New England Humor

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By Trish Anderton on Monday, December 24, 2001.
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Our guests find Northeast's sense of humor is quite a bit different than the rest of the country's. We'll find out what tickles our funnybones--and share jokes you might have to live around these parts to appreciate. Trish swaps jokes with Tim Sample, downeast humorist http://timsample.com , and Cameron Nickels, English professor at James Madison University www.jmu.edu and author of "New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War" and This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.

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