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From: Tahitian pearl <j63480576@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Trout
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:50:52 -0600
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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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <91d72f8538693084670c1ddd6361a818
>>>>>> @www.novabbs.org>, dsi100@yahoo.com says...
>>>>>>> "Haole" is a white person.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    White is a  colour. Just call them "white" no need for
>>>>>> funny names like haole.
>>>>>
>>>>> But we're not white, just like dsi1 isn't yellow.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a Caucasian, but I've never been anywhere near the Caucasus
>>>> mountains.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
-- 
No heebies, creepies or hallucinogenics It's the height of paranoia
Male, white, mid-to-late thirties