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Pineapple Liberation Front?
By adamg on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 2:10pm
Clay Harper wonders what group plastered this pineapple finial resistance message on the Casey Overpass yesterday - and what they want.
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The pineapple is the symbol of welcome.
Therefore, this is obviously saying, "Resist the Olympic profiteers and hucksters: do not lay out the welcome mat for them. Or you will paaaaay for the cost overruns with your taaaax dollaaaaars!"
That is what Resist Pineapple is saying to me, anyway. Don't ask me why it talks in a spooky ghost voice.
I think that's an acorn.
I think that's an acorn.
I'd have guessed pinecone,
I'd have guessed pinecone, but here's a dog with a pineapple for a hat...
Don't you hate it when....
people pronounce it as "a-kern" (instead of "a corn")?
could have used a kern on the
could have used a kern on the S-I gap in the poster.
Maybe it's a Faberge egg.
Maybe it's a Faberge egg.
A pineapple, like on our
A pineapple, like on our State House.
"That's no pineapple.
It's a space station!"
Pineapple Liberation Front?
Wait until they come up against the Liberation Front of Pineapple's crack suicide squad!
Splitters!
Splitters!
Resistance is futile!
-Borg
Pineapple
I always thought that the pineapple was the international symbol for swingers. If you see a house with a pineapple flag or banner flying or hanging outside, it means that there is a swinger party going on inside and if you want to party come on over! This poster with the pineapple on top of the word "resist" means that religious fundamentalists, be they Christians, Muslims, Black Hebrew Israelites, Mormons or whatever, see the area where it was posted as clearly their turf and they do not want any hedonism to take place. It is a message to hippies and libertines that they are not welcome.
OK
This is a first for me. Never heard of this.
You really do learn something every day!
Of course to me a picture of a pineapple is just that.. a pineapple. Let me cut it up and put tooth picks in it. We can feel like we're at the Royal Dragon!
I think what you *should* have learned from that....
...is to take posts by someone who calls themselves "PeyoteEatingWaterBear" with a pineapple-sized grain of salt.
Pineapple
I thought that the pineapple symbolic of hospitality. That's why you see it as home decor a lot. See: http://library.ucf.edu/rosen/pineapple.php
But if it means swingers, well, that's an... interesting take on the symbolism of hospitality!
UCF
My alma mater. Go knights!
Looks like TLF got a good
pecking into that concrete before the Pineapple freedom fighters spoiled it with grafitti.
Stand down!
Thank god it doesn't have any blinking lights on it.
Resist . . .
Resist bed post tops?
http://www.viewmastercms.com/assets/VMAPP_Fine_Furniture/image/ic/orig/1...
Uh oh
BFH looking abroad for inspiration? Thai pineapple farmers blocked highway in protest:
http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Pineapple-protest-block-Bangkok...
It's definitely a pine cone
From What's Under the Golden Dome: A Children's Guide to the Massachusetts State House
"At the very top of the dome is a sculpture carved of wood. Many people
think it is a pineapple, but it is not. It is a pine cone, put there to remind
everyone of the importance of the pine trees which provided wood to build
our houses, churches and commercial buildings. The wood for the State
House came from the northern part of Massachusetts, which, in 1820,
became the state of Maine."
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/Golden_Dome.pdf
A-ha. I was right.
A-ha.
I was right.
It's a brand
https://instagram.com/resistxreason/
The real story of the Resist Pineapple
It's not a brand, but a local protest against police profiling of people of color via aggressive "stop and frisk" policies. (Mostly-archived) Herald story here. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TqBpRux0g
Looks like a pineapple /
Looks like a pineapple / acanthus leaf finial somewhat common on wrought iron fences and sometimes poster beds. Resist what? Finials? How strange.