On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 20:52:47 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 1/9/2018 5:40 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 11:34:28 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd not kid about something like that, we do have oxen all over in the
>>> mainland. I just went out for the mail and had to chase a couple out of
>>> my driveway. You should have seen their tails too, very big. You can
>>> cut the tails off and they grow another one in a few months. Most every
>>> restaurant here has ox tail stew on the menu since it is so plentiful.
>>
>> Thank you for this information. Our tiny nation has to rely on the help of people like you from across the ocean for news of this sort. The ox tail crisis has reached a critical point since China has cut us off from their supply line. We had all but given in to despair.
>>
>> I shall inform the King of this important development. No doubt he will immediately dispatch a fleet of canoes to your land. Well, in reality, we'll probably make shore in California because we don't have compasses and that's the size of a target we can reliably hit. We have to use the stars to find our way around the Pacific. Well, in reality, we rely on one star. The sun. We just follow the sun when it comes up. At night we have to just guess.
>>
>> Please inform your king of our arrival in about 2 months. No need to make a big deal about it. A small, simple, luau for around 500 Hawaiians would be fine.
>>
>
>Preparations underway. The harvest of ox tails will start in a couple
>of weeks. Please bring a bowl of poi. The jarred stuff we have here
>has many additives and preservatives so Bruce does not approve of it for
>luau use.

That's true. And please let us know if "poi" is your first reaction
when you smell the product by the same name.