Pinterest For Rednecks
Posted on 12.23.11 by Danny Glover @ 3:14 pm

Pinterest is the latest social media craze, and as someone who makes his living in the digital marketing world, I’ve been meaning to try it for awhile. I requested an invite to join Pinterest a few days ago and received it this morning. That’s when the inspiration hit me to create a “Redneck Humor” board.

But first a bit about Pinterest: As the name implies, the site is a place where you “pin” pictures of the people, places and things that “interest” you. But this virtual pinboard also has a social aspect to it. After you pin photos to your topical boards, other people can “like” them, “repin” them to their own Pinterest boards or comment on the photos.

The network is especially popular with women, who use it to create collections of recipes, clothes and other items. But as I poked around the site today, I realized that it’s a great forum for creating photo essays and themed albums on topics that interest me, too — sports, politics, West Virginia and, of course, rednecks.

I decided to make my trial run on Pinterest a fun one by pinning photos from past “Redneck Humor” entries on this blog. (One potential benefit is new readers.) I also scoured the Internet for other photographic displays of redneck humor and pinned several of them to my board.

This photo album is a win-win for both you and for me. It makes it easier for rednecks who love to laugh at and with their kinfolk (in spirit, if not reality) to find “snapshots of happily uncultured American life” in one place. And It’s much easier and quicker for me to pin multiple photos to Pinterest than to blog about each photo individually.

When it comes to redneck humor, pictures tell the story far better than my words anyway.

So if you have not done so yet, click on over to my new Pinterest board and get your fill of redneck laughs. And if you’re so inclined, request your own invite to Pinterest and repin or like the photos that make you laugh the most.


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Toilet Paper Rescue
Posted on 12.10.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:30 pm

The next time you go to the restroom, try seeing life from the perspective of the toilet paper. This image should help:



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Redneck Insulation
Posted on 11.25.11 by Danny Glover @ 7:12 pm

You might be a redneck … if you insulate your shed with beer boxes. That’s what we discovered today when visiting my grandfather’s West Virginia farm, which has been abandoned for about two years since my uncle’s death.

For the record, a previous tenant from long ago added the insulation. We visited the same shed years ago while that tenant lived there, and the shed also was full of deer hides and beer cans. I was glad when my uncle returned home and we finally quit renting the property to that bum.

What I don’t know is if the tenant also is responsible for the bullet holes that riddle the door and walls of the same shed. I didn’t notice those bullet holes until today, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the guy who rented the place entertained himself by sitting on the front porch and shooting the shed across Indian Creek Road from the house.


Filed under: Family and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and West Virginia
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Puking On The Pitt Pumpkin
Posted on 10.31.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 pm

Sometimes we West Virginia University fans have a twisted sense of humor. Our “Backyard Brawl” rivalry with the Pitt Panthers brings out the best of the worst within us.

WVU vs. Pitt (Halloween Edition)

The Mountaineers win the “Front-Porch Pumpkin Brawl”!


Filed under: Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor and Sports and West Virginia
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Someone Get Andrew Luck A Hanky
Posted on 10.30.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:08 pm

Andrew Luck definitely has enlightened redneck potential.

He’s a football star at an elite school (Stanford University), a candidate for the coveted Heisman Trophy and the son of West Virginia University athletic director Oliver Luck (once a Rhodes Scholar candidate from WVU). But Andrew Luck also is not afraid to blow projectile snot out his nose on national television:

I saw this happen live last night, but it was late. I thought maybe Luck had spit and the camera angle made it look like snot. Instant replay, however, confirmed that I saw what I thought I saw. Someone get the man a hanky!


Filed under: Just For Laughs and People and Redneck Humor and Sports and Video and West Virginia
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Redneck Power Lines
Posted on 10.20.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:21 pm

Embarrassing as it is to admit, this snapshot is from my home town — Paden City, W.Va.

Talk about a high-voltage splint! The friend who posted this photo to Facebook said the power line has been in this state of dangerous disrepair for a month now.

I love my heritage. West Virginia is a beautiful state full of generous, kind and humble people. But when I see images like this, it’s hard to refute the hillbilly stereotype of the great Mountain State. Of course, that’s also part of our charm.


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My Dad The Mermaid
Posted on 06.05.11 by Danny Glover @ 4:17 pm

Dale Price is a redneck with a twisted sense of humor — sophomoric even, in the sense that he used it against his son for the poor kid’s entire sophomore year of high school.

The Utah Dad donned a different costume every school day, and as his son Rain boarded the bus, Dale Price stepped out the front door, artificial leg and all, to wave goodbye.

Some of the costumes were tame — cowboy, “Old Spice Dad” and clown — but when your Dad appears in public as a mermaid, Batgirl, a shirtless fireman or while sitting on the toilet, that’s downright embarrassing.

A relative documented the spectacle at a blog called Wave at the Bus. It ended with a roundup post that featured links to many of the costumes.

This school-free summer, which began June 2, will be the best of Rain Price’s life. It’s a good thing he kept his grades up high enough to avoid summer school.

The upside for Rain, according to his Dad: “He can use it against his kids and tell them, ‘If you think you are embarrassed by me, you should have seen your grandfather.’”


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The President’s Mountaineer Brother
Posted on 05.11.11 by Danny Glover @ 12:46 pm

This joke, forwarded by my Dad, perfectly captures the thinking of West Virginians (and I suspect most everyone else in “flyover country”) about Washington:

The year is 2016 and the United States has just elected the first woman president, who happens to be from West Virginia. A few days after the election the president-elect calls her father and says, “So, Dad, I assume you will be coming to my inauguration?”

“I don’t think so. It’s a 10-hour drive.”
“Don’t worry about it Dad, I’ll send Air Force One. And a limousine will pick you up at your door.”

“I don’t know. Everybody will be so fancy. What would your mother wear?”

“Oh Dad, I’ll make sure she has a wonderful gown custom-made by the best designer in Washington.”

“Honey,” Dad complains, “you know I can’t eat those rich foods you eat.”

“Don’t worry Dad. The entire affair will be handled by the best caterer in Washington; I’ll ensure your meals are salt-free. You and mom just have to be there.”

So Dad reluctantly agrees, and on Jan. 20, 2017, their daughter is sworn in as president of the United States with her parents in the front row.

Noticing the senator sitting next to him, the father leans over and whispers, “You see that woman over there with her hand on the Bible, becoming president of the United States.”

The senator whispers back, “You bet I do.”

Dad says proudly, “Her brother played football at WVU.”


Filed under: Family and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Sports and West Virginia
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Baby’s First Buck
Posted on 12.06.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:48 am

I love redneck baby pictures, especially when they involve trophy bucks. I’m jealous of this camouflaged deer slayer in the making:


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Redneck Pride On Display
Posted on 08.23.10 by Danny Glover @ 11:19 pm

Nothing says “redneck” like a load of lettered laundry hanging out to dry for the whole neighborhood, and the passerby photographer, to see:

Redneck Festival

The photographer, Mark Luethi, snapped the photo at the Weissport Redneck Festival in Pennsylvania. This is the third year for the event, which is scheduled for Labor Day weekend.


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The War Of Redneck Aggression
Posted on 08.23.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:58 pm

Earlier this year, I earned my 15 seconds of fame in the international spotlight when BBC interviewed me about the meaning of the word redneck. I owe it all to comedian Robin Williams, whose jab at Australia as the home of English rednecks triggered an Australian attack on Alabama.

Now Williams is set to tour Australia, and he wants to make sure the Aussies and everyone else involved knows he was just doing his job — telling jokes and making people laugh. “That was pretty bizarre. I was like: ‘Wow! I’ve started an international incident! I don’t want to cause a war between Alabama and Australia — please no!’”


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Tim Hawkins: ‘Somebody Broke Wind’
Posted on 07.12.10 by Danny Glover @ 9:54 pm

Sheer genius. I wish our minivan had a DVD player just so I could play this video repeatedly on our next road trip when one of the kids “breaks wind” and forces us to roll down the windows for fresh air. It’s the only sure-fire way to get me to stop so the culprit can take a bathroom break.


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How To Clean An Oily Bird
Posted on 07.05.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:56 am

My sister-in-law from Louisiana sent this joke via e-mail. It describes the Cajun cleanup plan for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill:

BP announced today that it no longer will hire Cajuns to help in the cleanup.

The reason: Thibodeaux, Boudreaux and Fontenot were told to clean as many brown pelicans as they could. So far, Thibodeaux has cleaned and gutted over 56 birds, while Boudreaux made the roux and Fontenot cooked the rice.

That sounds like an honest, redneck misunderstanding to me.


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Redneck Scrabble
Posted on 06.29.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:56 pm

Non-rednecks think it’s a word game you play to poke fun at rednecks.

All words must be spelled the way a redneck might spell it. We enjoy playing it, except for my schoolteacher friend for whom it brought back horrible memories of her training, when she was assigned to assist in teaching elementary school in a rural part of the country.

Enlightened rednecks know it’s a language you speak, and it takes years of practice to master.


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Broadband For Rednecks Everywhere!
Posted on 03.11.10 by Danny Glover @ 1:37 pm

In my new role as the editorial director of Digital Society, I’ve been focused like a laser on high-speed Internet the past few weeks. The FCC will be releasing its national broadband plan in six days, so leaders of the commission have been making the rounds on the speaking circuit to promote pieces of the plan.

The central message of the plan is that all Americans need broadband access — Commissioner Michael Copps this week even joined the chorus of people proclaiming it as a “right” — so the government must take steps to ensure that the poor, minorities, the elderly and, yes, rednecks in rural areas are enlightened by the Internet.

The FCC is so committed to selling its plan that Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke to the Country Music Association’s board of directors at its meeting in Washington yesterday.

Of course, country bumpkins are way too backward to understand the high-tech lingo of the FCC, so Genachowski’s staff translated his speech into “Nashvillese” that features country music titles:

When I think of those “Country Roads” and “Wide Open Spaces” without broadband, I “Fall to Pieces” and say that’s “Crazy.” We need to address these “Unanswered Prayers.”

As FCC chairman, I have friends in high places and “Friends in Low Places,” and I’m pulled to and fro on policy issues, but “I Walk the Line.” That’s because telecom politics is like a “Ring of Fire.” First I have Senator Rockefeller telling me about a “Coal Miner’s Daughter” who can’t get wireless service in some “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” Next, “I’m on the Road Again” to where “The Grass is Blue” and “A Boy Named Sue” stops me and says we need super-duper fast broadband all the way from “Boulder to Birmingham”” — and beyond, to “Galveston” and “El Paso.” He complains that his slow dial-up service can’t get to “Amarillo by Morning” and laments that America has gone round and round for years without a National Broadband Plan and plaintively asks, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”

I explain — to the “Boy Named Sue” — that this issue is “Always on my Mind” and the lack of a plan should not make him “Hurt” or a “Man of Constant Sorrow” with his “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.” Instead, I tell him to “Take it Easy” — “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” … just try to “Keep on the Sunny Side” and dream “Sweet Dreams” — because A National Broadband Plan is coming. Next week.”

Don’t you feel so much more enlightened about broadband now?


Filed under: Entertainment and Government and Music and News & Politics and Redneck Humor and Redneck Music and Rednecks and Technology
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