The most I have seen a vintage tii bowl sell for-WOW! - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Jun 6, 2008 11:27 PM On 2008-06-06 06:55, GatorRob wrote: What is it that makes someone pay silly amounts of money for a ceramic bowl from a restaurant? We're not talking Abe Lincoln's top hat here. No need to apologize, Rob, I am sure a lot of folks here feel the same way...while others don't. It is always good and needed to hear subjective opinions about all this, and to remind ourselves that the Tiki hobby as a whole is quite silly and ridiculous when compared to the big scheme of things. So there really can't be a gauge on the degree of ridiculousness we engage ourselves in, no one is crazier than the other. The lack of common sense is the essence of Tiki escapism. Your comparison to Abe Lincoln's hat gives me yet one more cause to post my favorite Dan Clowes cartoon, of which I never tire:

On 2008-06-06 06:55, GatorRob wrote:
What is it that makes someone pay silly amounts of money for a ceramic bowl from a restaurant? We're not talking Abe Lincoln's top hat here.

No need to apologize, Rob, I am sure a lot of folks here feel the same way...while others don't. It is always good and needed to hear subjective opinions about all this, and to remind ourselves that the Tiki hobby as a whole is quite silly and ridiculous when compared to the big scheme of things. So there really can't be a gauge on the degree of ridiculousness we engage ourselves in, no one is crazier than the other. The lack of common sense is the essence of Tiki escapism.

Your comparison to Abe Lincoln's hat gives me yet one more cause to post my favorite Dan Clowes cartoon, of which I never tire:

Post #385251 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jun 6, 2008 11:27 PM