# Merrie Monarch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 17, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500 "2004-04-17T07:35:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500/1 "2004-04-17T07:35:08Z")

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Right now we are having a hula contest.

I cant be the only one who cares.

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**Author:** ![bigdfrombigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bigdfrombigd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdfrombigd)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500/2 "2004-04-17T11:23:35Z")

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You’re just braggin’. Grrrrrrrrr.  
::looking very pissed off, out the window at the stupid, Irish rain:: :mad:

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500/3 "2004-04-17T11:52:13Z")

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Maybe it would help if I knew what the hell you’re talking about?

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**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 17, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500/4 "2004-04-17T12:05:09Z")

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The Merrie Monarch festival is an annual hula competition. It’s held on the Big Island of Hawaii. Hula clubs, called _halau_, come and compete. I have relatives who have danced at one before.

I believe one of the pictures at the end of _Lilo and Stitch_ shows Lilo dancing at the Merrie Monarch festival.

I always preferred the traditional dance styles. They’re much livelier. Never cared for the muu-muu and kukui nut lei modern types that danced dreamily to sedate Hawaiian music.

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**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merrie-monarch/240500/5 "2004-04-17T12:49:32Z")

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Ah, Springtime in Hilo…I’m getting nostalgic…  
Just had my Merrie Monarch shirt on yesterday, and was thinking it Must be about time. Saw Richard Chamberlin there a coupla years ago. Aloha Bruddahs and Seestahs.