Adar
Oakland

Fiji

Untitled  — 3 years ago

I used to love listening to the cricket matches between Fiji and the Solomon Islands on Solomon Islands shortwave radio (from my home in California.) Someday I want to visit the South Pacific in person.

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Charlie
Philadelphia

Do you remember the old AT&T ad?

Some guy places a long distance call which is answered thusly:

“Filominakapeesi.” [Phonetically spelled]

“Umm, Bill? Bill in Chicago?”

“No, you’ve reached Fiji!”

And then they merrily chat anyway.

For a few years, long after that ad stopped running, whenever I would walk past a payphone that was ringing I would answer it “filominakapeesi!”

And if the other person asked for someone, “No, he’s not here- this is Fiji.”


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