Post #22060 by DaneTiki on Wed, Feb 5, 2003 2:32 PM

You know, I think there's enough diversity within the scene that some of us may indeed be nerds or geeks and some of us may not.

Is tiki a nerd-like preoccupation? Based on who's interested, it doesn't seem like it to me. It seems like a solid plurality of folx on this board are hail-fellow-well-met types who's interest in likker, nekkidness and hot rods would preclude their being categorized as nerds. I think it's unfortunate for our purposes that, looking at all of those vintage shots of tiki bar patrons, so many of the men are wearing chunky black plastic glasses. That was all you could get back then that was office-appropriate! I think the original crop of tikiphiles was a lot more like Greg Kinnear in "Auto-Focus" than they were like Robert Carradine in "Revenge of the Nerds." (Not that the nerds didn't get around too, of course.) Bigbro maintains that we should look to tiki as God of the Artists, and artists are rarely nerds.

I'M definitely a nerd though, of the movie-geek variety, although Trekkies are beneath my contempt.