The joy of misdirection

Moose, Maine’s official state mammals, have bigger antlers than game wardens. Maine has more moose than any other state besides Alaska.

“Don’t ever ask directions of a Maine native….Somehow we think it funny to misdirect people and we don’t smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It’s our nature.’’

— A Maine native, quoted by the novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968), in his travel journal Travels with Charley (1962)

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“There are only two things that ever make the front page in Maine papers. One is a forest fire and the other is when a New Yorker shoots a moose instead of the game warden.’’

Actor/comedian/writer Groucho Marx (1890-1977) in a letter to Variety, Aug. 23, 1934