Hope Watermelon videos

December 21, 2006 2:13 PM

“There’s nothing like a BIG MELON to bring everybody together in Hope.” ( video ) It takes Bright Women to grow big melons, and old men to pick the world's largest. A better tagline possibly: "Hope Arkansas: Home of President Bill Clinton and the World's Largest Watermelons". Videos, as always, brought to you by the Hope MelonFest On-Deman Video Center.
posted by thisisdrew (9 comments total)

Must ... resist .. urge ... to make Clinton and big melon joke ...
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:21 PM on December 21, 2006

Must ... resist .. urge ... to make Turkmenbashi and melon joke ...
posted by languagehat at 2:29 PM on December 21, 2006

Hey! This sort of misogyny is just not on.
posted by sourwookie at 2:54 PM on December 21, 2006

At first I thought this was another dupe about the death of Turkmenbashi
posted by delmoi at 3:17 PM on December 21, 2006

I love accents from Arkansas. So fabulously cute! A 268 lb. melon is pretty large. I love the "world's largest" video where the people moving it accidentally drop it and decide to just start eating it right there on the spot.
posted by dog food sugar at 3:34 PM on December 21, 2006

These videos were fun. Thanks!
posted by halonine at 4:00 PM on December 21, 2006

those two old codgers just blew my minds
posted by es_de_bah at 6:52 PM on December 21, 2006

Just the sort of edgy humor I've been looking for on Mefi all day.

dog food sugar, why are you spoiling??? Why don't you tell everyone what else happened?

You know. . . I really know people like this. Watermelons are their life.
posted by j-urb at 8:42 PM on December 21, 2006

Ahh I'm sorry! In my defense - the weight was mentioned in another link and the melon bust happens one minute into an 8 minute video. Those other 7 minutes are full of melon-centric conversational stylings.
posted by dog food sugar at 7:33 AM on December 22, 2006