Word: rednecked
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...launch themselves out of the water, turning into 40-lb. (18 kg) projectiles that could easily smash an unwary fisherman's nose. It's enough to turn a fishing trip into something worthy of the X Games, which may be fine for the extreme-angling participants of the wild Redneck Fishing Tournament in Illinois, where silver carp are the target and black eyes sustained from flying fish are a badge of honor. But your average day-tripping sportsman on Lake Michigan might not appreciate an airborne carp smacking him in the kisser. "They are living missiles, and that...
...from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once, and that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like in real life. Yet despite Georgia’s decisive modernity, I am still the brunt of redneck jokes, all the more outlandish because I am not red, or even white, but just plain brown...
There never seems to have been a culture war about who's allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia...
Recently you mentioned that Nadya Suleman, the Octomom, is the definition of a redneck. Are there other public figures out there who you would say are rednecks? Jon and Kate. When you've got all those kids and [he's] got a girlfriend that everybody knows about, there's a little bit of redneck in that! (Read "Jon & Kate Plus 8, Divided...
...have a favorite You Might be a Redneck If...joke? It's kind of like picking between your children. When I wrote "If you've ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said concentrate...," that made me laugh...