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The Redneck Review – Buyer Beware

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

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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

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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

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Doggy Birthday

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

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The Redneck Review: Strength of a Woman

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.

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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.

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The Redneck Review: Thicker Than Water

“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

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The Redneck Review: Bargain Hunting

“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!”

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The Redneck Review ~ The More the Merrier

“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

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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,

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The Redneck Review – Blast From The Past

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

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The Redneck Review – Friendship 2.0

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

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The Redneck Review: A Number’s Game

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

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