Top Ten Reasons You Might Be a Redneck Physics Major…

10. If you build experiments using beer cans and duct tape.

9.  If your senior project involves a ‘tater gun.

8.  If you use the main telescope at the Observatory to search for Elvis.

7.  If your frictionless cart in PHYS 1101/2201L is painted like something from NASCAR.

6.  If your doctoral research revolves around trailers and tornadoes.*

5.  If your primary field of study is the ballistics of your deer rifle.*

4.  If you plan on using your Physics degree for “basic ballistics research” as an officer in the Marines.*

3.  If you think an “Echo Ranger” is someone who works at the Grand Canyon.

2.  If you ever use the radio-telescope to pirate re-runs of “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

And number 1 is...

If your first exposure to Uranium was “them rocks Granny kept under her bed.”*