Thousands Attend Redneck Games in Ga.

Yahoo News ^ | Jul 07, 2003 | AP

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EAST DUBLIN, Ga. - There was bobbin' for pigs feet and hubcap hurling. Grown men competed against each other by belly-flopping into a mud pit.

This year's Redneck Games at Buckeye Park in East Dublin drew thousands of spectators.

Mayor George Gornto said he thought the crowd that gathered Saturday was much bigger than last year's record crowd of about 12,000. Many people traveled to the event by boat, as the park is on the Oconee River.

"It's been fun," said Wanda Crawly of Crawfordville. "The competition has been good, and the music has been good."

The games began in 1996 as a good-natured poke at the Atlanta Olympics by WQZY-FM, a local country music radio station. The first year drew only 500 people but the event has grown after the station moved the games to the park.

"At one time I think 'redneck' had a bad connotation," said Frank Fraser of Jacksonville, Fla., who started a magazine and Web site called Redneck World. "But people have come to realize rednecks are the salt of the earth. They are the ones who drive the trucks and farm. They are very patriotic."

The only setback for the games was that the river was too swift for the raft race, so it was postponed until later this month.

Organizers still found a way for attendees to cool off in the river by roping off part of the river that was blocked from the current. The East Dublin Fire Department also provided a misting station.

[stainlessbanner]

Name your favorite event.

[nothingnew]

Name your favorite event.

Don't know about this gathering, but it sure reminds me of all the times we drove down from Connecthedots to Union Grove NC for the fiddlers convention....those were the days.

FMCDH

[1Old Pro]

Hmmmm, not a word about Beer drinking.

[Bluntpoint]

An Outsider in a small Texas town around Christmas time, saw a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. But one small feature was all wrong: the three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets.
Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, he left. At a "Quik Stop" on the edge of town, he asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets.
She exploded into a rage, yelling, "You darn Yankees never read your Bibles!"
The Outsider assured her that he did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible.
She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and riffled through some pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage. Sticking it in the guys face she said, "See, it says right here, 'The three wise men came from afar.'"

[cincinnati65]

"Name your favorite event."

As if you didn't know that tobacco spitting is the Grandaddy of all events.

[Bluntpoint]

Top Ten Signs A Redneck Has Been Using Your Computer


10. The monitor is up on blocks.

9. Outgoing faxes have tobacco stains on them.

8. The six front keys have rotted out.

7. The extra RAM ports have truck parts stored in them.

6. The numeric keypad only goes up to six.

5. The password is "Bubba".

4. There's a gun rack mounted on the CPU.

3. There's a Coors can in the cup holder (CD-ROM drive).

2. The keyboard is camouflaged.

AND the number 1 way to tell if a redneck has been working on a computer is...
1. The mouse is referred to as a "critter".

[Blood of Tyrants]

Favorite event would be the "Overpass and WaterTower Painting Contest".

The "Highest Beehive" is always a favorite with the gals.

[Bluntpoint]

The Iowa Taxidermist In Alabama


This guy walks into a bar in Alabama and orders a white wine.
Everybody sitting around the bar looks up, surprised, and the bartender looks around and says: "You ain't from around here, are ya... where ya from, boy?"
The guy says, "I'm from Iowa."
The bartender asks, "What th' hell you do in Iowa?"
The guy responds, "I'm a taxidermist."
The bartender asks, "A taxidermist... now just what th' hell is a taxidermist?"
The guy says, "I mount animals."
The bartender grins and shouts out to the whole bar, "It's OK boys, he's one of us!"

[Bluntpoint]

Even More You Might Be A Redneck If...


You wonder why there isn't a hairstyle called "The Hat Line."

The same pair of boots have been in your family for five generations and they're only twenty years old.


Your dog passes gas and you claim it.

You think paprika is a Third World country.

You refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the "day my ship came in."

None of your shirts cover your stomach.

Your wife has ever said, "Come move this transmission so I can take a bath."

You judge drive time solely by the number of beers you need to take.

Your home has more miles on it than your car.

You consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.

You think the stock market has a fence around it.

Your stereo speakers used to belong to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.

You read the Auto Trader with a highlight pen.

The Salvation Army declines your mattress.

You were shooting pool when any of your kids were born.

You have the local taxidermist's number on speed dial.

Your school fight song was "Dueling Banjos".

You've ever given rat traps as gifts.

You keep a can of RAID on the kitchen table.

Your mother has "ammo" on her Christmas list.

You've totaled every car you've ever owned.

There has ever been crime-scene tape on your bathroom door.

The taillight covers of your car are made of red tape.

You think a turtleneck is key ingredient for soup.

Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

[stainlessbanner]

That made me think of the ol' submarine races down at the lake < reminiscing >

[Maceman]

Be funny if the winner was some Japanese guy.