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English Majors script
Saturday,
June 4, 2005
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Garrison Keillor: ...here's a word from the Professional Organization of English Majors to this spring's high school graduates. Congratulations. And good luck in your college career. When you're choosing a career for yourself, here's a word of advice. Beware of jobs that might easily be outsourced to other countries — math, for example (TR CHINESE), the math jobs are probably going to wind up elsewhere — engineering (TR GERMAN), that's not our line of work — composing music (TR RUSSIAN), other people do it much better — computer technology (TR INDIAN: Jes, it is my very very great pleasure to help you with your computer), those jobs are all going elsewhere — but when you major in English, you know you're in a field that's going to stay right here in the good old U.S. of A. —
Sue Scott: (CLEARLY, BRIGHTLY) How would you like your hamburger to be cooked today?
GK: Yes, English is something that we Americans are very very good at. And the job of speaking English is ours, no doubt about it.
SS: We have ranch, thousand island, creamy garlic, vinaigrette, French, or blue cheese.
GK: English...you're going to be speaking it for the rest of your life so why not get good at it. Major in English. A message from the Professional Organization of English Majors.
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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