Regional one-liners

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Brother Jonathan, a 19th Century personification of a New England Yankee, as drawn by Thomas Nast.

Brother Jonathan, a 19th Century personification of a New England Yankee, as drawn by Thomas Nast.

“New England humor more or less starts … with the lost tourist or city person asking directions of some grizzled old Maine or Vermont country native and and receiving in return a devastating one-liner.’’

Judson D. Hale Sr. in Inside New England (1982)

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