No, it’s not da combination to da vault… but stay empty so no mattah. 

Da oddah week, Uncle Rodney got me all “J” (jealous) about his new pimpin’ ride - “a brand spanking new 2009 Scion xB.

So there I was, staring at my 2002 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner TRD Doublecab and wishing……. ok, praying for a new truck to mysteriously appear everytime I blink.

Nope. Wishful thinking.

While my Taco is still running strong, I can’t help but list all the “little things” so that I have enough “ammo” to convince Da Wife I need - ahem, WE need - a new truck.

Besides the right front being backed up into (left without a note!) and missing the front turn marker, the right rear tire has a slow leak that needs to be filled up before every ride, I need new tires (still shopping for a good sale), my tonneau cover cracked and broke (manufacturer refused to warranty it since they no longer make the cover because of all the problems it’s had with the design - WASSAP WIT DAT!) and there’s itty bitty dents (battle scars of a truck) here and there (I’m only responsible for ONE of those).

I’m a Tacoma fan but never liked the redesign that’s been around for the past four or five years. Tacoma is always hush about redesigns and never releases that info even to their own employees so every year I just wait and see.

Until now.

Something else has caught my eye and I actually have been waiting for this manufacturer of this model to come around to the “truck” scene.

Take a look………. 

It’s called the H3T (Hummer3 Truck) but vision it in Metallic Graphite.

Boy, when I saw that I just went ga-ga like a guy in the front row of the Victoria Secret lingerie fashion show. 

I’ve always been a fan of the Hummer every since… well, since I seen it in the Army and movies but the price tag was waaaaay out of my reach.

Hummer did come out with the “real world” version with the H3 but I didn’t like the fender wells and the H2…. well, let’s just say I’d have to work FOUR jobs to get that.

Now the H3T has come out and while it’s just a tad more than my Tacoma, I’ve been telling Da Wife it’s really not that much more because I’d sell the Taco and the difference left wouldn’t be as bad.

Plus, I tell Da Wife wen we plan/start to have keiki running around we need something to “protect” them in and lug all the “extra’s”. 

Da Wife:  “Do you really need a new truck?”

BL:  (said in small baby voice) “yeah.”

Da Wife:  “It’s ugly.”

BL:  “Babe, it’s a truck. It ain’t supposed to be pretty.”

Da Wife:  “You know I’m not driving it.”

BL:  (YEEEESSS! Cheering and doing cartwheels in my head trying not to grin)  “Well you can if you have/want to. Plus we need something to tow the boat.” ($h!t, did dat slip out?)

Da Wife:  “WHAT BOAT?”

BL:  “Oh nothing. You know, wen we get old you know I always wanted a small boat to go diving and fishing in. Plus we can take da keiki out to da sand bar and do stuff. But dat ain’t till waaaaaaay latah.”  (stupid, stupid, stupid! One thing at a time BL, one thing at a time.)

Da Wife:  (rolling her eyes) “So you know that means I get a new car too right?”

BL:  “Of course Babe!”
(said in a soft muttering voice as I’m walking away) “you get a H3T”.  

While it’s going to be a very long while before we even head to a dealership, a fellah can dream right?

So if you could afford a car/truck/suv right now, wat would you get? I’m not talking about a Ferrari or Bentley but wat “real world” vehicle would you pick up from a dealership right now?

 

SHOUT OUT:  Here’s a pic 808Dad sent to WWD! Yup! Two great catches of ulua weighing in at 32 and 26 pounds… and he admits his brother caught the larger one. Dat’s a whole lotta sashimi!  Hanapa’a!

Holiday. Wat holiday?

I nevah even know had one holiday till a couple days ago. Here at The Advertiser, we only observe seven holidays: Memorial Day, Kamehameha Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s - with the exception of Kamehameha Day, the rest are “standard” holidays that most business’ observe.

I’ve worked in the hotel and restaurant industries and there’s no such thing as holidays. The only good thing was you got paid either time and a half or double time but with the exception of those two industries and the media of course, I’m curious to see how many holidays do you have?

My previous job celebrated practically every holiday around. We had at least one a month and November had two - three in an election year! I loved that about my previous job but at the same time I assumed because our pay wasn’t close to average they compensated in other areas such as holidays. There’s always a trade off somewhere.

Are schools open today? Because as Da Wife and I was driving in there was NO traffic and for the first time in ages the “regular” lanes were going faster than the car pool/zip lanes!

In fact I gotta mention da lo-lo of da day award goes to da babooze in a white accord(? barely could see ovah da divider) driving in da zip lane…… without the minimum three people!

And da buggah got pulled ovah!!! 

Seriously, it’s a holiday, no traffic and you still going chance ‘em in da zip lane?!

Wassap Wit Dat!

(singing) Ba-booze…. ba-booze…. ba-ba-ba-booze…. ba-booze………..

 

DA PIDGIN WORD OF DA DAY! -
(as quoted from Da Kine Dictionary & Pidgin To Da Max… wit a Braddah Lance twist)

BABOOZE
(bah-BOOZE)

Haole Translation: Clown, dummy

Use: Wat you call one lo-lo or one person who not all there

Sentence: “You babooze! Malasadas no mo’ holes!”

Sentence: “Dat babooze ovah ‘dea thought pidgin was one way to communicate wit da birds!”

 

Sorry for the delay folks! Big time technical difficulties and a huge Mahalo to John Garcia (web designer) for helping me out! (even though he still won’t openly admit there’s a WWD! conspiracy)

Tons of work + hatahs + mo’ hatahs = ho’oponopono time (details in yesterday’s responses). Mahalos’ to snow, sassy7, B & BananaFysh fo’ steppin’ up and catching a braddah’s back!

Well, last Saturday da BIG game was on for the state of Hawaii and all our “oddah” rock transplants between da Warriors of Hawaii and da Bulldogs of Fresno St.

We all know how it turned out - Hawaii faithful won. Kala bettahs lost.

Da Wife and I spent da whole night before and da entire morning/early afternoon getting da house and foods ready. Boy, setup and cleanup sucks!

As I was setting up da tv’s (yeah, we needed two), I connected all da wire’s and guess wat? No mo’ sound on da second tv! Get picture but no sound.

Wassap Wit Dat!

I double check da connections (only three component cables) and matched up da colors from da box to da tv along with several combinations but for some reason, only picture.

Eh, no problem. We just crank up da volume on da main tv and we au’ good.

3:50pm…. 3:55…… 3:57……. 3:58……. “HUI! DA GAME ABOUT FO’ START!”…….. 3:59……… 4:00pm! “EH, DA GAME STARTING!”

As we all sit gathered around da tv staring at da blank screen I feel all da eyes staring at me,

Friend: “Eh, you wen’ set up da cables right or wat?”

BL: “Brah, wat you tink? We was just watching ‘em TWO MINUTES AGO! You tink da buggah wen change if nobody wen touch ‘em?”

(yeah, a little irkamatated cause I’m dropping $60 fo’ a show dat not even showing!)

WASSAP WIT DAT!

4:01pm I stay on da phone calling Oceanic already and so must have da thousands of oddahs cause had busy signal fo’ da next fifteen minutes and I couldn’t get through.

We all kinda ants in da pants and my MIL (mother-in-law) says, “where’s the radio?”

Oh yeah, get radio yeah?

So we buss’ ‘em out and listen…. jus’ like da good ‘ole days….. well, I stay a little too young fo’ “watch” tv through da radio back then but it worked jus’ fine.

We all cruising, enjoying each oddahs company, onolicious grinds and of course…. da game.

And of course since had grindz gotta show yeah? And no buss’ my olo’s cause some pictures blurry… I was shmall kine buss’ too. And too hard make fancy kine format like Uncle Rodney so most going be big.

Wat surprised me was most of da food was homemade…. DA BEST KINE!

Enjoy….. no drool on da keyboard eh.

 

Da Wife had boiled some soybeans - regular and of course spicy garlic!

Da Wife also made 7-layer dip….. yummmm.

 

 

A friend had made their own version of jalepeno poppers wrapped in bacon - Emeril would be proud. And yeah, there was a piece missing…. had to sample no?

 

Wat would a potluck be without oodles of noodles? Chun Wah Kam udon on da left and homemade by Da Wife’s friend on da right.

 

Hot potato salad by my MIL and seafood fried rice by my friend’s wife…. in da blog where he told me he was getting married da day before!

 

Shumai (not sure if made or bought) and da MIL brought some mandoo too…. but she nevah make ‘em…. and nevah taste like how my mommy used to make.

Spicy sausages from Sam’s and Da Wife and I wanted to do hamburgers but wanted to make our own this time so we made “sliders” from some recipe she got…. nothing beats homemade!

Da Wife still hard at work cutting up da sausages while I finish up cooking da mini-slider burgahs!

 

Da Wife went au’ fancy too with condiments galore! Onions, red onions, pickles, lettuce, tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms, THREE different kine sauces and we can’t fo’get da peppah jack!

 

Did I mention dat Da Wife also made spicy garlic chicken? I of course had to make kim chee…. gone by da end of da night.

 

Boooooooo! Who like watch da beginning of da game AFTAH we already know wat happened?!

Remembah da friend who no respond back and no go out with us? Guess who showed up out of da blue straight from work?

 

There was also about five pounds of poke, homemade chili and watevah else we had dat I no can remembah but was ONOLICIOUS and da pah-tay went on till late….. good thing we had choke food and beer!

A BIG MAHALOS to Da Wife fo’ always putting up with da pah-tays and always making food and all da little things dat make it fun! Love Ya Babe!

 

 

DA PIDGIN WORD OF DA DAY! -
(as quoted from Wikipedia… wit a Braddah Lance twist)

HO’OPONOPONO
(HO-o-po-no-po-no)

Haole Translation: Make right, mental cleansing

Use: To clear your mind through prayer, discussion, confession, forgiveness

Sentence: “No stay huhu Brah. Time fo’ some ho’oponopono.”

Sentence: “Hui, ho’oponopono time.”

 

 

No, I’m not in jail. 

But some of those CEO, CFO, CIO, C-watevah’s should be!

With our economy in turmoil, investors scrambling, business’ going out of business, da average Joe struggling (as we haven’t been BEFORE ‘dis mess) and now da Federal government wants to bail out the biggest names in our economy with $700 BILLION dollahs in “bailout” money.

Don’t look like much? Count da zeroes…..  $700,000,000,000.00.

Bailout, rescue plan, call it watevah you like but in da end da money goes to save da big name companies - not da working class of America!

So dat’s why I’m spreading ‘dis email dat was sent to me from an ex-coworker of mine.

Go read ‘em and tell me THIS isn’t a bettah plan. Da figgahs he used is based off da AIG bailout… imagine if it was da total bailout of $700 Billion!?

 

I LIKE THIS KIND OF CREATIVE THINKING !!!!

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, Im in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.To make the math simple, lets assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.So lets assume a tax rate of 30%.Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?Pay off your mortgage housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college itll be there
Save in a bank create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car create jobs
Invest in the market capital drives growth
Pay for your parents medical insurance health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back.
And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth lets really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( vote buy ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If were going to do an $85 billion bailout, lets bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!As for AIG liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Heres my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesnt.

Sure its a crazy idea that can never work.

But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC.

And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,

Birk

T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic

PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as its either good for a
laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion!!

Now I dunno about you guys but ‘dis “Birk Plan” sounds au’ right to me!

Even if it was half of the proposed “We Deserve It Dividend” I’ll bet my life dat da working class of America would be more than grateful and could actually use da kala!

Pay down (eliminate) debt, stimulate the economy big time and consumer confidence would be through da roof! Isn’t dat wat da government is tryin’ fo’ do?

Wat ‘cha think? Anybody know anybody in Washington?

Yo, Obama/McCain! Shoot me a holla! Guaran-ballbarens you going be da next President!

 

DA PIDGIN WORD OF DA DAY! -
(as quoted from Da Kine Dictionary & Pidgin To Da Max… wit a Braddah Lance twist)

NO MO’
(said same as spelled)

Haole Translation: Nothing

Use: Wen you no mo’ anything

Sentence: “Brah, how come da lo-lo business’ get au’ their kala back? I still no mo’!”

Sentence: Friend: “I like borrow dollah.”
BL: “I no mo’.”

 

There’s really no point or mo’olelo fo’ share today other than jus’….. ramblin’.

It’s a Feel Good Friday - do we need any oddah reason ‘den dat? 

Mahalos to all who took da “time” to post their personal links of choice yesterday/today! Believe me, I’ve already checked some out and I plan to check da rest out latahz cause I’m surah I goin’ use at least one of ‘em now. 

And admit it, whoevah reads WWD! goin’ check ‘em out too eh? 

As you all - or most - know, tomorrow is da Fresno St/UH game and a perfect time fo’ BBQ. I was all discombobulated (hee hee, anoddah $5 word) ‘dis whole week cause I sent out an email to my handful of friends and I nevah hear back.

So I was really thinking, “Wassap Wit Dat!”

And ‘den I see one of my friends at bowling last night and ask him,

“Eh, you guys coming or wat?”.

“Yeah. I already replied.”

“Wat? Wen? I nevah get ‘em.”

“Everybody replied already.”

“WAT? Did it get sent to junk mail? Wait, no can…. I WEN WRITE ‘EM!”

(busily on his iPhone) “Here. Look. This is what everybody is bringing - only L not coming. She going back to Colorado for the week.”

(reading da email on da iPhone) “Brah, you guys no check who you guys reply back to? Try look. Who stay missing?”

(blank look on friends face) 

“Brah……. ME! Shmall kine important I know eh?” (laughing now cause wat a true WWD! moment)

Pah-tay back on.

So there I was thinking aloud seriously to my friend and wondering wat if I wen invite da WWD! Kwonics?

Truly I like, but big time scary no? I dunno (really) know you (well, I did get to meet Ynaku and opso which was quite nice) - you dunno me (ok, you can pretty much put da pieces together).

I no like throw my address out either (1100 Waimano Home Rd  Pearl City) online and get au’ kine wackos stop by. My friend suggested jus’ inviting da “regular” Kwonics but wat about da rest of da Lanceformers and Lurkahs even? No fair eh?

Oh well, in da end, gotta err on da side of caution… plus, nevah even discuss wit Da Wife.

(SOS’d right now… BIIIIG time).

Eh, next time…. maybe.   

 

SHOUT OUT: Fo’ those who enjoy da “Excel Quizzes” by Tracy Nishibun guess wat? Da Braddah finally wen’ worldwide! Well at least he has a site to do so now.  :wink:  So to help anoddah local Braddah out, here’s a little bit mo’ straight from da man himself….

After much demand, I have finally completed a website for my quizzes!  Thanks for your support in previously trying some of the quizzes and emailing me for answers or comments.

I also appreciate your efforts in spreading the quizzes to your network. Even though the quizzes can now be found for your enjoyment on the website, they will continue to be free of charge.  All I ask from you is to help support the website by: 

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