And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways', Yossarian continued 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements Why in the world did He ever create pain.
Quotes about bumpkin (4 Quotes)
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
People remember Don being a country bumpkin, which he wasn't, and Howard being a pain in the butt, which he was. I was the law and order.
Historically, the gold in the teeth has been a symbol of being that guy. It was something from the Old South. It usually was kind of looked upon as being a bit too overboard, a bumpkin who thought he had arrived.