Word: bellyachin
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...other hand, good pre-Civil War agrarian humor is hard to come by these days, and spectators would do well to appreciate the specimens in One Horse Show, as much for their genuine bellyachin' humor as for the lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences...
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