Almost any town in America?
April 28, 2005 - 10:56am
Today on Fark an article about Kentucky Hillbillies: who are pissed off about how A&E portrayed their lovely and progressive city.
The most telling quote in the whole article about pissed-off hillbillies was this:
“You start the piece by showing a rebel flag on Julius Avenue, an overweight man without a shirt smoking a cigarette and an old pickup with a few women in the back,” Blackburn said. “As I am sure you would agree, you can go to almost any city in America and find the same.”
Really?
Any City?
I lived in godforsaken Northern Wisconsin and never once observed this sort of behavior.
Clearly when you make a statement like that, you have to realize that you’ve proven the other side’s arguements.
puh-leeze, the one time I went to Shell Lake, I saw a group of kids in the back of a pick-up truck, each with an inner-tube… probably for swimming in a lake. I also saw numerous ugly people shirtless, one of whom was walking into a grocery store. Yuck.
Interesting that you’d post this particular entry, since I distinctly remember Shell Lake as the town with the shirtless people in the grocery stores.