Post #488974 by Chip and Andy on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 10:30 AM

On 2009-10-19 07:50, drgoat456 wrote:
.... I guess it's hard to define exactly who are Tiki, and where they came from.

Very!

The Call of the Tiki and all things Exotic strikes many in different ways and at different times. While the average Tiki-phile is in the neighborhood of 40, that is only the center of the bell curve. We have some here who are just now old enough to drink, and a few more who were of drinking age the "first time round."

The quest to quantify our group of misfits is certainly an entertaining one, it, however, proves nothing overall other than your ability to statistically analyze a large group of people and find a trend in that group. Any quantification of who's here and why will only cause grief when applied to those outside of this group. Your middle-aged slightly (or more) overweight male wearing an aloha shirt and drinking rum-based drinks in the general population is just as likely to be a Parrot-Head or Nascar Fan as he is to be a Tiki-phile.