Word: ingqvist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this just P.H.C. at the Plaza? Sure. Maybe. No. There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything...
...sure, Carl," somebody said. "But I thought I saw you right around the corner there on McKinley when the tank came by. Or maybe smelled you, it was." Everybody laughed, and Judy Ingqvist, Pastor Dave's wife, spoke up, "It's called dramatic license. You improve on reality a little bit, in order to make a point. Like the parables in the Bible." There was an uncomfortable silence after that. Sounded like more of Dave's gosh-darn liberal doctrine to them. The Bible as literature is not a concept that has made much headway around here...
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