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"Hillbillies making millions out of American gas rush"
Posted on 8/17/08 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 8/17/08 at 4:49 pm
Count on the Europeans to be even more condescending than the New York Times:
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Judy was, until very recently, a normal 61-year-old great grandmother from rural Arkansas who taught English at the local middle school and spent her spare time taking care of five troublesome terriers.
Now, in a story reminiscent of the 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, she has joined a rapidly growing group of millionaires cashing in on a natural gas gold rush that is sweeping the American south.
Wow. How deep of them to dig so diligently to find such a gem of a cultural reference.
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And by the time the big gas companies have finished, there will be plenty more hillbilly millionaires like Judy. 'It is possibly the fourth largest gas discovery in the world and the largest in the United States,' said Briggs. 'It's big.'
Outrageous.
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Posted on 8/17/08 at 4:59 pm to Tiger JJ
Per Wiki, here's the definition of "hillbilly":
This makes me think they used someone from Arkansas instead of Louisiana just so they could use the term.
quote:
a pejorative term referring to people who dwell in remote, rural, mountainous areas of the eastern United States, primarily southern Appalachia and the Ozarks.
This makes me think they used someone from Arkansas instead of Louisiana just so they could use the term.
Posted on 8/17/08 at 5:04 pm to Tiger JJ
Wow! In a world of everything having to be PC that was pretty brave to print IMO.
Posted on 8/17/08 at 7:41 pm to stout
Yeah, white people are totally off limits!

Posted on 8/17/08 at 7:49 pm to Tiger JJ
haven't we already discussed how much more racist eurpoeans are than everyone else?
Posted on 8/17/08 at 7:54 pm to Colonel Hapablap
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haven't we already discussed how much more racist eurpoeans are than everyone else?
I would argue the japanese are actually the worst. All of asia is but the japanese bring it to new levels.
And so what, chances are those people are hillbillies.
Posted on 8/17/08 at 8:19 pm to Tiger JJ
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This post was edited on 9/11/08 at 1:09 am
Posted on 8/17/08 at 8:57 pm to Tiger JJ
I think the proper response is:
"Excuse me, Mr. James Doran, that's RICH hillbilly to you."
"Excuse me, Mr. James Doran, that's RICH hillbilly to you."
Posted on 8/18/08 at 9:15 am to Meauxjeaux
Yeah I wish I lived in a 200 square foot flat in the muslim slums of london , but hey no dentist bills, because you dont have any teeth, really let you step up. If your lucky you can get a cot in the back of some gin house or pub.
Posted on 8/18/08 at 9:16 am to Checkmateking2
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Yeah I wish I lived in a 200 square foot flat in the muslim slums of london , but hey no dentist bills, because you dont have any teeth, really let you step up. If your lucky you can get a cot in the back of some gin house or pub.
Don't make me like you...
Posted on 8/18/08 at 9:19 am to Tiger JJ
You're like the hillbilly/LA Anti-Defamation League lately.
Posted on 8/18/08 at 9:23 am to Tigah in the ATL
I would rather be with hillbillies than about half the poor immigrants in the world, leeching off and ruining a once great nation, anyone been to europe lately?
Posted on 8/18/08 at 9:52 am to Tigah in the ATL
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You're like the hillbilly/LA Anti-Defamation League lately.
It's just outrageous to me these slurs are considered acceptable. And what's more, we're expected to actually take these other countries' opinions into consideration before our own national interest?
Posted on 8/18/08 at 10:37 am to Tiger JJ
Bomb the Bastards!
See R. Newman lyrics.
See R. Newman lyrics.
Posted on 8/18/08 at 10:38 am to Tigah in the ATL
London and gay Paree?
Posted on 8/18/08 at 10:48 am to Tiger JJ
I didn't think the news articles could get any worse, but here we are. I guess everyone thinks people in the Southern US are inbred rednecks...
Posted on 8/18/08 at 10:48 am to Tiger JJ
More room for you & more room for me.
Posted on 8/18/08 at 11:08 am to Meauxjeaux
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that's RICH hillbilly to you."
Posted on 8/18/08 at 11:24 am to Tigah in the ATL
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More room for you & more room for me.
+1
Do we really want to be elbow-to-elbow with anyone down here? Personally I love the cheap energy, warm sun and my 'hillbilly' neighbors.
"The Southern United States - The World's Best Kept Secret"
Posted on 8/18/08 at 11:37 am to LSU0358
only a hillbilly can call a hillbilly a redneck.
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