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The tacky tiki.....A challenge.

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8FT Tiki posted on 01/05/2004

Hello all. Below is a photo of a recent acquisition. It is a set of shoe care items including a shoe brush and shoe horn. We actually paid for these when the seller should have paid us to carry them away! So here's the challenge: Show us some pics of the tackiest tiki items you've run across. That tissue dispenser someone posted awhile back would defiinitely qualify. That was the tiki that has the tissues coming out his nose. Have fun and let's see what tacky tiki means to you.

[ Edited by: 8FT Tiki on 2004-01-04 20:09 ]

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DawnTiki posted on 01/05/2004

OMGosh! I had won an auction on ebay a long time ago for something Tikish, anyway the seller mailed me the item I had won and that same shoe horn and clothes brush set, for free. He said he had never met anyone interested in Tiki type things before and he thought I might like them. I thought it was a really nice thing to do.

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Tikisgrl posted on 01/16/2006

I was looking for a place to post my new find and this seemed the most appropriate. I used the mug for scale so you could see the size. No makers marks on it but truly a Tacky Tiki:

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mrsmiley posted on 01/17/2006

OMIGODD!, You found the elusive rare "Blutiki". THe last one on ebay went for under $1851.00 !!!!! :)

wink!

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Humuhumu posted on 01/17/2006

We've got one of those somewhere around here -- I emptied it out the other day and it took forever. I think Hanford got it as a gift.

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Tikisgrl posted on 01/17/2006

Oh well, not quite an e-bay worthy find! So much for the elusive "Blutiki"!!! Still, it's not every day you find a tiki that is quite so, um how can I say this, affordable and unique. Marked down for quick sale to $5.00!!

So I've seen the ones to drool over, how about ones to scratch your head over?

So As 8ft Tiki requested so long ago: show me some tacky tiki please?

Tikisgrl

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bigbrotiki posted on 01/19/2006

Tacky? Those tiki shoe utensils are genius! The appropriation of the Tiki idol for every day use objects is what Polynesian Pop is all about! Never seen that one done before, I always am happy to see the Tiki put to yet another use.

Tacky Tiki to me is nouveaux Tiki a la K-mart, Poly-Asian style, or in garish colors, or overly cartoony Tikis having no resemblence to the source, like those toy figures (name?).

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Tikiwahine posted on 01/19/2006

You know, I'm actually in need of a shoe horn! If I saw a tiki one, as tacky as it may be, I'd buy it to use.

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tikiblog.com posted on 01/19/2006

Hi there. I am a long time reader of Tiki Central, but have never submitted, until I saw this post. I received these tacky tikis as a gift this past Christmas. The giver must have stopped and thought, "who could live without tiki butter knives?" As you can probably guess, they are still sitting in the drawer, unused, waiting a future tiki party.

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joefla70 posted on 01/20/2006

Does it get any tackier than "Elviki"?

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Tiki Royale posted on 01/21/2006

Good topic.
Here's my submission... The elusive Giant S&P Shakers!

Aloha,
:tiki:

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Tikisgrl posted on 01/22/2006

I might have the winner here & yes I paid money for it...

Not a lot though... It's the Maori planter gone bad!!!

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Kono posted on 01/23/2006

Oh, you haven't seen tacky yet...

Once upon a time, I was so tiki deprived that I'd buy anything that was even remotely "tiki." And that's how I came to own this rather unique piece of vintage tiki art.

Behold!

Where's my prize?

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Tikisgrl posted on 01/23/2006

Um Prize... Is there a prize? Well no not really!! But if there was one Kono you probably would win... Although, I think my planter just lost another piece of his nose!

Anybody else out there have anything to add to the quest for Tiki-tackiest?

Tikisgrl

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scarysnarles posted on 01/23/2006

I Tikidog Dare Everyone to make some form of tacki tiki art within the month of Feb. OUTSIDER art is finding tiki

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