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Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip that appeared in multiple newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Europe.It featured a fictional clan of hillbillies living in the impoverished fictional mountain village of Dogpatch, USA.
"Kickapoo Joy Juice" was a fictional beverage coined in the American comic strip Li'l Abner. [7] Al Capp, the cartoonist, described the beverage as "a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rose into the air, stiff as frozen codfish".
"Mountain Dew" was originally Southern and/or Scots-Irish slang for moonshine (i.e., homemade whiskey or poitín), as referenced in the Irish folk song "The Rare Old Mountain Dew", dating from 1882. Using it as the name for the soda was originally suggested by Carl E. Retzke at an Owens-Illinois Inc . meeting in Toledo, Ohio , [ 19 ] and was ...
Pettimore's father hauled the moonshine to Knoxville each week in an old police cruiser he bought at a surplus auction. According to a family story, a revenue man once confronted John Sr. on Copperhead Road, intent on apprehending him for his moonshine activities, but never returned. John Jr. himself is killed in a fiery car crash on the same ...
James Morris (born July 5, 1952) is an American retired professional wrestler and current radio host, better known by his ring name, Hillbilly Jim. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1984 to 1991, and in the series Hillbilly Moments .
The term "Hillbilly" was first coined in 1899, around the time coal industries made an appearance in the Appalachian communities. [20] In reference to Appalachia, the utilization of the word "Hillbilly" has become such a commonplace that the term is often used to characterize the sociological and geographical happenings of the area.
Moonshine was central to the plots in the 1973 Burt Reynolds films White Lightning and its sequel Gator. The 1973 film The Last American Hero is based on the true story of American NASCAR racing driver and owner Junior Johnson and his family's long involvement in moonshining in North Carolina.
A brief photographic book about Sutton was released in 2012 – Popcorn Sutton The Making and Marketing of a Hillbilly Hero, text by Tom Wilson Jester with photographs by Don Dudenbostel (72 pp., Dudenbostel Photography, March 7, 2012, ISBN 978-0615585130)