Thursday, November 12, 2015

Which Reminds Me

I have no personal interest in the state of Ohio. Interesting that if you parse out the name of that state, as O-HI-O, you get a couple of Oh!'s and also the abbreviated name of the state of Hawaii. Makes you wonder if there is a special relationship there between Ohio and Hawaii. And, anyway, no one ever said whether Bob Dole's family planted the original pineapple plantation in Hawaii, the Dole brand name so evocative of tropical fruits in cans, but no one ever mentioned whether Bob was from Ohio. I would never have any reason to think of these things. And what happens if you translate the name of O-HI-O into Spanish? Well, you get O-HOLA-H, which sounds sort of like the name of the famous harlot whose travesties, and her sister O-HOLIBA-H's, are described in Ezekiel 23. Yes, what a horrible thought! What mature adults would have thunk up this horrible scenario? But it is in the Bible, nevertheless. How could I even imagine that, much less attach that to Ohio and Hawaii and pineapples? I must have lost some marbles somewhere.