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Post #386783 by Cammo on Fri, Jun 13, 2008 12:38 AM

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GROG is right on the dime here, but maybe he's hypnotized us by writing the longest single GROG-O-POST in the history of TC and my eyes are still going BOING BOING OOOGA OOOGA from reading all them little words.

The really fun thing about the Golden Age of Tiki, which is a cool term and I'm glad I thought of it, is the sense of discovery-and-use they put to their explorations in Polynesian culture & art. You can just see these guys pouring through freshly printed 1950's books with wide eyes and sketching at museums, dashing from exhibit to exhibit, smiling and inspired....