Back on the mainland, any travelling I did became a pretext for my on-going tiki bar pilgrimage. |
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The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar. |
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It was a Hawaiian theme, complete with tiki torches, lais, pineapples, bbqed skewers of meat and cheesy Hawaiian music. |
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Casseroles were unveiled from Saran Wrap prisons and the tiki torches that ringed the patio were lit. |
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For parties and special occasions, light the garden with tiki torches and chunky candles scented with plumeria or gardenia. |
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Bamboo tiki torches in the corners kept the bugs away, and a stone fountain in the corner offered hushed condolences to the trio. |
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The club boasts three full-sized bars, beach decor, and tiki torches on the outdoor patio. |
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Inside her car, police also found several yard items, including tiki torches, hoses and mats that they believe could have been stolen from homes. |
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The tiki torches had flickered out, but an 8-foot-long bed of coals glowed eerily in the darkness, waiting for bare feet. |
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Holden and Moll also put floating candles in their pond, lanterns on seat walls, and tiki torches among tropical foliage. |
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Around nine, I started to walk down to the old plantation house it was dark out, except for occasional tiki torches and the moonlit sky. |
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It didn't take me long to spot Garrett in a corner, trying to spark up the soggy tiki torches. |
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I criss-crossed the western United States, and at the time nearly everyplace had some vestige of tiki culture. |
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Off they go on a rapid tiki tour of Auckland, heading to some farmland for animal wrangling. |
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There's a story that someone actually did take his pie cart on a tiki tour. |
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Most of today's tiki artists grew up in the shadow of tiki culture, surrounded by Polynesian-style apartments, hotels, restaurants and bars. |
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The night was a little cold, but we huddled around the tiki torches on the balcony, drank a quarter keg, and had a ridiculously good time. |
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Tropical-print fabric on the garden furniture, a few tiki torches, some large shells, and a surfboard complete the mood. |
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In my own backyard, we've tried to add that getaway feeling with a few tiki torches and fragrant jasmine. |
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He charged us what we later found out was a ridiculous amount for the privilege of the tiki tour. |
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It was a beautiful day, and it was like a free tiki tour of a couple of the surrounding villages. |
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With today's tiki tour safely over and done with, the heavy lifting starts in earnest for the team tomorrow with a morning gym session. |
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Drove north and had lunch at the lakes, after which he gave us a mini tiki tour of 'kumara country', where we bought some kumara. |
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The young men were well looked after by George, who took them on tiki tours and even arranged a visit to a Waihi gold mine. |
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I watched one snuggle close, cup her palms around the tiki torch, then coo as Garrett got it to light. |
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When I got a little too much Asian theme in my house, I covered my shoji screen with the fencing and instantly went tiki! |
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Sometimes you'll see tiki or manaia or different kowhaiwhai forms coming through it. |
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Tipi wore a greenstone tiki around her neck that had been passed down through many generations. |
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No, what he felt for was the little smooth object sewn at the back of his silver fern, a greenstone tiki presented by the Maori people of Hawera. |
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A collection of remixed tiki exotica really gets you straddling both sides of the fence. |
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If you didn't make it out this weekend you have not seen the new stairway to the tiki bar. |
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Howard Shore creates a score that's wonderfully evocative of the 1950s, part sci-fi drive-in, part tiki lounge. |
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They look a bit like Hawaiian tiki lamps, which is not a bad association since they are installed right near the beach. |
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They're always pushing cocktail culture on people, be it 30s style martini shakers, tiki culture, bachelor-pad barware. |
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At the end of a gravel and asphalt yard is a tiki bar and a grill made from half an oil drum. |
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The surprise and honest hurt on her face became clearly visible in the tiki torch lamp light. |
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Perhaps just plant yourself and watch the scene as daylight wanes and the magnificent Hawaiian sun sets around you while tiki torches blaze and the parties get started. |
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The host decorates the back yard in a tropical theme using festival glassware and tiki torches, and sets large umbrellas over the tables to provide some shade. |
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However, they aren't unique in trying to accomplish this, they are merely better at it. So is it possible to define tiki taka through statistics? |
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The trunks have been carved into tiki statues and other craft items typically sold to tourists in tropical resorts. |
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Hei tiki, small neck pendant in the form of a human fetus, used by the Maori of New Zealand as a fertility symbol. |
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At the Greenhouse tiki bar four rugged guys were talking about Harleys. |
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Elderly women played Triple Double Diamond and tiki Magic while they chain-smoked. |
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I snuck out of my family's rented cottage one hot August night and wandered until I happened upon a scene lit by flickering tiki torches and glowing citronella sticks. |
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Screened from all but the envious eyes of aerial neighbors, New Yorkers with backyards awaken to birdsong and the occasional rabbit and entertain by the light of tiki torches. |
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The town's Maori heritage remains evident everywhere, from the carved fascia boards of ceremonial marae meeting houses to the war canoes and ubiquitous tiki figures. |
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Add a few torches and now your tiki parties can be nearly authentic. |
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Phoenix, Arizona even had a tiki motel, called the Kon Tiki. |
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Lao Bay was an entertaining circus of activity the day we stopped in, with busloads of windsurfers camped out under tiki huts or on the white sand beach. |
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Before you pull out the bug spray and the citronella tiki torches, why not learn a bit more about these creepy crawlers? |
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When I came back a year later, the tiki was no longer there. |
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With the outdoor living and entertainment season upon us, Canadians should exercise caution when purchasing decorative refillable garden torches such as tiki torches. |
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Hit a tiki idol and it acts as a point multiplier. |
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The aim was to fly down, run the half, do a quick tiki tour of the company's salmon fishery and then fly home. |
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No-one ventured to the Bluff or Toronui, but a van resembling a sardine tin went on a tiki tour of the huge Waipoura kauris. |
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People might come up with a broad shorthand that, in the case of tiki taka for example, maintaining possession of the ball is the defining characteristic. |
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The Barcelona side of tiki taka was the most successful of its age, winning three Champions League titles since 2006 and Spain's La Liga four times in five seasons. |
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According to one idea, the hei tiki protects its wearer against the vengeful spirits of stillborn infants, who have been deprived of the chance to live. |
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Hole-in-the-wall hot-dog stand with tiki umbrellas on the patio. |
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Another exceptional piece is a large Maori figurative pendant or hei tiki crafted from nephrite, a material that was believed to have supernatural powers. |
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