On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 02:30:55 +0900, Michael Cash
<mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:58:47 +0900, Raj Feridun
><rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
>with:
>
>>On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:33:40 +0900, Michael Cash
>><mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>>>>>Oh, you noticed. Any flies on you are paying rent, that's for sure.
>>
>>>>Can't you stick to American insults? 
>>
>>>That's not American? I have heard Minnie Pearl use a variation of it.
>>>She ain't just American, she's Americana.
>>
>>She's dead and she wasn't even smart enough to take the price tag off
>>her hat.
>
>No, she was sly enough to leave it on.
>
>And I would 100 times prefer to be called a racist than to have
>insulted the memory of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, so watch it, bub.

I'm sorry, Michael. The price tag comment was below the belt. Minnie
was indeed a kitsch goddess to the provincial south. I particularly
loved her work on Hee Haw.

Did you know that hat is now in the Smithsonian Institute?