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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Interesting how free you feel to relate these kinds of jokes about . . . rednecks. How long do you think this thread would have lasted had it been about solving homicides among Muslims, Jews, Mexicans, or Negroes?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Probably only until the first good one.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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TomBoleware Inner circle Hattiesburg, Ms 3163 Posts |
We ain't worried bout it cause them there rednecks ain't got no computers noway.
They think a hard drive is used to climb a steep, muddy hill with 3 flat tires pulling a trailer load of fertilizer. How they gonna know? Besides, those other people jokes would go over like a pregnant pole vaulter. Tom
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
Being a "Redneck" is a lifestyle choice not a race...unless it's The Nascar Race.....
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Most of the ones I wrote are stuff taken from my own family!
My Great-Grandpappy really was a moonshinin' pig farmer and tobacco farmer.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
While we are at it lets skewer the Amish too. They will NEVER know!
Sorry to say the redneck stuff hits pretty close to home here. Especially the K_9 joke Steve. But in the spirit it is pretty tough to investigate when you can travel for 20 minutes and never curve the scene of the crime. Plus it is hard to tell those bad gunshots from all the other regular gunshots.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Also hard to tell the gunshots from the trucks backfiring.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
"Rednecks" - the immigrants from the borderlands around the Irish Sea who arrived in America in the late XVIIIth Century and made their homes in the (then) Western Mountains, often known as the "Scots-Irish" - are the backbone of American freedom, the stalwart, wild bunch who have volunteered their lives to preserve our independence in every war this Nation has ever had to fight, from the Revolutionary War to the "War on Terror." They were the "first to start and the last to quit." James Webb (a good writer if a lousy Senator) wrote about them in Born Fighting, and Andrew Hackett Fisher, in Albion's Seed, describes the origins of their colorful folkways, and the persistence of their ancient beliefs in freedom in their religious and political life. From a review by Professor Mackubin Owens:
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The Scots-Irish tend to see politics and religion from the bottom up rather than from the top down. In the British Isles, they resisted Norman feudalism, adhering to political relations based on personal honor and voluntary associations. In America, especially the South, they likewise fought against a top-down, three-tiered political system imported by the Cavaliers, creating Jacksonian democracy. In the British Isles, they resisted both Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, preferring the Kirk and the rule of elders—Presbyterianism. In America they became Baptists and fueled the various Great Awakenings that have periodically swept America. The rest of us should thank God that a number of "Rednecks" sufficient to stiffen the backbone of the Nation still preserve enough of the spirit that animated men like Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson (and 17 subsequent Scots-Irish Presidents), Ulysses Grant, John Calhoun, Representative Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Ambrose Burnside, and many others. And President Barack Obama is descended from such Scots-Irish "Rednecks," too. I hope everyone had a Happy Fourth, celebrating the independence for which so many of these "Rednecks" paid with their life's blood. |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
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On 2012-07-05 02:24, Dannydoyle wrote: Hey, my parents were from Eastern Kentucky (near where Loretta Lynn grew up, Lee Dollarhide was killed and the Martin-McCoy feud took place), making me a "second-class hillbilly." I did plenty of squirrel, pheasant, rabbit and deer hunting with my dad, and had many a dinner consisting of soup beans, cornbread and collards. If you grew up that way, youuuuuu--might be a redneck (at least partly).
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Among argument can be made it was the hill folk who actually won the Revolutionary War.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On 2012-07-05 00:27, Devious wrote: That's actually the best line in this whole thread!
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TomBoleware Inner circle Hattiesburg, Ms 3163 Posts |
I agree it is a lifestyle choice and not a race thing.
Most don't get upset by the redneck jokes because if they did, they wouldn't be a real redneck. Got to love, "What this world needs is a few more rednecks." by The Charlie Daniels Band Tom
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Agree with that, Tom.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Tom, you're pretty close to the fire down there in Hattiesburg!! Ha! The drunkest I ever got was hustling pitchers of beer playing Foosball in Hattiesburg!!
I spent many years living in Alabama, and I can tell anyone reading here that no self-respecting redneck takes offense at being called a redneck. In fact they wear it as a badge of honor. Guys like Jeff Foxworthy could never have made a career out of it if that wasn't the case. What you WILL find though is a bit of contempt for non-rednecks making jokes about rednecks. This is not because they are offended by the jokes, it is because those non-rednecks have NO CLUE about the lifestyle beyond the Hollywood cliches. The jokes usually suck. I don't consider myself a redneck, with my roots more Midwestern. But, I have associated with them long enough to know what I'm talking about. Dam Yankees...
~michael baker
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
"...cause the Sherrif said "That ain't a murder, its just a dead yankee!"
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TomBoleware Inner circle Hattiesburg, Ms 3163 Posts |
Michael, yes it does get a little warm here at times.
I agree, Dam Yankees don't know what they talking about half the time. Tom
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On 2012-07-05 13:23, TomBoleware wrote: Yeah, in a funky reverse kind of way, it's like listening to someone speak English who doesn't. (as if Southerners have a grasp on that). OK, now don't everyone get their panties in a wad. Rednecks are found far outside the South, too. There are a few claims to the origin, one stemming from the red bandanas worn by union mine workers as a show of solidarity. Mostly though, the term is now equated with the southern "hick" persona. Cracker, hillbilly, trailer trash, and a few other names are common synonyms. When I was growing up in the Midwest, we used to call them farmers. In modern times, the term, which I already mentioned is one embraced by many who feel the peer group sense of belonging, is loosely used. Foxworthy really nailed it when he started his list. He did say, "You ARE a redneck." He said, "You MIGHT BE a redneck." This allows for some wide interpretation. Now speaking of such, I'll offer you a visual of something I have actually seen in Alabama. You be the judge as to whether or not this constitutes redneck behavior... There was a home near me with a satellite dish. It was not mounted on the roof, but in the yard right next to the house. A coiled up garden hose was hanging from the feedhorn.
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
I always thought the term originated from the people working out in the sun. Farmers, field workers, laborers, etc. Vs. the 'White Collar Workers'.
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Pecan_Creek Veteran user The Nation of TEXAS! 323 Posts |
No actually Redneck was originated when mineworkers in appalachia were in a shooting war with the union busting thugs of the mining companies. They wore red bandannas around their necks.
It is a shame that it has lost its pride of place and most modern day "rednecks" wouldn't have a clue about the true history of the working class in this country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
The published use of the term is quite a bit older than that. It comes, if I am not mistaken, from XVIIth century Scotland, and thus represents in and of itself a link to the culture of the Irish Sea borderlands from whose people America's "rednecks" are largely descended.
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