At 1:19 AM -0800 11/21/02, gordon stelter wrote: >I always thought "Rube" was short for "Ruben": >referring to a once-common name for >not-formally-educated, somewhat naive and gullible >rural males. > You sure? > Thump Stick with me, kid. You'll learn a lot of words which aren't in your mother's dictionary. <g> Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "A jester unemployed is nobody's fool." ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester" +++++++++++++++++++++
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