From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!harkins Newsgroups: net.video Title: opry2 Article-I.D.: cires.1980 Posted: Wed Jan 26 14:15:19 1983 Received: Sun Jan 30 03:45:22 1983 jwb's note about PHC being similar to the grand ole opry is right on, and the funny thing is that i bet hardly anybody in the opry world even knows about the "imitation"; on a related note, i recall hearing a group in texas called the "lightcrust dough-boys" which were sponsored by a flour-mill, a la the martha white thing nowadays; they were even used as the major media device for a texas politician (W. Lee O'Daniel, governor in the '40's i think), which really sounds funny in today's multi-M$$ political arena; so the PHC powdermilk things are also very reminiscent of them as well... ernie harkins