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Gifts for 'Hawaii Five-0' fans

By Catherine Toth Fox • December 6, 2010 • Musings, The Daily Dish

The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote a story about Christmas gifts for the die-hard TV fans.

For fans of CBS’ “Hawaii Five-0,” the newspaper suggested the following:

• Steal your giftee’s iPod and download Hawaii Magazine’s eight most romantic songs from the Aloha State, or head over to Kona Coffee for a special bag of sought-after extra fancy or peaberry beans grown on the Big Island’s Kona Coast.

• Pick up a faux coconut cup and fill it with the coconut-flavored M&Ms released last winter. Or whip up some brandied pineapples, bananas and other tropical fruit in real coconuts — Group Recipes shows you how — for a homemade touch.

• For the uber-fan of the original or the remake, buy a decent replica of the Five-0 badge at Collectible Badges or the complete first season of the original series.

I wondered if we — the folks who live here and the twee-kers who love the show — could come up with a better list for “Five-0” fans.

Here’s my list to start:

• Show your school spirit with a Kukui High School T-shirt
• The tackiest Aloha shirt you can find (like from Chin Ho Kelly’s wardrobe in tonight’s episode)
• A Hawaiian dictionary. Maybe then they could translate what Chin Ho and his “cuz” Kono Kalakaua are saying to each other.
• Better yet, “Peppo’s Pidgin to Da Max” by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, and Ken Sakata or “Da Kine Dictionary” by Lee Tonouchi

Got any others?

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TODAY’S GIFT IDEA: Naughty/Nice charm from Tiffany & Co.

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15 Comments

  • Reply nonstopmari December 6, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    SLIPPAHS!!

    • Reply hikino December 6, 2010 at 11:23 pm

      @nonstopmari You tell ’em! I can see you reinforcing the lesson in the traditional style: slapping the writers and producers on the head with da rubbah slippah and saying every word individually. How-many-times-I-gotta-tell-you-it’s-slippahs-not-flip-flops-gud-fund-it!

  • Reply johngarcia December 6, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    Must have some Kukui High items, a shirt, diploma and stickers, replica toy camaro to match the movie, a production clap board, iTunes gift card for digital purchase of the entire season.

  • Reply eggfooyoung December 6, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    tacky aloha shirts all the way! next H50 theme party!
    uhh spam flavored macadamia nuts?

    • Reply harrycovair December 6, 2010 at 7:35 pm

      @eggfooyoung Buds in WA, OR, CA, AZ and TX all laughed when I emailed them about the Spam Mac Nuts from Hamakua Farms. They all thought it tasted okay when they recevied a shipment last year.

      Buds from Japan loved the nuts.

  • Reply Cat December 6, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    Or a shirt and tie. Very Danno.

  • Reply Ron December 6, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    How’s about a Chevy Camaro.

  • Reply HawaiiBookBlog December 6, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    Maybe a Bryan’s Sectional Map.

  • Reply harrycovair December 6, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    How about a free trip and hotel stay to Moloka`i… complete with a stunning view of Chinaman’s Hat.

    In reality, how about the 12 volume set of the original series?

  • Reply 808marv December 6, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    <a href=”https://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/default.aspx”>Windows Phone 7!</a> Which one? <a href=”https://www.bing.com”>Bing</a> it! 😉

  • Reply 808marv December 6, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Windows Phone 7! Which model? Just Bing it! 😉 Also a printed copy of the Hawaii Driver’s Manual with the section on seat belts bookmarked and highlighted.

  • Reply Ynaku December 6, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    Hahaha, I finally got someone to comment on my Kukui High bumper sticker.

  • Reply hikino December 6, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    A box of hot, fresh malasadas from either Leonard’s or Champion’s for Danno, since he loves it. Oh, and earplugs for him, too, since last night’s episode showed McGarrett’s questionable taste in music.

  • Reply matti2d December 6, 2010 at 11:45 pm

    a six-pack of Mehana for Danno…he needs it.

  • Reply turkfontaine December 7, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Dang, gal! i didn’t know you read the UnionTrib- my ‘hometown paper’. back when Hell-on-Wheels Copely still owned it, the Trib fought off the LA Times’ back across the Orange County line.

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