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new threads we need on Tiki Central
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Given some of the recent "new" threads appearing here on TC, I had some ideas for some more that are sorely needed. I searched, and there are no existing threads with these subject names... tiki motion pictures - post here with motion pictures that have tikis in them; motion pictures... tikis... combine the two... which ones are out there tiki acquisitions - post here with any interesting tiki related items you have recently acquired tiki cheesecake and nudes - post girlie images that have tikis in them bartering thread - post things that you would like to barter or exchange with other TC members mysterio mugs - this is a neat idea I had for a thread, where you can post about mugs that appear on vintage menus, but that don't seem to be documented in real life yet; I am positive there is no thread called mysterio mugs, so I can be certain that no one else has had this idea tiki jeep - ok, this one already exists, but you can never have too many tiki jeep threads -Randy |
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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10/01/2010
There's a TIKI JEEP!!!!???? |
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Bora Boris
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10/01/2010
I'd like to see these ~ What Are You Drinking While Making Dinner? What Are You Watching While Making Dinner? What Are You Listening To While Making Dinner? What Are You Snacking On While Making Dinner? Has Anyone Ever Gotten A Tiki Tattoo While Making Dinner? Has Anyone Ever Gotten A Non-Tiki Tattoo While Making Dinner? |
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JOHN-O
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10/01/2010
But make sure you start those threads under "Tiki Drinks and Food" because honestly for a forum that targets 2 subjects there's just too much drinking and not enough eating. |
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aquarj
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All very good ideas Boris - that's the kind of innovative thinking we need around here. That reminds me, we also need a thread called: Show me your Witco tattoo -Randy |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/01/2010
Everything is better while making Dinner! we covered all these topics too! Dinner Haters!!! [ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-09-30 23:49 ] |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/01/2010
Thank you John-O,everyone knows you should eat something before you drink! |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/01/2010
PLUS =GOODTIMES! |
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10/01/2010
"tiki motion pictures - post here with motion pictures that have tikis in them; motion pictures... tikis... combine the two... which ones are out there..." There are movies with tikis in them? AWESOME! Still, as awesome as a movie with a tiki in it could be I don't know if a single thread about these movies (or even TV...Are there ever any tikis in TV shows, or in ads?) is necessary, I think it would be best if everyone just starts a new thread anytime they spot a tiki in a movie or on TV. |
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woofmutt
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10/01/2010
"There's a TIKI JEEP!!!!????" -Sabu The Coconut Boy- OMG! I was just reading that and thought the same thing!!! |
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woofmutt
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10/01/2010
*I'd like to see these ~ What Are You Drinking While Making Dinner? What Are You Watching While Making Dinner? What Are You Listening To While Making Dinner? What Are You Snacking On While Making Dinner? Has Anyone Ever Gotten A Tiki Tattoo While Making Dinner? Has Anyone Ever Gotten A Non-Tiki Tattoo While Making Dinner?* These are great ideas. I'm also interested in ceramics and would very much like to see a thread titled What Plate Did You Put The Dinner You Made On? and on a similar note (yet different enough as to warrant its own thread) I'd also love to see a thread titled What Table Did You Eat Dinner At? And of course what we probably also definitely need is a Show Us Your TV Trays!!! thread. TIKI JEEP!!! [ Edited by: woofmutt 2010-10-01 01:16 ] |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/01/2010
Oh! there are some people here (I am not going to name,names) who clearly |
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Bora Boris
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10/01/2010
Where Would You Drive The Tiki Jeep For Dinner? Dinner Near The Tiki-Ti? Dinner Near Forbidden Island? Fort Lauderdale - Dinner? Are There Any Dinner Places With Tiki Torches? |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/01/2010
Bora Boris do you cook? I know you are just having fun with the topic, but I have found that people I think you just need a good meal today! can I suggest you pop over to the Dinner thread for a few suggestions? :drink: After all Food was and still is an integral part of the Tiki experience. :drink: |
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Unga Bunga
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10/01/2010
How to make a decent Tiki torch. |
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woofmutt
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10/01/2010
"...I have found that people who don't cook or don't regulary enjoy a good meal...and good cocktails are the first to mock these type of threads." -Atomic Tiki Punk- I cook, I even worked for several years as the main cook at a catering joint. I like quality food and good cocktails to the point that I am one of the pickiest bastards when it comes to quality restaurants and quality bar drinks (if a cocktail costs $12 it sure as hell better amaze me). A lot of places others rave about I have no intention of ever going to again because in my opinion the quality of their food and/or drinks doesn't warrant the expense or hassle. (When it comes to food and drink I think a lot of people are blinded by flash and atmosphere.) I generally prefer to eat my or friend's cooking as the food is far more satisfying than what I can get at a restaurant. I rarely buy baked goods at bakeries because in my opinion even highly acclaimed bakeries are rarely if ever as good as what my friends and acquaintances can make. (If anyone ever has a chance to eat anything made by silent Tiki Central member Dogbyte's, do so. She can bake and cook the ass off of any fancy schmancy boutique bakery or restaurant. Also Mr Dogbyte's makes excellent cocktails.) So now that I've established that I'm a complete hard ass when it comes to what I consider good food and drink...I have no interest at all in the What did you "Make" for Dinner thread. It's a nice community/socializing thread but is merely a "time killer or non-informative" thread and as such belongs in Bilge. And to be honest I seriously would rather see pictures and read about people's dining tables than the dinners they made. |
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Now you're talking! That's even better! If anyone would like to stimulate discussion of tikis appearing in motion pictures, they should create a new thread based on this inspiration! They certainly shouldn't waste time searching for synonymous threads like Tikis in films. Moreover, any suggestion that synonymous threads be unified should be called out for what it is: the uptight tiki police doing what they do. As everyone knows, they particularly love picking on newcomers to scare them away. But that's just the first step. Even better if EACH tiki movie / motion picture / film / youtube vid / scopitone discovery appears in its own thread. And that applies to other topics too. F'rinstance, if someone comes across a Trader Dick mug, say in his own garage, this does not belong in a Tiki Finds thread (or Tiki Acquisitions thread), or even a Trader Dick's thread, but in a completely new General Tiki thread whose topic is this particular discovery in this particular garage. I am confident that this approach to populating TC with new threads will result in a much needed new level of redundancy! -Randy |
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Bora Boris
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10/01/2010
What's Cooking At Trader Dicks? |
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Mai Tai
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10/02/2010
Why, to the Mission Tiki Drive Inn, of course! (sheesh, such a simple answer - I'm gonna have to start a thread on it!) |
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10/02/2010
Is the Human Centipede Tiki? |
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JOHN-O
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10/02/2010
All right !! Thanks ATP. I'm looking forward to it. :) |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/02/2010
John-O!!!! resorting to subterfuge to get a dinner invite, you cad,I hope we can get one more |
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MadDogMike
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10/03/2010
First of all, if we have a serious conversation here will we be kicked out of Bilge? I understand your frustration that TC is in danger of becoming nothing but a tiki-flavored Facebook. My questions - is the golden age of Tiki Central over? Has TC become a victim of it's own success? Was it better when there were only 200 members and there was undocumented tiki history around every corner? Where do we go from here? I'm sure I am partially to blame, I've got 3000 posts and I doubt that 5% have any real content. Here's my assessment of the current state of TC - do you agree or disagree? So there's my 2 cents worth :D [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2010-10-02 20:11 ] |
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woofmutt
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10/03/2010
"...Is the golden age of Tiki Central over?" I've heard that so many times it's lost all meaning. |
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JOHN-O
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10/03/2010
Of course it is. :) And Mike, "latecomers" like you and me missed out on it. But you don't need the internet to order cocktails in the Tiki bar. THAT'S the real Tiki Culture !! [ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-10-02 20:18 ] |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/03/2010
If I can interject here... The food was Indian,Polynesian/Hawaiian,Seafood, But the majority of the cuisine served was Chinese Food! I grew up in the 1960s,I remember the day President Kennedy died and my family loved going to to Tiki Restaurants So what was it all about? Fun of course! it seems many TCers miss that one! it's not Rocket Science,it was about Fun,Food & Drink and escaping your everyday life,a long day at the office,a fun place to take a date etc. So stop taking all this so seriously,your missing out on all the Fun! and yes "Food" was a major part of it! [ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-10-02 23:26 ] |
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Bora Boris
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10/03/2010
Yes, it's all about ** Fun** until someone makes a little ** Fun** of your very popular and going strong Food post, then it's not as much ** Fun** until you remind us that it is Fun. Is this correct? Because that's what it sounds like. :lol: Ok so back to the topic, more threads I know I'd like to see ~ John-O's Guide To John-O. |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/03/2010
No Bora Boris,I can take the jabs,but since it is my thread being discussed, I wanted to to address Of course my Thread is very General on the Topic,because if we concentrated only on what was considered but by all means have all the fun with it you or anyone might care to, but I disagree with anyone who thinks I know I sound all serious here, but believe me I am the first to laugh about it. |
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woofmutt
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10/03/2010
"So what was it all about? Fun of course! It seems many TCers miss that one...So stop taking all this so seriously, you're missing out on all the Fun!" I've heard that one so many times it's lost all meaning, too. |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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So Woofmutt,what's your point? that you are not having any fun? [ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-10-03 00:44 ] |
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tiki mick
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10/03/2010
Amen to that! If you still get chills down your spine when hearing a beautiful old Hapa Haole song like "sweet someone", then you don't really need whatever the current concept of "Tiki" is. |
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talo ka
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10/03/2010
great sentiment lucas. i am Not an expert on tiki but i do like it and that is why i am here, to learn and enjoy. IMHO, it doesn't matter if you know the complete tiki history and are a purist, but rather that you enjoy it and want to learn more and are trying to keep it alive even if you are not expert purist. flame on time prolly. oh well such is life. pssst. i don't care. [ Edited by: talo ka 2010-10-03 13:27 ] |
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10/03/2010
Since I am self diagnosed as having adult ADD and can't concentrate on too many of the threads in Bilge, because of all the words, I say we should have more threads that have lots of pictures. How 'bout a "photo disassociation" thread? Ah ha!! A thread that posts no words OR pictures!?!? I could read pages and pages of that in NO time. |
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ebtiki
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10/04/2010
My 2¢: |
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Zeta
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10/04/2010
New threads we need, I propouse: *The Hanfords™ Tiki Academy Awards |
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woofmutt
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10/04/2010
*Strange coincidences, synchronicity, serendipity, chance and weirdness like that.
I was fine with this thread as just another derailed late night toss off. But then Zeta goes and makes suggestions for a few threads which could actually be genuinely interesting...How the hell do I deal with that??? |
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Hey, before we get all derailed from some of the great brainstorming here, I think it's essential to point out that this is not an anti-dinner thread. Some of my best friends eat dinner. The point is that there are nuances and variations that are left uncovered by the existing threads, and they're crying out for new threads. Sure there's a thread called What did you "Make" for Dinner. But not a single one of Boris' great ideas for dinner-related threads overlaps with that one. Let's give credit where it's due - that's some good creative thinking there by Boris, without stepping on anybody's toes with existing threads. If we all just put our heads together, we can come up with some great new threads for TC, such as... What did you "Eat" for Dinner? *What did you "Prepare" for Lunch? What did you "Consume" for Breakfast? What did you "Snack On" between Meals? Do you "Brush" your teeth after a meal?* As for whether there should be a distinction between tiki dinner and just any old dinner in the "Tiki Drinks and Food" forum, let me just remind everyone that it's not called "Tiki Drinks and Tiki Food". So I don't know about you all, but that reads to me as ANY FOOD! Plus, as AtomicTikiPunk says, tiki is all about fun, food, and drink, so ANY discussion of food is on topic for TC, right? Well anyway, THIS THREAD is all about new threads, so maybe what we really mean to say is that there should be a new thread about whether THAT THREAD should be where it is. As for the other ideas posted here, some of you are being a little cryptic as to the new thread ideas you're suggesting. F'rinstance, I wasn't sure what to make of this one:
New thread: JOHN-O's guide to the REAL tiki culture I couldn't really tell what the thread suggestion was; this topic may have been more or less covered already in other posts, but not in its OWN THREAD, so I say, make a new thread! But this following one is a great idea, right in line with the spirit of THIS thread.
YES YES YES!! Exactly! You don't even need to run a search for that one! I think we can all just safely assume this is a topic that has never been covered (at least not under that subject name) here on TC. I think we're turning a corner. Keep em coming! -Randy |
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Unga Bunga
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10/04/2010
How to score on a bar crawl! |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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10/04/2010
I can Digg it.... |
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10/06/2010
What camera did you use to take the photo of what you made for dinner? What room in the house was the photo taken of what you made for dinner? Was the water in the sink too hot and you had to wait for it to cool down before you did the dishes after eating what you made for dinner? |
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little lost tiki
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10/06/2010
new threads we need on Tiki Central? How about one GOOD lucas vigor thread... |
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JOHN-O
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10/06/2010
Huh ?? The Rhesus Monkeys' thread is the funniest (i.e. greatest) one around !! http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=37452&forum=13&20 :) |
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Swanky
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10/06/2010
How about a "Forbidden on TC" thread. It would contain such over used gems as: "Why don't you just have a Mai Tai and relax?" |
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tiki mick
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10/06/2010
Or my all time favorite: TINO (Tiki in name only) |
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woofmutt
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"How about a "Forbidden on TC" thread. It would contain such over used gems as: 'Woofmut.'"* I can't figure out why that would be a forbidden topic (it certainly wouldn't be an interesting one), but here are two thread ideas drawn from favorite Tiki Central comments: *Is The Golden Age of Tiki Central Over? Tiki: It's About Fun!!!* |
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You sure "woofmutt" is overused? Seems like there's plenty of room for more threads with Woofmutt in them. See, there's not THAT many! GROG [ Edited by: GROG 2010-10-06 11:02 ] |
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woofmutt
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10/06/2010
Several of the threads with my name in the title are well crafted humorous (if not downright hilarious) commentary on actual threads on Tiki Central... Woofmutt Is Now Known As Woofmutt With Sprinkles On Top Gettin Tight All Over the Place with Woofmutt Several of the other threads are shameless self promotion in an attempt to liberate cash from the wallets and purses of the Tiki public. (I was surprised to see I now have a thread in Tiki Carving. Wow, I didn't think I'd be allowed in that forum.) (Oh, I was even more surprised that I don't have a live appearance scheduled at the Tong Hut later this month. This fits into my schedule fine, but I'm still firing my publicist.) All the other threads with my name in them are basically just mash notes. When you put out a lotta love, a lotta love comes back. I can see why threads with my name in the title might be chafing GROG's thong cuz look at this random sampling of threads with GROG's name in the title: Tiki Statue Stolen! Stolen By GROG??? Oklahoma Tiki Totem Stolen from front garden shortly after GROG visit to OK City Lost camera at Kona Club, Oakland During Dinner With GROG |