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You Might Be A Redneck If...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read

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The more of this Redneck humor I read,the more I enjoy it.I have written reviews on several Redneck and Southern Humor books;but none are better than what the author of this gem,Jeff Foxworthy,gives us.
The layout of the book,the wonderful illustrations and all the one-liners result in a book that is great to sit back with "a cool one" and have some great laughs.
The author has come up with a great way to introduce these one-liners;that would be:
You might be a Redneck if....
"You use your daughter's wedding as an excuse to buy a new
shotgun."
"You've ever done your Christmas shopping at a truck stop."
"You can take your bra off while driving."
"You talk to your dog more than your wife."
"Your mother does not remove the Marlboro from her lips before
telling the State Patrolman to k--- her a--."
"You've ever thrown up in a squad car."
"You take your dog for a walk and you both use the tree at
the corner."
"You've ever vacationed in a rest area."
"You've ever worn shorts to a funeral home."
"You got your nose broken at your sister's wedding."
"Truckers tell your wife to watch her language."
"Your gene pool doesn't have a 'deep end'."
"You proposed at Denny's."
"You had a marriage license before you had a driver's license."
"You said your wedding vows while watching a football game
out of the corner of your eye."
"You learned the facts of life by watching dogs."
"Getting your car inspected means paying a bribe."
And that is just a taste of what you'll find in this book.It isn't stated;but there are somewhere between 1300 and 1500 of these one-liners for your enjoyment.
If you like earthy humor,you'll love this book.

You Might Be a Redneck If... is a funny collection of the standup comedian Jeff Foxworthy's, you might be a redneck if jokes. There are many laugh out loud funny redneck jokes here - so if you want to stick a few in your back pocket to be the funny guy or gal at a party, this is a good source of material.

While reading these jokes on paper is not nearly as funny as seeing Foxworthy perform them live, this book will provide you a few laughs in your leisure reading time.

I love this book it is the greatest! My mom bought it for me and I read it the same day i couldn't put it down! So many of them reminded me of my family that I laughed the whole way through! Read this and you won't be sorry or bored!!

...perhaps just a bit too expensive. The book is large and chock full of material; so the price is somewhat reasonable. It's just that this book is what most would consider a bathroom reader. And most of us don't pay that much for bathroom readers. Still, this is a fantastic book; full of charming ridiculousness. It's offensive in places, but that's comedy. It's not meant to be a moral guide for humanity at large. Jeff's poking fun at the type of person he is, and that's what makes him brilliant. There are some great one-liners to be found here. And I'd buy it again; perhaps used next time, but I'd still purchase another copy.

This week's local paper led with our local school transportation director being verbally reprimanded after an email mocking "rednecks" snaked to his boss's email box. Among other things it called a shopping cart over a campfire a "redneck grill" and two guys throwing toilet seats at each other "redneck horseshoes."

"The e-mail system should be for business only! This is a business, it isn't a playground!" the school superintendent (a native West Virginian) thundered, echoing Milburn Drydsdale's pompously commanding his Commerce Bank minions. To which the transportation director replied, no doubt with Jed Clampett's modesty, "I consider myself (a redneck). I was born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina."

Thank blue collar comic Jeff Foxworthy, and hilarious one-liner collections like this, for these disparate views. Foxworthy's a Southerner and ex-computer programmer who struck black comedy gold focusing on proud, peculiar Southern peccadilloes: messy households, (sometimes too) strong family ties, minor law scrapes, regional dialects and slang. He turned their lives into a cottage industry with best-selling CDs, TV series, films, even a satellite radio channel atop one of comedy's most reliable concert tours.

The book's title sets up each joke in its 314 pages, focusing on redneck families ("If you cried the day your son tapped his first keg...") cars ("If you ever gift wrapped a tire...")and fashions ("if your wedding dress was leather.."), at work ("if the family business requires a lookout") in love ("if you used food stamps on a date") and outdoors ("if you've ever sent fan mail to a fishing lure")

"You Might Be A Redneck If.." isn't a book read cover to cover, but dipped into for tongue-in-cheek humor (and equally funny David Boyd illustrations) with the tobacco. (By the way, "if Red Man sends you a Christmas card..."). And laughing aloud or smiling in recognition, you may envy redneck resourcefulness (" If you clean your home with a water hose...") and unpretentiousness (...you ever slow danced at a Waffle House) which made their working-class lives content. It boosted that school transportation chief's pride, and once led Charlie Daniels to salute rednecks in song: "Now you intellectuals may not like it/But there ain't nothin' that you can do/Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks/Then there ever will be of you." (But remember chief, "if your chicken house used to be a school bus...")

Webster defines "redneck" as "a white member of the white Southern rural laboring class." Introducing this book, Foxworthy defines it as a "glorious absence of sophistication." To superintendent chagrin, and student, parent, and even blue-collar employee pride, this book confirms Foxworthy's definition funnier and more accurate. Recommended.

I ORDERED THIS BOOK FOR MY SON. HE ASKED FOR IT FOR CHRISTMAS. HE LOVES IT.

I am a big fan of Jeff Foxworthy. When I bought this book, I was excited. I loved reading all the punch lines. Its a good book to own for any Jeff Foxworthy Fans.

Over the years I've enjoyed hearing Jeff Foxworthy tell some of these "redneck" jokes on TV, but this is the first book of them I've ever read. Many of them ARE very funny, and as I read I would tell some of the best gags to other people in the room, to the general amusement of all. But the problem is that by about halfway through the book it's getting very repetitive, often the same gag over and over with a slight variation. Now, the book is divided into various categories of redneckness, so that's presumably the reason for the repetition, since some jokes fit into more than one category. But if you're reading straight through the book that becomes tiresome after a while.

And maybe I'm too thin-skinned, but some of the jokes are offensive to people other than rednecks (of course THEY would be offended by this book!). For instance, Foxworthy seems to think that anyone who likes the music of Elvis Presley is automatically a redneck. As in "You might be a redneck if everyone in your family is an Elvis impersonator," or "You might be a redneck if you prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland," and many variations on that theme. Well, excuse me, but I'm an Elvis fan and I'm very tired of hearing crap like that, which is often told by Northerners as an insult to all Southerners (I'm from Tennessee). The same for anyone who likes car racing, or has eaten a corndog for breakfast (which I've done), or has an alcohol problem, or believes in UFOs, or lives in a mobile home. Foxworthy should stick to truly outrageous behaviour, such as "You might be a redneck if your family tree does not fork," or "You might be a redneck if you bring a bar of soap to the public pool." Those are funny, and anyone insulted by them should stop doing things like that. But in an effort to fill out 314 pages, he stoops to general insults that apply to lots of non-rednecks. Anyway, this is overall a pretty funny book, but by the time I got to the end I felt rather annoyed by the insults and repetition. He'd probably say I must be a redneck if I don't love his book!

Almost anyone who enjoys comedy will have either read Jeff Foxworthy's Southern redneck humor books or seen his numerous TV shows: now there's another fine volume helping to define the possibilities of the redneck personality: the 'monster truck of redneck books' covering such important topics as love and marriage, partyin', wheels, fashion and more. All with the Foxworthy brand 'you might be a redneck if ' pattern.

The southern comedian does it again! This handy guide to all of those who hold NASCAR, Marlboro, and wholesome grits will appreciate this handy guide to their way of life for those too ignorant to know of the glorious lifestyle. Classic Foxworthy shines through the chicken-scratch illustrations as page after page, one can only gape at the deliciously irreverrent Jeff Foxworthy. So all of you illiterates out there, go fetch the Bait 'n' Tackle Shop cashier to get him to read you this, 'cause you won't want to miss this Redneck Bible for the world. Or even a Bud.