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Post #300076 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 17, 2007 10:36 PM

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Good concept for a thread.
It all began with Paul Gauguin (BOT p.179)...

Here's what would have been a TRUE Sven-Tiki "Vanity" mug (Squid and Holden, brace yourself!):


It was a valiant attempt by Squid to create my likeness, and the concept of my face breaking out of a Moai was actually very cool.....but what would one be left with? My face! ....and who but me and my parents would get a kick out of that!
So I swiftly deemed it UN-Tiki, and Squid and I hacked out the now existing Sven-Tiki mug together.

...WHICH, if I try hard enough, is not THAT far away from my actual mug, as evidenced in this classic Tiki Ti "mug" shot with me and the Bum from a couple of years ago: