Post #441595 by Kawentzmann on Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:43 AM

On 2009-03-21 08:44, basilh wrote:
... what's the significance of your name ?

In the movie Sunny Boys one guy (I think it was Walter Matthau) said: “Words with K are funny.”
In northern Germany and sailor language a Kawentzmann is a large wave.
Being pretty illiterate about Hawai’ian culture at the time (1995) I always thought a Kahuna was an aristocrat allowed to surf the long olo board, actually an Alii. My misconception must have come from frequent use of the Kahuna title in popular surf culture of the 1950s and 60s.
So I have Hawaii, Germany and the sea in my name, which also read pretty unique. I was in surf band and DJ’ed Exotica records so I the name fit.