Kustbandet
April 19, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're back at the Town Hall for our big New York finale. This week's special guests include, the hottest "hot jazz" orchestra in all of Europe, Kustbandet, legendary Broadway actress and singer Barbara Cook, and the high lonesome voices of Robin & Linda Williams.
Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's
All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
The Sleep Number Bed of Roses contest has drawn to a close, with Marydel Rosenfield winning the first prize — from Select Comfort — will be a Sleep Number queen-size
bed along with three dozen roses — a bed of roses delivered to her door — a source of untold joy, not to mention untold sleep.
Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest Finalists
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Mr. Keillor -
Our company down here in East Texas recently hired a nice young lady from North Dakota who recently graduated from college. She often uses the term "Holy Buckets" in conversation. She seems to use this phrase when trying to express surprise at an interesting or alarming fact or comment made by the
person with whom she is conversing. Can you explain the origin and meaning of this phrase? We are not sure if it is a mild profanity or a religious exclamation.
Ryan T.
Tyler, TX
I haven't heard Holy Buckets in years and I wonder if the young lady might come from a linguistic pocket in North Dakota where this and perhaps other archaic expressions linger on—Jeepers Creeper, Glorioso, Leaping Lizards, etc. Probably she had a beloved old grandpa who used the phrase
and the child picked it up. The phrase originally referred to a sudden downpour—raining "buckets" —which, to most people, represents good luck, and so it's not a profanity—it's an expression of surprise at a (possibly) good thing. So I'd imagine the young lady finds it exciting to
be in your company.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance!
Lots of chances to get in on Prairie Home fun this season. On the first three Saturdays of April — 5, 12 and 19 — look for us at The Town Hall in New York. On April 26, we head south to Hot Springs, Arkansas, then turn right around and go north to Bangor, Maine, for a show on May 3. By
May 10, we're back in the Midwest — this time in Milwaukee. Stay tuned.
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Wife: Can we tap the neighbor's maple tree?
Husband: Well, I think we should ask first?
Wife: No, I mean syruptitiously.
This joke was sent in by Gerald S. of Superior, WI Thanks Gerald!
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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April 14, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I was busy wrapping gifts for my mother as her birthday is this week and I'd made plans to have lunch with her Sunday. The kids were outside playing Kick the Can while the snowstorm snow melted away and Mr. Sundberg was out on the deck setting up
the telescope he ordered from his nature magazine. He says it's for the kids but he's been talking about it nonstop since he placed the order...
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April 08, 2008
For some people, the urge to compete is very, very strong, such as the tall red-haired woman last Sunday morning at LaGuardia who cut in front of me at the boarding gate and did it so smoothly, expertly, no body contact, you have to assume she's been acing people out all her life…
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon |
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A Prairie Home Companion: the DVD |
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