OT: You Know You're A Redneck When....

[Keith Williams]

In article <41fa7718.34382078@news.plus.net>, donald@pearce.uk.com
says...

On 27 Jan 2005 20:06:59 -0800, "Chris" <cfoley1064@yahoo.com> wrote:

The SAT I is scored on a scale of 200-800 for both the math and verbal
sections.

How can a test have a lower limit of 200? Is that what you score for
handing in a blank sheet of paper?

No, it's 200 points for filling out your name properly. If you don't
do that, don't pass go and don't collect 200 points.

Is the idea perhaps that one
doesn't want to make the really thick feel badly about themselves?

Makes you wonder what all the hoopla was about when the NCAA required a
700 (combined) SAT score to be eligible for a sports scholarship, eh?

--
Keith

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:05:52 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz>
wrote:

In article <t6ukv09nrhk4jmvqm8p6v4ibfgotggek6m@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:12:04 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <8cmkv0pf7jjk52nnrikrupmhrlme3fphtc@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:13:44 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <4kjkv05j20is7e2mh24tsukeigjh6trufq@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On 28 Jan 2005 01:14:25 -0800, Geodanah@yahoo.com wrote:

I believe that Mr. Thompson was referring to the people in Arizona as
rednecks because they voted republican (shown as red on political
maps).

That is correct. We also carry guns and drive peekup trucks, my
peekup truck is painted red ;-)

Hmm, I live in the bluest of blue states and carny guns and drive a
peekup, though mine is painted black. Black makes the salt stand out
so much better.

Smirk ;-)

The latest car restoration game is to use engine blocks from New
England and put them in bodies from Arizona.

Really? I would have thought all the -20 to -30C starts (like this
morning) would have disqualified even the engines out of our rust-
buckets.

Naaah! All you need to replace is the pan.

Why? To get all the piston shavings out of it?

Heat in AZ is far more destructive than cold starts.

On batteries, but engine parts? Cold starts with chunky-style peanut-
butter for oil isn't very kind to 'em.

But you _do_ want to install an AZ-qualified over-size radiator...
standard on new cars here... I can stand in stalled traffic on the
freeway, AC running, temperature gauge stays right where it belongs.

I can't do that here lately. The temperature gauge never gets to where
it belongs (I only live ~five miles from work). Traffic? What's that?

Traffic? I only see it when I have to take an early morning flight
out of Phoenix...

On a normal work day I get up, shower, walk to the kitchen and start
the coffee, then walk to the front of the house where my office is ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Tim Wescott]

Jim Thompson wrote:

You Know You're A Redneck (Red State) When 19 Juniors and Seniors in
your local neighborhood high school score 800 in Math on the SATs.

And about half also scored 800 on the vocabulary section.

Must be that Australian wine we're drinking ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Around here the high-class school districts just apply so much pressure
to the underachieving kids that they drop out before they take the test.
More "liberal" school districts seem to have the odd notion that kids
are more important than image and encourage everyone to take the test
even if they think they'll bomb.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:52:50 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:

Well what else is there to do out in the desert besides study?

Fuck. But they're Republicans.

--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:18:57 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
....

And rednecks are never sarcastic; they don't need to be.

Y'think?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:09:53 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Jones <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote
(in <6Zednc5VDv0oz2fcRVn-jg@buckeye-express.com&gt about 'OT: You Know
You're A Redneck When....', on Fri, 28 Jan 2005:
* What is a "Chook"

An Aussie chicken.

So, you're saying, Aussies are famous for the way they chook their
chicken?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:25:55 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

The person who ragged Jim for liking Australian wine was Bill
"Sophisticated Palate" Sloman, who is not an American, for which fact
we thank Providence. Go yell at him.

I saw a good use for wine in the grocery store today. Somebody had dropped
a bottle on the floor, and it had shattered, and when I got there a couple
of employees were mopping it up with a very ordinary mop and bucket.

And y'know? The floor just came out sparkling clean!

I didn't think *anything* could be more boring than golf. And what's a
chook?

Apparently, it's what Aussies do to their chicken. ;-D
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:57:50 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:

Geodanah@yahoo.com wrote:
I believe that Mr. Thompson was referring to the people in Arizona as
rednecks because they voted republican (shown as red on political
maps).


Or are their necks red from us Democrats strangling them?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+might+be+a+redneck+if%22&btnG=Google+Search

p.s. when pasting a google search, it's OK to omit this part:
"hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&"

And I think the btnG part is merely redundant - after all, the name of the
page is "search"!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Charles Edmondson]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:33:17 -0800, John Larkin
jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote:


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:38:51 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:



800 is a perfect score. It's news when one kid in any high school does
it. I did once, and a fair amount of attention was generated.

And rednecks are never sarcastic; they don't need to be.

John

I did also... got me a full scholarship to MIT.

...Jim Thompson


My 800 really pissed off the math geeks in my class. They were better
at Mathematics, but I was better at Test Taking.

John


There's an art, or maybe it's relaxation ability, when taking tests.
I've never been one to let a test choke me up, but two of my four kids
freeze when confronted by a test. The other two just ho-hum and ace
them.

...Jim Thompson

I didn't ace my SATs, but I didn't try that hard. Esp. since our high
school football team was in the state semis the night before, in
Nashville and my older brother and I had driven all the way from Memphis
to see it. Didn't get back home till around 2. Got up at 7, drove
across town, took the test, went home and went back to bed. IIRC had a
640/720 on that one, which was good enough...

Now, for my GRE, I had to do better. For that one I studies, took
sample tests, got plenty of sleep, brought plenty of chocolate and
coca-cola to keep stimulated. Was really frustrated with only a
760/800/800 on that one, but still got into grad school! (what was
frustrating was that on all the sample tests I ALWAYS maxed the verbal,
so didn't study it as hard!)

--
Charlie
--
Edmondson Engineering
Unique Solutions to Unusual Problems

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHIS
landPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote (in <m7qkv093o1a2bcm8ooacdclj1qbdj8sa8m@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: You Know You're A Redneck When....', on Fri, 28 Jan
2005:

My 800 really pissed off the math geeks in my class. They were better at
Mathematics, but I was better at Test Taking.

Are any SAT or GRE papers from previous years available on the Web?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[keith]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:15:51 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:05:52 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <t6ukv09nrhk4jmvqm8p6v4ibfgotggek6m@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:12:04 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <8cmkv0pf7jjk52nnrikrupmhrlme3fphtc@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:13:44 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <4kjkv05j20is7e2mh24tsukeigjh6trufq@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On 28 Jan 2005 01:14:25 -0800, Geodanah@yahoo.com wrote:

I believe that Mr. Thompson was referring to the people in Arizona as
rednecks because they voted republican (shown as red on political
maps).

That is correct. We also carry guns and drive peekup trucks, my
peekup truck is painted red ;-)

Hmm, I live in the bluest of blue states and carny guns and drive a
peekup, though mine is painted black. Black makes the salt stand out
so much better.

Smirk ;-)

The latest car restoration game is to use engine blocks from New
England and put them in bodies from Arizona.

Really? I would have thought all the -20 to -30C starts (like this
morning) would have disqualified even the engines out of our rust-
buckets.

Naaah! All you need to replace is the pan.

Why? To get all the piston shavings out of it?

Heat in AZ is far more destructive than cold starts.

On batteries, but engine parts? Cold starts with chunky-style peanut-
butter for oil isn't very kind to 'em.

But you _do_ want to install an AZ-qualified over-size radiator...
standard on new cars here... I can stand in stalled traffic on the
freeway, AC running, temperature gauge stays right where it belongs.

I can't do that here lately. The temperature gauge never gets to where
it belongs (I only live ~five miles from work). Traffic? What's that?

Traffic? I only see it when I have to take an early morning flight
out of Phoenix...

On a normal work day I get up, shower, walk to the kitchen and start
the coffee, then walk to the front of the house where my office is ;-)

Oh that! We have "traffic" around the bathroom on week-day mornings and
around the coffee pot on weekends.

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:57:50 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:

Geodanah@yahoo.com wrote:
I believe that Mr. Thompson was referring to the people in Arizona as
rednecks because they voted republican (shown as red on political
maps).


Or are their necks red from us Democrats strangling them?

Those pussies couldn't strangle Ralph Nader.

--
Keith

 

[Clarence_A]

"Dr Chris Andrews" <chrisa@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:2qGKd.139421$K7.126917@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

I live in Australia.

See what the wine does?

Chris

Are you saying that Wine causes TOP POSTING and other bad manners?

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <t6ukv09nrhk4jmvqm8p6v4ibfgotggek6m@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:12:04 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <8cmkv0pf7jjk52nnrikrupmhrlme3fphtc@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:13:44 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:

In article <4kjkv05j20is7e2mh24tsukeigjh6trufq@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On 28 Jan 2005 01:14:25 -0800, Geodanah@yahoo.com wrote:

I believe that Mr. Thompson was referring to the people in Arizona as
rednecks because they voted republican (shown as red on political
maps).

That is correct. We also carry guns and drive peekup trucks, my
peekup truck is painted red ;-)

Hmm, I live in the bluest of blue states and carny guns and drive a
peekup, though mine is painted black. Black makes the salt stand out
so much better.

Smirk ;-)

The latest car restoration game is to use engine blocks from New
England and put them in bodies from Arizona.

Really? I would have thought all the -20 to -30C starts (like this
morning) would have disqualified even the engines out of our rust-
buckets.

Naaah! All you need to replace is the pan.

Why? To get all the piston shavings out of it?

Heat in AZ is far more destructive than cold starts.

On batteries, but engine parts? Cold starts with chunky-style peanut-
butter for oil isn't very kind to 'em.

But you _do_ want to install an AZ-qualified over-size radiator...
standard on new cars here... I can stand in stalled traffic on the
freeway, AC running, temperature gauge stays right where it belongs.

I can't do that here lately. The temperature gauge never gets to where
it belongs (I only live ~five miles from work). Traffic? What's that?

--
Keith

 

[Ken Taylor]

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote in
message news:35fjv09k82l9u3tqa20plscnfj4forcqqs@4ax.com...

On 27 Jan 2005 19:17:19 -0800, larwe@larwe.com wrote:

When 19 Juniors and Seniors in
your local neighborhood high school score 800 in Math on the SATs.
And about half also scored 800 on the vocabulary section.

You'll need to explain:

* whether 19 is a big percentage of the school population in a "local
neighborhood high school" (at my high school there were >200 boys in
the graduating class)
* what the significance is of "junior and senior" - does this mean
people in years 11 and 12?
* whether 800 is a good score or not
* whether you are being sarcastic


800 is a perfect score. It's news when one kid in any high school does
it. I did once, and a fair amount of attention was generated.

And rednecks are never sarcastic; they don't need to be.

John

What I object to is Australia being dragged into yet another domestic US

political 'debate'. Geez fellas, can't you take up something more
interesting, like golf, or strangling chooks?

Ken

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:18:57 -0800, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote:

On 27 Jan 2005 19:17:19 -0800, larwe@larwe.com wrote:

When 19 Juniors and Seniors in
your local neighborhood high school score 800 in Math on the SATs.
And about half also scored 800 on the vocabulary section.

You'll need to explain:

* whether 19 is a big percentage of the school population in a "local
neighborhood high school" (at my high school there were >200 boys in
the graduating class)
* what the significance is of "junior and senior" - does this mean
people in years 11 and 12?
* whether 800 is a good score or not
* whether you are being sarcastic


800 is a perfect score. It's news when one kid in any high school does
it. I did once, and a fair amount of attention was generated.

And rednecks are never sarcastic; they don't need to be.

John

I did also... got me a full scholarship to MIT.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.