BearClaws
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:28 PM
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I was channel surfing the other might and came across Jeff Foxworthy's classic Redneck comedy. I actually know people like the ones he describes. what are your feelings on this classification of our population?
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:30 PM
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1. "No sir, I don't like em" (ala Mr. Horse) |
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:31 PM
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:32 PM
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3. On my family? Well, they're good people. |
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Life is a little different in the rural south and not always in a bad way. Unfortunately, a high percentage of them are Bush voters and not necessarily all that cultured.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:33 PM
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4. Live with them every day |
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I am one and am related to them. What do you want to know?
I think Foxworthy is funny.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:33 PM
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5. I grew up surrounded by them. Some of them are wonderful folks that I |
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Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 09:34 PM by yellowdogintexas
love dearly. Just don't talk politics or religion with them and all is well.
Let's not leav out my favorite cousing who looks and talks just like Jeff Foxworthy (but is a bit more enlightened than your average redneck)
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:37 PM
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6. I know some redneck hippies who are some alright standup guys |
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Vote Dem, grow pot, love NASCAR, country music and muscle cars.
But again, I DO live in California, and these guys live in an little known town called "Boulder Creek."
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:38 PM
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7. We also live in and around Chapel Hill |
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:44 PM
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9. Asheville is a cool area. Chapel Hill as well. I have a brother in college |
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at UNC. Sadly, he's republican. We spent a few hours at Thanksgiving in spirited political discussion. That was...intersting.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:50 PM
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one of the five Republicans in Chapel Hill. :-)
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:10 PM
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19. I think so, and conversely, I'm one of the 5 liberals in our hometown. nt |
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:45 PM
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10. Ahhhh the Blue Ridge Mountains |
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One of these days I'll see them...
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:50 PM
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13. Come one over, Taverner |
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It's beautiful. They usually have white xmas too.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:51 PM
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14. Yeah I hear it's nice |
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The only problem is that whole driving-over-a-thousand-miles-to-get-there thing that stops me :)
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:10 PM
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20. I hope we do this year. It's certainly cold enough now. nt |
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:22 PM
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im next to the blue ridge parkway in avery county, about an hour from asheville (so I go there a lot). I love downtown Asheville, lots of cool places there. Here, though, its all Baptist churches and.. um.. well, there's a Wal-Mart.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:56 PM
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16. redneck hippie is an oxy moron |
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:40 PM
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8. I'm not a redneck, but I play one on TV |
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When we're in a seedy bar or dealing with hillbilly neighbors or around rednecks for whatever reason, my friends and family invariably nominate me to handle all negotiations.
I tuck a cigarette behind my ear, spit frequently, and preferably have a beer in my hand (and you';d be amazed at how tolerant rednecks are of foreign or microbrews, though usually I'm drinking Keystone).
Most importantly: I turn on my secret weapon -- THE TEXAS TWANG.
I can go from well-mannered, cultured elitist to Good Ol' Boy in about three seconds flat.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:50 PM
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11. yer Thawts on "Rednecks"" |
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when i here one who is liberal i love em even more when i hear the usual right wing red neck,,,,,whatever
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:11 PM
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21. rednecks are......well |
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insidious to be sure...a danger to the repulic...to be sure...to logic...to be sure...to all that is decent...to be sure. a danger to intelligence and the advancement of man...to be sure. they have populated the kkk the right wing christians and all that is ugly about this country.... in short i despise them for they represent pure evil in this truly great country.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:54 PM
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15. Always felt there are two cardinal rules re: cowboys or rednecks |
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1 - Don't fuck with their hat. You can get shot for screwing with a cowboys hat. Kind of like fucking with someone's car in California, or messing with their shoes in NYC. You just DON'T DO IT. Oh, and for the ladies, if you take a cowboy's hat off and put it on your head in joke, that means you're sleeping with them that night. Just a warning :)
2 - Don't act like you're better than them. They're sick of this, and they can spot patronizing behavior a mile away. Just treat them like anyone else.
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:03 PM
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18. gee isn't this the m. o. of carl r. and shouldn't you have said |
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in the end get fucked. no pun etc.
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Fri Dec-03-04 09:56 PM
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17. Most of them, north or south, are simpletons |
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Ignorant, violent assholes.
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:14 PM
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22. I think they need a new quarterback |
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and I'm glad they got rid of Spurrier.
Oh, never mind, I keep getting Redskins and Rednecks confused.
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Fri Dec-03-04 10:31 PM
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24. Back in 1971, I was hitch hiking to see Alice Cooper |
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and ended up in front of a bar out in a hick town between here and there.....
I was wearing one of those New Years Eve Top Hats and an Army Jacket with a Keep On Trucking caricature emblazoned on my back...
I also had hair down past the my neck and hanging around in front...
I was a child Hippie.
So there we were, Bob A and I headed out for a great Friday night, we were about 14 at the time, when out of the bar burst a couple of local rednecks with eye glassed over by a few too many Rolling Rocks,. They started whistling and calling us girls....
So, to make a disturbing moment short, they came at us and were going to cut our hair with their knifes. We took off, ran across the street and up the road to the Police Station....
The cops, naturally, said the boys were just letting off some steam, and by the way, what are you boys doing hitchhiking here in my city....
Phone calls to our parents got us out of the mess but we never got to see Alice Cooper that night...
Yea, I hate rednecks....
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:12 PM
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25. Theye're just like any other |
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