Post #356903 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 9:12 AM

On 2008-01-24 07:53, Johnny Dollar wrote:
honestly, this past september i sat in the spaten tent and drank 4 liters of beer, then was in trader vic's munich hours later drinking fog cutters and mai tais.
no problem for me with that!

Sure...but what about the problems the next morning? :D

What some of these clips all have in common with Tiki culture is the humor that lies within the naive, cliche depictions that one culture creates of another culture. It is my favorite kick to stumble upon such examples of culturally "bad taste", especially those that make you cringe in disbelief!

Americans were quite good at that, too. Here is one of my top ten non-Tiki examples, with unbelievably inane lyrics by the great kitsch master (and Witco collector) Roy Orbison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF-jSmhnc3g&feature=related

The same happy-go-lucky attitude towards Polynesia transferred to American Indian culture. :D

I will stop now, realizing this thread's content is leaning too heavily towards non-Tiki, but I wanted to point out the common philosophy behind my enjoyment of these gems.