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http://www.captainthoms.com/voodoo_L.jpg

I wanted to try it because I really like another of their sauces, but I felt uncomfortable bringing it up to the checkout counter. Note: in Whole Foods it didn't actually have a Voodoo Doll affixed to it. I discovered that looking it up online.

frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_2PjDQdXI

hope it's not racist to think this is funny as hell.

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

reminds me of that dude who had all the beverages for different types of ladeez in his place

the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:28 (fourteen years ago)

I wasn't aware of this stereotype where black people couldn't stop singing inside McDonalds.

pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

no idea if that's racist or not but she is very funny

Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

Didn't laugh, but I wasn't offended. There is something about the running gag of an African-American slipping into jive after eating some Mickey D's/home cooking/listening to the Gap Band that gets a little old, but I'm a little too removed from it to really look down upon it to make a judgement.

pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

reminds me of that dude who had all the beverages for different types of ladeez in his place

― the late great, Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:28 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha tfg i had forgotten

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't really laugh, but she's super-cute.

frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

who was that dude

"got the green tea for the erykah badu headwrap wearin b*tches"

the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

she is super cute but that grey top is sorta nasty looking, like her much better in florals

the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRL7D0wcXM

pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

haha oh yes, mr chi city

the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

'droppin vagina panties'

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

mcdonalds woman should be on tv, real talk

suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

uh, she is on tv

dayo, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018068/

dayo, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

There are more movies on this list than the Benjamin Harrison and Rutherford Hayes pages combined.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0053706/

Nothing to do with racism. The Henry Kissenger page likely has more anyway.

pplains, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/the-definitive-list-of-white-music-stolen-by-black-people

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

ugh

frogsclovetofu (beachville), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

'stolen'

zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

guys

max, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

is this racist?

pplains, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)

i guess that's what we're all asking ourselves, right?

pplains, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)

the headline just seems offensively dumb and inflammatory but i guess that's the linkbait huh

zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

the awl sux

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

i'm not really grasping the point but no, i don't think so

JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

a shame how the staple singers stole 'slippery people' from the talking heads, never forget

zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

its a tongue in cheek response to a silly onion av club article

max, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)

never heard this cougar/me'shell cover of wild night, pretty dreadful

JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

i LOVE that cover of wild night!

wraparound shades from pharmacy (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

wish it were more.. tongue-behind-cheek

wraparound shades from pharmacy (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

well rest easy knowing that i would not be so hard on it if i hadn't watched the video. mellencamp goes down a lot smoother when i don't have to look at him. also wild night is one of those songs where i can't really understand how a cover would ever be necessary.

JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

this list would have been funnier had they just matched up random songs with similar titles that sounded nothing alike, or if every pair had been the wrong way around as opposed yo just a couple

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:07 (fourteen years ago)

It took three tongues in three cheeks to write that article.

pplains, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

that's sexy

dayo, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

yo just a couple

wraparound shades from pharmacy (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

many times I have cursed the proximity of 't' and 'y' on the keyboard but never louder than today

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

no no! thank you so much.

yo just a couple (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

is it racist to satirize rap if, by all indications, you've never actually heard rap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2ZVWyOVRI

del griffith, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)

lol you guys got trolled by the awl

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

need frogbs' input on this one

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

RE AWL: cute response to a serious-face article from butthurt white boy

butt hurt >>> http://www.avclub.com/articles/our-white-people-problems-problem-why-its-time-to,72974/

a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

is this das racist?

"in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

that Onion article seemed legit to me

That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:57 (fourteen years ago)

the problem with the original article is that the real reason to stop using "white" as pejorative is because it doesn't work

I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

certainly hasn't stopped people from trying

That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

The whole point in saying "white people" pejoratively is to treat white people as reductively as white people treat other races.

suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

Like how does dude walk away from the Roots/Mad Men comparison being like "Wow, that doesn't get white people at all" instead of being like "It's really unfair to peg watching one of the most highly viewed TV events of all time as something indicative of the black experience in america"

suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

...

Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

because that wasn't the point of the article, maybe

That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 20:15 (fourteen years ago)


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