Pinkham’s Poo Puddle
Easiest solution to the sewage spill is to rename everything and everybody in the Waikiki area.
I’ve already suggested we start renaming everyone in Waikiki, “Bob”. In the context of the fella who at the time was having his arms and legs whacked to stave off the flesh eating bacteria that eventually took his life. For those that don’t know the joke:
“What do you call a guy in a pool who has no arms or legs?…….Bob.”
Here is my letter to the Editor of the Honolulu weekly published yesterday in the April 12-18, 2006 Volume 16, # 15:
“Fortunately the Ala Wai Canal had just been dredged. Otherwise think of all the contaminated material that would need to be removed. The Ala Wai and all connecting canals/streams and the Harbor need to be flushed out. At the beginning of the Ala Wai clean ocean water needs to be pumped in by the zillions of gallons. While this is happening the bottom of the Canal needs to be “sprayed” to loosen up all material so it can be flushed out. This also needs to be done to the entire Harbor. Of course the material being flushed needs to be channeled far out to sea which will require a retaining device, a channel created with flexible material extending far out to sea to keep it herded away from the surrounding coastline. Either that or start changing everybody’s name to Bob. “What do you call a guy in a pool?”
…..and Honolulu Weekly used my pic of the sewer lid on the back inside of the same issue! ”Honolulu Sewers 1899″ I’m just skyrocketing to the upper stratospheres of investigative journalism!
Now the latest renaming,
“Pinkham’s Poo Puddle” for Ala Wai Canal . It speaks volumes. The more I ponder Pinkham’s poo puddle the more I’m plunged into perplexity. The deeper I wade into the Ala Wai…oops…Pinkham’s poo puddle (PPP) the more questions that arise as to why it was really built. I’m not ready to believe that “oh triple pee” was a result of a need for landfill. Could it be something else? Pinkham stated that Waikik was insanitary and acted on the Board of Healths Act 61 approved on the 8th day of June, A. D. 1896 by Sanford B. Dole President of the Republic of Hawaii, which in short allowed the future poo puddle to be taken under Eminent Domain and sold to the highest bidder. The paper trail has ballooned like a body invaded by flesh eating bacteria. I gotta go……(no pun intended)