Post #603252 by TikiTomD on Sat, Aug 20, 2011 6:06 AM

Tigertail777, rain check noted. Best of luck on your situation. These really are hard times for many folks. Around the Space Coast, thousands have been laid off with the end of the Space Shuttle program, joining the throngs already in that situation from this terrible economy.

As my wife and I were admiring Dave's artwork on the mural, Pat called my attention to something strikingly familiar about the kane (Hawaiian word for man) carrying the bananas at the outrigger canoe... he had the face of our son, Tommy! We finally got Tommy to admit that he and Dave conspired, with the two of them wondering when we would stumble on to it...

Since then, Mom & Dad have been mercilessly regaling Son with the distinctly non-tiki Banana Boat Song (of Jamaican folk origin), popularized by Harry Belafonte. My favorite performance of that was in the movie Beetlejuice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4

-Tom