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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 02/06/2006 : 2:01:02 PM
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Mahalo and Aloha e Andy! You've been snowed in too long.
Are you going to make it out to Don's in April?
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Pupule
USA
4551 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2006 : 7:04:00 PM
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Going by the rules of this contest, the winner qualified with 22 chances to win (by posting 22 days out of 31 days of January).
Out of the many entries, that winner is Karl Monetti! Congrats to Karl and thanks to all who posted in January.
BTW, I learned how to use the RAND() function in Excel to choose a random winner. Just in case anyone wondered about my methodology. |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2006 : 08:33:04 AM
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Thanks, Andy, i will put the DVD to good use
But, maybe this qualifies me as one of those folks George K. alluded to in his interview last month....I'd better "get a life", quit talking, and play more. Here's my big chance to shut up! |
Karl
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2006 : 5:07:11 PM
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Well, folks, let's see how smarmy you can get, how low down and dirty. I just got the DVD in the mail today from Andy (thanks a bunch!) and realized i already have this on video.
I sort of like the videotape better than DVD for reversing to follow passages, so I am going to give this DVD to the one of you who comes up with the most hearwrenching sob story. I would expect lots from guys like slkho, piff, thumbs, slackkeymike and severl others.
Don't hold back, let it allhang out, just leave out the country western stuff aobut the dog, drunks, jail, mothers, drunk mother dogs in prison, and pickup trucks driven by any of the above.
Have at it! Let the tears begin...... |
Karl
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Mika ele
Ha`aha`a
USA
1493 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2006 : 07:15:37 AM
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The polka dancing cat from the local AA fathered a nasty kitten in my neighbors volkswagon on top of my old copy. The VW was parked in the local big name chain hardware store parking lot and caused quite a stir in the old folks home next door. They thought it was Elvis coming back to play steel guitar in Izzzy's old band. One Kumu was really quite offended at the over zealous feline and threatened to send it to Alaska where old Hawaiian popoki are held in purgatory. The old bugger decided to take it out on the DVD and leave its ferocious scrath marks and "scent" to make a statement. Far be it for me to violate the territorial claims and put it in my player for contented perusal. I'll leave it be . . or . . as one famous ukulele player coined "Let it Be".
(just kidding . . I have a clean copy at home but couldn't resist the challenge) |
E nana, e ho'olohe. E pa'a ka waha, e hana ka lima. |
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2006 : 07:34:44 AM
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just leave out the country western stuff aobut the dog, drunks, jail, mothers, drunk mother dogs in prison, and pickup trucks driven by any of the above.
You left out trains... otherwise you are pretty close to the third verse of an old Steve Goodman song -
"You never even call me by my name"
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Mahope Kākou...
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Edited by - Lawrence on 02/15/2006 07:35:31 AM |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2006 : 9:02:47 PM
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Ah, yes, Lawrence, the perfect country western song. I thought that was David Allen Coe, but Goodman was a clown of equal mettle to Coe any day
Mika ele, that was preetty good, but, my wife being an 8th grade teacher, I'd already heard that one,as an excuse for no homework |
Karl
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Mika ele
Ha`aha`a
USA
1493 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2006 : 09:35:11 AM
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| My wife is a 7th and 8th grade English Teacher -- that is where I heard it! Must be posted on the internet somewhere for them to use. |
E nana, e ho'olohe. E pa'a ka waha, e hana ka lima. |
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Rlowenote
Akahai
84 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2006 : 06:49:24 AM
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Karl,
Only sob story I can come up with is that I lost most of a day restringing my wifes hammered dulcimer. It's one of her smaller ones with ONLY 68 strings, but it has dampers that you need to work around. Didn't get to play guitar or do much posting that day. I'm glad I don't have to do that regularly. Changing guitar strings is bad enough, since I'd rather be playing it rather than restringing. That's why I use coated strings and get 2 - 3 months between restringing.
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2006 : 09:44:42 AM
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ralph,
Quitcherbellyachin. Next time, just go out and buy her a new one:) |
Karl
Frozen North |
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dr. cookie
Lokahi
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2006 : 9:48:13 PM
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I'm usually obsessed with learning Hawaiian music, but today I was singing the blues . . .
Woke up to a beautiful clear and sunny day in the Tacoma area . . . but below freezing and with major wind gusts. Halfway through my first cup of coffee the power went out. My wife asked me to see if her car cover had blown away, so I stepped outside and came face-to-face with what seemed like a 20' high black wall . . . it was the roof of our garage standing vertically between our house and the neighbors' place. Hm-m-m-m, this must have been what the dogs were barking about!
Drove about 7 miles roundtrip to get a substantial supply of hot coffee from Starbucks to better cope with the whole roof-on-the-ground situation.
By this point the inside temperature of the house was 52 degrees . . . so I scrounged up some wood to build a fire, warmed up my fingers and grabbed my uke (waiting for the insurance company to call). They didn't call until 8 pm tonight. Some might say I lost a day of productivity, but I actually ended up having a pretty good time huddled up by the fire with Hui Aloha!
Oh yes, later in the afternoon the power came back on. Then the back fence blew down (much to the delight of all three dogs).
Yes, I've got my work cut out for me this weekend . . . fortunately it's not supposed to rain until Tuesday (and the dogs are all safe at home).
Hey Karl . . . Karl? Are you listening? Not a word of fiction here . . . ! Smarmy enough for you?!
Dr. Cookie (aka Don)
PS: What did you get for Christmas? I got pnuemonia. This year is off to a swell start . . .
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2006 : 09:28:03 AM
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Dr. Cookie
Nice try, but next time leave out the part about getting to play uke for a whole day! That ain't torture, that's heaven!! |
Karl
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2006 : 1:09:21 PM
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I don't have a sad story. I'm just about the slowest learner here.....
The electricity mostly works, the roof is attached. I don't have a wife or husband with a hammered dulcimer. My cats are fixed, no dogs, no kittens. I guess the sob story is I don't have a season pass to Maui, or a home on the Big Island. But I can walk to the beach - even though the water's a mere 54 degrees (La Nin~a). When it rained late yesterday there was a neat double rainbow. I didn't take a picture because I was parked on the 405. The plumerias and ginger don't bloom all year round, but something is always in bloom that smells good. George and Cyril didn't make it down here, but Herb and Keoki did.
So - I don't have Kiwini's, or for that matter, Gordo's imagination. So I don't have a sob story..... only that I'm a really really slow learner......... frustration....
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slkho
`Olu`olu
740 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2006 : 2:44:15 PM
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WHAT?!! Gramps won!!? Well I'll be darn. You did say he won a DVD right, and not another 8-track? How will the 'ol geezer use that?
Hmmm? Well anyways, here's my sad story to try and win the DVD from Moses's classmate:
Sitting in my cold; drafty, and dimly lit slum apartment, the wind whipping through the broken window panes. I shift into a fetal position next to my; three legged, one eyed, flea & mange infested dog (zoom) trying to get what little warmth I can from his near skeletal body. Its now day three, and although we've been surving on paint chips, popcorn, coffee, and an occasional tasty rat dropping, me & Zoom keep our vigil fixated on the rusty mail slot that is located on the cheap, warped quarter inch plywood that serves as our door, with a rope for a door knob.
We hold onto the hope that Andy, or even Karl will mail us the long awaited slack key DVD that will enrich our pathetic existence, and give us hope to brighten our lives. Why with that DVD from Karl, we could gain strength & hope to carry on, to learn slack key, to entertain, and make some money so we can eat, pay our rent, maybe even upscale our evening repast with an upgrade of a happy meal, or even tastier vermin droppings.... (can you pigeon cordon bleu?)
Of course, with each setting sun, we grow weaker and weaker. will we even have the strength to even insert the long awaited DVD into our creaky old DVD player we got from gramps, (its made of wicker). As I grow weaker too, Zoom is starting to lick his own chops at me, I dare not fall asleep.
Help us Karl if you can, we are getting weaker (cough-cough) and weaker, (weez, belch, fart...) help-help us...help us, hel.....
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2006 : 11:27:50 AM
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Sob, choke, whimper, sniffle......Rik, I had no idea you were such a loser, so, here is your big break....you are the whiner! No, that's winner!
I did have a little trouble understanding how, in your destitute condition, you could afford to have a DVD player and therefore a TV.. I thought sure those would have been hocked months ago. And, the quarter inch plywood,,,some of us only have visqueen. 4mil!
First thing you do when you learn something from the DVD is go out and play for dog food.......you looked well enough fed last time i saw you, but i want that dog fat and happy!
Of course, I will need the address of your hovel, if it has one, plus your credit card number, dirivers license and bank account numbers, along with a cancelled check, two photo IDs and three ipos.
Sorry Nancy....I was going to give it to you for your honesty, but, as in so many things in life, nice guys finish last and the lyin creeps get the goods. |
Karl
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