Posted on 07/31/2016 8:41:55 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
Spectators cheer as a pickup truck splashes through mud at an event formerly called the Redneck Olympics on Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Hebron, Maine. The organizer now calls the event the "Redneck Blank" after Olympic officials complained about the name.
The event, now officially known as the “Redneck (Blank)” after the real Olympics threatened to sue, also featured bobbing for pig’s feet, a greased watermelon haul and toilet seat horseshoes.
If that’s not redneck enough, then there was a wife-hauling contest and free mud runs for big-tired trucks.
Organizer Harold Brooks said it’s all about regular folks having fun without airs of pretentiousness.
“For me, a redneck doesn’t mean a person who’s dumb or lazy. A redneck to me means someone who can laugh at themselves. They’re a hard-working group of people who can let loose and have a good time,” he said.
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Real rednecks are farmers and ranchers and make their living from the dirt and the rain. So what better way to have fun between planting and harvesting than to play in the mud.
The term red neck refers to people that work out in the sun.
Next up...Bobbing for french fries.
I’ll bet there were quite a few Trump bumper stickers in the parking lot.
Not a place Hilly would go to try to win over voters .....
While running for US Senate, Hillary stopped at an upstate New York 4-H Club. As one Secret Service agent says, Hillary saw farmers and cows and then erupted. “She turned to a staffer and said, ‘What the f-— did we come here for? There’s no money here.’”
http://nypost.com/2015/10/02/secret-service-agents-hillary-is-a-nightmare-to-work-with/
Yeah, I didn’t see any of them offensive johnny reb flags. At least not in the articles pic.
As I discovered while working on a YUGE mine construction project in central British Colombia...there are Rednecks everywhere!!
Dirty jobs and rednecks just go together.
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