tiki

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I wish we had Krampus here. mmmm tiki, my feed reader isn´t showing the pics because your are (maybe) blocking it, so please fix it or I will delete your feed dieAntagonista (UID#2287) on January 13th, 2009 7: 24 pm outofocus:

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  1. noun Mythology A male figure in Polynesian myth, sometimes identified as the first man.
  2. noun A wooden or stone image of a Polynesian god.
  3. noun A Maori figurine representing an ancestor, often intricately carved from greenstone and worn about the neck as a talisman.

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  • Good kind of nickname, fossil of a stupid joke someone once made in high school after a visit to a tiki-headed Chinese restaurant. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
  • She wears a carved black coral tiki-goddess head on a Day-Glo red string around her neck. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • The tiki is riding that empty third board, which has morphed into a kahuna's mahogany longboard. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • The tiki is enraged by Loach's sacrilege—but armless and legless as she is, she has no way of shaking him free. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • Some delegates who arrived in Minnesota Saturday night attended a tiki-themed party, complete with roast pig and boat rides, but that may be the end of partying, as delegates reportedly plan to turn Monday night's session into a telethon to raise disaster relief money. —  CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
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