Word: wonderbar
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...Dakota Prairie Queen, the jewel of the plains," a luxury train he invents in a reminiscence by a crazed old railroader. Dance bands played regularly on the Prairie Queen, and they had great names: "The Kolachy Brothers, the Big Pisek Hot Band, Cecil Pootz and His Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise...
...less confident, and probably a damned sight more muddled than they. The piece is signed with the initials "HTC" and, as no corresponding name may be found on the masthead, I assume it to be the work of H. Todd Cobey, Lampoon Narthex. Substitution of the improbable monicker "Wyeth Wonderbar" for this office is a typical bit of Lampoon tomfoolery...
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