Post #360212 by Ojaitimo on Sat, Feb 9, 2008 9:22 AM

Good guess,Yes they did their best to destroy Tiki. Yamamoto in the Pacific and Jimmy everywhere else.
(This is why there are over one thousand tiki bars in Florida but only a few Tiki bars in Florida. Dig?
But what else did they both have in common?
Being shot down in their planes.
In April , 1943, Yamamoto was touring the Solomon Islands in his transport plane and was shot down by American P-38's.

In January, 1996 Jimmy Buffet was touring Jamaica when his airplane "Hemisphere Dancer" was shot down by Jamaican police who believed the craft to be smuggling marijuana. The plane sustained damage and was able to land. Buffet survived while Yamamoto didn't. Lucky for us because Bono was on the plane at the time.

Re edited after Tiki Caliente when it was determined by the panel assembled that the plane was not actually shot down, only fired upon and damaged by police while still on the tarmac.

The Yamamoto event inspired a painting of the shoot down with a cryptic message. Read from bottom right "The death of Yamamoto, the birth of Toyota"

[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2008-05-19 08:13 ]