Sunday, July 08, 2007

No wonder posting on FD has been so light

They're all in Minto:

"MINTO, ONT. — The roads to Minto are straight and narrow, and have for generations been little more than a means to carry motorists to beach resorts and big cities beyond this sleepy farming town in Southwestern Ontario.

The landscape is lush, but flat and teeming with cattle and corn. There is no notable shopping or nightlife. The main tourist attraction is a railway museum open only by appointment most of the year.

Yet thousands are expected to converge on the tiny backwater 160 kilometres northwest of Toronto this weekend and pay $5 a head to toss toilet seats, bob for pigs' feet and belly-flop into a pool of mud in deference to the slack-jawed stereotype that Minto residents believe they embody: the redneck.

Entering its second year, the Canadian Redneck Games is part of a larger trend toward the heralding of a new kind of redneck."

And when they're finished tossing toilet seats and bobbing for pigs' feet, they'll get back on their John Deeres and lead the charge in the socon revolution that will change the face of the Canadian political landscape.