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Swamp Fire
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 31, 2003
Posts: 1020
From: Long Beach, CA
|  Posted: 2009-08-24 4:21 pm Permalink
I don't know about no teriyaki chicken but I do know I had a great time.
Thanks to all that stopped by, it was great seeing some familiar faces show up and swap Tiki Oaisis stories.
Lets do it again next year!!
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bigtikidude
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 8258
From: Anaheim,Ca.
| Posted: 2009-08-24 4:54 pm Permalink
sorry for being a wet blanket,
I just thought that people might want a reality report,
not a rainbows and unicorns review.
if you went and had fun, great for you.
I guess, TC is a if you don't have anything good to say,
shut the fuck up, type of forum now.
Jeff(btd)
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Krisdrama
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 12, 2006
Posts: 299
From: Pasadena, CA
| Posted: 2009-08-24 6:12 pm Permalink
The event was ok. I picked up a couple things. There was the ever present touristy crap that shows up at these things. But, Swanpfire and Crazy Al definitely kicked up the quality! I was very disappointed to see that Wikitiki didn't show, I was hoping to score some more shirts! All in all, I wasn't disappointed that I went.
I did miss the Smokin' Menehunes though. 
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Tikiwmn
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Oct 26, 2005
Posts: 27
From: SoCal
| Posted: 2009-08-24 8:55 pm Permalink
A few of us went on Sunday, and with the exception Crazy Al and Doug Horne, there were no Tiki vendors. We were very disappointed, as we had cashed in our coin jars. Where was everyone? Still tikied-out from Tiki Oasis?
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crazy al
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1783
From: CA
| Posted: 2009-08-24 10:24 pm Permalink
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On 2009-08-19 08:59, crazy al wrote:
Tiki Fest has gone back to it's Hawaiian Hula roots! so come out for some see some great HULA!!!!
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Jeff... I think that this, the second post on the thread, plus the fabulous flier you posted was pretty good info as to the nature of this year's event. But keep up the great work informing all. You did post this thing before i did. That was cool.
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King Bushwich the 33rd
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 10, 2005
Posts: 933
From: Ling Cod Beach, CA 90803
| Posted: 2009-08-24 11:36 pm Permalink
Did that Bruddah Moki, or whatever that thing with the big rubber head was, make an appearance? I missed it if it did.
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squid
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 30, 2002
Posts: 1462 | Posted: 2009-08-24 11:51 pm Permalink
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On 2009-08-24 16:54, bigtikidude wrote:
sorry for being a wet blanket,
I just thought that people might want a reality report,
not a rainbows and unicorns review.
if you went and had fun, great for you.
I guess, TC is a if you don't have anything good to say,
shut the fuck up, type of forum now.
Jeff(btd)
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"somebody there at the Party said they went to the tiki fest,
and said it was the worst they had ever seen it. "
I think it's still OK to have an opinion here Jeff, but second-hand speculation is just that.
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Jason Wickedly
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Jan 01, 2008
Posts: 701
From: LBCTIKI
| Posted: 2009-08-25 12:08 am Permalink
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On 2009-08-24 23:36, King Bushwich the 33rd wrote:
Did that Bruddah Moki, or whatever that thing with the big rubber head was, make an appearance? I missed it if it did.
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Yeah, it/he/whatever was walking around, scaring kids, and shaking hands when we were there. The poor guy had to hold the head on with his hands most of the time, because it was so tall. 
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Hakalugi
Site Administrator
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 2804
From: Redondo Beach, CA
| Posted: 2009-08-25 12:16 am Permalink
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On 2009-08-24 23:51, squid wrote:
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On 2009-08-24 16:54, bigtikidude wrote:
sorry for being a wet blanket,
I just thought that people might want a reality report,
not a rainbows and unicorns review.
if you went and had fun, great for you.
I guess, TC is a if you don't have anything good to say,
shut the fuck up, type of forum now.
Jeff(btd)
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"somebody there at the Party said they went to the tiki fest,
and said it was the worst they had ever seen it. "
I think it's still OK to have an opinion here Jeff, but second-hand speculation is just that.
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Second hand or first hand, as long as the information is correctly relayed, then there is really no difference.
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squid
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 30, 2002
Posts: 1462 | Posted: 2009-08-25 01:21 am Permalink
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On 2009-08-25 00:16, Hakalugi wrote:
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On 2009-08-24 23:51, squid wrote:
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On 2009-08-24 16:54, bigtikidude wrote:
sorry for being a wet blanket,
I just thought that people might want a reality report,
not a rainbows and unicorns review.
if you went and had fun, great for you.
I guess, TC is a if you don't have anything good to say,
shut the fuck up, type of forum now.
Jeff(btd)
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"somebody there at the Party said they went to the tiki fest,
and said it was the worst they had ever seen it. "
I think it's still OK to have an opinion here Jeff, but second-hand speculation is just that.
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Second hand or first hand, as long as the information is correctly relayed, then there is really no difference.
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Fair enough.
So let me rephrase that:
That's someone else's negative opinion you are relaying. We would like to hear YOUR opinion from a first-hand perspective.
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TIKI-RAY
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 18, 2003
Posts: 845
From: Alta Loma, California
| Posted: 2009-08-25 09:04 am Permalink
Cindy , my son and I had a lot of fun . I bought a bamboo blowgun that is dead on . But now I have to find some type of paralizing poison to dip the darts in .
One great thing that happened . We were strolling along and someone noticed the Koa wood Lono necklace I had had carved for Cindy and asked if Crazy Al had carved that for her . What a compliment . 
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1894
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2009-08-25 09:05 am Permalink
I was there and it was fun.I made some good connections.No there were not as many tiki
vendors as we would have liked , but over all it was a blast.The people were all very
friendly and in great moods.Bought a couple more plumeria flower plants for my back
yard and drank alot of Hinano beer ....what more could you ask for .BTW lots of cute
wahines as well .
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Hakalugi
Site Administrator
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 2804
From: Redondo Beach, CA
| Posted: 2009-08-25 09:49 am Permalink
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On 2009-08-25 09:04, TIKI-RAY wrote:
Cindy , my son and I had a lot of fun . I bought a bamboo blowgun that is dead on . But now I have to find some type of paralizing poison to dip the darts in .
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The traditional way is to start with one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_dart_frog
Or if that's too much trouble, Instructables has some homebrew methods
that have worked well for me: http://www.instructables.com/community/poison-darts/
The poison ivy route is ingenious but a little slow.
And here's some more info from the ever popular Blowguns Northwest:
http://www.blowgunsnorthwest.com/poison.htm
Enjoy!
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Lake Surfer
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3308
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2009-08-25 10:41 am Permalink
I only found out about this event after I had our whole trip planned.
Had I known earlier I would have made a good effort to hang out in SoCal a bit longer and give this event a try.
Looks like a bunch of fun! Maybe next year!
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Iokona Ki'i
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 14, 2008
Posts: 815
From: SoCal
| Posted: 2009-08-25 2:18 pm Permalink
We went down on Sunday. Always great to
hear some Hawaiian music live and see some
Hula. Bought some stuff too. Cheers AL! Plus Bruno
got to hang at the dog beach next door and bark his little
ass off. He slept good that night! Good times.
Forgot to take snaps except a couple of us at the end.
Always forget about the camera at the bottom of my pocket.
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