Okay, this is a little funny: Ice cream mascot mistaken for KKK clan member.

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You have to see the picture to appreciate it:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-ice-cream-store-mascot-klan-kkk-20110927,0,188631.story

[KamaAina]

1. Dunce mistaken for Klan member

[tblue]

18. Looks like a kinder gentler Klansman.

Poor guy, having to wear that getup.

[HopeHoops]

2. Holy fucking Jesus on a popsicle stick - the costume has fucking SPRINKLES on it.

Get a fucking GRIP people.

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4. The big surprise was that people stayed away from the business

because of it. It was, afterall, Ocala.

[HopeHoops]

7. I don't get the Ocala reference.

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9. You learn everything you need to know about Ocala driving to it.

Lots of anti-abortion billboards, and occasionally, the anti-Liberal ones too.

[HopeHoops]

10. So you mean like South Carolina imported to California, right?

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11. The outskirts of Central Florida are very red.

Alachua County is the only very bright blue spot. I think Orlando tends to purple-blue.

[HopeHoops]

12. You're talking about an area where most houses have six lawnmowers and no grass.

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15. LOL!

Oh, God, that was good.

[HopeHoops]

16. No, that was observation.

[Odin2005]

17. I know a woman who taught there, she said it was an awful place.

She left because she was being sexually harassed by her principal. She told be that she ran into more sociopathic people there than anywhere else she has lived. She taught in cockroach-ridden trailers because there was no money to expand the schools.

[Obamanaut]

3. Here's the link to one of the earlier threads with multiple responses ->

It's even still on page one of GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2008929&mesg_id=2008929

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5. Thanks. Maybe the mods can combine.

[L. Coyote]

6. Buying an ice cream store just to promote the KKK, priceless

kidding :rofl:

[WilliamPitt]

8. Ow.

My brain.

[booley]

13. I guess I could see it

All a speeding motorist is likely to see is a guy in a white hood.

And when the brain sees something it doesn't understand, it tends to fill it with whatever it does understand.

Still, it should have given someone pause wondering what the Klan had to do with ice cream sandwiches.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. I can see how from a distance people who had never seen KKK gets might have been confused by this.

Yes, it's not full length like typical Klan regalia and it has sprinkles, but the general shape of the head gear is right. Too bad the waffle cone portion of the costume didn't extend down the legs. That would have made what it was rather obvious. Bad costume design!

I once worked on a project where we hired a novice designer to come up with a logo. It was conceptually right on target, but the execution was flawed -- it included a baseball cap drawn sideways and the rendering made it look a bit too phallic -- back to the drawing board!

[KamaAina]

19. I take it they don't have chocolate?

:rofl: