The Rhubarb Tour is the soul of A Prairie Home Companion — stories from Lake Wobegon, passionate duets,
the philosophy of Guy Noir, wild radio dramas starring sound-effects genius Fred Newman, and the incredible Guy's All Star Shoe Band... and it's happening all around the country this August.
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Dear Mr. Keillor
I am an elementary teacher. This year I have had the worst problem with children picking their nose in my class. No amount of quiet asides was helping these children break their terrible habit. The other night I heard your "Don't Pick Your Nose" song on the children's show. I played it for my class
the very next day, and for a couple of days afterwards. I am happy to report that 3 out of 4 nose pickers have been cured due to your song! The last kid seems to be a die hard, but I'll keep trying.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Green
Well, there you are. We got some scorching response to "Don't Pick Your Nose" from people who felt it would inspire an epidemic of nose-picking, but instead it turns out to be a cure. Nose-picking is semi-conscious behavior and when you make children aware of what they're doing and what it looks
like, they're likely to stop. Or do it secretly. And children aren't the only ones. I have known men who semi-consciously reach down and adjust their underwear in public — or rather adjust the contents of their underwear — and it's rather gross. I don't think I'll write a song about it,
though. Poise. Maturity. Gracefulness. We're all aiming for it. I have a terrible habit of scratching the inside of my ear with the endpiece of my glasses — it feels good but it must look awful.
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On June 14, join us at the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. June 21 we move to the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Then it's off to Lenox, Massachusetts, where our June 28 show will come from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood. The last stop of
the regular season is our July 5 performance at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois. Want more? A Prairie Home Companion's Rhubarb Tour kicks off on August 10th for a 16-city run that will take Keillor and company
from coast to coast.
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The man who invented the Pringle's Potato Chip can died recently and a portion of his ashes were buried in one of his cans. All jokes aside, I understand that he was very respectfully Frito-Laid to rest.
This joke was sent in by Larry B. of Fort Scott, KS Thanks Larry!
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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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June 9, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. We had a birthday party here at home, and that's always a good time. The kids were all spring babies, and this birthday party was number three and wrapped it all up for the year. Which is, if I may say, a bit of a relief. All that running to
find just the right gift, and decisions about what kind of party, and the whole cake issue. I do enjoy it, but as I said, I tend to get a bit carried away...
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June 3, 2008
School is winding down and small children are staring out the windows at freedom and counting the days until the heavy hand of grammar and spelling will be lifted from their backs. My sandy-haired daughter dove into the pool on Memorial Day and has been amphibious ever since. She loves swimming and
has to be extracted after four or five hours, before she turns prunish, and since the pool is a public pool, not our own — sensible people in Minnesota don't own swimming pools, any more than people in Tucson build backyard hockey rinks — this requires an adult to spend those hours sitting
under an umbrella, reading a book and trying not to look at a clock...
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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 |
 In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared
to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's
pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And
Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
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