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| 36. Jeremy Clarkson loves nothing more than slagging off Americans. |
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This is the asshole who described the older models of the Mercedes ML320 as "built in Alabama by people more used to picking cotton than making complicated machinery..." and said of the new model, "Obviously Mercedes wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice, so plainly the people making the new one have been told to stop singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot and get on with some work, and the designers were told it was 2005, not 1956." A right real charmer, he is. http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/dri... |
| - Video: BBC Looks for Savages in the Southern USA |
Wiley50 |
Feb-17-07 04:00 PM |
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"Country and Western is Rubbish" |
boobooday |
Feb-17-07 04:04 PM |
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"It is rubbish. I start rubbing muhsef w'never I hear it. or I rub earl." |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 04:07 PM |
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"Rubbish, that some kinda vegetable?" |
Neshanic |
Feb-18-07 09:07 PM |
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It grows wild in ditches, you make pie with it. |
fla nocount |
Feb-21-07 12:05 PM |
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do they think they can read the word "rubbish"? |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 04:05 PM |
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Oh - just what DU needs. Another South-bashing thread. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:07 PM |
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hear come the League of the South patrol car to defend our heritage (pic) |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 04:12 PM |
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At least I know how to use "here" and "hear" properly. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:15 PM |
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you mist the inproper conjugation of "come," what shoulda been "comes" |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 06:10 PM |
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Hey, I'm in Fresno, CA |
Le Taz Hot |
Feb-19-07 07:58 AM |
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I Posted It 'cause I Can Laugh At myself : A TN Resident n/t |
Wiley50 |
Feb-17-07 04:12 PM |
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I'm a Tennessean, too. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:16 PM |
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I Got The Link From Tennessee Guerrilla Women blog |
Wiley50 |
Feb-17-07 04:20 PM |
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I can understand that - and I'm not saying it's NOT funny. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:31 PM |
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I'm sorry if you're offended |
hyphenate |
Feb-20-07 02:51 AM |
#96 |
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If the shoe fits? |
5X |
Feb-17-07 04:31 PM |
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Well, at least you admit we wear shoes. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:33 PM |
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That wasn't very nice of me, and I am sorry. |
5X |
Feb-17-07 04:59 PM |
#28 |
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Jesus, lighten up with the self-righteous outrage. |
Selatius |
Feb-17-07 04:31 PM |
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OK - then tell the gay or women bashers to "lighten up." |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:34 PM |
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It's a different ox. |
MJDuncan1982 |
Feb-17-07 06:14 PM |
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Yeah, regional jokes are the same as gay and sexist jokes. |
YellowRubberDuckie |
Feb-19-07 07:16 PM |
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Here's a site about Mississippi |
alfredo |
Feb-17-07 05:11 PM |
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wow--they had a pic of the Space Needle of the South |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 06:20 PM |
#35 |
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From the roof of your monster truck. |
alfredo |
Feb-17-07 07:59 PM |
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it needs a confederate flag |
yurbud |
Feb-18-07 01:26 PM |
#40 |
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The horn plays Dixie. |
alfredo |
Feb-18-07 08:47 PM |
#54 |
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I guess that counts--but you have to wear the Col. Sanders beard just to be sure. |
yurbud |
Feb-18-07 11:59 PM |
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I was thinking more on the lines of Joe Dirt |
alfredo |
Feb-19-07 12:45 AM |
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I didn't say any of it was bad, just funny |
yurbud |
Feb-19-07 01:05 AM |
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Your mention of Sanders brought back many memories. |
alfredo |
Feb-19-07 10:43 AM |
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I remember when they used to have a fiberglass statue of him in the restaurant |
yurbud |
Feb-19-07 11:21 AM |
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He dissassociated himself from the business after John Y Brown |
alfredo |
Feb-19-07 11:44 AM |
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they changed the recipe?! Does anyone have the old one? |
yurbud |
Feb-19-07 03:31 PM |
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They changed the breading to make it "crunchy." |
alfredo |
Feb-19-07 04:18 PM |
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the extra crispy recipe (glued on corn flakes) but they still had original |
yurbud |
Feb-19-07 07:08 PM |
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Reminds me of Long John Silver- fish flavored deep fried batter. |
alfredo |
Feb-19-07 09:36 PM |
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probably the last bits of meat they blow off the bone with a high pressure hose |
yurbud |
Feb-19-07 11:25 PM |
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I was a vegetarian for seven years. It was the healthiest |
alfredo |
Feb-20-07 10:16 AM |
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I'm pretty sure I'd die if I did that. As a kid, I ate meat almost exclusively. |
yurbud |
Feb-20-07 10:44 AM |
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I was a meat and potato kind of guy, but when I dropped out |
alfredo |
Feb-20-07 12:54 PM |
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Do you have any idea what it's like to be a white man wrongly deprived of his slaves and mocked fur |
yurbud |
Feb-17-07 06:14 PM |
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Southerners are fair game..... |
BlackVelvet04 |
Feb-19-07 09:14 AM |
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too bad they survived |
Syrinx |
Feb-17-07 04:10 PM |
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And they call us bigots, eh Syrinx? |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:14 PM |
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that's what I always thought |
Syrinx |
Feb-17-07 04:15 PM |
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They weren't going to kill them |
rockymountaindem |
Feb-17-07 04:13 PM |
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Remember "Bull" Connor |
StephenB48 |
Feb-18-07 02:11 PM |
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Actually, |
Thankfully_in_Britain |
Feb-19-07 06:22 AM |
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BTW I Got This Courtesy Of Tennessee Guerrilla Women blog n/t |
Wiley50 |
Feb-17-07 04:17 PM |
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The whole episode is good. They bought cars to drive to New Orleans |
Little Wing |
Feb-17-07 04:20 PM |
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a British film crew criticizing New Orleans food? |
Syrinx |
Feb-17-07 04:28 PM |
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No, critizing the food everywhere, not NO |
Little Wing |
Feb-17-07 04:46 PM |
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They're British? |
Syrinx |
Feb-17-07 04:54 PM |
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Really. |
zanne |
Feb-18-07 02:08 PM |
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But that's a problem with the federal government - and Bush. |
Clark2008 |
Feb-17-07 04:35 PM |
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Like I said, they ripped America |
Little Wing |
Feb-17-07 04:46 PM |
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A Brit is actually criticizing Southern food? |
theboss |
Feb-20-07 11:19 AM |
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No, they actually criticised cheeseburgers |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 01:30 PM |
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A Brit has the balls to criticize Cheeseburgers? |
theboss |
Feb-20-07 02:34 PM |
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This whole country was "country" and "redneck" at one time... |
UnyieldingHierophant |
Feb-17-07 04:22 PM |
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Still laughing |
dkofos |
Feb-17-07 04:35 PM |
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I'm in Louisiana, and think it is hilarious; |
AnnInLa |
Feb-17-07 05:08 PM |
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Hmmmm..... |
Goat or Panic |
Feb-17-07 06:19 PM |
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we'd yawn, ask if gay marriage is being done at city hall again, and go back to our lattes |
NuttyFluffers |
Feb-19-07 02:04 AM |
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Jeremy Clarkson loves nothing more than slagging off Americans. |
WritersBlock |
Feb-17-07 06:25 PM |
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Now that is racism |
Elwood P Dowd |
Feb-18-07 04:37 PM |
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Ayup. Blatant racism. But that seems to be okay here, because he was speaking of Americans. |
WritersBlock |
Feb-18-07 11:44 PM |
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Someone should ask him why Jaguar makes such rubbishy cars and |
mainegreen |
Feb-20-07 12:07 PM |
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"I honesty believe that in certain parts of America, people have started to mate with vegetables." |
DKRC |
Feb-17-07 06:53 PM |
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Poor and uneducated, tee hee hee! |
Fierce |
Feb-17-07 06:56 PM |
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Hmm |
Woolwich |
Feb-18-07 02:00 PM |
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Maybe we should send a film crew to the UK and reciprocate..... |
CrownPrinceBandar |
Feb-18-07 02:37 PM |
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Too late |
Woolwich |
Feb-18-07 04:02 PM |
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Sounds like Mr. Clarkson is a man with no shame....... |
CrownPrinceBandar |
Feb-18-07 05:27 PM |
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Why are people talking about 'the poor' and 'poverty'? |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-18-07 07:00 PM |
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That's it exactly |
Thankfully_in_Britain |
Feb-19-07 06:26 AM |
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Better yet, go to Scotland and blame the dire poverty on the English-dominated UK society |
JVS |
Feb-18-07 09:12 PM |
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Yes, maybe they could tell us about Chavs sometime |
DBoon |
Feb-19-07 11:43 AM |
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hehe :) |
spoony |
Feb-20-07 06:59 PM |
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Ok. let me get this straight... These guys purposely |
dogday |
Feb-18-07 04:15 PM |
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Do you know why all the trees in Georgia lean West? |
Jonathan50 |
Feb-18-07 04:38 PM |
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You get idiots in every part of the country. |
seawolf |
Feb-18-07 05:35 PM |
#50 |
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This Yankee is sick of south-bashing. |
Odin2005 |
Feb-18-07 07:00 PM |
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I think the Southerners in that clip did a good job of bashing themselves |
rman |
Feb-19-07 06:35 AM |
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Here's what they found when they got to New Orleans: |
Minstrel Boy |
Feb-18-07 07:18 PM |
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Wow. Nothing like another view not sanatized. |
Neshanic |
Feb-18-07 09:11 PM |
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"How can the rest of America sleep at night knowing that this is here?" |
Swamp Rat |
Feb-19-07 01:37 AM |
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I liked how they gave their cars away to charity |
gravity |
Feb-19-07 08:39 AM |
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This deserves it's own thread.. . . . n/t |
annabanana |
Feb-19-07 08:51 AM |
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Hmm it says BBC Looks for Savage |
donco |
Feb-18-07 09:33 PM |
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I was in the UK and saw this... |
ProdigalJunkMail |
Feb-19-07 03:56 AM |
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Dumb ass instigators. |
William Bloode |
Feb-19-07 08:33 AM |
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What constitutes inciting? If a man wears a gay pride shirt, is that inciting? |
SemiCharmedQuark |
Feb-20-07 12:35 AM |
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Who cares if someone wears a gay pride t-shirt? |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 09:29 AM |
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What did you think was inflammatory? |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 10:31 AM |
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I am not going to argue semantics. |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 10:45 AM |
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You're confusing me with another poster; and it's not 'semantics' |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 11:13 AM |
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Ah, sorry musta got confused. |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 12:12 PM |
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There is no insult there - and why is that a canard? |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 01:27 PM |
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I really care less about any of it. |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 02:25 PM |
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No, "savages" was Wiley50's term |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 02:54 PM |
#115 |
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Ah, but you still misconstrue my meaning. |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 03:47 PM |
#119 |
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A hypothetical for which you offered no condition? |
muriel_volestrangler |
Feb-20-07 04:47 PM |
#122 |
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I reserve the right to be as muddled as my medication makes me. |
William Bloode |
Feb-21-07 10:29 AM |
#127 |
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How did they personally offend anyone? |
Lance_Boyle |
Feb-20-07 11:34 AM |
#105 |
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Oh wow, you are a bright one are you not? |
William Bloode |
Feb-20-07 12:03 PM |
#106 |
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It's bad enough that liberal southerners are surrounded by |
BlackVelvet04 |
Feb-19-07 09:23 AM |
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I live in quasi rural Georgia and I think it's hilarious |
Jonathan50 |
Feb-19-07 10:57 AM |
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I disagree..... |
BlackVelvet04 |
Feb-19-07 11:07 AM |
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I was born and raised in the South and have lived here all my life. |
Jonathan50 |
Feb-19-07 12:09 PM |
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I was born and raised in the south as well..... |
BlackVelvet04 |
Feb-19-07 04:30 PM |
#84 |
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Self deprecating humor is the most honest kind. |
Jonathan50 |
Feb-19-07 06:42 PM |
#85 |
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What part of this video is self-deprecating? |
piedmont |
Feb-20-07 04:01 PM |
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They're lucky they didn't do that around where I live. |
Rex |
Feb-19-07 06:44 PM |
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Yeah, but did anyone actually shoot at the Brits? (THAT would have been a story!) |
Nikki Stone1 |
Feb-19-07 11:54 PM |
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I live in TN and having studied the history |
buddyhollysghost |
Feb-20-07 01:49 AM |
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Absolutely! Limeyland is the ancestral home of cracker white trash |
mitchum |
Feb-20-07 08:16 PM |
#124 |
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delete |
mitchum |
Feb-20-07 08:17 PM |
#125 |
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the south. bwahahaha. nt. |
k_jerome |
Feb-20-07 02:09 AM |
#94 |
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Randy Newman explains rednecks here: |
Perragrande |
Feb-20-07 02:33 AM |
#95 |
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They should have to walk through Harlem with "Get a job, n....r" on placards next |
theboss |
Feb-20-07 11:17 AM |
#103 |
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OK...saw the video |
Zodiak Ironfist |
Feb-20-07 02:22 PM |
#112 |
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Mind telling me WHAT places those are in North Texas? |
seawolf |
Feb-20-07 02:56 PM |
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Uneasy Rider |
Jonathan50 |
Feb-20-07 03:05 PM |
#117 |
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Well...there are a few dinky towns |
Zodiak Ironfist |
Feb-20-07 03:19 PM |
#118 |
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Reality T.V. *isn't* reality |
piedmont |
Feb-20-07 04:18 PM |
#121 |
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Too slow? Top Gear? |
Thankfully_in_Britain |
Feb-21-07 12:41 PM |
#130 |
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What? Airfare to Australia was too expensive? |
mitchum |
Feb-20-07 08:18 PM |
#126 |
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I'd just like to say, |
Maine-ah |
Feb-21-07 10:53 AM |
#128 |
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