Kapu
Kapu means forbidden. The Hawaiians had rules that could not be broken. If you committed an act of Kapu… you were killed. There was no legal system. You do bad thing… you DIE! There was ONE loophole. The Place of Refuge.
Anyhoo… The Forbidden Drink. Are you one to mix drinks for fun? Then read about Harold’s little drinkee-poo contest… and get your swizzle sticks ready!
I like how you change the “Squid Row ” font every week for the Sunday strips.
Thanks, Denny… I dig fonts… so changing the title font fer Sundays is fun for me.
Liking the multi-lingual cultural explorations…and today’s topics, exotic elixir sampling and Hawaiian style couch surfing.
Definitely not a good idea to drink and drive. I do, however, fondly recall going to visit a friend going to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo long ago. He and his roommates were doing up a big mixed drink party at their house. We sampled a lot of drink concoctions ahead of the event. As party time was approaching me and a guy took off to get munchies. We took his Pontiac Trans Am and I drove as I was the more sober of the two of us. So while picking up goodies he commented on how I drove good, and I commented on how he kept his car in good shape. From there the conversation moved to me asking whether he had ever tried seeing if his car could do what it’s speedo said it could (120 miles per hour), him telling me no, and us agreeing to try a high speed test run.
Now Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (there is another one in Pomona) is at the bottom of this giant winding mountain highway. So up we went to the top of the mountain at a pretty good clip. It was approaching dusk on a Saturday and the traffic was sparse. Once up top we did a U-turn and came back down the mountain with the gas pedal on the floor and the speedometer needle off the numbers and stuck at its limit peg. The guy was leaning over watching it…not move. There were hardly any cars out at the time, and the few we passed had lots of maneuvering room around them. Funny thing was, it did not seem like we were really going that fast, no screeching tires, no sliding, no nothing. The trip down was absolutely uneventful. When we got back to town, we drove the speed limit back to the party, had ourselves some more drinks and the guy with the car had a great story to tell.
All in all, it was a lot of fun, it was problem-free, but it should not really be done.
Hey, I didn’t know the drink I like actually has a name! I called it a Banana Colada…had it in the Dominican. I asked them to use banana instead of pineapple since I’m allergic.
Uh oh…he may be setting them up for the ol’ “Jeffrey Dahmer routine”…
But maybe I’m just jealous because I don’t know anyone who can make super-exotic drinks!
stick… uh… fast cars… going fast. It seems like hills, fast cars and any amount of alcohol is a bad idea. But glad all turned out okay.
Meem… Banana Colada/ Haole Honey… sounds good either way… I’m betting there’s a little honey drizzled on the top of Karl’s version.
Dada… GAH! No! Strike that from the comments! Scary and…. more scary! Gives a whole new meaning to Haole Honey.
Karl’s a smart guy. Now if Rye wasn’t around he may have put the movies on Randie.
Brig,
I like the new layout, but the Navigation buttons(First, Previous, Next, Last) are missing?
Oops! Sorry! They were there, but in teenie, tiny print.
Hey, Joe… yah, as promised, I’m doing some moving around and stuff. I will make the navigation bigger… still plugging away. Hope you all like the new changes… more to come! Smiles!
Looks like some changes are underfoot here at squidrowcomics.com.
Can’t say that the links in blue against the blue background are easy to see, but I’m sure Harold will work it out…eventually.
In the meantime here’s some fun evolutionary graphics to check out. Its a visionary look at famous company logos evolving from past to present to far off future, courtesy of The Huffington Post. On target, or off?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/19/logos-past-future-corporate_n_1285622.html