No Redneck Left Behind: Facing the Real World After Gettin' Your Diploma

They say your school years are your best years. That's a lie. There are plenty of good days ahead of you, unless you took so long to graduate that people thought you were in the seventeenth grade.

Now it's time to take what you've learned in classes such as math, biology, and introductory drywall hanging and make a success of your life. Okay, maybe you can at least stay off of COPS or Judge Judy.

You might be a redneck if . . .

• Your résumé includes your high scores on video games.
• You think the ability to hold a job is overrated.
• You've asked a hairstylist for a "business at the front, party at the back" cut.
• You list "beginner's luck" as a skill on a job application.
• Your savings account is in the ashtray of your truck.

Jeff Foxworthy is a New York Times best-selling author and one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the largest-selling comedy-recording artist in history and is the star and executive producer of the television series Blue Collar TV, which he created for the WB network. His Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVDs have sold more than 5.5 million copies.

David Boyd is a cartoonist, the job reserved for opinionated people who can't write but have a better than average ability to doodle. His daft pen and keen wit leave no sacred cow standing as he comments about Jeff Foxworthy's rednecks and their glorious lack of sophistication.