The Redneck Challenge:

We are sick and tired of hearing about how dumb people are in
the South, and we challenge any so called "smart" Yankee to take this exam:

1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree
that will support a 10 pound possum.

2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when
placed on blocks in your front yard?
a. '65 Ford Fairlaine
b. '69 Chevrolet Chevelle
c. '64 Pontiac GTO

3. If your uncle builds you a still which operates at a
capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car
radiators are required to condense the product?

4. A wood cutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM.
The density of the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 470 per
acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is
14 inches. How many Buds will be drunk before the trees are cut down?
 

5. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch
centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the
porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine.
When the porch collapses, how many dogs will be killed?
 

6. A man owns a Georgia house and 3.7 acres of land in a
hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has five children.
Can each of his grown children place a mobile home on the man's land
and still have enough property for their electric appliances to sit out front?
 

7. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards
down a steep slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail.
Given average traffic conditions on secondary roads, what is the
probability that it will strike a vehicle with a muffler?
 

8. With a gene pool reduction of 7.5%per generation, how
long will it take a town which has been bypassed by the Interstate
to breed a country-western singer?

I betcha thought that there test was gonna be an easy one,
didn't ya? It's O.K. if'n ya didn't do all that well. Just goes to show ya.
There's a hole heap of things that big city book-learning don't
prepare ya for in this life.