This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
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This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
"Danville, Va., the gritty Southern mill town where my parents were born and raised, is a city born out of slavery."slowcat95 wrote:This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
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Funny stuff. Bliss can't miss.Dr. Bliss wrote:Redneck Epitaphstan wrote: Research shows that people are really poor judges of risk.
Roadside crosses
A tree that wouldn't move
You can still see tire tracks
Somebody lost the groove
Quarter-mile straightaway
At the end a little twist
Redneck epitaph:
“Hey y'all, watch this!”
And it's sure-fire can't-miss
And blow a kiss
Yeah it's sure-fire can't-miss
Hey y'all watch this
Forty balloons and a lawn chair
Now wouldn't that be cool?
It's a triple flip and a belly flop
From the balcony to the pool
Get the fireworks, get the guns
And meet me in the yard
Redneck epitaph:
“Live fast, die hard!”
And it's sure-fire can't-miss
And blow a kiss
Yeah it's sure-fire can't-miss
Hey y'all watch this
You wake up every morning
Sleep walk through your daze
You need a little something
To break out of the haze
Sometimes you get to thinking
You'd rather be dead than bored
So tamp it down and fire it up
Haul ass and get on board
And it's sure-fire can't-miss
And blow a kiss
Yeah it's sure-fire can't-miss...
Call Momma and Daddy
Get Grandpa too
Fetch Uncle Bud
This one's for you!
Got the camcorder ready?
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Yeah it's sure-fire can't-miss
Hey y'all watch this!
Six summers in a cotton mill in Spray, NC to help put myself through old DU.Waitress wrote:"Danville, Va., the gritty Southern mill town where my parents were born and raised, is a city born out of slavery."slowcat95 wrote:This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
http://www.themillions.com/2016/07/whit ... trash.html
Hmm. I wonder if Dr. Bliss has ever been anywhere near there...?
Dr. Bliss wrote:Six summers in a cotton mill in Spray, NC to help put myself through old DU.Waitress wrote:"Danville, Va., the gritty Southern mill town where my parents were born and raised, is a city born out of slavery."slowcat95 wrote:This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
http://www.themillions.com/2016/07/whit ... trash.html
Hmm. I wonder if Dr. Bliss has ever been anywhere near there...?
I earned my redneck stripes. How 'bout you, Airball?
"there is value in understanding redneck culture"stevelee wrote:It's been over 50 years since I read it (summer before DU, per reading list) the first time, and I think I reread parts of it maybe 20 years ago, but I'd still suggest W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South. I was expecting mint juleps on the veranda, but found a description of Southern textile mill culture, mostly. I was working in the mill where my father worked that summer, so it seemed especially relevant. BTW, I am likely a distant cousin of the author on his mother's side, I figured in recent years. But then I'm almost for sure kin to most families that have been in that area for 200 years or more.
They are often overblown, but there is value in understanding redneck culture, and to some degree linthead cultue, in reading some the studies of Scots-Irish characteristics that were in vogue, what, 15 or so years ago.
Maybe. How many PBRs can you drink?Airball50 wrote:Dr. Bliss wrote:Six summers in a cotton mill in Spray, NC to help put myself through old DU.Waitress wrote:"Danville, Va., the gritty Southern mill town where my parents were born and raised, is a city born out of slavery."slowcat95 wrote:This White Trash?Airball50 wrote:Read "White Trash"
http://www.themillions.com/2016/07/whit ... trash.html
Hmm. I wonder if Dr. Bliss has ever been anywhere near there...?
I earned my redneck stripes. How 'bout you, Airball?
Lower middle class upbringing, alcoholic father who was orphaned as a child during the Depression, loaded trucks on night shift for United Parcel, first in family to go to college. Do I pass your redneck admission test?