Very sad to not be able to find Haywain pizza (outside of establishments called The Haywain).
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
A truly disgusting combination, which in 2006 was the most popular pizza in Australia (15% of sales).
Allegedly devised in Canada, by a man who later came up with the Hawaiian Burger. I’ll pass, thanks.
2 March 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
It’s also spelled “Hawai’i, to mark the glottal stop before the last syllable.
The pizza is truly repulsive. Please provide the name and city of this alleged Canadian, that I may hunt him down and serve upon him the beating he so richly deserves.
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@FTVPS – according to WP: Sam Panopoulos, Satellite Restaurant, Chatham, Ontario. I wash my hands of this affair (but feel free to take the appropriate action, so long as you don’t bring my name into it).
Query: why isn’t glottal stop spelt glo’al stop?
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
One of those urban legends which ought to be true even if it isn’t.
Harold Wilson, addressing a public meeting in the General Election campaign of 1964 or 1966: “And, why do I stress the importance of the Royal Navy in the modern world?” Voice from the back of the hall: “Because you’re in Chatham, that’s why.”
3 March 2015
namey mcnamename
Aloha means hello. It can also mean goodbye. It’s in the way that you inflect.
3 March 2015
this leaden paul
“Aloha means hello. It can also mean goodbye. It’s in the way that you inflect.”
According to Honolulu’s own Steve Malkmus, presumably…
3 March 2015
Gareth from Canada
Wasn’t me Could have been our Mayor.
4 March 2015
Dirk Hofman
The first guitars to be electrified were ‘Hawaiian’ guitars,produced in 1932,the aluminium bodied Ro-Pat-In(who became Rickenbacker) A22 ‘frying pan’lap steel.The electrifying idea came from the theremin,which had it’s patent given in the late twenties..
6 March 2015
Eugene C
Apropos of absolutely nothing on this thread, I am currently listening to ‘I hate Nerys Hughes’ from the CD of Back in the DHSS. I intend to play them all in sequence, That’s me sorted, then
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peter mcornithologist
It is one of the many world languages that are classified as endangered.It has more words with multiple meanings than almost any other language.
2 March 2015
toastkid
Available in various spellings, besides Hawaiian and Hawaian:
Hawain
Hawaiin
Hawaiain
Very sad to not be able to find Haywain pizza (outside of establishments called The Haywain).
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
A truly disgusting combination, which in 2006 was the most popular pizza in Australia (15% of sales).
Allegedly devised in Canada, by a man who later came up with the Hawaiian Burger. I’ll pass, thanks.
2 March 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
It’s also spelled “Hawai’i, to mark the glottal stop before the last syllable.
The pizza is truly repulsive. Please provide the name and city of this alleged Canadian, that I may hunt him down and serve upon him the beating he so richly deserves.
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@FTVPS – according to WP: Sam Panopoulos, Satellite Restaurant, Chatham, Ontario. I wash my hands of this affair (but feel free to take the appropriate action, so long as you don’t bring my name into it).
Query: why isn’t glottal stop spelt glo’al stop?
2 March 2015
dickhead in quicksand
One of those urban legends which ought to be true even if it isn’t.
Harold Wilson, addressing a public meeting in the General Election campaign of 1964 or 1966: “And, why do I stress the importance of the Royal Navy in the modern world?”
Voice from the back of the hall: “Because you’re in Chatham, that’s why.”
3 March 2015
namey mcnamename
Aloha means hello. It can also mean goodbye. It’s in the way that you inflect.
3 March 2015
this leaden paul
“Aloha means hello. It can also mean goodbye. It’s in the way that you inflect.”
According to Honolulu’s own Steve Malkmus, presumably…
3 March 2015
Gareth from Canada
Wasn’t me Could have been our Mayor.
4 March 2015
Dirk Hofman
The first guitars to be electrified were ‘Hawaiian’ guitars,produced in 1932,the aluminium bodied Ro-Pat-In(who became Rickenbacker) A22 ‘frying pan’lap steel.The electrifying idea came from the theremin,which had it’s patent given in the late twenties..
6 March 2015
Eugene C
Apropos of absolutely nothing on this thread, I am currently listening to ‘I hate Nerys Hughes’ from the CD of Back in the DHSS. I intend to play them all in sequence, That’s me sorted, then
9 March 2015
dr desperate
Correct spelling, but perhaps taking the ‘casual’ a little too far.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm0zfIJIUAA3tyX.jpg
20 July 2016
featureless tv producer steve
Some days, the comics speak Truth.
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/12/09
10 December 2016