Anita Bryant pied (from 1977)

[bluestateguy]

I can only wonder how she reacted to the Supreme Court ruling last week.

Everything she ever fought for has been discredited and defeated.

[Solly Mack]

1. I hope she's lucid and knows exactly what happened.

And I hope it hurt.


I well remember her vitriol.

[fadedrose]

2. Was that Sunkist Orange Juice she used to sing commercials for?

She really got the gays all fired up, and the company got so many complaints and demonstrations that they fired her.

Wasn't that Anita Bryant I'm thinking of? Not too long after she got a divorce...such a lovey dovey couple I sort of remember.

[Solly Mack]

3. Florida Citrus Commission. They didn't renew her contract because of the boycott.

She did those "Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine" commercials.

[fadedrose]

4. Now I'm thinking "Minute Maid"

"Minute Maid Orange Juice is better for your health.."

I am almost sure of that, and the FL Citrus Commission must be the ones who hired her.

I never see Minute Maid any more, we use the store brand...

[Art_from_Ark]

12. Anita used to sing this jingle

"Come to the Florida sunshine tree
For great tasting orange juice, naturally
Orange juice, with natural Vitamin C
From the Florida sunshine tree"

[Solly Mack]

18. Yes! and at the end she'd give the phrase" A dayb w/o oj...."

[Kalidurga]

5. I prefer glitter bombs

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. I know a couple of guys who would be happy to squeeze out some juice for her.

[WinkyDink]

7. So, to make a wisecrack, you ignore that she's 75?

[msanthrope]

8. Is she any less hateful than when she was, say, 45? nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. I don't think they were even born when she was pied.

[cwydro]

9. Ick.

Seriously?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Not as the object of affection.

[brucefan]

10. I googled her

She's still alive

[DawgHouse]

11. This woman's anti gay crusade hurt so many people.

[CrawlingChaos]

13. OMG, I don't think I've ever seen that before

Love the tent show theatrics! Her partner - or whoever the hell he was - wouldn't even let her wipe the pie off her face before breaking into show-prayer for the cameras. That's show biz! So much pure hate couched so much BS talk of "love".

Ugh.. I laughed, but I also kinda want to barf.

I saw this video earlier today and had the same laugh/barf reaction, leaving me with the feeling that the more more things change, the more they stay the same:

[PowerToThePeople]

15. Maybe she was repenting her sins?

Someone in that video needs to turn to God.

"My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love." I John 4: 7-8.

[hifiguy]

21. Nuttier than squirrel shit.

And the universe could very easily have formed out of nothing. All it takes is one burp in the quantum foam that starts to expand. Turns out nothingness is neither truly "nothing" nor especially stable. See Krauss, Lawrence, A Universe From Nothing.

I laff in your general direction, you ignorant woman. I blow my nose at you. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away before I mock you some more, you silly person.

[MuseRider]

14. A friend of mine

was one of the people who pie her. I so wish I had known him then.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. She had it coming.

"And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right."
Harvey Milk

[hifiguy]

20. I am old enough to remember when that happened.

I did larf heartily.