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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 02:41 PM
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Poll question: Which is the worst name?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 03:26 PM
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1. It's Po'opo'o, you malihini
(malihini: a foreigner or visitor; opposed to kama'aina local person, lit. "child of the land")

The 'okina (') is a letter in 'olelo Hawai'i. It makes a sound like that heard in "uh-oh" or the local pronunciations of New Britain and Trenton. Thus, the town on Hawai'i isand (the Big Isnad) of which you speak is pronounced "POE-oh-POE-oh". (meaning: "head or skull" reduplicated). :P
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 03:47 PM
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2. Ah Ah!
as in "ʻAʻā"

I worked on the Big Island many makahikis ago. I don't remember a Po'opo'o there. But I see that it is a small island off Lanai's coast.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:01 PM
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3. Feast your eyes on this "Po'opo'o platter"
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:07 PM
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4. Are you saying that I'm a Dim Sum?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:09 PM
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5. No, but I think this subthread has gone On Too Long
just like the famous Chinese orator. :-)
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:30 PM
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6. You forgot Hell, Michigan
As every real Californian knows, during the Gold Rush Placerville was called Hangtown. There was a reason.
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 12:38 AM
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7. Black Gnat KY but I voted Redskins
Black Gnat, on the Taylor Co Green Co line is a 'town' but also the name of a famous local whore that caused more causalities in the Army during the 'Nam than the VC. Remember the war games from Ft Knox down to the empty Green River Reservoir before it was impounded?
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Capt. America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 07:50 AM
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8. Ann Arbor (is a whore)
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