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From: greg@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Greg Hager)
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Subject: Re: New PHC fan on the net
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 11:17:12 EDT
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We've seen a South Dakotan and a Minnesotan ...

I'm a relocated (rural) Iowan (I can't bring myself to say *former*) living
in the East now for a few years.  Just to draw a few more shy persons into
the open I'll mention some of my experiences from relocating outside the
midwest.

I think if I had listened to Garrison before I left, I would have found PHC
funny and amusing, but not on the same level.  The thing about PHC is that
you have to have been outside looking in before you can really appreciate
that fact that "learning to speak Minnesotan" is not really that far off.
From the midwesterners' point of view, PHC is funny because its satirizing
their culture; and from the "outsiders'" point of view, its funny because
its different from their experience.  For myself, I've noticed that, after a
couple years out here, I have to *conciously* switch language and customs
when I go back.  Garrison and company, it seems to me, understand that
dichotomy and play on it.  I didn't (couldn't) appreciate their show in the
same way before I had both experiences.

Well, I've used up all my "Raw Bits".  I'll let someone else take over.

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Seems that threatening to remove net.wobegon is the "Raw Bits"
that gives shy net readers the strength to log in and do what needs to be
done.
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