Have British People Heard "A Prairie Home Companion"?

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This is a(nother?) thread for long-standing US or UK cultural phenomena that may be largely unknown across the pond.

― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

You can listen to it here.

There is apparently an "extremely shy campaign" to have the show heard in Scotland.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

It is technically an ocean, gabbneb. I don't know, maybe Garrison Keillor is just twee enough to play in Belle and Sebastian's home town. But maybe it doesn't translate at all. It definitely seemed like it was beaming in from another planet when I listened to it, growing up in Tennessee. I can't believe it's still on anymore. I think I started boycotting it when they changed their themesong. I loved the powermilk biscuits thing, I was just disappointed they weren't real. That was always the diff with Praire Home Companion, they just made up this whole milieu that didn't actually exist. The Grand Old Opry had Flatt and Scruggs sing about Martha White Baking Soda because they were actually selling it. I used to have fantasies about the big blue boxes of Powdermilk Biscuits, carried in a stained brown paper bag. But they didn't exist!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 3 April 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, maybe Garrison Keillor is just twee enough to play in Belle and Sebastian's home town.

You're not really aware of Glasgow, are you?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 3 April 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

I apologize on behalf of the entire state of Minnesota if Garrison Keillor crosses the Atlantic.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Much beloved by older Americans who were also besotted by import TV from the UK like Upstairs/Downstairs, Rumpole of the Bailey FWIW.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Did people in Britain ever make jokes about "rump-hole of the bailey"?

― Curious in Kennewick, Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I apologize on behalf of the entire state of Minnesota if Garrison Keillor crosses the Atlantic.

He already sorta did, though to Denmark.

U/K reading for Dan -- Mike Nelson's Death Rat, an extremely involved Minnesota in-joke (among other characters appearing under different names -- Keillor, Jesse Ventura and Prince [as 'King Leo,' with a song called "My Flute"]).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I apologize on behalf of the entire country of the United States if Garrison Keillor crosses the Atlantic.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

It is technically an ocean, gabbneb.

Tracer OTM. I'm surprised that someone as given to precision as gabbneb would make this sort of mistake.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 3 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

3rd-rockists
Anti-duckists

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Sonned by Dom in an NPR beef!!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the same (lacking in Lake Wobegon, for one thing), but is the movie playing over there?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mean for this thread to be just about APHC, though.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

explain, tracer?

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

a-ha!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

wtf at dom upthread, how does dude get it wrong, so regularly

― \ (688), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

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