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To: xrmusn

Yup; Levis, work boots, and a long sleeved shirt.
The health nuts need to get off their asses and do an honest days heavy labor.
Work on my farm 7 days a week and can walk, hike, and haul more than my son who is at least twice my size.
Put all those 30 somethings to shame when we go bird hunting in the fall.
Just a youngster at 65, but have managed to retain every bad habit I developed as a kid.


55 posted on 07/04/2015 9:19:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

Yup; Levis, work boots, and a long sleeved shirt
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Between my Jr and Sr year of HS a buddy of mine lived on a farm and they ‘invited’ the football team over to help bring in the hay. Naturally they told us that it would be good ‘exercise’ and help us get in shape oh yes, the pay would be a hearty breakfast and a bigger lunch.
Most of us showed up (I was 16 and the farmer would have gotten arrested today - but my ‘real’ job was setting pins in the local bowling alley). Anyhoo, they had a couple of hands around and they had the flannel shirt buttoned at the neck and sleeves down, buttoned.
‘We’ figured they must have been nuts and started to take off our shirts...the kid that grew up on the farm convinced us that it wasn’t a good idea and somehow kept the shirts on and in T shirts...

I swear that I am still picking nettles that had ‘sweated’ themselves in........And I still ‘sport’ the ‘ditch diggers tan and am a true redneck - even though from upstate NY.

People use the term redneck as derogatory but it really signifies the people who actually WORK by doing manual and physical labor and contrary to popular opinion a lot of rednecks are actually more intelligent than the self important intelligent.


57 posted on 07/04/2015 10:08:16 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Remember, Age and Maturity are not automatically in synch")
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