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OUR HONOLULU By Bob Krauss |
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Let's see what kind of news has come over the back fence lately. Aha, here's something: Dolly Pinao, a native of Kaka'ako, has been corresponding with Carol Rogers of Durton, Ohio, since March 15, 1955.
Dolly was a sophomore in high school when she found Carol's name on a list of wannabe pen pals in the newspaper.
They write to each other about once a month. By this time they've both been married twice and have grandchildren.
They got to be such good friends that Carol's parents, no longer living, used to send presents to Dolly when they took trips. Here's what's unusual: They have never met face to face.
Did you know that the granddaughter of Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese revolution, has an apartment in Our Honolulu? She is Lilu Sun Sui-Fong, who maintains that her grandfather came to her in a dream and instructed her to carry on his work.
George Atta at Group 70 is passing around another e-mail joke. It's about Hawaiian Windows 98 that was shipped outside of Hawai'i by mistake.
Atta has helpfully explained the meaning of the commands in pidgin. The keyboard, for example, is "da kine." Floppy discs are "da ting fo inside da kine." The mouse is called "da clika." Flush right equals "stat da oddah side." The pidgin command for exit is "neva mine."
Shirley in Hawai'i Kai called to say she liked the column about ducks on Manoa Stream. She said she wants to know what happened to the ducks in the lagoon at Hawai'i Kai. According to Shirley, people were feeding "hundreds" of ducks but they have disappeared. Duck soup?
Antique collector John Valentine says he has it on good authority that the bed of Princess Ruth, who weighed upwards of 300 pounds, is in a home on Round Top. He said the bed is so big it had to be lowered in through the roof by a construction crane.
Paulie Keakealani Jennings is the executive producer of the World Invitational Hula Festival. A treasure in her family was a cardboard box that belonged to her ancestor Peter Lee, manager of the Volcano House and confidant of the rich and famous. Also royalty.
The box contained coins left over from poker games with King Kalakaua.
According to Paulie, the king was playing poker at the Volcano House when he beat Lee with a hand of three kings.
Lee had two kings and so did Kalakaua but he won by claiming himself as the third king.
In view of the wild shaka sign stories going around, I'm working on the definitive shaka sign column, the absolute last word in shaka sign info.
Reach Bob Krauss at 525-8073.
Correction: Paulie Keakealani Jennings is executive producer of the World International Hula Festival. She was incorrectly identified in a previous version of this story.
