You Know You're in Hawaii When
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If you have never been to Hawaii for an extended stay, lived there, grew-up there, or live there, the following will be basically meaningless, unless you're Mark or Leigh, who Grokked it all right away! Aloha!
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- Nobody is sure exactly where "north" is.
- The state dog is the pit bull.
- On the street where you live every refrigerator has a bottle of shoyu inside.
- Your cousin is Japanese-Chinese-French-Filipino-Korean-Scottish-Portuguese-Hawaiian, plus some stuff too manini to mention.
- To go out on Saturday night and impress the girl, you wear your bestest shorts.
- Gobos is now just a bunch of green vegetables, not a rallying cry for the home team.
- Somewhere over the rainbow a big H flies.
- The most important thing to know about a person is where they went to high school.
- The second most important thing to know about a person is the year they wen' grad.
- Your second home is the beach.
- Birds walk more often than they fly.
- You can't see the forest for the political sign-wavers.
- It's raining buckets on your picnic and everybody agrees, "It's a blessing".
- You're nobody 'til somebody says you're part of the ohana.
- Telling an ethnic joke is politically correct.
- Saying "Eh!" constitutes major oratory filled with profound implications.
- The Legislature is a daycare center for troubled adults.
- A pedestrian in a crosswalk, sheesh, some nerve that guy!.
- You watch your favorite shows "on top the TV".
- Stopping to smell the flowers can take all day.
- Nobody knows where the "fast lane" is on the freeway.
- The best cooks all use lots of mayonnaise.
- An approaching hurricane means only one thing - surf's up, brah!.
- The name Duke means royalty.
- If you can make it here, why the heck would you want to be in Noo Yawk?
- Las Vegas is Mecca.
- White rice is a sacrament.
- Spam is for special occasions.
- Beans are the perfect condiment for ice cream.
- The ukulele is a classical music instrument.
- A silver-haired ex-mayor is like your eccentric uncle -- he keeps repeating himself and nobody pays any attention.
- Female volleyball players are major celebrities.
- The weather report says "mauka showers".
- A lava rock gives you chickenskin.
- A stranger shares aloha.