As others have said, I would have taken it as an obvious joke, like me saying I’m going to go to my fine French grocery store, Kro-ZHAY.
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Before I left my newspaper job in March, I did a phone interview with Victoria Jackson to promote an appearance she was going to make in my rural Tennessee county (she lives in the Nashville area now). I pretty much avoided politics, and I had a fine time talking to her — she was quite complimentary of the resulting…
I was actually hoping it would be a Simon & Garfunkel origin story.
I was trying not to be the “cool story, bro” guy, but you gave me an opening: I live in Bedford County, Tennessee, and we have a fun and eclectic little town called Bell Buckle that, every summer (except this past summer, for obvious reasons) hosts the annual RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival, a surprisingly large event…
A giant tree that was once home to a teeny tiny owl, two morning show hosts, and the Radio City Rockettes
“It’s so bad and not even the slightest bit peach flavored, but I loved it.”
I think that retro packaging is fairly recent development; I had not seen it until today.
Nehi still exists, as various fruit-flavored sodas produced by RC Cola bottlers (I’m assuming that it’s mainly here in the South). The parent company changed its name from Nehi Corporation to Royal Crown Corporation at some point. But Nehi still exists, and you can find it on Amazon. They make a peach flavor that is…
“Angie Dickinson”? That seems like a weird choice for a character name. Do they make any references to her having the same name as the real actress?
Back in the mid-80s, when a lot of public TV stations were running original “Doctor Who,” the station near me in Nashville brought Jon Pertwee to town for a fund-raiser. I remember him ridiculing the idea of the (pre-flight) Daleks. “All you have to do is go up a flight of stairs!’
I live in a small, rural town and in the before-times I did community theatre. One of my all-time favorite roles was playing Ben Hecht in “Moonlight and Magnolias,” a very funny comedy that exaggerates and fictionalizes a real-life situation during the making of “Gone With The Wind.” David O. Selznick had halted…
Exactly.
Although the gravy that DQ offers with chicken strips is more of a white gravy than a brown gravy.
Imagination Library is such an incredible program. Check to see if it’s available in your area. Dolly fully funds it in Sevier County, but anywhere else it operates, it’s dependent on state and/or local funding. Dolly’s parent organization negotiates to buy the books (and, I’m sure, gets a good price) and ships them…
Supposedly, Bob’s job in the Air Force involved quite a bit of discipline — he had to be kind of a hard-ass. He hated it, and (according to the story) leaned as far away from it as possible once he was out of the military, which is one reason for his soft-spoken presentation.
I believe Pluto TV also has a dedicated 24/7 Bob Ross channel.
Miss Mary Bobo’s and the distillery tours have re-opened, but Miss Mary Bobo’s no longer serves family style. Prior to COVID, you would choose either an 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. reservation, and when you checked in you would be assigned to such-and-such a dining room. You’d be seated around a big table, with strangers and a…