Srila Prabhupada's wit - Surfers = Sufferers!

Gopavrindapal: Hawaii was one of Prabhupada's favorite places to poke fun at. I think Hawaii was a pet peeve for him. He saw both sides of it. On one hand, he claimed it was a holdover from another era of goodness. On the other hand, he said that the enjoying mood was very strong there. It was in Hawaii that he coined his famous reaction to the surfers, calling them "sufferers." Another time he described how people become very attached to their flat on the tenth or twentieth floor of the high-rise apartment buildings that were coming up like wild in Waikiki. Because of their attachment, he said, they would come back in a subsequent life as a cockroach in that very same flat.