I grew up in the Ouachita National Forest in rural Arkansas. I am legitimately a hillbilly, albeit a somewhat educated one. In fact, my ex-husband calls my family and me “educated rednecks.” True story. Growing up, I was privy to all of the old wive’s tales and folklore, and many people in my family actually bought into some of the tales and even some home remedies. Honestly, who am I to judge and what makes me an authority on anything? I have an aunt who lived a very simple country lifestyle with plenty of folk wisdom and she’s nearly 90 and healthy as can be. I’d be as inclined to take her advice about some stuff as I would an “educated” professional. With that said, I also know plenty of hillbillies who have some strange ideas about how things should be done. The gentlemen in the joke below certainly had an interesting idea, and while it seems crazy, it seems to have done the trick and achieved the needed result. As we say in the hills, “the proof is in the pudding.” Enjoy this hilarious joke.
Two hillbillies walk into a restaurant. While having a bite to eat, they talk about their moonshine operation.
Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough. After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress. One of the hillbillies looks at her and says, ‘Kin ya swallar?’
The woman shakes her head no. Then he asks, ‘Kin ya breathe?’ The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head no.
The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue.
The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.
As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to his table. His partner says, ‘Ya know, I’d heerd of that there ‘Hind Lick Maneuver’ but I ain’t niver seed nobody do it!’
