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Possibly the saddest, funniest story you'll ever read about hillbilly America

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Double Down, Nov 22, 2008.

  1. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Hell all that's missing from this story is Sarah Palin standing in the foreground.
     
  2. lono

    lono Active Member

    Re: Possibly the saddest, funniest story you'll ever read about hillbilly Americ

    Wow.

    Three pages and the phrase "cousin-fuckin'" hasn't appeared yet.

    I admire the restraint. :D
     
  3. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    Re: Possibly the saddest, funniest story you'll ever read about hillbilly Americ

    I'm so proud of my state sometimes.

    Actually Nicholas County isn't in the mountains, so it's not Hillbilly America. White trash redneck America, most definitely. But at least get your insults and stereotypes geographically correct.

    Now, I don't have much sympathy for the women. The sheriff had little else to do, U.S. 68 is a very busy road (I know, for all the horse and buggies and moonshine runners to use). He had to get it open, especially after all that time.

    Good job by the H-L to mix the comic and tragic.

    Here's an update. Evidently everyone is tired of the media attention, surprise.

    http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/602753.html

    Of course, this still isn't as funny as the pic the Courier had several years back of a truck full of piglets that overturned and people were running all over the interstate trying to get them.
     
  4. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    "Cousin-fuckin"? Yikes. Though, I will add this: About a dozen years ago, when I started work at a paper in Northern Kentucky, I had the thankless task of entering marriage licenses into our system for a community-agate thing we called "Town Crier." Marriages, cop calls, property transfers, births -- that sort of thing. Now, I saw marriage license documents from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Only Kentucky's asked if the petitioners were related. Not kidding.
     
  5. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    I wonder if they ask that in England, where the reigning queen is married to a man who is her second cousin once removed through one family branch, and her third cousin through another branch.
     
  6. jello042

    jello042 New Member

    Hillbillies are the staple of America and what our coutry was originally founded upon.
     
  7. joe

    joe Active Member

    If they ain't barefoot, they ain't hillbillies.
     
  8. lono

    lono Active Member

    What's "our coutry?"
     
  9. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    My usually rapier-sharp geography skillz let me down. I thought Nicholas County was where Nicholasville, due south of Lexington on U.S. 68, was located. Turns out it is northeast of Lexington. I've driven U.S. 68 south of Lexington and its quite hilly, can't vouch for northeast of the city.
     
  10. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Re: Possibly the saddest, funniest story you'll ever read about hillbilly Americ

    DAMMIT! Nicholasville is due South on 27. If you take 68, you'll get Jessamine County but not Nicholasville.

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    EDIT: though if you take 68 South, you go past the God-Dome (Southland Christian, the church I attended off and on after college, huge) and then if you take a left at the Vet's office onto 29, it will take you past my old HS. It's now West Jessamine, but it's there nonetheless. And the athletic teams still blow. You can also go past the dark brown wooden fence on the right side of the road right before a sharp turn where a classmate had a terrible accident, had a piece of that fence go through her head and leave her brain-damaged.
     
  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Kentucky geography for $200 to have my home moved by a guy named Pancake, Alex.
     
  12. Paper Dragon

    Paper Dragon Member

    Great fucking story; great fucking thread.

    It's weird because I don't know her, but I'm almost proud of the reporter for not writing it straight.
     
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