I'm not sure where i got this, but yes,
it's a joke. However, it does say something about how
Western Mass sees
Boston.
Hub of the Universe, indeed. Go ahead,
flood our towns. Just don't forget
you live downstream.
On the flip side of this, an eastern-mass friend of mine just remarked that she'd never realized there was such animosity westawoostah. I guess it's hard to imagine people minding a new pretty body of water in the couple of hours of scenery on the way from Boston to upstate New York
Invisibility, of course, has it's pluses and minuses.