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'Hone-a-Lula'

posted 14 years ago by onepotato2
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"The clock can tell the time anywhere on earth; London, Chicago, Hone-a-Lula! and so forth."

Guh.

And this bothered you? What bothers me is your Guh. What's that?

[–] dt123 7 years ago

Bothered me, too. It was so far off! Hawaii ui the Rodney Dangerfield of US states. We never get any respect.

Back then a lot of people said "Los Angle-us", too. As far as Hawaii is concerned, now we're supposed to say "Hawai-i" or some such linguistically correct awkwardness.