Word: minnesots
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...rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor is splendidly and defiantly a small-town Minnesot'n. (The a missing here, Easterners and Westerners, is not pronounced, and neither, of course, is the apostrophe...
...wrote almost the entire show, parody songs, phony commercials and all. Now Writer Howard Mohr pitches in on the Raw Bits and the Minnesota Language Systems ads, which peddle cassettes that teach visitors to answer "You bet" for approval, and "That's different" for confusion or doubt, like real Minnesot'ns. But the wondrous, spooky monologues that carry the show are Keillor's. He works without a net. On Wednesday or Thursday he will have started to think seriously about the piece, and by Saturday, most weeks, he will have written out a fairly complete narrative. If he has been...
...Houston 26 15 .634 6 5-5 W 2 14-7 12-8 13-10 Denver 19 23 .452 13.5 3-7L2 13-9 6-14 12-15 Dallas 16 25 .390 16 1-9 L 8 9-14 7-11 10-18 Minnesot 10 32 .238 22.5 4-6L2 5-15 5-17 6-18 Pacific W L Pct. GB L10Streak Home Away Conf. Phoenix 34 9 .791 -- 8-2 W 1 18-2 16-7 20-4 Seattle 29 11 .725 3.5 8-2W1 18-3 11-8 18-8 L.A. Lakers...
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