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  Blue-collar worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The term "blue collar" is often used to describe the style of play of certain American sports teams.
This is especially true of American Football, where teams which emphasize a solid running game on offense, stopping the run on defense, and hard, physical blocking and tackling are labled "blue collar" by sports writers and TV and radio football commentators.
The quintesential blue collar NFL team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, which have been known as a blue collar team since their glory days in the 1970's, not only for their physical play, but also because they have traditionally had a large and loyal blue collar fan base.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_collar   (592 words)

  
 Blue Collar . Memphis Flyer . 11-17-97
Where Blue Collar differs from other labor films, from Salt of the Earth to Norma Rae to Matewan, is that it is not a pro-union film.
Blue Collar's only allegiance is to the worker, but it refuses to romanticize even him.
Blue Collar is not liberal in tone or perspective, it is radical.
www.filmvault.com /filmvault/memphis/b/bluecollar1.html   (336 words)

  
 Blue Collar Dance Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For Blue Collar Dance, whose mandate is to present intelligent, accessible dance theatre, Hip Hop, Breakdance, and the next generation of street dancing represent a vital, powerful, and constantly evolving cultural expression.
Blue Collar Dance is very proud to present some of the most exciting up and coming dancers and rappers in Slammenberry Jam including dance performances by CStylz, malfunktion, Wildcard Productions, and the vocal talents of the rap group POETS
In keeping with Blue Collar's mandate of accessible, intelligent dance, this show is suitable for all ages.
www.bluecollardance.com   (287 words)

  
 Advice and resources for training and funding a career as a skilled tradesman or technician
TEAM and Blue Collar, with backing of the trades, hope to address this at the state level.
Our goal is to become your primary resource for any information related to obtaining and maintaining blue collar positions, whether it be a career in the trades, as a skilled technician within the manufacturing industry, or as a self-employed service contractor.
Blue Collar positions are rewarding, profitable and usually the best opportunity for more people than you think.
www.bluecollarandproudofit.com   (943 words)

  
 Arlie Hochschild, UC Berkeley Sociologist, answers the question, "Why are 50% of Blue Collar White Males Planning ...
So I'm looking at this data and it's a surprise that 50% of blue collar males don't seem to be voting in -- what we might think they would see as -- their self-interest.
You identify a sort of an emotional trade-off, basically, that the blue collar support of Bush isn't based on facts; indeed, many of these blue-collar males are aware of the facts.
The blue collar guy's upset; he has a right to be upset.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/12/int03326.html   (3567 words)

  
 Blue Collar TV | PopMatters Television Review
Blue Collar TV is a comic blight, a bastion of jokes well beyond their expiration date culled from e-mail forwards sent by the least funny of your coworkers.
Lest you're fooled, Blue Collar TV is not "laughing at" those unaffectionately known as "white trash." Rather, it's a "laughing with" love letter written in BBQ sauce, to people who listen to Toby Keith and treat their hunting dogs with more reverence than their women.
But in Blue Collar TV's estimation, literature and college degrees are signs of effete snobbery, the marker of some New York faggot in a Lexus.
www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/b/blue-collar-tv.shtml   (1282 words)

  
 Blue Collar Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blue Collar(TM) Computing is high performance computing for industries that do not currently have the expertise or the time to be an HPC incubator or research new HPC applications.
Blue Collar Computing scales up the number of processors beyond the one or two CPU boxes that companies usually run.
The focus should be on high-productivity languages, industry and supercomputer lab collaborations, and the training needed to provide the expertise needed to allow the greater capability and efficiency of HPC to be utilized by business users.
www.osc.edu /hpc/blue_collar/index.shtml   (177 words)

  
 Blue Collar and Proud of It! - Opportunities.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They reported white collar jobs are being outsourced overseas at a faster rate than blue collar jobs.
This is more evidence of the slow down in high-tech and while collar jobs.
The computer slow down and the outsourcing of white collar jobs is a double-edged sword piercing the white collar world.
www.bluecollarandproudofit.com /opportunities.htm   (661 words)

  
 ABC News: No breaks for 'Blue Collar' comedians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The principals behind "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" are white-hot on the heels of separate deals with Viacom-owned cable networks.
The "Blue Collar" franchise has helped the network ease the pain of losing "Chappelle's Show" by providing big ratings boosts.
The first sequel, "Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again," and special "The Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy," became the second- and third-highest rated programs ever on the network during the first quarter, both surpassing 6 million viewers.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=951747   (321 words)

  
 BankruptcyNews.org::News articles & research on blue-collar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She’sa blue collar worker for St. Patrick and we are going to miss her a lot.”.
He said this was evident from the fact that many of those holding blue collar jobs from drivers to receptionists in the incidents were mostly foreigners.
She has a docked tail about four inches long and was wearing a blue collar with a brass circular tag listing her owner’s name and address.
finance.za-news.com /news/blue-collar.html   (10810 words)

  
 Blue Collar Stand-Up Comedians
Our Blue Collar comedians are among the most sought after in the world of corporate comedy.
Blue Collar comics are in high demand due to their ability to connect with their audience through a specialized brand of humor.
In addition, our Blue Collar comedians offer a stand-up comic performance in a corporate entertainment setting, allowing for a professional and comedic experience.
www.comedycontact.com /bluecollar.html   (96 words)

  
 Blue-Collar and White-Collar Workers Join Forces in Communities across America to Rescue American Jobs and to Restore ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the wake of cyber-organizing, Rescue American Jobs, a non-profit organization, is quickly forging unlikely alliances between blue- and white-collar American workers and small business owners.
Blue- and white-collar workers and small business owners are represented.
From factory workers to farm workers and accountants, to engineers, and technical workers, every sector of the traditional American working class is represented in their membership.
www.prweb.com /releases/2004/1/prweb96136.htm   (689 words)

  
 Blue Collar TV - Official Site
Blue Collar TV is a hilarious new sketch show featuring stand-up comics Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy performing in their signature everyman style.
BLUE COLLAR TV Belly up to the hot new sketch serving up a hometown buffet of blue collar comedy.
On the heels of one of the most successful comedy tours of all time, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and the hit Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie, this sketch show features comics Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy performing in their signature everyman style.
www2.warnerbros.com /television/tvShows/bluecollartv?frompage=sitemap   (237 words)

  
 FACEANALYZER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Boss types may have some things in common with Blue collar types, but for the most part they only interact with you during the course of business.
Academics see White collar types as unsuccessful versions of themselves, but because of work situations they may have to interact with you often.
Charmer types may associate with you; they find that the collar types are the people that mostly want to hang around them.
www.faceanalyzer.com /archetypes.aspx?id=5   (417 words)

  
 Blue Collar Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blue Generation's Rubin adds that he too hears that denim is on the wane but his company's denim sales continue to grow at a very healthy pace.
Blue Generation's Rubin says his company responded to increased demands for darker shades with a new “vintage blue” which is surpassing the industry stalwart of faded blue in sales.
Blue Generation's washing formula also has “optical whiteners” in it which bring out the beauty of true indigo dyed denim.
wearablesbusiness.com /mag/apparel_blue_collar_worker/index.html   (2769 words)

  
 Blue Collar TV Episode Guide - Blue Collar TV Season Episodes - TV.com
From the mega-successful "Blue Collar Comedy Tour," Jeff, Bill and Larry are bringing their one-of-a-kind humor to The WB with this new sketch comedy show.
Blue Collar TV fans are treated to off-the-wall sketches, outrageous out-takes, and up-close behind-the-scenes footage, along with the very best skits from the first six episodes.
The ladies of Blue Collar TV star as Kitty (Brooke Dillamn), Alexis (Ashley Drane) and Boosha (Ayda Field) in "Really, Really, Really Desperate Housewives." Brooke Dillman plays Martha Stewart and does her own television show (in a sense) from her jail.
www.tvtome.com /BlueCollarTV/guide.html   (1773 words)

  
 Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (Soundtrack) on CountryReview.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The album, which includes excerpts from a recent Blue Collar Comedy Tour performance, is all that one might expect with names like Foxworthy and Engvall backing it up.
They've been touring together for a long time now, and, if the soundtrack is any indication, the movie is going to be an uproarious, top-selling smash hit.
After you've enjoyed a night at the movies with the Blue Collar Comedy bunch, invite some friends over and pop this disc in the CD player.
www.countryreview.com /other/bluecollarcomedy   (487 words)

  
 Blue Collar TV TV Show - Blue Collar TV Television Show - TV.com
They are the same guys who brought us the hit movie "Blue Collar Comedy Tour".
Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall showcase their blue collar comedy in a bowling alley challenge, "Larry's Rant" and the guys take questions from the audience.
I love the blue collar guys but the show isn't thier best work Continue
www.tv.com /blue-collar-tv/show/24727/summary.html   (345 words)

  
 Blue Collar TV
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The guys who had you laughing your butts off on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour - Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy - are bringing their particular brand of hilarity to The WB.
As for jokes from the other guys of Blue Collar TV, I haven't seen their stand ups yet and not familiar with some of the older members of the group that aren't there anymore.
www.killermovies.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-311215-blue-collar-tv.html   (555 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Values of blue collar versus values of the upwardly mobile are often in conflict in personal and professional lives.
Namely, the work ethic of the blue collar worker and taking pride in that work in a world where how one talks about work becomes more important than the work product.
In Limbo, a virtual son of MAC winds his way through the maze of white collar upper class norms, performing a balancing act between improving his lot in life without betraying the values instilled in him by his family.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471263761?v=glance   (2395 words)

  
 Blue Collar Shirt - compare prices, reviews and buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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 Blue Collar Comedy Tour
A triumphant runaway hit, the Tour has also produced a best-selling live album, "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour Live," released in November 2001.
Now a feature film, Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie brings the exhilaration of this concert experience to the screen with live footage from one of the Tour’s recent sold-out performances.
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie will be distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company, and through Pandora throughout the rest of the world.
www.bluecollarcomedytour.com   (188 words)

  
 Mike Leatherman Leads Bison with a Blue-Collar Approach :: Bucknell senior linebacker has never missed a varsity game
Four years later, everyone in Orange and Blue is sold on Leatherman, too.
He is having a breakout season in 2003, with 43 solo tackles and 64 total stuffs, putting him second on the 2003 Bison squad to Kevin Ransome, who leads the Patriot League with 85 tackles.
If his talent in the construction field turns out as well as his career on the gridiron, nailing opposing receivers and running backs for the Orange and Blue will be far from the last success Leatherman enjoys.
bucknellbison.ocsn.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110403aaa.html   (1055 words)

  
 Blue-Collar
White collar jobs are expected to pay more than blue collar, so it should come as no surprise that when comparing the Salina public schools, the city of Salina...
Seventy are men and 73 women; 24 percent, the largest group of participants, are blue collar workers.
Still, he is proud of Gertie and he works hard at his blue collar job.
finance.za-news.com /new/Blue-Collar.html   (5584 words)

  
 Rochester's WB16 : Primetime : Blue Collar TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy are the three stars of the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour," one of the most successful comedy tours of all time, grossing more than $15 million nationwide.
It inspired "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie," which was the highest-rated movie ever to air on Comedy Central, and has sold more than one million DVDs to date.
Each episode of "Blue Collar TV" will begin with a themed stand-up routine from Foxworthy, poking good-natured fun at all the things middle America hold dear.
www.wb16.com /shows.php/show,2.html   (323 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The number one comedy tour of the last two years, The Blue Collar Comedy Tour has grossed more than $12 million to date and produced a best-selling live album, The Blue Collar Comedy Tour Live, released in November 2001.
The Blue Collar Comedy Tour isn't just for rednecks or blue collar workers- this is fun and laughter for everyone.
Even you are alone you may be laughing out loud.The Blue Collar Comedy Tour was recommended to me by an African-American so it wasn't offensive to him either as he thought it funny-This is definitely not just for rednecks but for everyone.This is not just southern humor-the comedy is universally appealing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000094FFA?v=glance   (1339 words)

  
 Blue Collar Workers move to China, India to reclaim lost jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blue collar workers move to China, India to reclaim lost jobs
Thousands of blue collar workers are leaving the United States in pursuit of the 2.7 manufacturing jobs that moved overseas during the past three years.
Barrett’s wife, Amy, works in a Textile company where she sews together blue jeans for shipment to the United States.
www.freepressed.com /manufacturing.htm   (933 words)

  
 Blue collar comedy from quote tour Overview touringlondon.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Blue Collar Mountain Biking » Mountain Bike News, Reviews, How Tos and Deals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I’ve been riding the Woodstock 505 for awhile now and have posted my write up in the reviews section of Blue Collar.
I’ll probably bring this up again over the next couple of months, but keep in mind that this is the time of year to be looking for that new bike.
Blue Collar means we need the biggest bang for our buck and with retailers trying to move out all the 2005 models to make room for the 2006 models (wow, I sound like a car commercial) the prices will be dropping.
www.bluecollarmtb.com   (1140 words)

  
 The Cincinnati Post
Over the years, there have been plenty of lawyers, white-collar professionals, civic leaders, businessmen and businesswomen on Cincinnati City Council, but precious few members who could be characterized as working class.
Brian Garry believes it's time to see a blue collar at City Hall.
In his independent race for council, Garry has positioned himself as a working-class advocate who would bring that point of view to City Hall, a theme he consistently underlines with blue-collar imagery at campaign forums.
www.cincypost.com /2003/10/30/garry103003.html   (528 words)

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