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12 Reasons Why I Converted To A Part Time Redneck

Posted by kellybax • 7/01/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: beer, country, fun, music blog, redneck

1. They sure know how to have a helluva good time!
2. Country music is real and also a lot of fun.
3. After initial resistance on my part, Nascar claimed me as a fan. Whoo Hoo #48 Jimmie Johnson!
4. They really know how to have a good time!
5. Drinking beer all day long CAN be good for you
6. There is, in fact, a time and a place for cussing. It is just a more descriptive way of speaking.
7. Bluegrass music is very enjoyable. Why did it take me so long to realize it?
8. They really know how to have a great time!
9. It is okay to have a beer at noon. Thanks to AJ, we all know it is five o'clock somewhere.
10. What you see is what you get. You usually don't have to try and figure a redneck out.
11. They don't spend a bunch of needless time worrying about what other people think.
12. Did I mention that they know how to have a good time?

Find out who did this to me and what song accompanies it at www.whatdoesthissongmeantome.com/2008/07/12-reasons-why-i-converted-to-part...

User Comments

7/01/08

kdawg68

oh no! LOL. Being a native Alabamian, I'm usually trying to hide my redneckedness. Unfortunately anything "southern" or "country" in nature has been labelled such in a negative fashion - sort of a new aged way for "progressive" types to call you a racist.

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7/01/08

kellybax

Good point. It must make those "progressive types" feel better about themselves somehow to go around labeling everybody else. I reiterate my point #11!

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7/01/08

jafabrit

Funny I didn't put those things down as being unique to one group

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1. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  They are not necessarily unique to that group. I was describing the people (which happens to be my in-laws/their friends/extended family) that introduced me to those things.
2. 7/01/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  Are you telling me you didn't already know how to have a great time, or some of the other things on the list ;)like 1,4,6,8,10,11.
  
  Ah Bluegrass is WONDERFUL!
3. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  @jafabrit: Yes, I am saying that for the most part. They really showed me how to let loose and have a good time. I used to be a lot more conservative and sort of shy. Being around them over the years changed me for the better when it comes to just letting go a little bit and relaxing.
4. 7/01/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  It's a lovely feeling isn't it
5. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  Indeed
7/01/08

rbfineart

I agree with everything except NASCAR. Still can't get into guys driving in circles.

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1. 7/01/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  yes, the NASCAR doesn't do it for me either, but then I have never really been into watching sports (well I do enjoy watching a soccer match now and again).
  
  It is delightful chugging down a beer watching a game and shouting bollocks at the telly every five mins.
2. 7/01/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  and what a waste of gas - such a "green sport"
3. 7/01/08
  
  JanelleV
  
  I don't really get NASCAR.. All they do is drive in circles! How exciting -- *he's turning right* : ]
7/01/08

Anok

Ha! And with the exception of the Nascar reason - that's why I love Punk Rock and all those crazy Punk rockers - and skins, and rudies....

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7/01/08

BennyGreenberg

What? You saying the Opera Crowd does not know how to let loose? - I will have you know - that the Martinis at Poopsies last week were devine

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1. 7/01/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  AND you can still sing bollocks at Poopsies, in a refined way of course
2. 7/01/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  why of course
7/01/08

baldeagle

You wearing the Daisy Dukes? I love those!

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1. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  They are all packed and ready to go!
2. 7/01/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  Kelly in Daisy Dukes - who has the camera?
3. 7/01/08
  
  baldeagle
  
  My point exactly!
4. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  **blushing**
7/01/08

calais50

Living in NC, I see my fair share of rednecks. Sorry, but I'm not such a big fan of all things redneck. To each his own, though.

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7/01/08

flamingpoodle

Oh and 13. they REALLY know how to have a good time!

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1. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  Thanks, forgot that one!
7/01/08

satijournal

I used to be into NASCAR racing back in the '70s when Richard Petty was king and the drivers were all rednecks. Now it seems like there's too much money in it. Of course, that's the problem with all sports these days.

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7/01/08

Bricore

As I told my mother I never started to feel like a real redneck until
I licked the nectar out of honeysuckle, drank out of mason jars, found out Sweat tea is every where here, been all bit up by chiggers, found out that you don't push buttons here instead we MASH them, and last but not least, or said I'd smack my mamma because someone's cooking was just that good! lol..

Ok, maybe I have always been a little on the Redneck side a little~ letting my children swim in the horses water tanks an all BEFORE we moved south..lol..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7Tp6-gxHs

I still don't drink beer and even tho we own the build right next door to Talladega Speedway I have never been there.

Dora Renee' Wilkerson
bricoreandfamily.blogspot.com/

p.s.
This Ohio born and raised girl thinks it's wonderful here in Alabama (yes, I miss my family but Alabama is beautiful!)

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7/01/08

gmoney

kelly thanks for the idea...... and your post is GREAT

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1. 7/01/08
  
  kellybax
  
  Thanks gmoney. Your list is the perfect spin-off!!
7/01/08

JanelleV

lol great list

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7/01/08

acousticguitarist

Well sweetheart of the rodeo, I'm sittin' here singin' Tammy Wynette just for you

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1. 7/01/08
  
  gmoney
  
  ride um cowboy
7/01/08

7masterheathen

So let me get this straight. You are saying rednecks know how to have a good time?

smarty pants I am

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