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Eightfingers, or anyone else. Email is dickwilson836@msn.com. Ya Hawaii is similar to here on elec. and plumb. Probably have look into getting a elec. license for Hawaii. Need to check with IBEW, before moving. And ya Damon it does "take a village", sometimes it takes a big stick to get their attention.[
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dick wilson
"Nothing is idiot proof,because idiots are so ingenious!"
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Glen, the first paniolo were Spaniards from California (Californios) when it was still a Spanish possession. The word is supposedly from Hawaiians trying to say "Espanol"
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Oh, so they were Mexicans.
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I always thought they were Mexicans, too.
Cheers,
Jerry
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I have known people of Californio heritage, and they very emphatically did not consider themselves Mexicans!
But I got the timing wrong. California was Mexican and not Spanish at the time:
In 1832, Kamehameha III sent one of his high chiefs to California to hire cowboys who could round up wild cattle and teach Hawaiians cattle and horse handling skills. Three Mexican-Spanish vaquero (cowboys) named Kossuth, Louzeida and Ramon began working on Hawai`i island, first breaking in horses to turn them into working animals, then rounding up and handling hordes of cattle.
Turns out the cattle were from California too! Vancouver picked them up in Monterey.
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Wachoo talkin' about Wayne, baby? Alta California was part of Mexico. A smattering of Spaniards came here and established their funky assed religion, which came from the Middle East. Few of them tended cattle. They had the Mexicans do that. The vaqueros were Mexican. They spoke Espanol. They were (es)paniolos.
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Yeah, and Texans are Yankees, too. I was just saying...
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"Yeah, and Texans are Yankees, too"..
EZ there pard.. we got a man on the ground over there now.. Relax Jon, I think they're just funnin. [:o)]
Blessings,
dave
"I'm not as good as I once was.. but I'm as good once, as I ever was" George Straight
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dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
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Unfortunately, many Texans now are Yankees, such as the one with a phony Texas accent who is President...and a Yankee.
Most Yankee Texans don't know that cracker is a compliment.
Hey, about that caca in Champagne Pond? Mainlanders also bring that.
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