Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: STATE NAME JOKES Message-ID: <879@gloria.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 15:15:17 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.879 Posted: Mon Feb 4 15:15:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:27:40 EST References: <669@aluxe.UUCP> <5900@rochester.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 11 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 ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel