Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Held each July in that great LP southern state o' Georgia, home to the likes o' folks such as DVC_dad, trailsend, 'n good ol' Kennesaw Tom. <a href="http://www.2camels.com/festival61.php3" target="_blank">http://www.2camels.com/festiva l61.php3</a> It all started the year of the real Olympic Games in Atlanta... ============================ "The Media kept saying that the Olympics were going to be run by a bunch of rednecks who didn't know what they were doing," says Mac Davis, one of Y-96's afternoon DJs. "So we figured if that's what the world expects, we'll give it to them." So the boys got together and came up with a schedule of events that would become the Summer Redneck Games to be held every July. These events include the cigarette flip, the mudpit belly flop, bobbing for pigs feet, the big hair contest, the hubcap hurl, the seed spitting contest, bug zapper spitball, dumpster diving, and everyone's favorite, the armpit serenade. "That's when you cup your hand under your armpit and make farting noises," Davis says. "But people down here have taken it a step further and can play tunes." In 1998 one contestant pumped out the entire theme to the television show "Green Acres." Only 500 were expected to show up that year, but when 5,000 curious folk overtook this 2,000-person town, they knew they had a hit. A fixture at this annual event is a fellow by the name of L-Bow, a local asphalt technician who doesn't have any teeth. In his soiled bib-overalls, smelly T-shirt, and ragged old shoes, L-Bow is the perfect mascot for the Summer Redneck Games, which means he's the official torch-bearer. Of this honor, he sheepishly admits, "I got the big kiss and swole all up with pride." With a propane torch adorned with the aluminum from a 6-pack of Budweiser, L-Bow parades the athletes into the arena (a field) and lights the Ceremonial BBQ Grill. "Let the gas begin!" he hollers. Why do they call him L-Bow? "You see, every redneck has a nickname. And I make this ol' ugly face, putting my bottom lip up over my nose. One day when I was doing it, this ol' boy said, 'You just plain ugly from your elbow down to your *ss. You don't look like the same person.' Well I said, 'You sure ain't going to call me *ss, so I'll just take elbow.' And from that day on it stuck." ================================== See K-Tom? Ya didn't even have to leave yer own home state fer a vacation buddy...got some good ol' downhome fun right in yer own backyard! ;-)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I'd pay 5 bucks to see DVC_dad and K-Tom compete in the Mudpit Belly Flop, LOL.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Don't say that too loud... I think at least one of them might take you up on it! LOL. Soooo, a Green Acres tie-in, eh? Might ya be practicin' yer armpit serenade there, TDG? ;-P
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy That *was* funny, lol...but I've never rehearsed the armpit thang much. And I wonder if ya have to have real sweaty pits to get the best "musical intonation"? LOL I ain't a big sweater, so I might not be good to compete, lol. DVC_dad could be raisin' him a whole Olympic team! LOL
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Now now, I think I gots me plenty enuf hairs on me! lol 'cept when it comes tuh the wintertime...dang it! Need more fur to keep the heatin' bill down! lol
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Well you see my good man, the big hair contest would be for those of an Elvis persuasion or perhaps those females we sometimes refer to as Cow Queens, with BIG HAIR. I for one, dear fellow, most certainly and without reproach would do well, and in that I mean exceedingly well in the Hubcap Hurl. Just like in the original Olympics, he who hurls the farthest is considered the most able bodied Red Neck! And there, my good friend, you have it.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad My god, you just can't help some people. I work and I work to get out....but they just keep pullin me back IN!!! <---spoken in best Al Pacino voice.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad A Cow Queen is well, it's like a girl who wins her local city beauty contest or something like that. Some of them have BIG HAIR...while some of them almost rival California Girls!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I guess they come from farms, I really don't know. But I have heard the term my whole life... if that counts.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <--- shutting up now! LOL! That post #11 was SO not posted when I posted that it didn't go to 11. *sheepish*
Originally Posted By DVC_dad And what makes it really good is that your comment took post # 12 !!!!!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I kid my little brother (he's 13) that he's turning into a redneck. The other day I wnet over and he was wearing a tank top covered in car grease, and he has a mullet that would rival Billy Ray Cyrus's.
