Post #549790 by JOHN-O on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 8:32 AM

MadDogMike,

1. Annette Funicello is Cool !! And very much part of Tiki (Revival) Culture.

2. Obviously you haven't heard about the "lost" Leave It to Beaver Tiki Episodes.

a. Wally and Eddie Haskell steal a Tiki totem as an initiation into the cool Cavaliers high school club.
b. The Beaver and Larry Mondello get locked overnight in a Tiki restaurant.
c. Unknownst to Wally's and Lumpy's fathers, their Elks club meeting is in a Tiki bar. Ward leaves his jacket there only to have it returned to the family home the next day by one of the cocktail waitresses in her low-cut Hawaiian sarong.

And let's not forget about those "Cool" Leave it Beaver urban legends:

a. Beaver gets killed in Vietnam (false).
b. Eddie Haskell grows up to be porn star John Holmes or Alice Cooper (false).
c. Tony Dow (Wally) has a "relationship" with his on-screen mother Barbara Billingsley (true).

3. Also here's another question. Given that Tiki Culture is about adult escapism and (let's be honest) "good clean fun" drunken behavior, should children even be included in Tiki events ??

There, that's my 5 cent's worth.

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-08-24 08:40 ]