BLAUSTEIN, Richard (East Tennessee State University) STALKING THE ELUSIVE TEUCHTER JOKE: EXPLORING SCOTTISH INTER-REGIONAL HUMOR. Are teuchters Scotland's hillbillies? Though Scottish inter-regional humor concerning highlanders and Gaelic speakers does exist, teuchters are overshadowed by the residents of Aberdeen, typified as exceedingly canny and thrifty, also overly intimate with sheep. Just as other people tell demeaning jokes about Scottish misers and "sheepshaggers," Scots tell these very same jokes about Aberdonians. The principal numskulls in Scottish humor are not teuchters but the Irish. It is noteworthy that the Irish tell these same jokes about Kerrymen, just as American jokes about hillbillies become West Virginia jokes in Southern Appalachia.