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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Until you started working on this show, you were best known for the redneck part of your comedy routine. Would you ever give that up? Well, I had kind of resigned myself to the fact that that was what I was going to be the rest of my life. If I pulled into a gas station, somebody would go, "Hey! You might be a redneck!" But for the last three years if I'm in the grocery store, invariably, 10 people will walk past me and go, "I'm not smarter than a fifth grader." And I'd say, "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

When Alex Trebek shaved his mustache, it was headline news. People still ask him about it years later. Would you ever consider getting rid of your mustache? I've had it since my senior year in high school. My wife and I have been together 25 years and she's never seen me without it. I don't even know if there's a lip under there anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...have a favorite You Might be a Redneck If...joke? It's kind of like picking between your children. When I wrote "If you've ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said concentrate...," that made me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...Chinese-financed project of dual natural-gas and oil pipelines, for instance, begins in an ethnically troubled part of western Burma's Arakan state and runs past the part of Shan state where fighting raged last month in Kokang. Construction of the Shwe pipeline project, the biggest ever foreign investment commitment to Burma, was supposed to begin this month, but ethnic skirmishes may imperil that schedule. Reports are also trickling in from Kachin state, where dam projects funded by foreign investors are suspending operations because of potential violence. Little wonder that Beijing, which usually shields Burma from any formal criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Burma's War | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...intolerance that reduced the intellectual life of much of the world to a frozen stubble. With the pages of that narrative fresh in the memory, it is easy to read history backwards, and conclude that Marxism came into being with a livid birthmark that would disfigure it for ever. (Read: "Marxism: The Persistent Vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friedrich Engels: Capitalism's Communist | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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