HAVE a great Boxing Day. For those of you from cultures where Boxing Day doesn't officially exist -- like the U.S. for example -- it's a good time to box up all the Christmas gifts you got yesterday and have no need for and return them to the store. Some say it's also a good day for mates unhappy with the choice of gift they received to box the ears of their partner. Or, if you're like Michael Buffer, the pretty-boy Vegas ring announcer who somehow registered the phrase, "Let's Get Ready to Rumble," it's aloha to the Aloha Bowl (which paid him for the use of the phrase, if you can believe it) and hello to Caesar's Palace or wherever the next heavyweight rumble is set to take place. Anyway, I hope you had a nice Christmas and can make it through Boxing Day like the Canadians and Brits, in preparation for the new year ... Box it all up
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IT'S a chancy proposition when you have a drawing among audience members to see who'll be called up to conduct the "Hallelujah Chorus" portion of "The Messiah," but that's what they did at St. Andrew's Cathedral for their 14th community sing-along. It was "Booker 'em, Danno," as the person whose number was called was Dan Booker, a driver for TheBus. He gamely took to the pulpit in his "TheBus" shirt and led the organist and chorus in grand style. He was met with a thunderous ovation and lots of handshakes and back-slappings to follow, many from people unaware that what he'd been called upon to do by chance was something he was uniquely qualified for -- Booker is a song leader at the Church of Christ in Wahiawa, to which all in attendance could sing out, "Hallelujah" ...
Mint condition
IT seems appropriate to note that the Royal Hawaiian Mint is moving from its choice location adjacent to the Cinerama Theater at King and Kalakaua to the International Market Place. Why? Because as highly visible as the current site may be, it generated no foot traffic and there'll be plenty of that in the Market Place. Plus, it seems more than appropriate that the Royal Hawaiian Mint be located on the site of Queen Emma's home. Owners Bernard von NotHaus and Telle Presley were concerned about the Market Place's reputation for seediness, but now feel the store will add a much-needed ambience to the area ...TWO more reasons why computer owners find e-mail so wonderful: You can send out Christmas greetings while sitting in your skivvies in your home, and you never have to worry about crossing the path of a disgruntled postal worker at the Post Office. And by the way, has anyone ever seen a "gruntled" postal worker? ... The new drug which causes men with balding pates to grow hair has been much in the news of late. A side effect, that it decreases your sex drive, caused both Dave Letterman and Jay Leno on the same night to suggest it would be a perfect gift for Marv Albert ...
Now a heavyweight
WHEN Thomas Kincaid played football for Leilehua High School back in the '60s, he weighed in at 175. But he brought his weight down to 138 to wrestle and went undefeated in his weight class. Kincaid is now a heavyweight, and as CEO of Dallas Airmotive Inc. and International Turbine Service, he sold the companies to a British firm for $289 million. When he arrives tomorrow for his third trip to Hawaii this year, he'll be in his brand new $22 million G4 airplane, accompanied by his family, another exec and his family, plus two pilots and their wives and a mechanic and his wife. I believe that's called traveling in style ...
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