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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:29 AM
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Check in if you live in a small town and you have at least one Yokel driving around in a jacked up
pickup truck with extra large flags mounted in the bed.
My town has two.
I just want to know if it is a homegrown thing.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:31 AM
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1. no, we have a ton of them (No pun intended) in Ellis County, Texas
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:32 AM
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2. Several around nw Ohio too.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:33 AM
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3. Uggh... those jackasses live to ride your bumper & intimidate....
Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 11:34 AM by hlthe2b
It gives me visions of doing something, I'd surely NEVER want to do. Cretins. Not seen so frequently in Denver, but outside and on western slope--you bet. :eyes:
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brer cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:34 AM
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4. Same here in no. Georgia
Plus a few motorcycles with flags almost as big as they are...sometimes confederate even :(
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:37 PM
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31. I just saw where you are. I see them all the time cruising through helen. n/t
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:24 PM
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43. Were they flying Bavarian flags?
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:43 PM
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45. I'm afraid not. n/t
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:12 PM
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40. I am Woodstock, northwest of Atlanta
and I have seen plenty of them. They have the Confederate and American flags in the beds of their pickups.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:34 AM
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5. Yea we have then here too ...sad.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. – George Bernard Shaw
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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:35 AM
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6. Why is the US like this? In Europe you never see such jingoism. n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:36 AM
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8. My guess
Some people need a constant reminder of what country they're in, or they're liable to forget.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:37 PM
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32. LOL!
:rofl: I think you're right.
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RZM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:38 AM
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12. Try watching the World or European Cups. Or any large festival concert
Such as 'Rock am Ring' in Germany. The crowds at those are filled with flags.
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CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:21 PM
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28. Yep, I forgot about soccermania. I guess I meant on everyday t shirts and bumper stickers.
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RZM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:36 AM
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7. I've seen plenty in my day
But I can't say I've ever given a shit. If somebody wants to drive a jacked up truck with flags on it, who cares?
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:36 AM
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9. Whew, don't feel so bad now. Do they always have at least two Flags also? nt.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:38 AM
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10. We have the "Don't Tread On Me" truck guy. It's a pickup with a cap
Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 11:39 AM by TwilightGardener
and the HUGE snake decal that takes up the entire rear window. He's always parked at our local gas station/cafe on the corner when I take my kids to school--we look for him every day (and snicker).
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archiemo Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:38 AM
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11. We must live in the same town! My yokel
Drives around in his jacked up mud-athon truck with a large confederate flag flying in the bed.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:40 AM
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15. Thats him................... Do they have a club or something? nt
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:39 AM
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13. Yes to the small town, no to the yokel. But then, I live in a very, very blue area.
Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 11:40 AM by Brickbat
Our "yokels" log, come into town once a month, and vote a straight Democratic ticket.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:43 AM
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20. Use to be like that here. nt
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:40 AM
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14. I saw one with a large confederate flag driven into high school parking lot
by a student. I live in a conservative part of PA.

I hope that flapping confederate flag cut down on the jerk's gas mileage.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:40 AM
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16. saw one just yesterday --
silly fucker.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:41 AM
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17. I live in a big city, and we have 'em, too.
They're everywhere, it seems.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:42 AM
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18. OMG! Why would anyone
unrec this thread???/ :rofl:

THAT said, not only do we have numerous trucks w/extra large flags mounted in the beds, they also have balls!
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jdlh8894 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:43 AM
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19. "Extra Large Flags"
Of what variety?
Rainbow?
US?
Bonnie Blue?
VA Battle ?

Maybe they are just drying their laundry!
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:43 AM
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21. I have the truck, sans flags. n/t
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:46 AM
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22. In 2004 we had a guy here in Portland, Ore. who had a flag-festooned Bush-mobile truck
Sometimes he would park it and stand on the corner with signs taunting all the liberals. Haven't seen him in awhile.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:46 AM
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23. One Yahoo with a Gadsden flag
and a ton of bumper stickers (I wonder if they are covering up whiskey dents). The best I can figure, he has a general dislike for Commie Socialist terrorist Muslim fascist tree huggers, and Ron Paul has been canonized.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:00 PM
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24. I've seen one
I suspect he is from the red neck faction over the hill, but never the less, it is the Napa Valley.
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Ship of Fools Donating Member (899 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:10 PM
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25. You can't swing a dead cat around here and miss one ...
they're everywhere in Kansas.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:11 PM
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26. There's some around here, too
I saw a couple recently with big flags, plus a confederate flag flapping the middle. The driver looks like he hasn't had a bath since the truck was built (70's anyway)
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:13 PM
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27. I live in Los Angeles and we've got those guys here. It's a whole subspecies.
Giant truck... plastic truck nuts hanging off the trailer hitch... decals with a tribal pattern... usually some sort of slogan like "mess with the best, die like the rest".
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:27 PM
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29. Well that kind of describes Craavack but I don't think I have seen
any flags!
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:35 PM
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30. Yep, not only him but his brother, his uncle, a sister and his three step dads with the same truck.
Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 12:36 PM by ThomWV
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:40 PM
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33. after 9/11, this guy welded a full sized (albeit shortened) flag pole to his flat bed, and had a
full sized flag flying from it.

you'd be amazed how quickly that will make a full sized flag go to tatters....
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:12 PM
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39. We had one of those
He parked near us, and it generally took less than a week for the flag to start looking like shit. Several of us took turns leaving him notes about how disrespectful it was to display the flag in such a diminished state.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 02:51 PM
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48. when he was driving full speed, you could hear the flag ripping in the wind. it was funny, and sad..
Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 02:51 PM by dionysus
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 12:04 AM
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52. I used to blatantly stand there and take photos of their beaten flags, hypocrites galore.
Sometimes the camera didn't even have film and with a digital they had no clue if memory card was there either.

Did it at businesses too. Electric company here had a new flag the next day. hehehe

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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:50 PM
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34. Small town? I've seen 'em in Brooklyn. Not so much out here in farm...
country, though.

But there is a locally famous guy in a motorized wheelchair riding around town with a couple of flags flying off the back.

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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:52 PM
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35. I see those people frequently around Denver
They are not alone
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sammytko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 12:54 PM
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36. never seen one here in small town south texas
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MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:07 PM
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37. Minnesota checking in. Of course we got em.
Any place that would elect bachmann has to have them, don't they?

Next time on of those fucker tailgates me at night I'm calling the cops, giving my location, asking for help because the guy is trying to run me off the road (also - I think I saw a gun but I'm not sure), then I'll give my location, yell bloody murder and then stomp on the brakes. Next stop a private room at the hospital for anlityle r and r and the jail for a little one on one time with one of the brothers for him.
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:10 PM
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38. In one small town here in oregon
I saw more confederate flags a-flyin than anywhere in the south.

but I see plenty of those jacked up trucks even here in the "big(ish) city"
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 12:07 AM
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53. NW PA has more than I ever saw living in Alabama for three years. N/t
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bainz Donating Member (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:16 PM
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41. Don't see too many of those around here
When I lived in Florida, it was almost impossible to go anywhere without seeing Puerto Rican flags hanging from rear view mirrors. Never understood that one.
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raouldukelives Donating Member (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:18 PM
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42. Seen a few in Sonoma county
The most devoted seems to be a middle aged dude on a bicycle adorned with a few small flags and one large one pulling a trailer that also has two large flags attached. I overheard him hollering something about Obama once at a stoplight. I'm just glad he's green.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:42 PM
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44. One? Try numerous.
Just around the corner from where I live there's a big pickup (Honda, by the way) with two large flags, US and Gadsden. Across the rear window, a large handmade sticker of "OneBadAssMessAmerica". Under the front axle there's a cowbell, and the back end sports oversized blue(?) truckballs.

Yeehaw.
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loyalsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:46 PM
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46. I have seen worse
I have a relative who painted their truck as a giant American flag. Stars and on the cab stripes on the bed. Drove around in it all the time.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 01:53 PM
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47. These simple yokels exist in every state.
Including Connecticut.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:17 PM
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49. sheee -it! We got bunches of em
Y'all got a problem with big tie - yers? :sarcasm:

heck, wealthy old white guys buy corvettes to over-compensate for *shortcomings*. Jacked up trucks are the overcompensation vehicle for rednecks. :shrug:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:32 PM
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50. Not in this elite NYC suburb.
These people wouldn't defile their imported luxury cars with a sticker! ;-)

And their are far more Puerto Rican flags flying from cars in the neighboring urban area than Confederate.

I'll see the occasional older couple still flying a pair of window-attached American flags from their rear side windows.


Although I did see a pickup truck with a big exhaust stack like a semi... except it stuck up from the front center of the bed.

:wtf:
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 11:52 PM
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51. NW PA, hell yes, along with the Confederate flag. Ignorant asshole redneck repukkklicants. n/t
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 12:27 AM
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54. We call them liberals here in rural Arizona.
The yokels drive red, white and blue tanks with confederate flags on each corner and a 50mm in the turret for hunting jackalopes.
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roody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 12:50 AM
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55. Yes, here in NoCal.
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