On 7/8/2015 12:04 PM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> 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!

It's actually a great bit of footage... you rarely get to see a surfer
do a faceplant onto a coral reef.

>
> Kids...lucky he had Lono with him...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZO6ibBRubA
>
> So what was Vincent Price doing at the Luau?


At least it wasn't Paul Lynde. Hee hee.