July 29, 2009
Maui Curmudgeon
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Part 6 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian
By Maui Curmudgeon
CNN and Newsweek, among other news organizations, have written about the new title for what was formerly known as The Bible Belt: the Blubber Belt. After experiencing Atlanta and Western North Carolina, I can say from first-hand experience – oh my lard!
All y’all are pigs!
Wal-mart in Asheville looks like a Kamu the Whale reunion.
Atlanta airport is chuck full of Pillsbury Doughgirl/Michelin Man offspring.
Last week an obese couple tried to drive up a hiking trail on the Blue Ridge Highway because they wanted to see the overlook but they were too fat to get out of the car. They got a ticket and a large bill for the tow out.
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July 29, 2009
> MAUI TODAY
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 Purchase Cheese Day
Day 210 of 2009
155 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kenekoa: Senator
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Kirapim: Begin
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “The goodness of the taro is judged by the young plant it produces.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.”
TODAY: Visitor Numbers Not So Sweet Maui island welcomed 176,455 visitors in June, which was 8,000 fewer, or 4.3 percent less, than the year before, which in turn was 48,000 fewer than in 2007, the year before that. More >
July 29th, 1835: The first sugar plantation in Hawaii begins production. Sugar takes on ever increasing economic importance, requiring a large plantation labor population that cannot be provided by the native population, seriously depleted by introduced diseases
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