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Fred Farrell
Saturday, June 20, 1998
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...brought to you by Fred Farrell Animal Calls. (MONKEY, JUNGLE BIRDS) When it comes to animal calls, there's just one name, and that's Fred Farrell.
TR: This is Fred Farrell. Like a lot of you, I love to fish but I don't like to sit, and that's why I developed my Elvis series of audio fish lures. We got your minnows, your crayfish, your nymphs and tubes, your slugs and grubs and jigs, your hoppers and dippers, frog dancers, poppers and sidewinders, and each one comes with the lightweight micro-speaker that actually talks to the fish. (TR ELVIS: Hey Chief---- come on-a bite me, baby.) Studies show that my Talking Elvis lures actually catch fish. So why sit in the boat all day and drink warm beer? (TR ELVIS: Hey ....like your lips, mama. Bite me. Bite me hard, mama. Come on ---)
GK: Order Fred Farrell's Talking Elvis Fishing Lure and get, absolutely free, a ten-in-one set of Animal Calls, yes, ten calls in one handy package, including manx (SFX), mink (SFX), mackerel (SFX), monkey (SFX), mustang (SFX), muskie (SFX), musk ox (SFX), mockingbird (SFX), mollusk (SFX), male buffalo (SFX), mole (SFX), moray eel (SFX), mourning dove (SFX), and mammoth (SFX). Fred Farrell, the name to trust when it comes to animal calls. (MONKEY, JUNGLE BIRDS)
(c) 1998 by Garrison Keillor
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