Post #270744 by teaKEY on Wed, Dec 6, 2006 8:05 AM

So far I think things are off to a good start.

1. The first item of business that I brought up is that we and I need more Swizzle sticks. TikiFArm has over a 1000 mug design and yet only had the green swizzle sticks and they were sold out @ their website. Now no less than a month later, they have a new color Orange. 2)The second thing that I thought up was about the second hole in the pour and straw holed mugs. Shortly after I posted I heard Munktiki redesigned their Fugus with the only one hole. Now I can't say that any of my thoughts are making any of these things happen, but I sure seem to think up these ideas for myself before I see that they were thought up. 3)Koolau mentioned that there are no new mugs on the Tikifarm website. A week later, we get to hear about the flood of great mugs that are going to be pouring out and ones that are coming down the road. No one directly posted comments to my thoughts and Koolau bypassed my ideas with talking about the collectible tiki that no one drinks from, well, I would say a couple things to that.

• It's on the first page and I'm not going to quote it above, what a waste of space. I hate then people quote what you were just talking about, like people have 5 second memories. Quote the whole paragraph from the above paragraph and then write "Yeah, or I agree"." it does bug me "contemporary mugs are really not meant to be used as mugs - they are instead art pieces or collectibles-Koolau" Aren't all tiki mug collectibles?? Any one that has three of more (and most people that have one , have three) have a collection of tiki mugs. If you just wanted a drink of milk, you would use a glass. We all have glasses and we use them mainly for drinking. Now if we want to use a tiki mug for a tiki-type drink, we would only need to have one mug that we could use every time. If you wanted more for variety or to drink with a friend then two mugs would be needed.
  You can buy a couple of TikiFArm mugs and use them everyday and collect them and shelf them all at the same time. Munktiki mugs, you can do the same, but they are more money and limited more in their availability if broke. We only need a couple of mugs to drink from and Now since we are all collectors, why would we drink from our collection. Most people collect something and most time they are displayed. My dad has a train collection (model) and they are behind glass cases just like my mom's angel figures. He could could use them, they work for display and running track, just like we all could use our mug but why. Maybe because the Munktiki have little cards inside that we would have to remove them each time, or because we can claim that we never used them of Ebay just before we sell them (you could lie), or cause they are worth something to us if they ever got broken. Yeah, most to the new mugs are bought for collections and as the signed art they are. I could my laminated Shag prints as placemats and get more use form them, but I won't (mine aren't really). Not, the vintage, that something that I never have drank from. I have this thing about drinking from something I don't know where is came from. And maybe that is why we don't drink from our contemporaries cause we know we wouldn't want one to drink from the drank. But I say, drink from anyone that you want. The funny thing is that I probably would drink from a Bosko the least because I don't have one and they are harder to get one today and more of an art peice. They are after all been in art books. There is more that I could say will pass for now.