Re: OT Humor for librarians

JR wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote: 
The Tribune has started running a Garrison Keillor
piece once a week. This one's pretty funny.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0508170016aug17,0,6563719.story 

A more wickedly funny article, not by but about Keillor:

http://www.poems.com/keilaugu.htm 

Keillor may be "feeding us shit" as the article so eloquently
states it, but in Kentucky it's considered downright risque.

From the Times  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/arts/15arts.html


Keillor Uncensored

Two weeks after a Lexington, Ky., public radio station dropped it over concerns that its content could incur indecency fines, "The Writer's Almanac" returns today to the station's broadcast lineup, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported on Saturday. The five-minute program, in which the writer and radio host Garrison Keillor presents a roundup on this-day-in-literary-history, was removed from WUKY's morning schedule on Aug. 1 because of concerns that the word "breast" and the phrase "get high" in the program's poetic recitations might be considered indecent. In a Herald-Leader article published on Friday, the general manager of the University of Kentucky station, Tom Godell, said of Mr. Keillor, "It's not that he's behaving like Howard Stern, but the F.C.C. has been so inconsistent, we don't know where we stand." The cancellation initially prompted few complaints, but a deluge from listeners on Friday apparently persuaded the station to reverse its decision that afternoon.


You just cannot make this shit up. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry
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