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[Lawnboy]

For all you southern rednecks. Name those Hunttalkers

 

[tarheel]

Rednecks aren't confined to the South; they're in every state I've ever been in, and I've been in most every one of them. I'll admit that we have some choice ones, and with the advent of Redneck Reality TV, lots of them are becoming quite proud of their reputations. I guess they're not much worse than pseudo sophisticated effitist snobs and Democrats. Choot em Troy!!!

 

[Randy49er]

Just to be clear, in Redneckese there is no l in self. Not trying to be anal but right is rat.

 

[Lawnboy]

I'll admit that we have some choice ones, and with the advent of Redneck Reality TV, lots of them are becoming quite proud of their reputations.

I admit that I have been getting my dose of it on TV and they are mostly from the South. Now if you'll excuse me I think I'm burning my dinner on the burning barrel and Swamp People is about to start.

 

[tarheel]

I admit that I have been getting my dose of it on TV and they are mostly from the South. Now if you'll excuse me I think I'm burning my dinner on the burning barrel and Swamp People is about to start.

Yeah, but then there aren't any gators, snapping turtles, etc. and it's kinda hard to get good year round filming weather in places like Bozeman. The reality TV crowd never cease to amaze me with the different lifestyles they come up with, and they and Hollywood have always and always will look for ways to exaggerate the Southern culture and linguistic characteristics of Southerners. If you and other people have been getting "your dose" of it on TV, just try to imagine how weary the people of the South are becoming of it after more than 100 years of the film industry and all the other sources of derision demonstrated by people who for the most part have never been to the South yet find it convenient to criticize and make remarks about a people who at least retained a sense of decorum, cordiality, and culture while the rest of the country surged west and worked it out the best way they could. Granted, we have our share of ignorant, country boy, unsophisticated types down here, but the South has no monopoly on them and if pressed to do so, I could point out a pretty good collection right here on this forum, none of whom are from the South. You don't have to be missing teeth or be splay-eyed to be a redneck.

If I seem a bit defensive and you can't figure out why, just go back and reread my last paragraph and imagine yourself a Southerner; that might help. My people have been in Virginia and NC since the 1620's, and with nearly four hundred years of history in this region, I would be undeserving if I failed to defend the honor and dignity of those who went before me, be they redneck or sophisticate, and we have both in the South.

Now we are inundated by the refugees of the Rust Belt who come down here with their pockets full of large equity checks from overpriced housing and buy up all the mountain and beach land available, all the while driving up the housing market until it's nearly out of reach for many people and never get tired of complaining about how we do things down here and telling us how they used to do it in NY or NJ or Ohio or PA or CA or wherever the hell they came from as if we really give a damn. If they find our ways not to their liking, maybe they should go back where they would be more at home. Maybe the Northwest would be more to their liking.

 

[spook12]

Laffed so hard i chocked on my backer juice! Woke the wife/cousin and all the youngns.

 

[Lawnboy]

Tarheel you'd be happy to know that for the first few years of grade school our mom would slip plastic bread sacks over our feet and put a rubber band on them to keep the snow off our shoes. If that's not a redneck gaiter I don't know what is. Felt kinda stupid when the others asked why your shoes said "Wonder Bread" on them.

I'm not calling the kettle black. I just knew that picture was from down south because the two ol boys were necked and it's too cold up here to have your belly hanging out.

 

[tarheel]

Tarheel you'd be happy to know that for the first few years of grade school our mom would slip plastic bread sacks over our feet and put a rubber band on them to keep the snow off our shoes. If that's not a redneck gaiter I don't know what is. Felt kinda stupid when the others asked why your shoes said "Wonder Bread" on them.

I'm not calling the kettle black. I just knew that picture was from down south because the two ol boys were necked and it's too cold up here to have your belly hanging out.

Your Mom was being very practical. I still remember the cardboard that was slipped into my shoes to temporarily keep the elements out when the soles had worn through. I was fortunate enough to not have to subject my children to such trauma and embarrassment.

I knew you weren't busting on us really; I just can't pass on an opportunity to stand up for Southerners, whether it be necessary or not. He does cut quite a figure with his paunch hanging out, huh?

 

[tarheel]

Laffed so hard i chocked on my backer juice! Woke the wife/cousin and all the youngns.

Spook, you located anywhere near Lake Dardanelle, and if so is the fishing any good there? I've often thought that would be a nice part of Arkansas to retire to, say, somewhere within 50 miles of Clarksville. Long as it wasn't too close to the casinos on the Cherokee Nation or my wife would gamble me into the poorhouse.

 

[spook12]

tarheel, i live in Clarksville. fishing is pretty good ,dont do a lot . I do so much hunting in the fall and winter that i make a point not to spend to much time on the water or i would go broke.

 

[noharleyyet]

These days we illiterate southern rednecks gotta go north of the gnat line just to get away from the yank know it alls who've migrated down heeya to find employment and save us from ourselves. When I hear em speaking that yankee jibberish I tell em, "you are in Texas now dammit., speak Spanish!"

...good thing is, we don't get many Commiefornians, they can't seem to make it past Colorado, Wyoming, or Montana.

 

[NChunter]

I live near Charlotte, NC. I think 9 out of 10 people in Charlotte are from somewhere else. I also think there is something wrong with people who buy an acre of land on a mountaintop to build a big house just for the view. They are just an eyesore. Our mountaintops are getting covered with them.