Aloha oy

A joke, courtesy of the Big Book of Jewish Humor (page 147, but retyped inexactly here):

An elderly Jewish couple, on their way to Hawaii for a vacation, gets into an argument about the pronunciation of the state's name. He says it's Havaii, she says Hawaii.

So when they get off the plane, they run up to the first person they see and ask, "Excuse us, how do you pronounce the name of this place?"

"Havaii," says the man.

"Thank you," the husband gloats.

Comes the reply, "You're velcome."

Yes, it's the end of Mrs. SC's first year as a resident, and she gets a week off. So your host is headed to Hawaii for the first time in his life, to stay until the middle of next week. Work will interrupt only for lunch with SC's project manager, who will be there -- by total coincidence -- at the same time. Alas, his Contax isn't waterproof, so there will be no snorkeling pictures, but this book recommended by a friend of SC's (who went to Hawaii for his honeymoon) assures him there will be plenty more to feed into the 42-megapixel film scanner when he gets home from his trip. A couple of autopilot posts will have to tide you over until then.

(Regarding the post title -- yes, I know, it's actually "Aloha Oe".)

Comments

[donne]

Thank you, it's been very interestingly.