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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