Post #508611 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 6:22 PM

On 2010-02-02 15:01, JOHN-O wrote:
....It's introduction of pirate theme elements has people calling it both a pirate bar and a Tiki bar...

There seems to be some confusion out there about the (actually quite simple) terminology. LISTEN to what the man called his place!
Allow me to spell it out in my favorite form of communication: imagery

SMUGG - LERS:

PI - RATE:

...and, (sorry to have to hurt your eyes)
BU - FFET- IZATION:

These themes have a very distinct iconography, which might overlap in the first two cases, but the key icons are their own. Smugglers are more closely related to Traders, kinda like the black sheep of that family.

Maybe he should have called it "Rum Runner's Ketch" or simply "The Rum Barrel". It is a Rum Cocktail Bar, inspired by the Tiki forefathers, who created the genre. Or are Skull & Crossbones flags fluttering from the rafters, and parrots perched over the bar?

Pirate Bar, sheesh! :roll: