a great comfort to her after the loss of her son.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hugging here is not normally a 'close' thing with folk we don't
>>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>>> It is on a par with 'air kissing' )
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.wikihow.com/Air-Kiss
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-social-group
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess we're like France in that respect! OTOH, the Maoris will
>>>>>>> press
>>>>>>> their foreheads and tips of their noses together and share a breath.
>>>>>>> That's kind of cool.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmmm that could depend on what they had been eating I suppose, but
>>>>>> no, I
>>>>>> would hate to exchange breath with anyone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You got a very good point there!
>>>>
>>>> A great way to transfer diseases, and not just the common cold.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Lono will protect those that worship him!
>>
>> But first you have to travel to Indiana find him:
>>
>> http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1229282
>>
>>
>> http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ku/ku06.htm
>>
>> The word maka, "eye," refers to the constellation of the Pleiades, hiki
>> is a sign of movement; the word translated liberally hence refers to the
>> rising of the Pleiades in the heavens corresponding with the time of the
>> sun's turn northward, bringing warmth again to earth, the growth of
>> plants, and the spawning of fish. At this time a festival was celebrated
>> in honor of the fertility god Lono, god of cultivated food plants not
>> alone in Hawaii but throughout marginal Polynesian islands, and prayed
>> to in Hawaiian households to send rain and sunshine upon the growing
>> crops, spawn to fill the fishing stations, offspring to mankind. His
>> signs were observed in the clouds. Heiau were built to Lono not in time
>> of war but under stress of famine or scarcity. His worship was mild,
>> without human sacrifice such as belonged to the severer worship of the
>> war god Ku. Any man might set up a temple to Lono, a ruling chief alone
>> to the god Ku as a prayer for success in war, for life in case of
>> illness, or upon the birth of a first-born son.
>
>
> Mostly I was thinking about the god that protects us from the Bradys.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YsN0y7vZI


Hey, they really learned their lesson, didn't they!

Kids...lucky he had Lono with him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZO6ibBRubA

So what was Vincent Price doing at the Luau?