Are shooters "uneducated rednecks"? Part Deux

I'm an Australian.And I'm a Redneck and proud of it--Not that it matters,but I also have a 4yr MA 1 Hons in English Literature.
I do some pretty educated cussing when I need to.
 
Let's see, live on several acres on a lake, have a large garden, originally from the middle of New Orleans, electrical engineer in the instrument, controls, and electrical (power) fields, my first real computer used a Z-80 that I suped up to 2X speed, own a pickumup truck, tools enough to do most anything (and generally have to), gun club member, gun nut, CCW holder, NRA, GOA, etc. My wife tries to teach high school math, but with the idiots running the place and the idiots entering high school, it's a loosing battle. Her school is known as red neck high. But these "cases" give decent red necks a real bad name. The "family trees" of these clowns are either straight lines or circles. At a teacher-parent meeting, one parent replied to my wife saying "my kid don't lie!" Yah, right. Most of them are below grammar school in learning and here they are in high school cursing out my wife because she "won't pass em." Give a gun to most of them and they would look down the muzzle with their finger on the trigger and ask if it's loaded.
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My favorite red neck joke is: You know you're a red neck when both your wallet and your dog are on a chain.

TFL has been real good for me and very helpful. But, one comment, FUD, where are you!
 
Guess I'm probably worse than a redneck - I'm a Chief in the Navy - ask any blueshirt or supply officer and they'll likely confirm this. Oh, and aside from all the various military training, an AS in Electronics Engineering Technology, and a BS in Workforce Education & Training Development. (Oh yeah, and I'm a Southern Baptist :eek: ,and *gasp* go to church regularly!)

"The problem with most folk ain't their ignorance, it's that they know so much that just ain't so."
Mark Twain

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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
"Power corrupts. Absolute power - is kinda cool!"
Fred Reed

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Born in Texas and raised in rural Central Louisiana. I guess that makes me at least a potential redneck :)

I have a B.S. in General Studies (hey, it was the only way not to lose all those fine arts credits when I switched from Fine Arts to Spanish/Linguistics as a major) from LSU. After graduating, I stumbled my way into computer programming, went back to school and was well on my way to a Masters in Comp Sci when work moved me to the Denver area where I still live and consult in the disk storage industry.

I hunt, fish, hike, whitewater raft and canoe, shoot Highpower, combat pistol and smallbore, play and build guitars (at least I try to) and have lately been considering getting into custom knifesmithing. There just isn't enough time in a day.
 
I don't believe a person can claim to be a redneck unless they understand the following conversation:

MR DUCKS
MR KNOT
CD EDBD WANGS
LIB
MR DUCKS

:)

Seriously, there are all forms of learning. I know lots of folks who are "educated" despite the "handicap" of not having formal degrees. Nothing against formal degrees - I've collected several myself. But, I enjoy my gun collection more. :)
 
I live in a trailer and go to monster truck races. During my childhood, I devoloped a taste for ham hock and beans...I don't feel that I could be accurately described as a redneck. :D
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CindyH:
During my childhood, I devoloped a taste for ham hock and beans...I don't feel that I could be accurately described as a redneck. :D[/quote]

Ham hocks and lima's. I'd never eaten them before I met my wife. That was 23 years ago. Lord, I have gotten SOME kinda education! :D

Cliff
 
Well...I've always figured I'm a happy lil redneck. 'Druther be outdoors than indoors. I've been a civil engineer, sportycar racer, coin collector and chess player. No matter how many books I give away, there always seem to be around two or three thousand on my shelves. 1440 on the Graduate Record Exam means I ain't perzackly stoopid--mighta done better, but a sinus attack ran me outta Kleenex at an hour and a half. Private pilot, dumptruck driver on mountain roads and the world's best backhoe operator on mountainsides. Did most of the work on building my house--after my wife laid out the floorplan, I did the rest of the architectural design (not that I'm of the Christopher Wren level.)

And I'm not just a pretty face; I can type 70 wpm.

My first BB gun was a gift from my mother--a PhD in Psych. My first .22 was my school-teacher grandfather's. My father and his brother, both professional engineers, went together in getting me into .30-'06 and handloading, fifty years ago...Hunting came naturally.

Being a redneck doesn't mean that reading at some 1,000 wpm is difficult. :)

:), Art
 
WARNING--RANT MODE ENGAGED:

I'm an over-educated redneck and I'm proud of it. I was a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship program and an Illinois State scholar. I graduated from Monmouth College with a 3.481 GPA (so I DID miss Cum Laude, I suppose. Maybe I really am stupid...) Now I'm an eighth grade English teacher and coach.
You know who people would call an uneducated redneck? My dad. He uses "ain't" a little more often than he should, along with double negatives and such. He just barely graduated high school (like his father before him, who only graduated 'cause he could play basketball and no one else could tie the principal's flies for him just right :D ) and didn't go to college. Worked the same mechanic job for Pillsbury for 21 years until they moved their operation, and now works for our small town basically digging ditches, fixing sidewalks, mowing grass and picking up trash. Yeah, he's uneducated by some standards, but I TRUST my father. He's an honest man and he does his job--every job. Who do these idiots think educated me?

The last person to call me a redneck and mean it was my college roommate. You know who uses redneck as an insult? Not just yuppies, but HELPLESS yuppies. This kid felt the need to drive his car all the way around campus on a flat tire so I could show him how to change it--when he was 20 years old.
 
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I'm gettin' a little tight-jawed reading about how yous' guys define rednecks. The only stereo-type not challenged is that of a NASCAR devotee. You take on the image of marriage, masticating preferences, jobs, education, modes of transportation, and so forth; but the one classification not challenged was that of rednecks being NASCAR devotees.

Well, lemme' tell you us NASCAR types are salt of the earth. We are normal, we are sane, we all have indoor bathrooms. What makes our sport special is the venue owner allows us to bring in our own food and beverages to the event. For that we owe our support.

NASCAR is a way of life, get use to it. Matter of fact, radical elements of NASCAR fandom will apply for protection under hate crimes legislation! So watch you mouth.

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I've run a McDonald's restaurant, made two years of an engineering
school (CS), before money went to zero again, and I'm taking a new job
as system administrator in eight days. I teach people using computers,
I install networks for a living. I teach German and French to
foreigners.

I'm reading Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzsche as well as many other German
philosophers, as well as antique literature (Cicero, Macchiavelli
etc). I'm Christian, although not ultra-fundamentalist. I'm engaged
with a Tamil girl who is a strong believer of RKBA since there
wouldn't be any Sri Lankan Tamils left if they didn't have guns and
guts to fight. I know Tamil and also read some of their works,
although it's still a bit tedious as my Tamil is not up to par with my
English.

And, yes, I own guns and shoot them.
 
Colleges attended: 6 or 7

College Credit Hours~250

Degree: Chemistry BSc and contribution to research proving the iso-nitrosyl linkage isomer. Substantial research demonstrating too much Etoh the night before makes one feel like squat the next day.

Graduate Degree: MBA w/Finance Concentration, currently trying to encourage the formation of a non-profit corporation which can help South Sudan become an independent Christian nation. Its just a little, but every bit helps...

Recently joined Mensa because I am tired of feeling like I am living on a minor Buddhist hell-world. Probably won't help. Next step? Frequenting prostitutes, or maybe giving another go to Karma-yoga and Jhana-yoga.

Redneck? No. Mildly useless, bored and formerly alcoholic genius? Yes. Big Whoop.
You are too, think about it.
 
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