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Old 12-10-2010, 06:05 AM
 
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You should be proud CPG what a great reply for a 14 yo. I am pretty sure the reason she could go though was you sold the tires off all those old cars in your yard..

I have to agree when I watched about 2 minutes of it I also thought, oh great just what we need to make AL proud.
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Old 12-10-2010, 08:28 AM
 
Location: Floribama
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One of them isn't even from Alabama, she's from NYC! A "Bama belle" from New Yawk. LMAO
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Old 12-14-2010, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Vestavia, AL, USA
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My wife and I have watched the two episodes so far....and are watching it just to see what sorts of things we...more like I should have been doing since I grew up in the country near Selma. Apparently I should have been bow hunting with women that wore lipstick, boutique camo, and race lawn mowers back 20 years ago. Then I would have been right in the group that apparently makes up the southern people.

Some of the stupid things they are showing on this program are just that...rather stupid. In my opinion it is nothing like the Alabama I grew up in nor is it like the one that I live and play in now.
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Old 12-14-2010, 02:24 PM
 
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Maybe I am naive or haven't lived in the right places, but I have never heard of lawn mower racing!! I grew up in Columbus, GA and have lived in GA and AL and some of these things are a revelation to me! Now I could understand riding horses but so far that is not what I see. After 2 episodes, I will not be watching anymore.
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Old 12-14-2010, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Lawnmower racing is... well I wouldn't say "popular" but it's common enough that they didn't contrive it just for this show.
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Old 12-14-2010, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Alabama!
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We did a lawnmower race in Decatur for a few years, as a fund-raiser from one of the local civic clubs.
We envisioned some of the local homeowners taking the blades off their riding lawnmowers and coming out to have a little yuppie fun. The reality is, the guys who do this can't afford a junker car to soup up for the local dirt track, so they tinker with lawnmowers. It is WAY more redneck than NASCAR, or even the local dirt track.
It just didn't exactly do what we thought it would...it did raise some money for a few years, but it's too specialized to draw much of a crowd.
And women were notably absent from this crowd, except to cheer on a husband/brother/dad/son.

We did have a local guy place in the national competition a few years though.
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:31 AM
 
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Just keep this show in mind when you watch all other TV shows. Movies and shows work off stereotypes in general; it makes storytelling easy. This is not restricted to shows about the south.
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Old 12-15-2010, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Floribama
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Lawnmower racing does happen around here, I just met a father and son a few days ago that were "building" an old Craftsman together. They seemed like they were having a good time with it, so I guess it's all good.
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Old 12-16-2010, 10:03 AM
 
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It is truly horrible, even worse than "Sweet Home, Alabama." It's too bad somebody can't do something that shows the real people who live here...from the rednecks to the people who support the ballet, opera and theatre that we have here in relative abundance?
You're right about the whole series. The scrape around the bottom of barrels to find women stupid and shallow enough to be counted upon to turn the air blue whenever they speak, have trashy fights and spend money on garbage...in short, a gang of narcissists.
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Old 12-20-2010, 06:58 AM
 
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It is truly horrible, even worse than "Sweet Home, Alabama." It's too bad somebody can't do something that shows the real people who live here...from the rednecks to the people who support the ballet, opera and theatre that we have here in relative abundance?
You're right about the whole series. The scrape around the bottom of barrels to find women stupid and shallow enough to be counted upon to turn the air blue whenever they speak, have trashy fights and spend money on garbage...in short, a gang of narcissists.
I think they should do a show about Mobile or one of the more sophisticated cities in Alabama. I bet they wouldn't just love to hear about the engineer families who live in nerdy Huntsville, or the culturally forward college students of Mobile. How about the one who plays Juliet in the Alabama Shakespheare festival? XYZ is going to show us some original native dances in the international talent show! That's a real indian chief? My mom's side of the family and some of my friends are stereotypical redneck enough, though. Maybe one of us should enter and shock 'em. Well, perhaps they would be shocked, but given the spin they put on everything, I wonder if I would live it down .

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