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To: Rupert who wrote (116)	10/26/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: astyanax	Respond to of 695

Hawaiian Words, Akamai->SPAM, Digital Island, etc. >>Rupert E wrote: I wonder if there are any more appropriate Hawaii'an words that could be used to describe this... === I lived in Hawaii for 3 years as a kid. There's one unrelated Hawaiian word that jumps to my mind - Humuhumunukunukuapua'a I'm forever embittered that my 7th-grade teacher forced us to remember that this was Hawaii's official state fish and that I can't erase it from my memory. If they actually offered me a computer science class or personal finance class then I wouldn't be a homeless bum burning time on the SI Akamai boards tio. And I was so bored back then, that I memorized Pi to 100+ digits. So I have been unable to fully erase that worthless information to make room for my months-long thought "Buy Digital Island now, you fool," which has long simmered deep in my subconscious. PS SPAM is a common (relative to the mainland) favorite food in Hawaii, I noticed. So why couldn't they have named themselves SPAM instead of Akamai. I mean, really, it would be sooo much easier to pronounce. And they would conveniently have 'SPAM' as the ticker symbol. And the story of SPAM and the Internet - the two are now and forever inseparable. Er, now what was your original question? :) - Netconductor.com