T/S: The California Raisins vs Hate Crime

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― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

a good friend compelled me to rent him this somewhate rare california raisins costume i knew of so he could beat up his all-camo-all-the-time redneck neighbor while wearing it.

i couldn't get it, so he wore some sort of chest-revealing, skin tight, hot pink leotard.

anyway, that might've almost been a hate crime as a calfornia raisin.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I think I went as a Raisin for Halloween in 1986. The costume involved a garbage bag.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

http://dvdmg.com/raisininthesun.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

i think in 1986 3 of us went as superman....

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

i sat through some stupid tv special at my grandma's house once (i think around '88?), excitedly waiting for the segment with the California Raisins to come on.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

i also went as superman on halloween for three years in a row

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

just curious, what does andy dick have to do with hate crimes?
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

aren't the california raisins kind of racist? why do they sing motown if they are from california??

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

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― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

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― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

My dad used to compulsively buy me the California Raisins from Hardees/Wendys/Whatever every single time we were driving back from my swim lessons at the naval base.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

why do they sing motown if they are from california??

ask creedence.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

my father loved those goddamned raisins...i still dont get it

dammit joel stop posting right before i do...

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

just curious, what does andy dick have to do with hate crimes?

he's all up in the hate crimin', donchaknow...

Actually, truth was it was some sketch from his MTV show, doing a fake "True Hollywood Story" thing. The narrator made a comment of "It was all getting too much for young Andy: the booze, the pills, the hate crime, he had to find a way out of it..." (overtop of footage of Andy beating up some old lady, etc)

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

i sat through some stupid tv special at my grandma's house once (i think around '88?), excitedly waiting for the segment with the California Raisins to come on.

http://static.zoovy.com/img/mombo/W180-H250-Bffffff/upc820/759731408820

A perennial fave

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

also, they were toys from Arby's. My mom collected them:

http://www.toytent.com/Characters/pics/664-K1.jpg

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

ahhhh, there was a nice version of we three kings in that

hardee's too...the toys

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

last time i saw andy dick anywhere was on anton lavey's son's girlfriend's myspace page. he was hanging with.

(search teh board for lisa suckdog carver.... i linked to these myspace pages elsewhere... she pissed off the satanists with her new book on punk.) ((well, it might have been a staged thing.))

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Ever tried explaining these things to a non-American? You'll feel like a retard.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

that "we three kings" on the xmas special is pretty fantastic. those camels are fucking rad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

wow i cant believe you actually found the actual tv special! :-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

dude, i had that shit on tape when i was in middle school.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tapehead

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

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