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In response to the Foxworthy thread I present The Real Redneck Test (http://www.countryhumor.com/humor/southtest.htm).

76 Points here. Dagnabit! I want my trailer!

In response to the Foxworthy thread I present The Real Redneck Test (http://www.countryhumor.com/humor/southtest.htm).

76 Points here. Dagnabit! I want my trailer!Dang, only 73, but no trailer. Was thrown off by the John Deere question, while they come from the factory in green most of the ones I am familar with are a rusty redish color or yellow primer, so I answered that way.

Wow..... 1!
I'm not much of a redneck apparently :S

Dang, only 73, but no trailer. Was thrown off by the John Deere question, while they come from the factory in green most of the ones I am familar with are a rusty redish color or yellow primer, so I answered that way.

Eh? *looks at Squi all weird like* So John Deere Green means nothing to you?

Of course, I counted my answer of "'John Deere green, and yellow". Google it up if you don't trust me. (I ought to get extra points.)

Onm the otherhand, you get you trailer and trans-am at 60+, so you win, too?

Wow..... 1!
I'm not much of a redneck apparently :S

Ya'll ain't from around these hear parts, are ya'll?


Ma, get my shotgun...

13...

Hmm...I know what a chigger is...imagine that. :p

I got one right. Can't get anymore city slicker than me I guess.

13...

Hmm...I know what a chigger is...imagine that. :p

And I sincerly hope you didn't find that out the hard way.

Getting a massive chigger infestation from trompimg around in the high grass while on a fishing trip at my Aunt Annie Mae's brings tears to my eyes 25 yeasr after the fact! *runs for the calamine*

I got one right. Can't get anymore city slicker than me I guess.

This keeps up, I'm gonna need more shotgun shells.


:p :) :p

(just for Squi, a John Deere smilie sandwich....

Eh? *looks at Squi all weird like* So John Deere Green means nothing to you?

Of course, I counted my answer of "'John Deere green, and yellow". Google it up if you don't trust me. (I ought to get extra points.)

Onm the otherhand, you get you trailer and trans-am at 60+, so you win, too?I thought of that , but the question weren't what color John Deeres come in but what color John Deeres IS. Just about all the ones I've seen except for in the showrooms is rusty red/brown or Yellow primer. And the only reason yellow primer is so popular is that the neighbor used it on his tractors (had a lot of it from something). Heck, the new John Deere brushhog my father picked up 5 years ago is already more rust than green and in a few more years won't be green at all. I supose if you replace your farm equipment with all new stuff every dozen years or so you might associate green with John Deeres, but it ain't a popular practice in these parts to go around wasting money like that.

I got a zero- 0! i guess im just not the rednck i never thought i was.... havent been livin in michigan long enough...

This keeps up, I'm gonna need more shotgun shells.


:p :) :p

(just for Squi, a John Deere smilie sandwich....

I have a genetic deficiency towards being a redneck anyhow :p

the mulequestion is semi-common knowledge ... so 4

13... And being half Cajun, I was pissed with the Cajun question.... we speak Creole, not French.

How many strings on a banjo? (two possible answers)

Just two possible answers, which ones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 or 12?

Just two possible answers, which ones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 or 12?4 and 5. None of the others are apropriate for a redneck and 4 is only if they are into bluegrass.

13... And being half Cajun, I was pissed with the Cajun question.... we speak Creole, not French.

LSU differs: http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/fai/Cajun/definition.html

Though linguists at one time distinguished between “colonial” French, Acadian French and Creole French, the general consensus today is that colonial and Acadian French have melded to a great degree into a “Cajun” variety which can be distinguished from Creole.

3.

10...I got the Cajun one, the Paul Bryant one, and John Deere one.

4 points.


I got #32 right.

I thought of that , but the question weren't what color John Deeres come in but what color John Deeres IS. Just about all the ones I've seen except for in the showrooms is rusty red/brown or Yellow primer. And the only reason yellow primer is so popular is that the neighbor used it on his tractors (had a lot of it from something). Heck, the new John Deere brushhog my father picked up 5 years ago is already more rust than green and in a few more years won't be green at all. I supose if you replace your farm equipment with all new stuff every dozen years or so you might associate green with John Deeres, but it ain't a popular practice in these parts to go around wasting money like that.

True, true, all too true.

the mulequestion is semi-common knowledge

You'd think so wouldn't you. I passed this around at work (all college graduates) a couple of years ago and I think one person in ten got that. What's a college education good for these days? :rolleyes:

Just for the record I missed 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 20, 21, and 22.

Hmm...I know what a chigger is...imagine that. :p

I always thought a chigger was the offspring of an Asian and an African... just shows ta go ya. :)

i think i got like a 33. I really dont know because i cant count.

7, now get your trailor out of my lawn.

Mid-20's...Ack! My neck really is red too! I'm doomed to mate with my cousin, drive my lawnmower to work and drink apple sauce through a straw!

I didn't get a single question right. It's probably because I'm a ignant foreigner. ;)

I didn't get a single question right. It's probably because I'm a ignant foreigner. ;)

Not even the mule?

I got a one. and a lucky one too. I just happen to know a bit about biology, so I got the mule one.

score: 7

two right

I tried to at least guess every single one, and I ended up with only one point, and i am even a chicken farmer

I scored 5-7, depending on how strict you judge it.

I have a Trans Am that doesn't work, does that count?

I tried to at least guess every single one, and I ended up with only one point, and i am even a chicken farmer
:eek: How on earth did you miss the mule and steer questions?

13... And being half Cajun, I was pissed with the Cajun question.... we speak Creole, not French.
So I WAS right! I'm claiming 7, thanks to Cajuns and mules.

So I WAS right! I'm claiming 7, thanks to Cajuns and mules.

Français Cadien not Creole. (See the LSU link above.)

Crap. Four.

lesse, I go t#'s 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33

I got 24 becasue my friends do that

4 and 5. None of the others are apropriate for a redneck and 4 is only if they are into bluegrass.

Eh? Bluegrass banjo is almost exclusively played on the 5-string.

Can't remember if I got five right or six, but I didn't crack 20 points, and I got lucky on that one about goats and kudzu.

4 points.


I got #32 right.
same

Eh? Bluegrass banjo is almost exclusively played on the 5-string.Yes/no. Modern Bluegrass, say after the 1960's, uses the 5-string banjo almost exclusively, but before, say, the 1950s, it was almost entirely the 4-string banjo. It's not the sort of information anyone who wasn't into the evolution of American music would know, as far as most people who even know the number of strings on a banjo are concerned, the more recent 5-string banjo is the only kind. About the only people (red neck) who would know of the older 4-string these days are those who are into Bluegrass (which includes Folk music, because no self-respecting red neck would use that term).

23, I'm from Atlanta but my mom grew up in rural Tennessee and I go visit my grama and grampa so I know at least a little.

I got 10, but mostly because of my farming/ranch background. Plus I read enough to know what chiggers, grits, and scrapple are. Though I've got to say, I've never eaten grits or scrapple, or chiggers either, for that matter.

16 *claps*

I got 10, but mostly because of my farming/ranch background. Plus I read enough to know what chiggers, grits, and scrapple are. Though I've got to say, I've never eaten grits or scrapple, or chiggers either, for that matter.

I don't think too many people have ever eaten chiggers...

I don't think too many people have ever eaten chiggers...

And if you do somehow manage that feat, make sure you get tested for Lyme disease.

I actually didn't know any, although I guessed that when you boil peanuts you get hard peanuts. That's common sense, though.

Yes/no. Modern Bluegrass, say after the 1960's, uses the 5-string banjo almost exclusively, but before, say, the 1950s, it was almost entirely the 4-string banjo.


Nah: nluegrtass music can be seen to have really begun with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys - the genre is named after the band, rather than the other way round - and their banjo player was Earl Scryggs, famous for introducing the three-finger blue grass banjo playing style to the world on his 5-string banjo. Similarly, proto-bluegrass prior to this was also mainly played on the 5-string banjo.

It's not the sort of information anyone who wasn't into the evolution of American music would know, as far as most people who even know the number of strings on a banjo are concerned, the more recent 5-string banjo is the only kind. About the only people (red neck) who would know of the older 4-string these days are those who are into Bluegrass (which includes Folk music, because no self-respecting red neck would use that term).

I think you are trying to equate the 4-string with 'old time' music here, but it was actually largely played on a 5-string, whereas the 4-string only really became popular in the 1890s as a result of the European attempts to play it like a classical guitar. In the 1920s the 4-string again had a surge in popularity, but this was once again a primarily urban phenomenon with the rise of early jazz bands. Meantime, hillybilly music continued to be tied closley to the 5-string.

Yeeeeeee Hawwwwww!I gitted a furty.

Eh? *looks at Squi all weird like* So John Deere Green means nothing to you?

Of course, I counted my answer of "'John Deere green, and yellow". Google it up if you don't trust me. (I ought to get extra points.)


I'd thinkted of thet thar Joe Diffie song, "John Deere Green" But, meself prefurs them thar Farmall tractors, I reckon. MmmmmHmmmm.

And I sincerly hope you didn't find that out the hard way.

Getting a massive chigger infestation from trompimg around in the high grass while on a fishing trip at my Aunt Annie Mae's brings tears to my eyes 25 yeasr after the fact! *runs for the calamine*

(sane person's voice) Same here, but I fell asleep near a tree while in the "field" with my Army unit in Georgia, covered head to toe nearly by them little bastards.

23, I'm from Atlanta but my mom grew up in rural Tennessee and I go visit my grama and grampa so I know at least a little.

Hmmm, My kin on my stedaddy's side were'd all from them thar hollers of West Virginee and they's all say mammaw and pappaw.

Nah: nluegrtass music can be seen to have really begun with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys - the genre is named after the band, rather than the other way round - and their banjo player was Earl Scryggs, famous for introducing the three-finger blue grass banjo playing style to the world on his 5-string banjo. Similarly, proto-bluegrass prior to this was also mainly played on the 5-string banjo.



I think you are trying to equate the 4-string with 'old time' music here, but it was actually largely played on a 5-string, whereas the 4-string only really became popular in the 1890s as a result of the European attempts to play it like a classical guitar. In the 1920s the 4-string again had a surge in popularity, but this was once again a primarily urban phenomenon with the rise of early jazz bands. Meantime, hillybilly music continued to be tied closley to the 5-string.Erg, you are confuising the term with what it refers to. While apparently coined by Monroe to describe the type of music his band played (coined pre-Scruggs btw), the type of music existed prior to the term. What Monroe played pre-Scruggs was a sort of Hillybilly/Country which already existed (Hillbilly is an articifcal term coined in 1920s to describe a type of music, but I know what you mean). Once Scruggs joined the BlueGrass Boys the nature of the music played changed and once Scruggs joined Flatt what is Modern Bluegrass came into existance, but if we accept only post-Scruggs music as being true BlueGrass then Monroe misued the term originally to refer to a different type of music, which for simplicity I'll refer to as a type of Hillbilly music (which it was really) to make you happy. There was/is a form of music, a subset of Hillbilly, which for a time was refered to as Bluegrass until Bluegrass came into existance, sometimes called "Old Time" which came out of the Appallacian mountains and formed the basis for what was to become Bluegrass (even though it was also called Bluegrass which no doubt confuses the issue).

This brings us to the 4 and 5 string banjos. In the US, the 4 string banjo definetely predates the 5 string, and traditionally the 5th string was added sometime in the early 19th century. The 4 string bano, particuarily of the style what we now call the clawhammer banjo although also common was what we now call the mandolin or Irish banjo, was the primary one for most of the 19th century in what was to become bluegrass in rural Appaclacia. The 5-string banjo was the primary one for minstral shows and enjoyed an upsurge in popularity at the end of the 19th century played as a guitar as a part of "popular music" as well as a surge in general popularity in the post civil-war era. But here it is imprtant to distingish between "Old Time" music as performed primarily in the Appallachian mountains with its Scott-Irish origin and popular music of the day (and I don't like the term "old time' to refer to it, but if you are familar with US musical history then you are no doubt familar with it), for the two were different musical styles. And Bluegrass ala Monroe claims it's origin in "Old Time" music (origin, don't quibble about the heavy influence of other styles in it, it is said to have originated in the mountain music, where it went from there is a whole different question).

I could go on, but I fear it going to become a dispute over what is ment by terms, and when one gets deeply into a sociological phenomena like music, the words change meaning too often to be pinned down and too much emphais is placed wrongly too easily. The only way a red neck would consider 4 strings to be correct number for a banjo if is they were into Bluegrass music and knew of its derivation from the Appalachian Mountain Music ("Old Time" **shudder**) which relied heavily upon the 4 major keys of traditional Irish music (thus the 4 string banjos). Which is not to say that "Old Time" was the sole source of bluegrass, or the only type of music in the US to use a banjo, but is the way a red neck would know of the 4 string banjo.

But, meself prefurs them thar Farmall tractors, I reckon. MmmmmHmmmm.Yep, I like the Fords myself. Except for that silly upside down carburetor on the Jubilee, spent hours every year after haying getting it to work again. But the neighbors have always been big on Deeres, except that new guy up on the hill who went with some Kybuki or something.

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That's depressing for an AUstralian