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> On Aug 13, 2:10 pm, "Lawrence Akutagawa" sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>

>> I do think that anyone here who read your words and my response will
>> agree
>> that I did read your posting and responded to *your* words. Yet -
>> yet -
>> you rather have me question the words of the Star Bulletin article.
>> OK...fair enough - show us where in the Star Bulletin article are the
>> words
>> "Improve vistas" and "continue to offer discounts on the high priced
>> rooms"
>> and I will indeed address my questions to the Star Bulletin folks
>> rather
>> than to you.

>
> Great. This shows that you can't even figure out what the article ...

>
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:55:01 -0500, Maren at google
> jach.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>

>>> Dear Beans... Your figure is still too high. I'm from a generation
>>> that
>>> bought 5 pounds for $10.

>>
>> How much was minimum wage then?
>>
>> Aloha,
>> Maren

>
> Really, agreed with Maren.
>
> You probably can still buy some kind of coffee at $2/pound but it
> won't be mine. I pick, and fertilise my outside, of course with my
> SO, and eat and sleep in my house in Honaunau for which we pay a
> mortgage to a local bank and buy health insurance from a local ...

>
> On Aug 14, 9:00 am, be...@smithfarms.com wrote:
>

>> Dear Lawrence,
>>
>> Yes I could tell Alvin that our coffee (2 pounds roasted w/postage)
>> would come to a total of $44.25 but he probably wouldn't hear me:).

>
> Dear Beans... it is me, Alvin. I haven't been able to access these
> newsgroups through my shell account at my ISP, so have had to use
> google. Your figure is still too high. I'm from a generation that
> bought 5 pounds for $10.
>

>
> This thread has spread around. I responded to this in another location,
> but
> I'll also pass along here that I get my coffee from Sharky's in Mountain
> View, south of Hilo. They sell their coffee over the internet
> (http://www.sharkyscoffee.com/) for $11 a pound and my opinion is that
> it's
> every bit as good as the more expensive Kona variety.
> --
> Aloha pumehana,
> Brian and Mary
>
> "al Guacamole" lava.net> wrote in message
> news:1220374208-sch@news.lava.net...

>>
>> On Aug 14, 9:00 am, be...@smithfarms.com wrote:
>>

>>> Yes I could tell Alvin that our coffee (2 pounds roasted w/postage) ...