The Redneck Review

The Redneck Review – Buyer Beware

November 8, 2010

My friend Mike (a dreaded New Yorker) is addicted to infomercials. Not only does he sit on the couch watching them for hours on end, he actually buys stuff too. Lots of stuff. He showed me a closet one time that was filled to the ceiling with an assortment of ab machines and various other [...]

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October 1, 2010

Holiday Spirits Halloween. It’s one of my wife’s favorite holidays. This is truly something I cannot understand. And she, like many Americans, absolutely loves scary movies as well. Her tastes range from cheesy zombie flicks to classics like “Nightmare on Elm Street part XLVIII: The Geriatric Ward of Terror.” It says a lot about our [...]

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September 5, 2010

I finally faced one of my biggest fears a couple days ago. No, I’m not talking about bungee jumping or skydiving. Nor do I mean to suggest that I overcame my fear of public speaking. Incidentally, that’s the single biggest fear among adults with death coming in a close second. This means, of course, that [...]

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Doggy Birthday

August 1, 2010

I overheard my wife having a strange conversation on the phone the other day. She was talking with her longtime friend Amy about how she thought purchasing the specially designed doggie couch might be a bit extreme. “But it’s so cute, Shannon,” Amy said, trying to sway my wife into agreeing it would be a [...]

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The Redneck Review: Strength of a Woman

June 1, 2010

Men are considerably stronger than women, right? That’s what I’ve always thought. Physically speaking, our gender has a leg up on our female companions. It’s a simple matter of biology. Pound for pound, men are just built stronger than women. This is not to suggest there aren’t some women who can out bench press many [...]

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May 1, 2010

Tastes Like Chicken Sitting on the couch last night stuffing my face full of candy, I reached a surprising conclusion. There, gripped firmly between my thumb and index finger, was one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century. I’m referring, of course, to Jelly Belly’s gourmet jellybeans. Each hardened sugary piece is carefully [...]

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The Redneck Review: Thicker Than Water

April 1, 2010

“Bickering with relatives is no longer limited to the Christmas holidays in my family. It now provides us with year-round entertainment.” We survived yet another family vacation last week. Each summer, for the past four years, we have embarked on a journey to the Sunshine State for some fun and relaxation. And prior to packing [...]

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The Redneck Review: Bargain Hunting

March 1, 2010

“Haggling (as dad used to call it) is apparently half the fun. Seeing if you can get a stranger to accept even less money for the junk he doesn’t want anymore is supposedly quite a challenge.” “Quick, turn right here!” my wife shouted unexpectedly on our way home from church last Sunday. “Where?” I replied, [...]

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The Redneck Review ~ The More the Merrier

February 1, 2010

“Holy crap!” The words slipped out of my mouth before I had time to think. “Holy crap?” my wife repeated back to me. “That’s what you have to say about us having another baby?” I couldn’t help it. It’s the only thing I could muster through the shock. My mind and body had suddenly gone [...]

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The Redneck Review

December 13, 2009

Kyle Farnsworth is a relief pitcher for the famed New York Yankees major league baseball team. That is, until he was traded to the Tigers in a late-season move to improve their chances of making the playoffs. At this point, anything less than another World Series championship for the Yanks would be considered a failure. [...]

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The Redneck Review – Blast From The Past

November 8, 2009

It’s not every day a guy gets to talk to an old friend he hasn’t heard from in over fifteen years. At least it didn’t used to be. I guess Facebook is changing that pretty quickly. It probably won’t be long before people never even lose touch in the first place. But for me, Internet [...]

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The Redneck Review – Friendship 2.0

October 25, 2009

Friendship 2.0 Will you be my friend? That’s the latest question zipping around the Internet these days. No doubt if you have a pulse you have at least heard about Facebook.com. This interesting little website is one of many categorized as a social network. And it seems to be a race to get as many [...]

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The Redneck Review: A Number’s Game

September 7, 2009

A quick glance at the news on Yahoo.com yesterday and I noticed something truly amazing. It seems that a highly esteemed group of eggheads at UCLA has discovered a 13 million-digit prime number. That’s right. By harnessing the power of many hardly used computers around the globe, this gang of hardcore mathematicians has unearthed this [...]

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