[Julie Steiner]

Amazingly, Google is no help.

M.A. Griffiths made a reference to Roobarb County while responding to comment and critique, re her Geordie dialect poem "Fer Blossom":

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Wa’all, ’taint the way we do talk down ’ere in Wessexshire, my flower, but it do be genwin Roobarb County – hawhawhaw.

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I wanted to put a note on the cultural reference here, but I can't figure it out myself. I had thought Roobarb (or Rhubarb) County might be from the American comic strip Li'l Abner, but I can't find anything linking the two.

Ah'm arskin' y'all cuz y'all know Everything. (And it is a vaguely poetry-related request....)

Thanks,
Julie Stoner, who is apparently younger than she thinks