On 7/8/2015 4:19 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> 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.

Coral cuts like a million little knives, he's lucky he didn't come out
as burger meat.

>>
>> 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.

LOL!

Circle gets the Square!