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		<title>King of the Rednecks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second installment of my &#8220;Friends of the Trade Show Guru&#8221; series. In this post I&#8217;d like to introduce Tim Elb, whom the Guru doth hereby dub &#8220;King Of The Rednecks&#8220;. Tim and his buddy Ernie run the Redneck Bar And Grill up there in the Great Frozen North (Canada). If you&#8217;re ever in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-97" style="float:left;padding:0 15px 10px 0;" src="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/wp-content/uploads/crown.jpg" alt="" width="141" height="200" />Welcome to the second installment of my &#8220;<a href="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/category/friends/">Friends of the Trade Show Guru</a>&#8221; series. In this post I&#8217;d like to introduce <strong>Tim Elb</strong>, whom the Guru doth hereby dub &#8220;<strong><a href="http://redneckbarandgrill.com">King Of The Rednecks</a></strong>&#8220;. Tim and his buddy Ernie run the <strong>Redneck Bar And Grill</strong> up there in the Great Frozen North (Canada). If you&#8217;re ever in their neighborhood (Horseguard Valley), you&#8217;ll want to be sure to stop by the bar and enjoy an ice cold <strong>Blue Beaver beer</strong>. I believe the Redneck Bar and Grill may be just about the only place in the world that you can enjoy amazing Blue Beaver beer &#8211; I know I&#8217;ve never seen it in the stores around here. If you can&#8217;t get by their bar, you can still enjoy reading their blog.</p>
<p>The Redneck Bar And Grill blog is one of the funniest blogs I&#8217;ve come across. Most of the posts these days seem to be written by Tim, which is why I&#8217;ve dubbed him the King <em>(that does not mean that Ernie is the Queen)</em>. Like <strong>RT Cunningham</strong> (the <strong><a href="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/2008/10/master-of-the-philippines/">Master of the Philippines</a></strong> and a fellow Friend of the Trade Show Guru), Tim served his country in the Canadian Army Reserves, which I honor and salute. He has strange taste in food, which I just don&#8217;t understand. But his strength to my mind, besides just seeming to be a level headed, great guy, is his sense of wit and humor. As I said, the Redneck Bar And Grill is one of the funniest blogs I have come across. As an example, check out his post on &#8220;<a href="http://redneckbarandgrill.com/2008/09/08/hybrid-cars-and-environmentally-friendly-transportation/">Sexy New Hybrid Cars</a>&#8220;. I also like that Tim takes the time to respond to all commentors, and injects his sense of humor into his replies. Here&#8217;s a recent example from his post about <a href="http://redneckbarandgrill.com/2008/10/15/hi-tech-redneck-camping/">Redneck Camping</a>:<br />
Comment: &#8220;Camping ain’t camping unless you’re roughing it. That’s why I don’t do it.&#8221;<br />
Tim&#8217;s reply:  &#8220;I know what you mean. We don’t do &#8216;real&#8217; camping, but no one does. Unless you know someone that hikes in 10 miles with nothing but an axe, a knife, and 2 onions, then kills some wildlife with his bare hands, builds a shelter out of tree branches and makes his own sleeping bag out of freshly skinned animal outsides, and has the animal insides for supper roasted over a fire he made by rubbing two pieces of wood together using his shoelaces to make a bow. Nope, people just ain’t as tuff as they used ta be…&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_99" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 348px"><img class="size-full wp-image-99" title="Tim and Ernie" src="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/wp-content/uploads/tim-and-ernie.jpg" alt="Tim and Ernie, owners of the Redneck Bar and Grill" width="338" height="139" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Tim and Ernie, owners of the Redneck Bar and Grill</p></div>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an entertaining and witty blog to follow, be sure to check out Tim and Ernie&#8217;s <a href="http://redneckbarandgrill.com"><strong>Redneck Bar And Grill</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Master of the Philippines</title>
		<link>http://www.trade-show-guru.com/2008/10/master-of-the-philippines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first blogs I started reading on a regular basis was Untwisted Vortex by RT Cunningham (aka Master of the Philippines &#8211; a nickname I just made up). RT has been living in the Philippines for a bit over two years now, and set up his blog shortly after moving there (reading his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-66" style="float:left;padding:0 15px 10px 0;" title="map of the Philippines" src="http://www.trade-show-guru.com/wp-content/uploads/philippines.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="197" />One of the first blogs I started reading on a regular basis was <a href="http://www.untwistedvortex.com/">Untwisted Vortex</a> by RT Cunningham (aka <strong><a href="http://www.untwistedvortex.com/about/">Master of the Philippines</a></strong> &#8211; a nickname I just made up). RT has been living in the Philippines for a bit over two years now, and set up his blog shortly after moving there (reading his blog you might think he&#8217;s been there a lot longer). If you ever want to know anything about the Philippines, he&#8217;s probably written about it on his blog (i.e. check out his post on <a href="http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/07/17/philippine-airlines-philippines-travel/">Philippines Airlines</a>). RT also writes about other things, including a lot of good information about blogging, including technical things (that I&#8217;m just now learning about) and also Search Engine Optimization (how to make your blog or website show up on the search engines). If you start reading Untwisted Vortex on a regular basis, you&#8217;ll see that RT has a very witty way with his blog post titles. RT also has other blogs, including his new blog about <a href="http://coffeeteablog.com/">Coffee and Tea</a>, though Untwisted Vortex remains his flagship blog.<br />
RT served his country, which I greatly admire. He comes from a big family (9 kids!). Apparently his first job was a &#8220;paper boy&#8221; (newspaper carrier), something else I admire. I substituted for a friend that had paper route when I was a kid, so I know what it&#8217;s like to get up in the dark and walk around in the cold lugging a 30 pound sack of newspapers. It seems that these days I don&#8217;t see &#8220;paper boys&#8221; (or paper girls) anymore &#8211; it&#8217;s just people driving around in old beat up pickup trucks tossing out the papers as they drive by&#8230; for the few people that still get newspapers delivered I suppose. I sometimes miss the old days&#8230;<br />
RT now lives in the Philippines, but he&#8217;s also lived in Hawaii (lucky guy) and on the Mainland (US). For those of us from and living in the US, he&#8217;s provides a real insight into <a href="http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/09/15/government-public-services-philippines/">how different life in the Philippines can be</a>, and how much we take for granted. One of the great things about the internet and blogs is being to read about people living in different parts of the world &#8211; one realizes that we have our differences, but we also have a lot in common.</p>
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