Post #360382 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 12:40 PM

:D Hmmm, yes, I wonder....if they are really promoting that motto, they are gonna have a hard time finding sun glasses to sell that are free of plastic or chrome!

"...Unleash your suburban savage and experience the island style that is Freaky Tiki, your authentic Tropical Optical oasis..."

And their use of the mid-century term "authentic" for obviously UN-authentic Poly pop points to the BOT as source too :) That was the whole joke back then...and why I called it a "shadowy term"...which actually it isn't:

au·then·tic [aw-then-tik]
–adjective

1. not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
2. having the origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified: an authentic document of the Middle Ages; an authentic work of the old master.

They should've used the mid-century concept of making up your own word creations, too, and called it a "TrOptical Oasis- It's so authentiki!" :D

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-02-10 12:58 ]