"Nancy Young" wrote in message ...

On 10/1/2018 10:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 10:06:25 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" wrote

>> All these years buying these people's special spinach and it's
>> not even spinach. (laugh) What a rube.

>> rube?
>
> rube (n.)
> 1896, reub, from shortened form of masc. proper name Reuben (q.v.), which
> is attested from 1804 as a conventional type of name for a country man.
>
> Hick, yokel, bumpkin, rustic.

And a rube would say That is not spinach, you know-nothing from the city.

nancy

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lol