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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: STATE NAME JOKES
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 15:15:17 EST
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The jokes are older than the song.  One version went:

	If Mississippi wore her New Jersey, what would little Delaware?

(Eventually somebody came up with an answer:  "Idaho but Alaska."

		"Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan,
		 Show me an itch and I'll scratchewan." --Roger Miller
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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