'Duck Dynasty': Before the furor, a lunch in Beverly Hills

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 27, 2013 | Greg Braxton

[Black Agnes]

Before picture resembles Stoick the Vast. After, not so much.

[Vendome]

You did commercials?

Kewel...

[ErnBatavia]

Years ago, my boss had me run a visiting Aussie bigwig around Beverly Hills, including that place.

Sitting in the lobby bar, Dom DeLuise started loudly prancing through the area and our visitor asked me, "Who the f*ck-all is THAT faggot?"

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hundred years ago.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Weren’t he, Jim Nabors, Burt Reynolds and Rock Hudson some kind of tag team?

[Spok]

I’m more impressed by the individuals than by the tv show. What’s really fascinating is that they are so successful on their own that they could walk away from the notoriety in a heartbeat and never look back-the kind of people that liberals despise.

[Guenevere]

This is a good read.....Los Angeles Times....unbelievable

[Windflier]

When we moved from California to Texas eight years ago, I had to lop off the ponytail for business reasons. Folks out here warm right up to a contractor with a military cut - not so much to those with shoulder length locks.

My wife put it up in a braid and chopped it off. Put it in her keepsake box, and off we went to the barber. It’s been clipped close ever since, but she still wishes I could grow it back out.

The one thing she wouldn’t budge on was my facial hair. She agreed to let me crop it close, but clean shaven would probably be grounds for divorce.

[Windflier]

I’ve worked in Kalifornia including near LA. I couldn’t wait to get back to Mississippi.

I'm from L.A. Spent most of five decades there, but after living in Texas for eight years, the place now creeps me out. Completely.

[BunnySlippers]

I love when Willie coined that term when getting ejected from the NY hotel.

[bgill]

By the way, none of that talk revolved around gays or blacks. No questions on those subjects were raised. At that time, there was no reason why they would have been asked.

There it is. There was no reason it should have been except as a set up to cause all the uproar.

[bgill]

There are more racists in LA then there are in Louisiana. The South has no real problems with race like the North does. Where are all the knockout games happening, not in the South.

Bingo.

[lostboy61]

I was born in L.A. so that makes me a California Ameracan-Norwegan American(family background)- Jew. I left when I was 18 and never looked back. By the grace of G-D I have lived the last 7 years in the South with a great Southern Irish American girl.

[FES0844]

I wish they’d adopt me!

[Paradox]

“African” is not a race. It’s a continent.

I had a friend, white like rice, his parents had funny accents, he was born in south africa, he was naturalized here, so he would joke that he was African-American.

[A CA Guy]

That place is a few blocks from me. Can you say, “Lots of local industry Liberals”?

They would be talking about them behind the back with a few conservatives among the group thinking “Good for them”.

Lots of posers; speaking of which, the President always stays there and blocks the traffic while begging the rich for campaign dollars.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

he would joke that he was African-American.

He certainly had more justification in calling himself that than some Domestic Black Savage.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

my facial hair. She agreed to let me crop it close

Aha! The Jazz look.

Tenor Sax by chance?

[Salamander]

What the lobster said.

[21twelve]

There is a comedian from S. Africa, Trevor Noah. He has a bit (which I can't find on youtube anymore - I think it got pulled, but he has others that are good).

But in this one he talks about having a white dad and black mom he was called “mixed”. So he was all exited to come to America so he could be “black”. Of course he speaks English with a very formal English diction.

So he meets a black guy that introduces himself as Kamokila, his friend Dashome, and his girlfriend Ladasha. “You know - names that tie us back to our African roots. What's your name brother?”

“Um. Trevor.”