Post #22123 by BC-Da-Da on Thu, Feb 6, 2003 12:45 AM

This thread is getting funnier by the minute. Here’s some of the classics:

****About naked chicks, Basement Kahuna said, 'nerds would just oooh and ahhh but the difference here is that us guys know what to do with it!'

Amen brother!****

My god, what have we come to. Next you’re going to be high-fiving eachother, and lending change for the next Judas Priest song on the jukebox. It seems to be that you guys aren’t so much writing this to prove it to us that you’re not geeks, as much as to prove it to yourselves. I don’t know what is more pathetic, writing day after day on an internet board about plastic or ceramic collectibles, or doing just that and then trying to act like it is cool. For crissakes, get over it. It might be socially acceptable to be into golf or have weekly get-togethers to bet on and watch football, but if that’s not you, let’s not try to sit here and act like our penis’s are too big for our pants. We collect Tikis… we sit here and write about Tikis… we get drunk. Wow! We are so superior to Star Trek fans.

Here’s another:

Also, when Trekkie’s get mad they point a plastic gun at you and go “Pwew-Pew!” Or try to give you some Vulcan nerve pinch. Tikiphiles will generally just kick your ass, sit back down, have another Mai Tai and continue to ogle the wahinies.

I’ve never seen a Tikiphile kick anyone’s ass. Basically, most of the people who were at the Big Ol’ Tiki Bash 2002 were either Gen X’ers who were socially left of the right or they were Baby Boomers who remembered their parents throwing backyard luau’s, and somehow found it interesting, fun, maybe nostalgic, and something more underground than they had been involved in quite a long while. I know I’ll get blasted for these comments, and this is not to over-generalize or stereotype anyone. I thought everyone was great, and I fit into the former category. But, before we pat ourselves on the back about “kicking some ass,” let’s just call a spade a spade. No big deal… we have a hobby; we collect things. To people who don’t collect what we collect, it might be seen as nerdy. If you really care that much, instead of kicking ass, just watch ESPN. There’s enough heavy metal music there to achieve what you'd get out of a whole week’s worth of anger management classes.

One more:

Punks were just Geeks with cool shirts. WERE, of course, is the important word there. Does anyone who made enough money off of Punk to still be a Punk who is still alive deserve any level of respect or admiration? Yes! For what good music they ever created! Has any real Punk produced a good song in the last 20 years? Uh... No. Why do you think we're all listening to Exotica?

Gotta say, this is pretty stupid. You do realize that the former members of Combustible Edison, who basically started the whole contemporary Exotica scene, used to be in Punk bands, right? Besides, I love what Mark Mothersbaugh has done, as far as soundtracking goes. I have both Mescaleros CDs, and they were different from the Clash, but wonderful still. Frank Black, Paul Weller and Bob Mould are still releasing great records to this day, as are the Bad Brains. The Ramones and Sex Pistols weren’t the only Punk bands.