# Andre The Giant Has A Posse **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 31, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869 "2000-12-31T04:19:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/1 "2000-12-31T04:19:42Z")
Does anyone know what Andre The Giant has a Posse means? Or what Obey Giant means? Or who Shepard Fairey is? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/2 "2000-12-31T04:25:54Z")
Umm? What’s the context, Kenneth? The late Andre the Giant, as you probably know, was a WWF wrestler in the 1980s, and an actor of great renown in the incomparable _The Princess Bride_. I have no knowledge of his posse, though. ---
**Author:** ![fenrir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@fenrir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fenrir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/3 "2000-12-31T04:35:39Z")
[http://www.salonmag.com/people/feature/2000/06/22/fairey/](http://www.salonmag.com/people/feature/2000/06/22/fairey/) [http://www.buddyhead.com/art/giant/page4.html](http://www.buddyhead.com/art/giant/page4.html) he’s an artist/tagger.It just takes a little easy searching on yahoo. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/4 "2000-12-31T13:10:10Z")
This should explain all: > **[Obey Giant - The Art of Shepard Fairey](https://obeygiant.com/)** > > AKA Andre the Giant Has a Posse. A street art project and an experiment in phenomenology by artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey. ---
**Author:** ![socpro69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@socpro69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socpro69)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/5 "2000-12-31T14:50:04Z")
NYC ska band The Slackers have a song about this. I never understood it before. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/6 "2000-12-31T18:51:17Z")
It’s a great pop-art sticker campaign. There’s a second generation of stickers, which have a more stylized version of Andre on em. Both stickers are great. jb ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/7 "2000-12-31T19:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > **from [obeygiant.com](http://obeygiant.com)** The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker. Because Giant has a Posse has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities. Thar ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/8 "2002-06-29T16:10:53Z")
Sounds like art to me. ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/9 "2002-06-29T22:31:12Z")
Some of the variations are “Gary Coleman has a posse”, “The Rev. Jim Jones has a posse”, and “Tony Danza has a posse”. Apparently, anyone who has ever been famous or infamous can have their own posse now. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/10 "2002-06-29T23:21:02Z")
Andre probably doesn’t really have a posse. He prefers it when people fight each other the way God intended. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andre-the-giant-has-a-posse/47869/11 "2002-06-30T13:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fenrir \* > **he’s an artist/tagger.** I think you misspelled “vandal” Fenris