Rrrrmrr-hrrrmm, yeah-up, I'm a-fixin' to stick this here "stinkblade" into your secret nethers, rmmmrhm-hrrrm, hrrm-hrrrmm.

Actual line from the movie: "Your rectum tastes like french-fried pertaters, mm hmm."

Love how they describe this guy as a short fatty, 'flushed' by Bud Lite.

Surely they weren't trying to influence the readers' perception of the man's comments?

I imposed a partial moratorium on myself for BBM stuff -- too much heat from you retards

You shd thank us for forcing you to pace yourself. As we get closer to the Oscars, it will be bbm and nothin but bbm.

A quick Google search reveals that the gay rodeo is for real.

O.T. Have you looked at your google ads?? Arab singles? Visit a refugee camp?

Hey, why d'ya think they all have their names on the back of their belts, anyway?

It seems like Gay Rodeo is basically all they show on the Discovery Times channel, so one can be forgiven for wondering how real it is.
Of course they'd never show a real rodeo, or that prison rodeo, but that's besides the point

Sure, there's a gay rodeo.

The Shriners have been sponsoring Gay Rodeo through their local events for years, under the guise of hosting the events to help children.

I keed, I keed

Now some fez wearing guy in a micro car is going to try and kick my ass.

There is a gay rodeo, not to be confused with the prison rodeo, which is more of a predator-prey situation. I know this not because I have met a gay cowboy or heard of one in all my years back in Oklahoma, and with my dad in a job that brought me in contact with many denizens of cowboydom. (I did hear of a gay farmer, though.)

No, I know this because I heard a piece about the gay rodeo on NPR. And I have therefore heard one more piece about gay rodeo on NPR than I have about the real rodeo circuit, which is zero.

If any of you were King of the Hill fans you would know all about the gay rodeo. Best episode ever.

Does the SMH have editors? There's no such thing as "Bud Lite." "Lite" (a la Valu-Rite) is a Miller trademark. Walrus-dude was "flushed" with Bud Light.

Hey, why d'ya think they all have their names on the back of their belts, anyway?

WTF??? I tended bar and managed all sizes of Country & Western nightclubs all over the country for over 20 years and can't remember when the last time I saw a fucking belt with someones name on it... even in Oklahoma!

Well... maybe they had their name on their fucking belt, but not on the one they used to hold up their pants!

Does anyone else get the sense that this 'real life cowboy' tracks the MSM elite's caricature a leeetle too closely? I know this is an Australian paper, and presumably an Australian reporter. But is there any way of checking up to make sure the people quoted actually exist?

Old. As Roc says, King of the Hill covered this a while ago:

King of the Hill "My Own Private Rodeo"

Originally aired: Sunday April 28, 2002 on FOX
Production Code: 6ABE16

Dale and Nancy are renewing their marriage vows, and Nancy wants to invite Dale's estranged father, Bug, a rodeo performer. Dale hates his father for making a pass at Nancy on their wedding day, but when Hank goes to see Bug, he discovers that the rodeo is a gay rodeo, and Dale's dad is gay.

Excellent point, cjan. But Jim Bob does appear to be real.

Meaning what? If it wasn't for us retards you would be all BBM all the time?

moo moo buckaroo.

"That time, when you tea-bagged me? It tasted like biscuits and mustard, rmm-hmm."

Seriously, Ace, you seem oddly fascinated by this movie, especially in light of your comments that you were holding back for our benefit (let the jokes begin). I guess I just don't see what's so compelling about a gay-cowboy movie. Yeah, it's good for a few laughs, and it was kind of amusing to see the crowd that felt compelled to treat it as the best movie ever, but after that where do you go with it? Apparently lots of places, if not for us retards.

Between your BBM fixation and all the hat tips to Allah your site is going to be covered in gay Muslim ads before too long.

Call it what you want, just not a 'gay cowboy movie'. Not that I care that wranglers get grief because of this film, but cowboys herd cattle...not sheep.

That would be a shepherd.

If the cast of characters rode horses, chewed tobacco and wore western-style hats, but raised chickens, would you call them cowboys?

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "cowpoke"!

If the cast of characters rode horses, chewed tobacco and wore western-style hats, but raised chickens, would you call them cowboys?

You're damn right I would.

They chew tobacco in the movie? I'm going', that's all there is to it, I'm f#$kin' goin'.

Sheep herders, eh? Why do they need each other when they can have all those ewes?

Actual line from the movie: "Your rectum tastes like french-fried pertaters, mm hmm."

LOL!!!!!!!!

There is a slight difference though, between "rodeo circuit" cowboys and actual work-on-a-ranch-every-day-sun-up-to-sun-down cowboys.

Trust me, I've heard fights about it between "real" cowboys and ... "real" cowboys

American critics have enthused about the film, but the subject matter has earned condemnation from the religious right - and caused considerable distress in rural Wyoming, bastion of the cowboy culture of unadulterated machismo.

One has to wonder whether this was written before, or after the film was released.

You are right Kath, there is a major difference between real cowboys and rodeo cowboys. And I am pretty sure that I once met a homo rodeo cowboy . . . he didn't chew, didn't drink, and didn't ravage me when I was puking drunk one night. Was clearly gay!

"While the patrons in the Mint Bar may be convinced that they have never met a homosexual cowboy"

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes to a place called the Mint Bar is gay.

Real cowboys ride horses drive dusty pick-ups eat meat and potatos and marry cowgirls just remmeber ROY RODGERS and DALE EVANS

and caused considerable distress in rural Wyoming, bastion of the cowboy culture of unadulterated machismo.

Wyoming? You're fucking kidding me.

The bastion of cowboy culture is Blanco County, Texas, which, with a negligible population, has spawned more champion cowboys than any place on earth (according to a paper place mat at a restaurant there where Texas bikers gather for breakfast before cruising the Hill Country).

Gay-Rodeo...that's an oxymoron, right?

HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN