If Alpaca is truly gone, his last post was his 69th.... tee hee hee!!! How's that for maturity in a senior member?
Just to throw it out there the word "haole" did NOT originate with the arrival of Capt. Cook. It was around before that. Although you are semi correct in the meaning. It does mean something along the lines of "those without breath." It is not just white people that are (well were) Haoles', in it's original form it was any race of people that did not use the traditional Polynesian greeting of placing your forehead and nose with the other person and breathing in each other's "Ha" (breath of life/essence/air). Although now, yes, it does generally refer to white people.
one time the cops in haleiwa pulled me over; i was drinking but not bombed; they knew it and STILL let me go. was it cause i was a tourist?