YSaC, Vol. CLXXVII
2009 January 11
Tahiti Sam Parrot Statue – $200
Tahiti Sam is about 2 feet tall and looks like he belongs in the enchanted Tiki room at Disneyland. He’s very authentic looking and in very good shape. He would be great to set up in your Tahitian style bar or patio. Very tropical looking. He weighs around 20lbs.
Sorry, I just redecorated in early tropical monkey, and this would just clash. Unless it sings Jimmy Buffett songs on an endless loop, in which case it would be really, really cool.* Like the Billy Big Mouth Bass.
*By “cool”, I mean “annoying”.
I’m sorry, but you do not get to dress up a parrot statue in baby clothes from Hilo Hattie and charge $200 dollars for it. WTF? Is she charging by the pound? Maybe parrot does go for about $10 a pound… I dunno.
I’ve always wanted one of these but I find most available stock are the horribly inauthentic, arctic looking parrots. Oh wait, maybe those were penguins.
I was going to make a snarky comment about this thing, but then I remembered that step 9 of my 12-step program is learning not to make snarky comments about alcoholic parrots.
Hmmm…I actually think it’s kind of cute (Yeah, i know that’s just wrong), but OMG….$200?????? Wow.
What saddens me the most is that someone probably will buy this and pay the requested price.
I poop more interesting things than that damn parrot and no one pays me for my shit.
I have to ask… authentic WHAT? You can’t just be authentic, you have to be authentically something. Authentic parrot? Well, I haven’t met any parrots that wear clothes. Authentic Tahitian? I haven’t been to Tahiti, but I’m going to take a wild guess and say no. Authentic statue? OK, I would give them that one.
Most of the other things I think this statue authentically is are not very polite, so I’ll just leave it there.
authentically tacky
I love that she suggests it for your tahitian style bar. What if I like it, but decorate in a different manner. It’s that sort of limited scope of thinking that led her to make the purchase in the first place.
http://www.photocliches.com
@ Random Person:
He’s authentic, as in genuine, real. He doesn’t have to put on a mask to please the rest of the world.
Just like Budweiser is authentic. It isn’t an authentically American lager, or even authentically beer, but it’s got that personality, you know? Or not.
@neal:
A Tahitian style bar cannot be complete without one of these. This is why you will never have a Tahitian style bar, and you will never have a French Prudential home.
So, frighteningly… I followed your “tropical monkey” link, and was intrigued enough there to click on the Canadian site. (http://www.hotshotscanada.com/item1384.htm )
At the bottom? “See Also… Mini Parrot Waiter (R952-M)” which links to:
http://www.hotshotscanada.com/item1383.htm
So this raises the question… Did you know? Or is this bizarre coincidence?
(Also, Tahiti Sam appears damaged. He’s missing his platter!)
Possibly the best part? Original price? $40. Canadian.
Hahaha! I actually own this thing, or rather, my ex-husband and I did. No, that was not the cause of the break-up. At least, I don’t think it was. Hmmm…
(And it was from my tropical monkey heyday. Sigh. I really have quite good taste. Honest.)
I’ve always aspired to have a
fifties kitschTahitian-style bar or patio. Now this statue will give the motivation to set up one.…and it tastes like plaster. Ick.
Tahiti Sam shook his head in disgust at the pictures from his misbegotten youth. Today, as a Fortune 500 company CEO, he wore Italian suits and drank very rarely. One would never catch him. . .The music started softly, in his head. “Everybody loves a hukilau. . . ” His arms twitched up and his feet tapped. “A huki, huki, huki, huki, hukilau.” The music swelled and his tail feathers swished from side to side. Oh, no, not in the board room!
I asked Unca Google, and Tahiti Sam isn’t real. Like Cupa Joe or Texas Tea.
[building bars corey]
It is easier than ever to build “tiki hut” type bars and decor than ever. You can get palm fronds and woven-leaf material in rolls. A person can now get palm-thatch roofing (for indoors or out) in rolls as well.
A person can also get semi-real bamboo ‘structural’ components, too.
This can be an item of whimsy for one’s outdoor decor.
It can be a tasteful element of theme decor.
Or. it can be a hideous abomination of furnished-apartment living, too (http://www.zislander.com/bryan-tx-apartments.asp,/url>😉
[/corey]
Capn, please define “semi-real.”
All the birds are stuffed and the flowers faux,
On the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki patio!
Dave, Ferrets, Taco, Magic, Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Bali High!
That parrot looks like a parrot pimp. A horribly tacky parrot pimp.