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March 27, 1999      Fitzgerald Theater , St Paul, MN

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Participants

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Songs, tunes, and poems

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Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

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'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Spring is coming. The fire department went to Mayor Eloise Krepsbach's house. A child put a family of dolls in the oven and another turned on the oven. This child is a great joker and doesn't have many friends. When life was simpler, you could put a Model T together in someone's basement. The golden age was when there were outhouses. Boys who pushed over outhouses are now old men now. The late Fred Krepsbach was a great practical joker. He would fake an IRS call At his duck hunting cabin, he would rig up a feather in the bed between two men and they would snarl at each other. He died of pneumonia from a chill waiting to fool his grandsons by pulling a dollar bill with a string. They were kept after school because they had put a woman's voice with Mr. Halvorsen's school announcement. Merle bought a very expensive Chevy Blazer with radio controls on the steering wheel. He told his wife, Lynette, that the radio was voice activated and fooled her. A week later there was a recorded voice warning of an on-board computer failure. He was so proud of her. One Fred K's hunting crony's shot a coot and bragged about it. A week later the menu at the Chatterbox featured coots and mud hens.


Additional information, mentions, etc.

Governor Venturi and GK patch up their feud. Writing the great American novel. Obituary of Judge Harry A. Blackman.


This show was Rebroadcast on 2001-03-31

Notes and References

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