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2011 Year In MauiTime Feedback

December 28, 2011 | 07:52 AM
by Anthony Pignataro
And now for one of the more enjoyable parts of a year-in-review issue: your letters. We get a lot of letters, emails and online comments concerning the work we do at Mauitime. Some compliment our hard work and dedication, while others (many others) criticize our stories in ways that range from sincere correction to hostile personal attacks. I'm talking about hate mail, and who doesn't love to read that? So here are some choice excerpts from the grief we've taken over the past year from you, our beloved readers (we've deliberately left any errors in, for the sake of authenticity). Enjoy, and keep those letters coming!more
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News of the Weird

Stretched Lobes And Prison Power And Vodka Soaked Tampons

December 28, 2011 | 07:55 AM
by Chuck Shepherd
STRETCHED LOBES! In some primitive cultures, beauty and status are displayed via large holes in the earlobe from which to hang heavy ornaments or to insert jewels or tokens, and BBC News reported in November that an "increasing" number of counterculture Westerners are getting their lobes opened far beyond routine piercing, usually by gradually stretching but sometimes with a hole-punch tool for immediate results. The hard core are "gauge kings," showing a "commitment" to the lifestyle by making holes up to 10 mm (three-eighths inch) wide. Cosmetic surgeons told BBC News in November that they're already preparing procedures for the inevitable wave of regretted decisions.more
Overheard this week
“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10
Maui TIME
“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”

-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941
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