The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13439   Message #111424
Posted By: Alice
04-Sep-99 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: regional humor
Subject: RE: regional humor
This is from an article in today's Billings (Montana) Gazette online, quoting a small part:

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INGOMAR - The Jersey Lilly is 60 miles east of Roundup, but some of the people who turned out Friday afternoon for a jam session at the famous bar and cafe traveled a lot farther than that.

......They played polkas and waltzes with abandon Friday, accompanied on the piano by Harold's wife, Irene. Harold and Marvin don't play together as much as they'd like to anymore, but they did compete together in the International Old-Time Accordion Championship in Kimberley, British Columbia.

"We got second," Harold said. "If it hadn't been for the damned judges, we'd a got first." ......