Garrison Keillor talks about Mother's Day...and gets a shot in at *

[mcscajun]

Let's Talk About You and Your Mother
April 25, 2006

I'd like a word with you about your mother, and I want you to read this column all the way to the end, otherwise I will slap you so hard your head will spin.

I realize that Mother's Day is a fake holiday perpetuated by the greeting card industry and the florists, but it's here to stay, so make the best of it. The president is a fake, too, but we still pay our taxes. And it's time you did something nice for your mother.

I bring this up well in advance of Mother's Day so you can plan a little bit and not roll out of the sack on SUNDAY, MAY 14, and fritter away the morning and then dash over to Mom's and on the way pick up a cheap box of chocolate-covered cherries at the gas station, or a gallon of windshield cleaner, or whatever you were planning to give her.

Cheap chocolates are not appropriate for your mother, nor is a bouquet of daisies marked down 50 percent at the convenience store. What you owe your mother is a sonnet. A fourteen-line poem, in iambic pentameter, rhymed, just like Shakespeare's "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcaste state." Look it up. You can do it, if you try.

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http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2005/old_scout/

[MelissaB]

1. I love Garrison Keillor.

Thanks for posting this.

[Berry Cool]

2. You know? I just don't think that was FUNNY!

It's not that I have anything against what he said about Bush being a fake president. I just don't think it was very FUNNY, that's all! :sarcasm:

Now, that fella who stood next to him at the podium at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, speaking all his inner thoughts...now THAT was funny! That little routine he did at an earlier dinner, where he was looking all around the White House for the WMD and couldn't find any...THAT was a thigh-slapper! :sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

3. that is funny

i never "got" garrison untill i got older and he really is funny...i guess you have to be from the "norse countrys" to understand his humor.
colbert wasn`t funny, he didn`t mean to be funny.the funny bit was helen and him in the video

[grasswire]

4. lovely, thanks

Garrison Keillor, national treasure.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Man that was great! A real keeper, thanks! n/t

PB

[mcscajun]

6. Kickin' for the afternoon shift...

:)

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