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OT: A little humor for the day

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soder33

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You might be a redneck if ....

The directions to your house include "turn off the paved road".
You have to go outside to get something out of the 'fridge.
Your only condiment on the dining room table is ketchup.
You consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.
Your only seasoning is salt.
Side dishes include beef jerky and Moon Pies.
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Cool Whip on the side.

and finally, Your secret family recipe is illegal.
 
You might be a redneck if your TV antenna pole is in a 55 gallon barrel filled with dirt. Also heard about a carp recipe Saturday. Prepare carp, remove mudvein and place on wood board of your choice, oak, pine, cedar etc. Slowcook over open flame about 3 hours, garnish to taste, throw away fish and eat the board.
 
If the man from the local electric company threatens to cut off your power and you threaten to cut off something of his in return.
 
If you buy some land in the country and you keep drawing up barn plans that cost more than the single wide trailer you're about to be living in. :D
 
In my experience there's two kinds of rednecks. The stinking filthy drunken doper sneak theives who haven't had a bath since their mamas brought'em home from the nursery and the yuppie pretenders who call themselves rednecks because they listen to country music and go out of their way to be rude,crude and socially unacceptable.

Either way,I'm glad I'm a hillbilly with a little bit of self respect.
 
The term hillbilly originally meant a Michigan farmer. Back when this state was surveyed,a person who wasn't very smart was know as a "Billy". The surveyors who came here found nothing but hills and swamps and said that anybody who settled here would have to be an idiot to come to these hills. So,since idiot and Billy were synonymous,settlers who came to Michigan were known as hillbillies.

Source: Paul Harvey's Rest of The Story.

I can't help it if some east coast newspaper writer co-opted the term and called those ridge runners hillbillies.

The term redneck by the way,came from union coal miners. They wore red bandanas around their necks to identify themselves as union members.
 
(quoted from post at 07:57:10 01/17/12) In my experience there's two kinds of rednecks. The stinking filthy drunken doper sneak theives who haven't had a bath since their mamas brought'em home from the nursery and the yuppie pretenders who call themselves rednecks because they listen to country music and go out of their way to be rude,crude and socially unacceptable.

Either way,I'm glad I'm a hillbilly with a little bit of self respect.
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DITTO!!!!!

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 16:18:56 01/17/12) The term hillbilly originally meant a Michigan farmer. Back when this state was surveyed,a person who wasn't very smart was know as a "Billy". The surveyors who came here found nothing but hills and swamps and said that anybody who settled here would have to be an idiot to come to these hills. So,since idiot and Billy were synonymous,settlers who came to Michigan were known as hillbillies.

Source: Paul Harvey's Rest of The Story.

I can't help it if some east coast newspaper writer co-opted the term and called those ridge runners hillbillies.

The term redneck by the way,came from union coal miners. They wore red bandanas around their necks to identify themselves as union members.
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Now don't I feel silly. Here I was thinking the whole time that you were just another yankee arsehole.
 
Nope. Sure pizzes off my inlaws in Kentucky if you call them ridgerunners though. They say ridgerunners live in Tennessee.
 
The term Red Neck actually came from Scotland way before the miners used the term
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Source Wikipedia:
Scottish Covenanter usage

In Scotland in the 1640s, the Covenanters rejected rule by bishops, often signing manifestos using their own blood. Some wore red cloth around their neck to signify their position, and were called rednecks by the Scottish ruling class to denote that they were the rebels in what came to be known as The Bishop's War that preceded the rise of Cromwell.[21][22] Eventually, the term began to mean simply "Presbyterian", especially in communities along the Scottish border. Because of the large number of Scottish immigrants in the pre-revolutionary American south, some historians have suggested that this may be the origin of the term in the United States.[23]

Dictionaries document the earliest American citation of the term's use for Presbyterians in 1830, as "a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]".[22][24]
 
Rich,

In Hamilton County (IN) we always said to roll the carp in cow manure, cook as you said, then throw away the carp and eat the cow manure.

Stan
 
Reckon Paul Harvey didn't write Wikipedia then did he? lol

I get a bunch of this stuff from The Rest of the Story. The origin of the term Yankee too. That one was a term for British settlers bestowed by Dutch settlers. (according to Paul Harvey anyway)
 
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