Oregon Joke (?)
 

Do any of you over 30 remember a joke from way back where someone would say they've moved to Oregon if you hadn't heard from them in a while? I coulda sworn there was a punchline like this back in the day. I googled it and couldn't find it. Someone I know recently said this and I find it hard to believe he just picked up and left.

I'm over 30 and did indeed move to Oregon. Never heard the joke tho.

Okay, maybe there wasn't a joke like this then. I thought there was. Nowadays moving to Oregon might not be so far-fetched. Portland is very hip--a lot of artists and entrepreneurs move there.

I thought the meaning of the joke was that it's so out there and away from everything... that was supposed to be the funny part. I could be wrong.

I have lived in Oregon for most of my life and don't remember a joke like that, but that doesn't mean there never was one.

You're all wrong. The middle of nowhere is in fact Karaganda

(see "other")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaganda

I'm over 30, was born and raised in WA and never heard this joke.

same here but it would have been funny if Lewis & Clark heard it in their travels.

Sacajawea probably told it while they traveled down the Columbia. :upsidedow

wrong part of the country for banjo music?????

Those of you who are reporting from Oregon and Washington state may never have heard of it because perhaps it was a regional joke or something. (I'm on the east coast.) I dunno. Old memories die as we age and get replaced by new ones I guess.

Never heard it in CA either . . . although there was a migration of Californians to OR back in the 70's-80's. The joke was that most of the Oregonians that complained about Californians in OR were, in fact, transplanted Californians.