Club Patches

I'll take a yashmak...

Tailored/skinny T-shirts for gals -- great although most are no good for me personally (at 6 feet I'm too damned long and the tailored waists flap forlornly somehere around my ribcage!).

this tikichick would prefer a bowling shirt simply because ordinary size T shirts drown most women and make 'em look like a sack of oddly assorted spuds IMHO. If we could only have the one item I'd still personally stick with the bowling shirt.

But then I'm a freak. What about you other lay-deez out there?

tikifish: How about a merit badge for some sort of flaming drink? That seems like soemthing that would take a lot of practice! :)

Blender Badge
Bartender Badge
Tiki Carving Badge - Large Tiki
Tiki Carving Badge - Small Tiki
Bamboo Splitting Badge
Hammock Mounting Badge
Pu-Pu Platter Badge
Sterno Badge
...

On 2002-06-28 12:31, Swanky wrote:

...Hammock Mounting Badge...

Yes, that one can be tricky to earn, depending on how much you've both had to drink!

Mark Cotton

I buy old poker chips from casinos and private gambling clubs anywhere.  

:drink:
Thank God the Tiki Bar is Open!

[ Edited by: jukeboy56 on 2002-06-28 14:16 ]

How about a thong for us chicks! It could say "Open 24 Hours" On the front and "Tiki Central" on the back. The back sticks out of our low rise pants/shorts anyway. Is there any better advertising than that? Come on guys you know you look!

Thongs for men too (I mean the ones on our feet!)

This all sounds great!

As co-founder of Tiki Central I'd like to make sure this is all done "offically" so that (A) we can make sure it's done right and (B) so that some of the proceeds can go into the support/maintainence of this website and even future Tiki Central parties etc.

So, if you're interested in helping out please send email to:

[email protected]

with your contact info and how you'd like to help out!

Mig and I will meet and discuss the possibilites, and based on everyone's posts and suggestions we'll go from there!

~Hanford

Al, your embroidery is gorgeous!!!

just another idea,
How bout the shirts are done like that pic Mig took of the door "semi cracked open"(like we all are!!) entering into room 135 at the Tropics? Classic! Can't get over that "great scene" that night!! I'm painting it and selling it out of the store soon and sending 1/2 of the profits to Hanford for the future whatever. Or at least for some electricity to run his servers. Dude, your cool! I still want to build a Tiki Central Hut/Bar for the next event (on the house from the Bamboo Ben Tribe) so, if anyone wants to volenteer to run it, speak up.
10-4 or what ever they say.
Benboo Bam.

Ok, ladies... I'm up late because I just can't get this image out of my head. :) I'm seeing silkscreened jackets, ala the Pink Ladies. I apologize for not having the nifty picture linking thing, but this will work too!

Aloha!

http://www.cjfdesign.com/wahines.html

Bowling shirts are great, I have fifty, but back to the aloha shirts made with our own custom printed print. Does anybody know how/where the fabric could be made? How many people would actually want one? It takes about two and half meter/yards for a large. I make my own shirts all the time; surely we could rustle up enough skilled people here to get the job done.

jeremy

I got a few things to say.

Numbah one: ALBERTA? Fuckin' Eh! And I thought I was a long way from Polynesia....

Numbah 2: THONGS!!! THONGS!!!! THONGS!!!! I am so all over the thongs. Maybe the thongs should say something like:

"No peeky at my tiki!"
or
"Mai Tai Lei Yu?"

I already bought cool rental bowling shoes, with the size number on the back and everything, on ebay, so a Tiki Central bowling shirt would just about put me over the top as far as ultra chic attire goes. I'm in...

Now I'm wondering if we need an anthem as well... Or a group hymn to sing before TC functions, like:

"We gather to-gether to talk a-bout Tiki

And share with our breth'ren our drink rec-i-pes

And complain about e-bay or celebrate a thrift store mug find

Our par-asol'd cocktails we toast, virtually"

Anybody know that old hymn? Can't get that first verse outta my head now...

On 2002-06-28 15:23, laney wrote:
How about a thong for us chicks! It could say "Open 24 Hours" On the front and "Tiki Central" on the back. The back sticks out of our low rise pants/shorts anyway. Is there any better advertising than that? Come on guys you know you look!

Oh hunny, If you ever met me you would know why a thong would not be a good idea for all of us gals. If a thong was ever made for my ass it could also double as a launching slingshot for sputnik.

I like the bowling shirt idea though, or matching jackets, or babydoll type T-shirts.

Or a group hymn to sing before TC functions,

Maybe more fitting would be a drinking song:

(sung to the tune of "The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga":

Jimmy Buffet has no place on Tiki Central
Jimmy Buffet has no place on Tiki Central
Jimmy Buffet has not place
He'd be scared to show his face
Jimmy Buffet has no place on Tiki Central

Oh the mai tais have no Orange at Tiki Central
Oh the mai tais have no orange at Tiki Central
Oh the mai tais have no orange
And... um... nothing rhymes with "orange"
Oh the mai tais have no orange at Tiki Central

Everybody sing...

And... um... nothing rhymes with "orange"

Door hinge.

:D

something very unique to identify and unify Tiki Centralites, FEZ HATS with a brass Shevky on them. I want a Fez really bad but I don't wanna be corny and just go out and buy one at a novelty shop I want to earn it. I actually looked into becoming a Shriner for this purpose but found out only Freemasons can become Shriners. If you're not a Freemason the Shriners won't even talk to you about joining.

A Master Mason to be precise. I just found a vintage fez from the 40s at an antique shop. It's in great shape, and constuction quality is really excellent- leather band around the inside brim, thick felt with little vents in the top, huge tassel. No, I didn't earn it, but it is cool. I'm pretty sure it must be from the Asiya Shrine Center of San Mateo, as they are also known as Shrine Islam.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/7583/

My fez also has "Islam" in large letters and says "Potentate's Aide", so I like to imagine it belonged to the guy who made sure the Potentate's drink never went dry.

I'm hoping that Bruce can shed some light on the meaning of this role. I'd also like to get it cleaned prefessionally and wondered if he had any suggestions. Mr. Smiley?

-martin

I am sure that the Potentate's Aide is an assistant to the Potentate but they called him that because putting "Potentate's ASS." on the Fez would have caused him to be the Butt of ahole lot of jokes! ----wow, look's like Mr Smiley squeezed in ahole lot of puns!!

Maxton: Excellent lyrics (particularly the "orange" verse).

Fonduie: Thanks for sharing, I'm still chuckling.

Sucide Sam: 2 B 1 Ask 1.

Hey - has anyone looked into doing any of the things discussed at length in this topic? Just curious...still looking forward to a "Shagesque" explosion of Tiki Central merchandising...

:drink:

You bet we have...

there are some things planned. currently I'm working with a few artists on shirts.

There are some other things in the works. But I beg of you all to be patient ... anything worth doing is worth doing well!

~Hanford

But come on Hanford, can't you do a little Hollywood style gossip and hype? Maybe a grainy photo of Marlon Brando walking a tropical beach wearing nothing but a Tiki Central t-shirt. Or aerial surveillance shots of the plant in Mexico where the Tiki Central merchandise is being developed and tested.

My two cents worth..

Bowling Shirt -
Tiki Central logo on the back Shecky on the pocket. I'm tres there.

And I have actually had thoughts of constructing a mobile tiki bar ala Good Humor bicycle. But selling mai tai's from a bike is illegal in Ontario.

Images of middle age men running down the road chasing the tiki-mobile, waving fivers and yelling "Mai Tai Man! Mai Tai Man!"

Quite a ways back Martiki had a question about where/how to get felt fezs (fezzes?) cleaned, and I have the same question. I've got a vintage fez I'm planning on wearing to the Tiki Farm bash, but it could really use a good cleaning and 'refreshing'. I was going to just take it to the dry cleaners, but if anyone (Tiki King??) has a better/safer idea, please let us know as there appears to be more than one of us with this dilemma!

BTW - Sabu and I were out 'sale-ing' last weekend and stumbled across a Shriner "Fezmobile" - a big, motorized fez on wheels! Naturally, he snapped a few pix and hopefully will post them soon!

On 2002-09-18 16:21, Doctor Z wrote:
Quite a ways back Martiki had a question about where/how to get felt fezs (fezzes?) cleaned, and I have the same question. I've got a vintage fez I'm planning on wearing to the Tiki Farm bash, but it could really use a good cleaning and 'refreshing'. I was going to just take it to the dry cleaners, but if anyone (Tiki King??) has a better/safer idea, please let us know as there appears to be more than one of us with this dilemma!

When I worked in a costume shop way back when we would clean felt hat thus: Brush away any loose dirt with a stiff brush. Take a rag with dry cleaning fluid and gently rub it on any stains. Brush it to remove the loosened dirt. There isn't much you can do to clean the embroidery esp. if it is metallic. Most of it is metallic wires wrapped around a thread core. If you work it too hard it can break the thread and have a handful of loose bullion! But if you really insistent here's an 18th century recipes for cleaning Metallic Braid ("lace"):

From "The Servants Directory", 1762,:

"To Clean Gold and Silver Lace.
Get some talc, pound it very fine; an make it quite damp
with spirits of wine (ed. Alcohol); then with a soft brush rub the lace every
way till you find it quite clean. This do for gold and silver stuffs
that are rais'd high. Talc, by itself, turns lace black, when lain by.

"To Preserve Gold and Silver Lace from tarnishing.
Fold them up with fine Indian paper, and over that fine
whited-brown paper, well air'd; then fold them in a piece of
green bays well dried, and in the drawer or trunk where they
lie, keep some saffron-papers. (you may buy them of the persons
who sell saffron), and keep them in a warm place; and never put
any gold or silver lace in a deal box."

ANYONE SEEN MY DAD?

[ Edited by: Atomic Cocktail on 2002-09-19 09:49 ]

dry cleaning fluid

Isn't that an Oxymoron?

Oh, just to add to the thong discussion - I AM in favour of thongs, but I am not in favour of having them stick out the back of my pants. It happened to me recently while sitting on a bar stool. I had no idea until some lush walked by and sluured 'nice underpants' in my ear with his hot vodka breath.

I was mortified.

Sorry about that tikifish, I just thought I'd pay a purdy lady a compliment.

Thongs for the ladies, and boxer shorts for the guys. Of course you have to have some cheesy marketing slogans if you plan on going this route:
"Boxers made of Tikis to Cover your Cheekys"

I still love the badge idea, here are a few more:

The Limbo
Rum 101
The Hula
The Solo Scorpion
Build your own Lei
Hibiscus Green Thumb
Swizzle Sticks and Garnishes

how about magical tiki central tiki pants?

On 2002-09-20 03:04, Tiki Chris wrote:
how about magical tiki central tiki pants?

Only if they are made in Germany and guarunteed completely Jinkx Proof!

On 2002-09-19 11:01, PolynesianPop wrote:

dry cleaning fluid

Isn't that an Oxymoron?

The "Dry" in "Dry Cleaning" is in reference to the absence of water in the process. In it's place a number of different LIQUID toxic chemicals are used.

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"The"Dry" in "Dry Cleaning" is in reference to the absence of water in the process. In its place a number of different LIQUID toxic chemicals are used."
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...it's still an oxymoron, though -- the definition of "dry" in the Oxford Conhcise Dictionary is "free from moisture or liquid"; conversely, "wet" imeans "saturated with fluid", not just "saturated with water"...

(sorry, sorry, both off-topic and pedantic, I know -- and now, back to the bar)

[ Edited by: theandrewssister on 2002-09-25 04:12 ]

The "Dry" in "Dry Cleaning" is in reference to the absence of water in the process. In it's place a number of different LIQUID toxic chemicals are used.

Actually, the oxymoron I was referring to was the complete term "dry cleaning fluid" because I didn't know that DRY fluid existed!

Is powdered milk dry fluid?

Dudes, I didn't make up the term. Go get yourselfs a can and on the side it will say "Dry Cleaning fluid". Yes, it is an oxymoron-but blame the person in the 19th century who came up with it.

By the way, I think you all have WAY too much time on your hands!

OK, I can waste as much time and be as pedantic as the rest of you! Oxford's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary list "Dry Cleaning" as:

the cleansing of fabrics with substantially nonaqueous organic solvents (as petroleum naphtha).

Petroleum Naptha-Dry Cleaning fluid? Yes. Oxymoron? Yes. Big waste of time? YES!

Now that I have your attention, anyone up for a discussion of Voluntary Simplicity? Hell, let's go straight for Transcendentalism.

Petroleum Naptha-Dry Cleaning fluid? Yes. Oxymoron? Yes. Big waste of time? YES!

**Poly-Pop ***

Bartender, make mine a glass of WATAHHH!!!!!

[ Edited by: PolynesianPop 2013-02-04 20:41 ]

Those aren't all oxymorons.

I have friend who's working on his PhD in Chemistry and he is a Christian. That would make him a Christian Scientist.

Complete silence to some tinnitus sufferers can be deafening.

5 people in a phone booth would be very crowded, yet the number 5 is relatively small.

But, yeah, the rest are pretty funny.

I have some time on my hands too apparently.

Hey Pop,

You forgot "Military Intelligence"