Da kine wurd/turm/frayze uv da dey: Shaka, paht tree
Da kine wurd/turm/frayze uv da dey: Shaka, paht tree
Meanwhile, back at da Shaka Ranch, plenee stuffs wuz hapeneen but!
Two days after shaka, hana hou appeared in print, I saw France beat Germany 2-nil in one of the UEFA 2016 semi-final matches in Paris. The hero fo da Frogs (with the German name — Griesmann) scored both goals! Nothing unusual about that; except that he flashed our shaka/hang loose gesture both times! (double-shakas!)
I wen teenk, wow lau lau lah dat! Wot da skoops weet dat but! (I immediately wanted to know where he cockaroached our sign from?) So, kweek ly’k wun sweef, I wen poot on da “Hi-Yo Seelva, Ace Pryvat Defecteev” papale fo fy’n owt wot da skoops! (I immediately donned my “Pocho Detective” hat to investigate)
Thanks to my daughter’s Brit boyfriend, who lives and works out of Munich and Barcelona, and with a big assist from Germany’s equivalent of the National Enquirer (The Bild Zeitung) da troofs wen kum owt. (Mystery solved!)
Seems the Canadian hip-hop artist, Drake, has a video out there called “Hotline Bling” and he flashes a double counterfeit shaka/hang loose gesture. The explanation is a little strange; but it has nothing to do with our sign. Monsieur Griesmann is a big fan and has been mimicking the gesture after each score (22) all La Liga season (he plays his club ball in Madrid) as a shout out to Drake!
Den, I wen get wun eemay’l from wun Bruddah hoo wuz ontop da Nort Shoah huhnahbuhdahdaze. (Then I received an email from a Kona resident who grew up on Oahu’s North Shore) Da buggah’s fahdah wuz good frenz weet Haumana Kalili hoo wuz heez feesheen mentoah; an he wen tehl da reel stohree ahbowt how he wen looz heez feengahz but! (Ren told me that his father’s fishing guru was Mr. Kalili and he knows for sure what happened!)
Haumana wuz tryeen fo grab wun momona lahbstah wen Meestah Moray Puhi wen kaukau heez tree feengahz! (Seems a Moray eel chomped off his three digits while he was reaching to grab a big ol’ lobster!)
Ahana! Now us fahlah no da troofs but! (Now, we know the truth!)
An den, yu buggahz wen spahk dat saxee kupuna tita frum Hilo ontop da teevee dooeen her streepteez fo “America’s Got Talent?” (Were you among the millions who saw that sexy, 90-year old from Hilo do her strip-schtick for the judges on AGT?)
After her second performance, last Tuesday, she flashed a double-shaka while the audience went nuts!
All I have to say to Dorothy Williams, a.k.a. “Yummy the Clown,” is shakas to you, yu keep on hangin’ loose and twirleen dem tassehlz een my home town! Ha!
To wrap up, I’d like to tell you that while double-checking my facts and doing some cyber-snooping for info about shaka/hang loose, I discovered that there are even more businesses (mostly kau kau joints) literally, all around the world, using our turmz in their business names than even Da Kine!
While I suspect that some of them in Africa have nothing to do with a Hawaii connection, we all know that there are some righteous breaks off the shores of South Africa! An doze “shreddahz” flash da shaka/hang loose gest’yah ‘cuz dey wen lern’um frum guyz ly’k Kona’s own Shane Dorian an uddah surfahz frum Hawaii nei, lah dat but! (While some of the business names in Africa more than likely are referring to “Shaka Zulu,” those local surfers use our sign because they learned it from our Hawaii pros!)
Pau fo nau.
Nexes wun: Pilau Too, Aug. 17.
Wally Camp is a Big Island resident who writes a biweekly column for West Hawaii Today. He can be reached at Hilowally @gmail.com