After Christmas, you can still catch a ride on at least one of a trio of trolleys offering evening tours of the downtown Honolulu and City Hall holiday lights. But the drivers won't be leading passengers in singing carols anymore — and if one of 'em did, it would be, like, way depressing.

So why not hop a trolley tonight? You'll find schedules and home bases for each, and a collection of other Christmas-themed stuff you can do here on our Web site: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Dec/16/en/FP512160313.html

— Derek Paiva

STILL GET TIME FO' SCOOP UP 'PIDGIN' BOOKS, MAGNETS

Wot!???! "Pidgin To Da Max" stay 25 yeeahs awreddy? Ey, getteen' makule, eh, brah?

This month, Bess Press rolled out a new edition of its most popular title ever, incorporating both original volumes ("Pidgin To Da Max" and "Pidgin To Da Max Hana Hou"), and honored author-artist Douglas Simonson (aka Peppo) and collaborators Pat Sasaki and Ken Sakata.

Joining the family of "Pidgin" products is a boxed set of word magnets to stick on the fridge — or, as we say in Hawai'i — "da icebox."

— Wanda A. Adams

FINAL WORD

"I think that's silly ... I mean, does the doctor say, 'I must confess, on those occasions when I don't like a patient, I've been tempted to leave a sponge or two behind'?"

Ted Koppel | who signed off from "Nightline" this month, in GQ on journalists who don't vote for fear of being partisan