# Hawaiian Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242 "2002-04-29T07:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/1 "2002-04-29T07:21:41Z")
I’ve only seen one so far, is this weird? It seems that every message board I am a member at, I seem to be one of two or three people from Hawaii. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/2 "2002-04-29T07:31:39Z")
We’ve got a few. I’m in Waikiki. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/3 "2002-04-29T07:36:32Z")
You’re the only one I’ve seen so far. :\ Waipio, here. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/4 "2002-04-29T07:46:28Z")
AudreyK might still be here but she’s moving to the mainland. There’s another 2000+ poster who’s from here, waiting for the post. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/5 "2002-04-29T15:23:27Z")
Hawaii is a group of islands. So, you can search by each island & see who is here. There are a lot of posters from Hawaii, I think I even saw a doper getogether but I don’t know which island they choose. I thought flying to Maui would be a lot faster from LA cause they always put it near LA on the maps I see. Of course, its no where near there. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/6 "2002-04-29T15:41:07Z")
I am a kama’aina, born in Honolulu about 35 and a half years ago, but sadly, I have only been back once so far. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/7 "2002-04-29T16:27:25Z")
Really, **UncleBill**? Neat. 🙂 I’m in Waipahu; **KKBattousai** ’s in Honolulu. And yeah, we’ll be leaving for the mainland in a couple of weeks. Let’s see. There’s also **DKW** , **HubZilla** , and **sandalwood**. There are a lot of former residents, such as **panzerpanzerman** , **Fiver** … um… heck, it’s 6am and I haven’t slept so my brain isn’t working right. But there are more of us that you think. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/8 "2002-04-29T18:09:55Z")
Another former resident checking in, born and raised in Honolulu. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/9 "2002-04-29T21:04:20Z")
**AudreyK** , sorry you’re leaving us, before I got to know any of you. You must live fairly close to me. Lots of former people around! Cool. _waves shaka sign_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/10 "2002-04-29T21:15:13Z")
I’m a local, born and raised in Honolulu. Currently living in Kailua, soon to be moving to Kaimuki. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/11 "2002-04-29T21:45:13Z")
I lived near Pahoa (Puna) for 6 years when I was a teen but now am mainland haole. We should have a pidgin thread. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/12 "2002-04-29T23:02:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capybara \* > \*\*I lived near Pahoa (Puna) for 6 years when I was a teen but now am mainland haole. We should have a pidgin thread. \*\* So what, den? You tink we should make one, li’ dat? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/13 "2002-04-29T23:05:25Z")
ack! I may have gone to Kaimuki (where’d you guys go to HS?) but I was still in the French clue and in AP Calculus and AP Physics. I’m a jungle boy not a beach boy and pidgin has never been my strongsuit. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/14 "2002-04-29T23:09:06Z")
I never speak in Pidgin on any of the BBS I frequent, but hey… **capybara** suggested it. 😛 I went to Aiea HS and had only AP English. I was (and still am) pathetic in any Math. Kaimuki, eh? I know a few people from there, graduated in the mid-80s. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/15 "2002-04-29T23:16:30Z")
I actually lived in Aiea and took the long freaking commute to Kaimuki everyday. I went there cause I had previously lived in Waikiki and went to Washington JHS. I should have gone to Aiea. We lived a mile up Kaonohi St. Hey, you know Aritta? ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/16 "2002-04-29T23:28:59Z")
Sorry, like Osiris I am pidgin impaired. I can speak it when I’m talking with people with strong pidgin accents, but normally I speak relatively proper English. When I went away to college on the mainland, I had to politely turn down a few requests to speak pidgin from people who wanted to hear what it was like. I can’t say something that sounds authentically “pidgin” if noone else is speaking like that. Strange, but other people from Hawaii could still tell I was from Hawaii, even when I wasn’t wearing any obvious clues (like slippers, an HIC T-shirt, etc.). Maybe the way I talk, or the inflection… By the way, I went to Moanalua. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/17 "2002-04-30T00:08:45Z")
Arita…I don’t think I had him for a teacher(?), but the name rings a bell. I used to live right above the high school. My dad used to substitute teach at Washington JHS. Maybe he had you as a student, **Osiris**. 😃 **bytheway** , I’ve had people in the UK tell me I was from Hawaii, when I visited there. it’s strange… So do you have these Doper-get-togethers here? At Restaurant Row? Monterey’s? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/18 "2002-04-30T01:17:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaBaby \* > \*\*Arita…I don’t think I had him for a teacher(?), but the name rings a bell. I used to live right above the high school. \*\* She’s a basketball player. Helped Aira win the last State Championship. Her family and ours are good friends. ooh, the trades are back, mmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/19 "2002-04-30T01:32:20Z")
Oops. :o Sorry, there may have been an Arita either in HS or Intermediate. I do remember that name, somehow. Arita…her coach Francine was a year younger than me and she’s married to my classmate. (If she’s still coaching, that is). ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242/20 "2002-04-30T02:00:33Z")
'Nuther (former) kama’aina checking in… Is it true what I’ve heard? That there is a _GASP_ Starbucks in Kailua?!? Oh, and… Go 'Stangs! 😃 (Yea, yea, so we have the ugliest school colors around…) The Parental Units still own a home there: Coconut Grove area of Kailua. (Well, the edge of it. Stones throw from swamp.) * * * \<\< Welcome to [P]'s! \>\> [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaiian-dopers/106242.md?page=2)