ASK HAZEL
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    About the ole Gal
    Hazels' Great Adventure
    (The vacation of a lifetime!)
        Dear Hazel,
        Thars been alot a talk that Dale Earnhardt is warshed up, and done with. I been hearin he ain't got whut it takes no more against them younger fellers...whut do you thank??
      Worried in Willerbrook
        Dear Worried,
        Well, dear...I know he's had a tuff run a luck lately, but I've been a watchin that boy since he started racin back in the late 70's.And he drives jes like his daddy. Now, ifn Dale had a hankerin to retire and sit on the porch, he'd have plenty of money ta do it. But it ain't gonna happen! He ain't got it in him ta sit still! He ain't done for yet, not by a long shot. An fer you fellers that think them younguns is the best drivers fer the job, then let me give you sum of Hazels words a wisdom! Age, experience, and a little bit a treachery will ALWAYS overcum Youth and Enthusiasm! Don't ever turn yer back on that 3 car, an thank he's done fer. It'll be the biggest misstake ah yer life, and you'll look real stupid with them tire tracks runnin up yer backside!
        You keep the Faith, I'm Shore Gonna!
        Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        Whut do you thank about all that fussin an fightin the other week at Richmond with them racecar drivers? Do you think one er the other was wrong??
        Clevon
        Dear Clevon,
        I don't thank there wuz a right and a wrong. I thank it was the first race in a coons age, where it really felt like Saturday nite short-trackracin! An no matter who youse rootin fer, it got yer blood goin, just like it used to, when racin was not so commercial and fancy. Hell, I luved it!Good Thoughts, Good Booze, and Good Racin to Ya!
        Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        How come all them Winston and Unical girls have such big hare?? Why do they poof it out like that??
        Rooney
        Dear Rooney,
        Huney, they poof up thar hare, cuz it makes the rest of em look
        smaller. Makes em look like they got real tiny middles! Tell yore wife Betsy ta try it!
        Lots uh luck, Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
         Is it wrong to drink beer at 6am saterday morning after busting your hump 50 hours a week?
        Mike
        Dear Mike:
        Hell no, huney thar ain't nuthin wrong with beer fer breakfust, ...specially if  you been bustin yer hump fer a 50 hr week! Beer is the original brefust of champions!! And if'n anybody gets on yer nerves about it, jest pour yer beer over yer cheerios, and tell em to get themselves a life! If they got time to nag on you, then they need to have a try at workin 50 hour a week! That'll shut em up!
        Take care, Good thoughts, good booze,
        Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        I hear Cletus' dad and Hazel have a long distance thang going on. True?
        Delores

        Dear Delores,
        Lordy, child-where didja hear that? I don't rightly know what you Northern folkes do with yer cuzzins....but us Rednecks have got a bad rap bout messin with our kin!
        Now, I got 2 Cuzzins named Cletus. One...well- he's up in yore neck of the woods now, and Paw of that lil darlin Cletus Jr.He's got a twin (spittin image), my cuzzin Lester.Them is good boys-even if Cletus does go and drink that fancy imported beer! (I thank yall call it PEVA .....why - on Gods green earth,would ya drank anything that starts with PE?) He swears it goes better with them Road Kill ribs he's always hankerin! (Last time he gnawed on them squirrel ribs, them wuz so tiny, made him a new set of toothpicks).Cuzzin Lesters' more on the quiet side....rarely hear from him lest there's trouble brewin! Which brangs me to my other Cuzzin Cletus-he's done gone over to the Dark Side, and is the Prezident of that Jeff Gordon fan club. I reckon he's the real "imped" one in the family! He's a real good example of why Rednecks don't have "thangs" with kin! Jest lookee at what ya end up with! Scares the hell outta me!
        Now my other Cuzzin Cletus (Cletus Jrs Paw)....we got 2 thangs in common! We both love the Heck outta Racin!! And we both can't stand that Gordon feller! In fact, we'd jest as soon lynch him as look at him! All that whinin he does just make my new teeth rattle! If'n you got any nasty ideas, you need ta warsh that mouth out with good ol lye soap, and take yerself to the woodshed fer a spell! Us Racin fans is a rare breed, And when ya have a tried and true fan...ya stand back ter back whithum....cuz theres traitors everwhere!

        As Ever, Good Thoughts(cleanumup!) Good Booze, and Good Racin!
        Hazel

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        Dear Hazel,
        My paw is always furgitten things when we go to races.  One time
        he furgot are lugage. another time when we stopped for gas CletusAnne
        started drinkin sum gas. He put hur on top of the car and then he furgot
        about hur.  Another time he furgot me at a gas station. I went to the
        bathroom and he drove away cuz he thawt i took to long so . i was lookin
        at a shiny thang on the floor.  later wen he came to pick me up he said
        it wus a penny.  We don't see to many a those.  When we got to a race he
        furgot one of the tickets.  he just gave me a penny and that kept me
        enturtained fur the hole race.  i really wanna see one a those sumtime.
        please tell me wut to do.
                                                   sinserly,
                                                   Cletus jr.

        Dear Junior,
        Well, honey, you sure got yer share of problems! But don't you worry none....chances are it ain't herred...heidrie...herieddar...it don't run in the family! Now yer pa never has been one to pay them high prices fer gas, so CletusAnne swiggin down gas,an then gettin put on the roof is about as close to "High Octane" as yer pa is gonner get! An if yer sister turns that nasty color green after slurpin the gas-just give her a chaw of RedMan, an get outta the way! That'll clean her out real good!
        Now, losin luggage...I know is durned irritatin. If'n yer pa just fergot um at home...then look at the bright side! You got clean drawers when ya git home! If'n they'se lost on yer trip...I firmly belive all lost luggage is what makes up them rings around Saturn, so honey, they're gone fer sure!
        I'm surprised yer pa let ya stop and go in them fancy bathrooms! He always went on past them stops becuz he kept that ol milk jug in the car! I know them penny thangs is shiny..but the pertyist thing I've seen is Clevon(my taxidermist),he's got the nicest glass eye-youd jest love -it's a perty blue and really sparkles! He'll take it out so you can git a good look at it! (it don't roll wortha flip-it's kinda flat on one side) I never unnerstood why Clevon got that blue eye...his other eye is brown as it can be!
        Now honey.....nobody should go without their Racin, and part of the fixin might hafta be upta you! See,darlin...yer pa...well,he done lost alot of brain cells slurpin up that fancy imported beer, and BBQ'ing that road kill. So, if'n yer headed to the races-you make sure everybody pins there tickets on their clothes, ya hear? He can lose yer drawers,make yer sister sick an turn green,and give ya them pennys (just put em in yer pocket...and get a few more and I'll get Clevon to send you an armadillo foot fer luck), but don't let him lose that racin ticket(that parts up ta you)! Cause Racin is the closest thang you'll find ta Heaven! So you pin it on yer good overalls, ya hear? You'll be glad ya did! Just stay away from that fancy beer and road kill d'jour, an you'll do jest fine!!

        As Ever, Good Thoughts, Good Booze, Good Racin to ya!
        Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        I just love Winston Cup Racing, but my husband has to watch Basketball...and will only let me check on racing during the commercials. What should I do? We only have one TV, and I really love racing just as much as he loves his basketball. We need help!
        Horsepower over Hoops

        Thelma Jean!....is that you?! Why are you even wastin my time with this?! You knew when you married BillyJoeBob that he had no brain! We put our bird-dogs through hoops...we don't watch city folk do it! You say you love yer NASCAR!...Well, you best bow up and get you a backbone real quick...cause one thing Race fans got is backbone! And it won't hurt you none to add a little bite when you talk about racin, too! Now, BillyJoeBob got that fancy satellite dish for all them channels, and it don't need to be wasted on Basketball. You go on down to the K-Mart and get you another TV...put it on layaway if ya hafta..but no one in this country should be denied their Racin! I think it's in the Constitution somewhere.... at least it will be when we get Petty in the Whitehouse! Maybe then somethin can be done about ABC screwin up our racin time with them sorry commercials!
        And you tell BillyJoeBob to back off-or I'll cut his weekend shine down to 3 quarts, ya hear??

        Remember...Racefans got backbones!
        As Ever....Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        Why do the drivers of today hire PR firms??
        Confused

        Dear Confused,
        Well darlin, sometimes with some of them drivers it's real hard to say! Some get real big and famous, and they just can't answer all their mail, or keep track of all them appointments....you know,...they start leadin that Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous stuff. Others....well, they start out lookin like a sows' ear, and it takes this whole herd of people that charge alot of money to make them look like a silk purse! You know..they tell you what clothes to wear, even what shoes to put on! They even get one of them fancy beauty parlors to do their hair! Take that Gordon feller! They cut(the fancy word is "styled") his hair - cut off that fuzzy thing on his top lip....and plucked them eyebrows til he had two seperate ones, instead of that one all the way across his face! Them PR places make you look all squeaky clean and bullit proof! They create what they call and "image". Now, that's what they want us to see-not always what really is. Honey...I wouldn't dig any deeper than that...just love racin fer what it is! The speed, the chase, the challenge, and the WIN....or else they may come pluckin yer eyebrows, too!

        Don't lose no more sleep, honey...Hazel
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        Hey! Hazel...
        I understand one of your kinfolk is a traitor.....whatcha gonna do about it? Do you want me and Cuzzin Lester to sick the dogs on him? Or have you got plans? We ain't tolleratin a Redcoat!
        Beavis

        Yes Beavis...it saddens me to say Cuzzin Cletus has done gone over to that Dark Side. I got a E-mail from Cuzzin Lester the other day tellin me Cletus is now the Prezident of that young whiney feller Jeff Gordons' Fan Club. The boy never had much sense-all them years growin up, he'd get his kicks as a boy from openin a bottle of 7-up and watchin it fizz! When he got old enuff to drive the truck, all he'd ever do on Saturday nights wuz go downtown to watch the A&P truck unload! Then he started drinkin, an got in trouble with the law when he told the Sheriff to hold his beer while he looked for his drivers license! I'm tellin you-he ain't even 3 bricks short of a load....he's only GOT 3 bricks...ferget the load! I ain't wastin my tar or feathers on him. He's so turned around he don't know wether to scratch is watch, or wind his butt....Gordon Deserves Him!!

        Nuff said...Hazel
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        Dear Hazel,
        My wife and I have a real problem when we go to the races. I'm a Dale Earnhardt fan, and she's a Jeff Gordon fan, and we fight all the time.She's trying to fix up her hare like Brooke, and trying to wear the same style clothes, but she's 300lbs...she's costing me a bundle in hair spray and fabrick...whut do I do?
        Broke and Betrayd

        Dear Broke,
        Bless yore heart honey, you got a problem! If ya cain't tie her up on race day and leave her under the porch with the dawgs,then ya don't haveta sit wither on race day! Send her to sit on the other side of the track, that way you can leave without her if she don't move her butt fast enuff! And as fer lookin like that Winston gal, don't go paying them high cost prices for that particular look. Make sure she shops at the discount fabric and clearance stores where they got a big selection of them "Shot the Sofa" fabrics.And as fer all that hairspray honey, ... got a match??

        Good Thoughts and Good Booze
        Hazel
        Y'all come back and see me soon!