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Then there's the one about the two potato farmers from Maine and the visiting Texan.<div><br></div><div>The two farmers are quietly sitting on nail kegs outside the general store when a Texan roars up in his motor home. He gets out, walks up and says "hi, y'all!" Then he walks into the store to get some camping supplies. After a while, he comes out, says "Bye, y'all!" and takes off in the motor home. After about half an hour one potato farmer says to the other, "Talkative guy, wasn't he?"</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 8, 2008, at 5:24 AM, bolstar1 wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Bill, and to think all our tax money went to MIT, just to hear your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">cute joke. Now I've heard everything.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Scott<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">--- In<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lexicographylist%40yahoogroups.com" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">lexicographylist@<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">yahoogroups.<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">com</a>, billposer@..<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">. wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> David Tuggy's post reminds me of a Vermont joke. (For those who<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">don't know,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Vermonters are known for not being overly effusive.)<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> A little boy was invited to dinner at the minister's house. At the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">end of<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> the meal, he thanked the minister's wife and said: "That was very<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">good, Mrs.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Smith.", but as a true Vermonter, he continued "what there was of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">it.".<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Realizing that this might be offensive, he added: "And there was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">quite a lot<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> of it too, such as it was".<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Bill<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></p></div><span width="1" style="color: white; line-height: 1.22em; "></span></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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