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Say What

Posted by Helen Killer

98 comments

UPDATE: Props to “Kitty” in the Regretsy Facebook group for making this brilliant comparison .

Filed in Art, Spelling Issues, View it in a Room 98 comments

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Nov 7, 2009
12:28 pm

#1 worldfamousfudgy :

Say WTF?

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Nov 7, 2009
12:39 pm

#2 groove is in da heart :

Could the white guy be any gayer?

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Nov 7, 2009
12:42 pm

#3 winediva :

I almost choked when I saw the Room View

you are too much!

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Nov 7, 2009
12:44 pm

#4 pottery123 :

Is one of her boobs a lot bigger than the other?

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Nov 7, 2009
12:46 pm

#5 Booksanddecaf :

The comparison makes it! LOL!

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Nov 7, 2009
12:51 pm

#6 pauldodo :

Most orinignal.

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Nov 7, 2009
12:51 pm

#7 AgoutiAvenger :

Say what? Indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFmQAQ9EDeM

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Nov 7, 2009
12:57 pm

#8 amandajean :

From the listing: “Why buy a print when the truth is cheaper.”

It’s enough to make a lady wonder…”whats going on”. As in, what the hell is going on in North Carolina.

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Nov 7, 2009
12:57 pm

#9 AgoutiAvenger :

I really screwed up the punctuation there!

You really should listen to the song while viewing the art. It enhances the “Say What!” factor. LMAO Makes you feel like you are right in the dive bar with the gay politicians and the tranni stripper.

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Nov 7, 2009
1:00 pm

#10 redseaglass :

I would LOVE to “VIEW THIS IMAGE…” in the Oval Office!

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Nov 7, 2009
1:03 pm

#11 Lexiii :

What an orinignal idea!

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Nov 7, 2009
1:05 pm

#12 AnnetteCurtain :

A limp wristed car salesman hanging out with a tranny with one giant boob in an olive oil shop, all set in the 80s. Just what I need to finish off my lounge.

SAY WHAT!

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Nov 7, 2009
1:10 pm

#13 worldfamousfudgy :

#12 LMAO!!!!!

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Nov 7, 2009
1:12 pm

#14 Schroduck :

I misread the title as “Say what a back ass!” Judging from how pneumatic the woman is, that’s probably not inaccurate.

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Nov 7, 2009
1:13 pm

#15 everydaymama :

With huge lopsided boobs like that I don’t blame the white guy for looking, gay or not ;P LOL!!

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Nov 7, 2009
1:38 pm

#16 aorta :

i’m glad the title is written in the lower corner of the painting. my tiny brain wouldn’t have understood that the speech bubble is the title.

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Nov 7, 2009
1:42 pm

#17 aorta :

he wrote you a poem. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=11865648

i think he wants to give you crabs.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:14 pm

#18 Moons in Leo :

It’s hard to believe pinky has no training. I can just picture him bouncing the grandkids on his knee while reading them Uncle Remus stories.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:22 pm

#19 NinjaGato :

So everybody had a heart attack when the “money tree seeds” were tagged “jewish” and nobody seems to have a problem with the overt racism in this one?

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Nov 7, 2009
2:26 pm

#20 NinjaGato :

The artist even tagged it under “racism”

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Nov 7, 2009
2:26 pm

#21 Lexiii :

Well, we all just assumed he was a racist pig. Just look at his shop.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:39 pm

#22 thehaps :

#20 Wow … this is racist? That part totally went over my head. I thought it was posted because of the big boob thing.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:41 pm

#23 TooManyCookbooks :

GTFO of NC with your attitude, pinky26whatever — and take your shoddy paintings with you! There’s outsider art and then there’s some dude with more paint than skills. The theme isn’t helping your case, either.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:43 pm

#24 thehaps :

He is funded partially by the arts council of North Carolina. I don’t even have a snappy comment about that. I just feel really confused.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:44 pm

#25 NinjaGato :

#23- Just NC? I say GTFO the Universe.

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Nov 7, 2009
2:53 pm

#26 hammerhead77 :

All of his paintings are just so. effin’. bad.

If the racism doesn’t do it for you, then check out some of his special sexist collection featuring lots of “old farts” checking out girls in bikinis. Har! Har! Har!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20948316

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20494153

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9966484

They’re all so tasteful. It’s tough to decide which one to slam, er, “appreciate”

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Nov 7, 2009
3:00 pm

#27 hammerhead77 :

I think this is supposed depict the trail behind a speedboat, but the painting is so damn bad that it could also be filed in vaginas:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9524245

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Nov 7, 2009
3:11 pm

#28 Redshirt Knitting :

Racist and badly done. The only way this could be worse is if it carried a communicable disease.

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Nov 7, 2009
3:12 pm

#29 Redshirt Knitting :

Whoa, I just noticed that he misspelled “original” such that it has “NIG” in it. Freudian slip, or deliberate? You be the judge.

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Nov 7, 2009
3:17 pm

#30 The Blue Kraken :

maaan the room view is so wrong LOL

the lady is.. quite well endowed

as for whats going on in NC i think this is a yankee that moved here. looks like he’s living on the coast seeing most of his work, which is where most new yorkers move to. maybe he’s confused at how intermingled the south really is.

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Nov 7, 2009
3:19 pm

#31 Lexiii :

I’m really digging the Pork Painting.

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Nov 7, 2009
3:24 pm

#32 The Blue Kraken :

redskirt i think its a Freudian slip for sure…

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Nov 7, 2009
3:29 pm

#33 NinjaGato :

Oh yeah the “nig” is definitely on purpose

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Nov 7, 2009
3:29 pm

#34 NinjaGato :

At least the shipping is free

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Nov 7, 2009
3:35 pm

#35 Diana :

Maybe Pinky is the ass-backwards racist judge that denied the interracial couple a marriage license recently.

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Nov 7, 2009
3:45 pm

#36 tempesty :

So I guess this is a commentary on the generalization that white chicks like to date black dudes because they are reputed to have larger dicks. (White dude dating black chick with large tits.) I’m trying to give the artist some kind of benefit of the doubt, like maybe he meant to hold up a mirror to white men who don’t like to see “their women” with another race and attribute it to something purely anatomical. Turn the tables, so to speak… I think I just put way too much thought into…

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Nov 7, 2009
3:48 pm

#37 hammerhead77 :

I would love to see the Regretsy submissions Inbox! I’m guessing people have already sent Helen enough bizarre & batshit crazy stuff to keep this place going for a year…

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Nov 7, 2009
4:06 pm

#38 Monstrosa :

Wiki-wiki-waka: “Outsider Art: a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.”
I’ve seen some of that. Very impressive. Coats elaborately woven from human hair, amazing models of buildings made from matchsticks, primitive dolls and paintings. There’s a whole museum about it in Baltimore. This thing isn’t even good enough for their dumpster, no matter how…

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Nov 7, 2009
4:07 pm

#39 Monstrosa :

…insane he is.

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Nov 7, 2009
4:23 pm

#40 Street Corner Hooker :

The shadows seem to imply that they’re standing maybe about a foot away from a flat surface and have a very strong light source down to the lower right.

Also, that woman’s doesn’t really look like she enjoys the white dude’s company — she just doesn’t want to be stuck with the guy holding the “SAY WHAT” sign between his teeth 24/7 anymore.

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Nov 7, 2009
4:28 pm

#41 Monstrosa :

#40: lol She looks really nervous.

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Nov 7, 2009
4:50 pm

#42 beelisty :

” I use acrylics and try to finish each painting before the beer gets warm.”

Uh, no shit. It looks like you painted these in about 4 minutes.

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Nov 7, 2009
5:41 pm

#43 lleah :

Well, you know, some of my best friends are black, so I really think they’d love this painting.

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Nov 7, 2009
5:54 pm

#44 carlossebastian :

I “thought about it”. This is comedy GOLD. Love the avatar, beelisty.

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Nov 7, 2009
6:06 pm

#45 Monstrosa :

Sold!

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Nov 7, 2009
6:28 pm

#46 sar-sar :

WTF?
Just WTF?

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Nov 7, 2009
6:29 pm

#47 StinkBait :

Thats it!!! All these retarded paintings are getting fucking sold.

I am gonna start painting using my own shit.

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Nov 7, 2009
6:55 pm

#48 personalearthquake :

is there someone behind the woman in this painting? or……? what’s going on? ever?

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Nov 7, 2009
7:10 pm

#49 personalearthquake :

SOLD! YAY! I was going to buy it, but hey, next time.

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Nov 7, 2009
7:17 pm

#50 imwithya :

I’m digging some of his paintings. I might have bought one if it weren’t for all the talk bubbles… not really a fan of those. Of course “Say what?” wouldn’t be the same without the bubble and this one is possibly better because of it:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21084635

haha “Loose the boots!” Oh god the more I look at it the more I want it. Somebody buy it. I have no place to put it!

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Nov 7, 2009
7:18 pm

#51 jeffreyrcarey :

sar-sar, I’m with you! YSM.

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Nov 7, 2009
7:40 pm

#52 crapgawker :

@49 personalearthquake – hey maybe the artist will do prints or even notecards!

Here’s hoping………

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Nov 7, 2009
8:08 pm

#53 XbrianX :

Best “view in a room” EVER! Say what?

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Nov 7, 2009
8:37 pm

#54 Lara :

Am I the only one that thinks the chinless white guy is a dead ringer for Zach Braff?

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Nov 7, 2009
9:15 pm

#55 NinjaGato :

I was going to say he looks like a dead ringer for Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock.

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Nov 7, 2009
10:16 pm

#56 DucksNew :

This one’s interesting in concept (if lacking somewhat in execution):
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=28880471
From the thumbnail, I thought it was a beach ninja stalking some lady in a bikini. Seriously.

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Nov 7, 2009
10:30 pm

#57 syd_bristow :

It’s ironic because a white man painted this.

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Nov 7, 2009
11:09 pm

#58 moontreestudios :

i only buy orinignal art, so this would be perfect for me. TOO BAD SOMEBODY BEAT ME TO IT.

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Nov 8, 2009
2:31 am

#59 GeekWhit :

This guy offers a discount to first-time Southern art buyers. Now who’s totally jealous that I qualify for this? All that fabulous art…mine! At a discount!

Methinks that some people confuse “folk art” with “no artistic skills whatsoever.”

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Nov 8, 2009
2:47 am

#60 benconservato :

exactly GeekWhit…

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Nov 8, 2009
5:26 am

#61 Monstrosa :

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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Nov 8, 2009
5:31 am

#62 heidrun :

everytime regretsy shows a painting i think it can’t get worse. i’m stunned. by the horrific lack of skill and by the racist shit. wow.

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Nov 8, 2009
6:39 am

#63 pauldodo :

There you go, Heidrun- the next one WILL be smeared with sh!t.

Keep looking.

p
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Nov 8, 2009
9:42 am

#64 goblin :

Well…certainly the issue of black men dating white women is a touchy subject, with roots that can be traced back to the stratification of society during slavery. You could argue that the artist is trying to flip this on its head (and I would argue that just because a work deals with race doesn’t make it racist per se) to make us think, but, well…the deep thought of “Sweet Tea” is “Black and white folk have something in common — we all like sweet tea!”

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Nov 8, 2009
9:59 am

#65 hammerhead77 :

Oh damn. I don’t like sweet tea. I guess that means I have nothing in common with “black folk.” Should I turn myself in to the NAACP?

(GAH! Make it stop. Make it stop.)

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Nov 8, 2009
10:07 am

#66 heidrun :

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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Nov 8, 2009
10:10 am

#67 heidrun :

and he, a white, implies in this painting that a black guy would disapprove of a black girl dating a white guy. jeez, the racism is really not very hard to find in this piece.

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Nov 8, 2009
1:49 pm

#68 Lexiii :

“Loose the boots”???

Even my 8 year old can spell “lose”.

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Nov 8, 2009
2:20 pm

#69 worldfamousfudgy :

Ok! Which one of you sick freaks bought this atrocity? LMAO!!!!!

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Nov 8, 2009
2:25 pm

#70 getsy :

I understand this ‘artist’ wants to get his views (whatever they are) across through his paintings, but it’s just very very badly executed. Even if it the painting was really good, the scene is awfully awkward. The view in a room is hilarious.

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Nov 8, 2009
2:43 pm

#71 beqi :

I’m so thankful for the ‘outsider’ art world. Otherwise the mentally ill would have to find new hobbies.

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Nov 8, 2009
2:52 pm

#72 The Blue Kraken :

#47 Stink bait. well if you want to start painting with your feces in NY the guy urinating in a jar with a cross went over well so go for gold

wait what.. “I have no training, I’m a southern boy with valuable information about bars and beaches”
i think he lost me. -_- is he making vacation brochures or paintings?

66 heidrun spot on.. truth be told there’s really no such thing as race since there’s no pure “races” in America.. its all just ethnic groups that use skin color as…

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Nov 8, 2009
2:55 pm

#73 The Blue Kraken :

identifiers. more subcultures than anything to do with race

cut off the last bit

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Nov 8, 2009
2:56 pm

#74 pug off :

“Say what?!…Lady, that dude’s hand atrophied after you knocked his shoulder out of alignment with your gigantic right breast”

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Nov 8, 2009
3:01 pm

#75 ihatecowls :

IT SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is giving the wrong message to this lunatic.

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Nov 8, 2009
3:57 pm

#76 addiosix :

I’m from the south. I’m actually talented, and I’m not a dumbass racist.

Say what?!?!

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Nov 8, 2009
6:29 pm

#77 Street Corner Hooker :

#66 heidrun — He’s actually referring to “Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts,” a comedic series of short stories that start out sounding philosophical but go off the deep end quickly. They’re quite funny.

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Nov 9, 2009
12:10 am

#78 frostypumpkin :

Anyone noticed the white guy’s middle finger?? It’s blowing up!!

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Nov 9, 2009
6:33 am

#79 turtlegirl76 :

Oh God. I don’t think I want to know what his “special sauce” is that he used on this picture:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_1&listing_id=19324005

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Nov 9, 2009
7:15 am

#80 Lexiii :

This guy is an alcoholic, as well as a racist.

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Nov 9, 2009
9:19 am

#81 Stingray Charles :

This is a scene from a very special episode of 3’s Company. After Janet falls asleep in a tanning booth, Jack takes her to the Regal Beagle to lift her spirits. In a cameo as barroom bully Russell, Desmond Wilson, angered by what he perceives to be an inter-racial couple, picks a fight with Jack. Mr. Roper comes to Jack’s defense, explaining that Jack’s “a little light in the loafers.” Chrissy enters, says something stupid, Mrs. Roper makes an impotence joke at her husband’s expense…

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Nov 9, 2009
10:26 am

#82 iamhydrogen14 :

I almost wet myself at the Burlesconi and Obamas pic. So awesome!!!

As to this guy’s intentions…i’m honestly trying to figure out if this is racist or not. Some of his other paintings seem to be about southern whites & blacks being equally affected by economic struggle. Another features both black and white women as the objects of his admiration (“Sainted Southern Ladies”). “Say What?” is totally weird, but i wouldn’t call this guy out as being intentionally or maliciously racist.

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Nov 9, 2009
10:37 am

#83 Efit :

This old cracker is ca-razy.

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Nov 9, 2009
10:39 am

#84 vangoghbabe :

It’s the red tie…power statement.

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Nov 9, 2009
10:52 am

#85 coffee and shoes :

My boyfriend is black and I’m white (Say What??), and when I showed this to him and told him people think it’s racist, his just said, “In what way?” I agree with iamhydrogen14 – I think the painting is strange, but I don’t think it’s racist. Even though it’s 2009, plenty of people still don’t think interracial relationships are okay. I don’t think the artist is one of them, though. Just my $0.02.

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Nov 9, 2009
11:17 am

#86 vangoghbabe :

You know what the white guy is thinking????
MOTOR BOAT!

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Nov 9, 2009
12:26 pm

#87 Stingray Charles :

#86 VGB: Do you realize you make me laugh out loud at work several times a day?

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Nov 9, 2009
12:58 pm

#88 vangoghbabe :

Ah, thank’s

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Nov 9, 2009
1:01 pm

#89 vangoghbabe :

All kindness aside…
I could have said he was thinking mud boggin’ but I didn’t.

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Nov 9, 2009
1:24 pm

#90 Stingray Charles :

Oh no you d’int!

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Nov 9, 2009
1:30 pm

#91 PokerFace :

Anyone else notice the wordplay of “oriNIGnal”?

In all his other listings he can spell original just fine.

This painting is beyond racist.

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Nov 9, 2009
4:31 pm

#92 I-adore-regretsy :

I love this site, & the comments, and this is just GOLD! I think HIS BIO says it all:

“I am an abstracted outsider folk artist. [READ: Sexist, Racist Moron]In other words…I paint to my point of view, I have no training, [REALLY?? It's actually quite obvious] I’m a southern boy with valuable information about bars and beaches. I use acrylics and try to finish each painting before the beer gets warm. [I'd drink too if I were that sh*t an artist!]

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Nov 10, 2009
2:18 am

#93 frostypumpkin :

I’m still disturbed by the white guy’s middle finger…

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Nov 10, 2009
7:57 am

#94 conditionals :

@#54 Lara: You’re right. That IS Zach Braff.

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Nov 11, 2009
6:36 pm

#95 itlives :

His wife?

http://www.southernbellestore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/SB017-2.gif

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Nov 16, 2009
7:01 am

#96 Dix :

Uh, oh–I’m a Southern white girl with a Latino boyfriend. I’m not trying to make a point. I just, you know, like the guy.

I hope I’m not messing with anyone’s head . . .

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May 24, 2010
8:11 pm

#97 Meanie :

Not sure if anyone mentioned it or not, but the “full version” is listed now, and he added more speech balloons to it to make it less racist? LOL
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44320833/say-what-originals-redone

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Jul 23, 2010
12:40 am

#98 ShuffleCara :

As a black female with a white boyfriend, I just want to let you all know that I do indeed feel the cold stares of black men when we are out. And by the way I’m so fucking sick of hearing “say what?” Come up with a new expression of surprise/ disgust!

They might be looking at you like that because you’re annoying. – HK

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