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BEER - This is a culture within itself - an oxymoron if there ever was one. Big-bellied construction workers gulp it down to prepare for belching contests. Guzzling in public is what made Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy, the laughing stock of the nation (and the only President's brother to have an alcoholic beverage named after him).

BUMPER STICKERS - Ultra Cheesy! I do not understand the concept of reading another persons infatuation (i.e., INSURED BY SMITH & WESSON ) that is glued to the back of a piece of metal that is blowing pollution in my path.

AEROSOL CHEESE - Does this really need an explanation?

CANDLE ART - Very sixties hippie concept

CEDAR SOUVENIRS - This is a trend that is very popular among Southern people. These plaques usually include religion, poems and cuss banks (you must deposit a coin after every time you swear) and bathroom knockers. This is a staple in every home in the Smoky Mountains.

CHARO - What is a coochie-coochie ? This is a women that has made a good living off repeating two words so exuberantly that her whole body (especially her bust) convulses like a great big sneeze! Only in America!

CHIPPENDALES - One of the less elegant spin-offs from women s liberation is male strippers --- well-oiled beefcakes who dance on stage wearing a little more than tuxedo collars and cuffs, propelling their bulges in the direction of anyone waving legal tender. While it is possible to regard this phenomenon as evidence of real equality between sexes, it proves the less gladdening fact that given the opportunity, women can be every bit as offensive and vulgar as men.

EPIGRAMS - A man's got to believe in something. I believe I will have another beer. See also: Bumper stickers; Cedar souvenirs

POLYESTER - You can sleep better tonight knowing that this fire hazard is a trend that will never resurface.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING - Melodrama with muscles!

SPAM - See Aerosol Cheese.

VELVET PAINTINGS - Why are there no Caucasian ideals on these works of art? A Norman Rockwell bespectacled man in suspenders reading the Saturday Evening Post?