Hello Steve,

There are a lot of different races here in Hawaii. Most speak what is call Pidgin English. Just enough to get by. Some of it is funny when you listen to what is said. Once heard a guy say "Mo Bigger" to describe something that is simpler "larger"

I was watching the Community cable TV show broadcasting a Waikiki Community neighborhood board meeting yesterday. That is a sub government of elected people who screen zoning request before it get passed up the chain to the normal Honolulu city council. They have final say so but 99% of the time if the lower board rejects anything that is the way the upper government officials will do. Last night there was a company wanting to build a church chapel just to do weddings. They expected to do ten a day, seven days a week at an average cost of $45,000 per wedding. That would be $450,000 daily just from marrying couples. The Japanese visitors are the only one doing this because getting married in their culture is a really big deal. Getting hitched in Hawaii is a once is a lifetime thing for the Japanese. Lots of people in Japan throw money at the newlywed couple to help them out. Anyway there were locals who opposed the zoning and you should have heard the way they expressed their complaints. Made me look like I educated at Oxford. They could hardly speak English but they got their message across. The zoning request was rejected because other merchants were jealous of this company making $450K a day.

Richard and my spat made me think about our arguing over the wrong tense of a word and a conjugated verb starting a sentence seem unimportant. I think there was a hidden agenda going on and he (or they) were really pissed off at something else I said. I also think it is not just him involved. I feel there are three other people and they decided to show me who was boss.

It’s really a shame we all can't focus our attention in more constructed ways other than showing who has the larger penis. Well seeing how this crew operates I don't think it will change.

So we say it our way and you say it your way.

Regards,

Charles Bannister