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#1 2018-05-22 11:28:02

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

'killer whale' for 'Kilauea'

More Hawaiian misapprehension. Killer whales are big and dangerous: ditto a certain volcano.

Officials in Hawaii are concerned about high levels of sulfur dioxide. As the eruption of the killer whale volcano …

Take you to the killer whale volcano out there in Hawaii where a lot of activity happening the past couple of days.

... put hawaii on high alert hundreds evacuated as the killer whale volcano spews lava and a powerful earthquake shakes hawaii’s big island.

Red hot molten lava is on the move as Hawaii’s killer whale volcano erupts morning.

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#2 2018-05-22 14:24:17

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: 'killer whale' for 'Kilauea'

Great one!

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#3 2018-05-22 17:49:16

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: 'killer whale' for 'Kilauea'

Good eggcorn. But a nasty slight on a wonderful dolphin.


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#4 2018-05-23 09:40:15

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: 'killer whale' for 'Kilauea'

Also heard by our siliceous ofspring:

the movement of the lava from the killer wave volcano has slowed
https://archive.org/details/KTVU_201411 … =tom+vacar

new video from hawaii. lava from the killer wave volcano was flowing in the ocean.
https://www.sflan.net/details/WABC_2016 … 158?q=ntsb

Last edited by David Bird (2018-05-23 10:21:33)

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#5 2018-06-04 10:34:37

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: 'killer whale' for 'Kilauea'

Another good one. Hopefully not prophetic.


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