Regional Jokes
Back home in Louisiana, we like to tell (Texas) Aggie jokes. You know: How do you get a one-armed Aggie out of a tree? Wave at him!
I have a feeling this pattern is repeated in most regions. I have been told that in Kentucky, they tell Hoosier jokes, and in Michigan, Yooper jokes. An Egyptian friend of mine said they tell “Saidi” jokes (IIRC, a Saidi is someone from southern Egypt). Anybody know of other examples?
There’s another similar pattern, where instead of generic people, names are used. For example, in Louisiana we tell jokes about a pair of buffoons named Boudreaux and…well, Thibodeaux. I heard a whole bunch of Ole and Lena jokes on The Prairie Home Companion once. Who’s got other examples?
April 1st, 2004 at 10:19 pm
Urbane Athenians of 2500 years ago used to tell jokes about the unsophisticated rural peasants. One which has survived the ages tells of the peasant who had heard that parrots lived to 100 years so he bought one to see if it was true.
My son, a sanitary and ambitious young man on the edge of the hippie scene tells jokes about gutterpunks and trustifarians, but they benefit too much from his delivery to come across online.
April 1st, 2004 at 11:33 pm
Geez, ya got a couple of days?
Q: How is a tornado like an Alabama divorce?
A: It gets real noisy and someone loses a trailer.
Q: Why don’t Kentucky high schools have sex education and driver’s education on the same day?
A: It’s too hard on the horse.
Q: How do you get a Georgia Tech graduate off your porch?
A: Pay him for the pizza.
Q: What do you say to a Florida player in a three piece suit?
A: “Will the defendant please rise.”
Q: What did the South Carolina player get on his IQ test?
A: Drool.
April 2nd, 2004 at 8:02 am
I think Les gets the “Lookout Mountain” award for slighting the most states from one post.
Now I’m gonna make people mad. Why do UT fans wear orange? So they can go to the game, go hunting, and go pick up trash without changing clothes.
April 2nd, 2004 at 9:28 am
Q: What’s this? x X x
A: A Cajun signature with two witnesses.
Q: Why did G*d create Mississippi?
A: To give Louisiana somebody to look down on.
Q: What’s the best thing to come out of TExas?
A: Interstate 10.
April 2nd, 2004 at 9:51 am
And my favorite:
Q: What separates the Coon-asses from the Horses-asses?
A: The Sabine River
Oh, I crack myself up.
April 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
In Virginia they make fun of West Virginians
April 2nd, 2004 at 11:29 am
Q: Why can’t you get a blowjob in Illinois on the weekends?
A: Because all those cocksuckers are vacationing in Wisconsin.
Q: What separates a Cheesehead from a Dickhead?
A: The St. Croix river.
Q: Why do all the trees in Wisconsin lean to the South?
A: Because Illinois sucks.
Two Minnesotans, Sven and Jurgen, are out hunting, and since they aren’t seeing any deer, they get bored. To pass the time Sven suggests that they play 20 questions. Jurgen has never played, so Sven explains: “I write sumthin’ down, der, hey? Den you ask me a buncha ya or no questions, and I answer ’em. If you can guess what I wrote in twenny or less, you win, hey.”
“OK,” says Jurgen. “Sounds like fun, der. Let’s play.”
Sven thinks for a moment, and writes down “Moose cock,” and says “Ask yer first question, hey?”
Jurgen thinks for a moment and asks “Can ya eat it?”
Sven furrows his brow, thinks for a few moments, and says, “Well, I suppose ya could, if ya seasoned it an cooked it juuuust right, der…”
Jurgen thinks for a second and asks, “Is it Moose cock?”
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That’s all I’ve got… 🙂
April 2nd, 2004 at 11:29 am
P.S. Bet you never heard that last one on Prairie Home Companion. 🙂
April 2nd, 2004 at 11:31 am
Oh yeah:
Q: How do we know that the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?
A: Because if it had been invented in any other state, they would have called it a “teethbrush.”
April 2nd, 2004 at 11:52 am
I forgot about F.I.B.s.
April 2nd, 2004 at 12:02 pm
I know that here in North Texas we tell both Aggie and Coonass jokes. I read on an Iraqi blog that they tell Bedouin jokes.
My favorite coonass joke: Thibodeaux hears about all the trouble going on in Iraq, and decides to do something about it. He calls up old Saddam. “Dis Saddam?”
“It is.”
“I been talkin to Boudreaux, and we decided that we gonna come take care a you, son.”
“I’m the leader of Iraq. I have fifty thousand tanks under my command.”
“I call you back.”
The next day, Thibodeaux calls him back. “I been talking to the boys, and we got three pickups and a tracta. We ready for yo tanks, son, so you get ready fo us.”
“I’m the leader of Iraq. I have thousands of missiles, and hundreds of thousands of mines.”
“I call you back.”
The next day, Thibodeaux calls him back. “I been talkin to the boys, and we got us fiddy pounds of black powder and two yards of fuse. We ready for you, so you be ready fo us.”
“I’m the leader of Iraq. I have over a million soldiers under my command.”
“I call you back.”
The next day, Thibodeaux calls him back. “I been talking to the boys, and you ain’t got nothin to worry about, son. Sheriff says ain’t no way he gonna feed a million prisoners.”
April 2nd, 2004 at 1:09 pm
Here in Memphis, we joke about Frayser, a small community just to the north, famed for dumb, rural redneck types.
What’s the first thing a Frayser girl does after sex? Get back in the front seat.
What’s the next thing a Frayser girl does after sex? Ask, “What’s your name again?”
What do you call three Frayser girls in a row? Windchimes.
April 2nd, 2004 at 2:13 pm
Memphis also has its hare of Miss. jokes.
CT told New York Jokes, New York told Jersey Jokes, Jersey told Philly jokes, Poles tell Russian jokes (no, seriously, my mom is from Poland), Hoosiers tell Illinois and Michigan jokes, and Chicagoans tell Milwaukee and Hoosier jokes.
I don’t rememebr any regional jokes from St. Louis or California.
April 2nd, 2004 at 2:39 pm
Well, out in California, I’m sure they’re much to sensitive to make of anybody.
April 2nd, 2004 at 4:53 pm
According to my high school German classes, the Schleiswig-Holstein region of the country is frequently the but of such jokes in the rest of the country.
And here in Pennsylvania, we also frequently mock West Virginians.
April 3rd, 2004 at 12:03 am
No California jokes? You’re kidding, right ?!?!?
Why is California always so cool?
There’s blower behind every bush.
Or:
A Californian was visiting Texas and went to a ranch to watch cowboys at work. The old cowboy took him out in the pasture where they found a young heifer with its head caught in the fence. The old cowboy proceeded to hav eintimate relations with the calf.
He turned to the Californian. “You want some of this?” he asked.
The Californian simpered, “Yes, but you’ll have to hold the wire up so I can get my head through the fence…”