Rubes

I know we can do more because 'rubes' like us punch back. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Publisher guidelines all include one really weird direction that is slipped in JUST so the publishers can fish out manuscripts by "rubes" who don't know the "way things are done" and reject them without reading the submission. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)

And which approach, in fact, betrays more fear that Americans are "know-nothing" "rubes"? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The director allows his alleged "rubes" to surprise us again and again with new facets of feeling and depth, as when Barbara Baxley's hitherto comic character delivers a tearful, sincere reminiscence of the fallen Kennedys. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Choices are different than compulsion and unfortunately "so-called liberals" seem to think that State compulsion which is always a threat of violence is the only way to make the "rubes" comply. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The intellectuals in the Dem party don't have any idea how to appreciate the "rubes". ❋ Unknown (2008)

CLINTON: And, you know, I really like that because -- because, you know, when you hear -- sometimes when you hear some people talk about people from places like Scranton and Arkansas, they act like we're by definition, "rubes," and we're not and he's not, and Barack Obama could not have made a better choice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can only fool the "rubes" with your lies for only so long. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Has anybody listened to some of the other 'rubes' who pass for announcers and don't know 'jack' about the game?!! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vernon, Florida: do you see the men (and one woman) as "rubes" exploited for an educated audience's drollery (feeling a sort of sympathetic embarrassment); growing from that, do you see it as a probable cynically edited short film highlighting the most insane moments of otherwise only mildly imbalanced or even normal; or do you just take it as it is and laugh when it is indeed extremely funny? ❋ Unknown (2010)

These women are supposed to be rich and classy and so sophisticated, but they are not only less classy, but way hypocritical about how people are supposed to treat each other in this lifetime than the normal "rubes" they think are lower than themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Amusing that Brenden Sheehan uses the word "rubes" to describe those who comment here. ❋ Zutroy (2008)

"But when you were a little girl, the Great Zelda told you many times that bunking the rubes is the entire art of fortune telling. ❋ Longyear, Barry (1982)

The very Corinthian clerks and grocery boys, lounging behind their counters and in the doorways, the lawyer's understudy with his feet on the window sill, the mechanic's apprentice, the high school youths and the local sporting fraternity -- all imitated their city kind and talked smartly about the country "rubes" who came to town; never once dreaming that they themselves, when they "go to town," are as much a mark for the like wit of their city brothers. ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)

"rubes" to surprise us again and again with new facets of feeling and depth, as when ❋ Unknown (2009)

[I do] not have rubes. ❋ Nezbit. (2005)

‘[Wow] [that vine] reminds me of [rubee]’ ❋ Rubeeeee The Sexy (2019)

You [saw that] [beautiful girl] over there. Yea she looks like a [rubee] ❋ Bob139 (2014)

"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good [nutrition's] given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent [Starling]? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: [pure West] Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp?" ❋ The FanBoy Menace (2015)

'hey, rube!' - [Hunter] [Thompsons] [ESPN] column ❋ Biggus Willus (2003)

Rubee is fittt ❋ Rubee Is My Sexy Girl (2019)

What [sort of] [country-fried] rube writes this [slop]? ❋ ...hellno (2004)

"[Tyler] doesn't study much, he [spends] all his time rubing with that [cube] of his." ❋ D. Toccs (2007)

The [rubes] [dont] [get it], but we do. ❋ Dsouth_102 (2008)

"[I think] this Rube is [wise] to [us]." ❋ TZer0 (2009)