Post #247565 by Humuhumu on Tue, Aug 8, 2006 9:51 AM

On 2006-08-08 09:06, mrs. pineapple wrote:
The problem with Pocky Tiki wasn't that he was young, talentless and clueless or "overly enthusiastic". The problem was that there WERE people who tried to coach him, on tiki, on net etiquete, and how things operate on TC. He was completely uninterested in listening to anyone who wasn't telling him how kewl his erasers were, and he stated that to anyone who tried. That's when people got mean. Search the archives. ... the truth is, Pocky needed a time out and what happened instead was Mom and Dad telling the big kids to shut the f*ck up and play nice. And I mean that literally.

Pocky Tiki got a lot of feedback from not just the community, but Hanford, too. Don't assume that because you can't see it, it isn't happening. Pocky Tiki, after hearing from everyone and also getting a message from Hanford, dramatically decreased the amount he was posting. We were trying to work with him, and were having success. The constructive criticism was helping; the lynch mob was not. Hanford and I asked people not to stop giving Pocky their feedback, but to do it more appropriately (i.e., give off-topic feedback using other avenues like PMs or other threads, rather than derailing existing discussions -- hey, sort of like is happening here!), and for those who were either giving unconstructive criticism, or who couldn't manage to give constructive criticism without being an asshole, to stop altogether. Hanford did use the word f*ck in a private email to one person, the wife of someone he's known for about ten years, and he regretted it. It was a very frustrating time for all of us.

Now, to get this thread back on track again:

These are marketed and described all over Florida as "tiki huts," where they can be seen beside seemingly every hotel pool and in plenty of backyards. It's lovely, sure, but it's no tiki hut -- there are no tikis in it. Not even any tiki-friendly flotsam and jetsam. Nuttin'. It could be used as the start of a tiki hut, but it would be more accurately described as a chickee hut. Chickee huts were the housing used by the Seminole tribe -- quickly-built structures using thatch for roofing. An abridged excerpt from Wikipedia:

A chickee is a type of home invented by the Northern Seminole tribe. Chickee is the Seminole word for "house". The chickee style of architecture - palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame - was born during the early 1800s when Seminole Indians, pursued by U.S. troops, needed fast, disposable shelter while on the run. ... Some upscale homes in southern Florida feature chickee-inspired buildings as garden or poolside structures.

Chickee sounds a lot like "tiki," which is probably how the confusion started. And as stated before, it could be the foundation of a tiki bar. But without tikis, it's not a tiki hut, it's a chickee hut, and it's closer to Seminole Pop than Polynesian Pop.