Re: Trout

dsi1 wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:46:37 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
 

On 2025-02-17 3:29 p.m., Ed P wrote:

On 2/17/2025 1:07 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-17, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:33:57 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
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In article <91d72f8538693084670c1ddd6361a818
@www.novabbs.org>, dsi100@yahoo.com says...

"Haole" is a white person.

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   White is a  colour. Just call them "white" no need for
funny names like haole.

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But we're not white, just like dsi1 isn't yellow.

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I'm a Caucasian, but I've never been anywhere near the Caucasus
mountains.
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You should go.  Interesting place and you can climb the mountains to
peek over at Asia.  They have an interesting way to charge you for the
lift to the top.  You put your arm on a color chart and the lighter your
skin, the lower the price.

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Does that mean the pasty skinned English get the lowest prices?

 When the Hawaiians first saw the missionaries from America, they were
startled by their pale skins. The story goes that the missionaries
refused to use the traditional Hawaiian greetings, which was to lightly
press each other's forehead together and breath in the air between
themselves. "Ha" is the breath of life and the spiritual essence of the
life of the land. Haole means the people that do not share the breath of
life. Well that's what some people say.
 My guess is that the Hawaiians thought the Missionaries from New England
were so pale that they looked like ghosts or dead people. In that case,
"haole" means no breath i.e., the newcomers were so white as to be dead
people. I like my origin story better. Some of the Japanese tourists
that come around here are so pale that I get frightened by them. The
Japanese skin has the added feature of being somewhat transparent i.e.,
extra creespy.

Ha - ole means "I can't believe it's not spirit."
Basically the Hawaiians are calling Americans fake, which is the opposite of real.  Keep it real, Americans.
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No heebies, creepies or hallucinogenics It's the height of paranoia
Male, white, mid-to-late thirties