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Carpenter's They Live vis Five on the Black Hand Side ?


there is a scene in Five On The black Hand Side where one dude makes a huge elongated big pimpin barbershop rap which includes, almost verbatim, the couplet which Roddy Piper used in John Carpenter's movie They Live about "kickin ass & chewing bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum."

does anybody know, has Carpenter ever acknowledged that this line is from Five On The Black Hand Side? or was that bubblegum crack like a common jive phase back in the day? my guess is that JC was making a nod to this movie but I'm curious if anyone else ever noticed or heard of this

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does anyone know a site that has this speech printed out. The speech was given by Fun-Loving in John Henry's barbershop and i would really like to have it. A few of the lines I remember are:

"I'm imp the dimp, the ladies pimp,
all the women fight for my delight"

and the one about handing out a$$ whoopings and bubble gum and being fresh out of bubble gum.

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About half of that speech is in H. Rap Browns' autobiography Die *beep* Die. My personal favorite line is: I wouldn't give a crippled crab a crutch if I owned a lumber mill!! Funloving was real cold. But my hero is the Black Militant from the committe to free Brother Ali Gama. When he said "this is the time brothers, this is the time. This time the honky dog has got to pay"!! I love this film & cannot understand why it isn't shown more often. It doesn't have any profanity, sex, or drugs at all. This film could be shown at 8:00 for the whole family. But they constantly put those same old b.s. movies with nothing but murder & mayhem in the black community. Some of these movies aren't worth being put on film. Thanks for letting me vent. Melvin.

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I know this is much later, but I have found Fun Lovin's barbershop speech. This is from the play so some of the words are changed and some are more graphic.

In my alley if you're hip to yourself that makes you hip to everybody else. I don't mean to be dipping into your business. Now I've been checking out you dudes talking about women, I'm going to let you peep a little of my game. All you need to get a woman is a strong rap. Hey! What'd I say? Every woman in the streets wants a piece of me. You dig it. They call me sweet Peter Jeter, the womb beater, the baby maker, the cradle shaker. The deer slayer, the buck binder and woman finder. I'm known from the Gold Coast to the rocky shores of Maine. Dig? Fun Loving is my name, and love is my game.I'm the bed tucker, the cock plucker, the mother fu##er. The milk shaker, the record breaker, the population maker. The gun slinger, the baby bringer, the humdinger, the pu##y ringer, the man with the terrible middle finger. I'm Fun Loving the hard hitter, the *beep* the poly-nuci gitter, the beast from the east. The judge, the sludge, the wimmen's pet, the men's fret, the *beep* pin-up boy. Fun Loving the dicker, the ass kicker, the cherry picker, the city slicker, the tiddy licker. I ain't giving up nothing but bubble gum and hard times. And I'm fresh out of bubble gum. I'm the man who walked the water and tied a whale's tail in a knot. I taught the fish how to swim, crossed the burning sand, and shook the devil's hand. I rode around the world on a snail, carrying a sack that said airmail. I walked forty-nine miles of barbed wire and used a cobra snake for a necktie. I took a hammer and a nail and built the world. Yes! I'm hemp the demp, the woman's pimp. I'm a bad dude. Women fight for my delights. Johnny Rip-Saw, the devil's son-in-law. I gave a highway patrolman a spedding ticket, and sold a blind man a flashlight. Oh yes! I roam the world, God knows I wander. Smoking stuff is where I get my thunder. I'm the only man in the world who knows why white milk makes yellow butter.....I even know where the lights go when you cut the switch off. Now I mightnot be the baddest man in the whole world, but I'm in the top two. And my father is getting old.

This was from the play and not the movie. They had some pretty decent talent in the play.

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I think the reason this movie isn't shown more is because it shows blacks they way they really are: just people with depth and multiple dimensions.

In order to be on TV or in the movies today, you have to be a thug or a whore.



"Hot sun, cool breeze, white horse on the sea, and a big shot of vitamin B in me!"

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