So, Minnie Pearl.

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Or Cousin Minnie Pearl, as she was often called. She kind of reminds me of a country Carol Burnett.

Why post this?

Don't know exactly why, just kinda wound up there, and started to have vague memories of this woman from my childhood. She was somebody everyone at home sat down and watched when she was on tv. I remember that. Of course, if you missed it, you missed it. No Tivo, Netflix or YouTube then.

One video cannot sum up this Southern lady's legacy, but this one, later in her career, cracked me up, and I thought I'd share:

[TexasTowelie]

1. Could you have thought of her because...

the price tags on her hats kind of resemble tea bags?

[Skittles]

2. YEE HAW!

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4. HOW-DEE!

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3. Nah.

The hat price tag was her running gag, though.

Does the video offend you or something?

[TexasTowelie]

5. No, I wasn't offended and I remembered the price tag was her gag.

I just thought it might have turned you on or something? Who knows, she may have given rise to the entire teabagger movement.

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7. You seem to be...

Thought I might have been turned on by it from a tea bagger perspective?

Why do you say that?

Was Minnie Pearl a tea bagger?

Or is it something else that bothers you?

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10. I asked you a question, TexasTowelie. Did you bail? n/t

[TexasTowelie]

19. I was joking with you and I went to bed.

Nothing against Minnie Pearl.

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8. Here's Dolly, on Minnie.

[Are_grits_groceries]

9. Be that as it may,

she was beloved by all associated with country music. She helped newcomers in any manner she could.
So what if it was an act. That's not exactly a new concept in country music or other areas.

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11. +100. She was authentic enough to be on the Opry for 40+ years. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

12. She was a performer, ya know, an actress. That phony Streep is also 'all an act'.

Having 'an act' is what performers do. Not one single artist you love stands on the stage as their real, actual self but always as a version of themselves or an entirely different persona. Bryan Cranston for example, does not make blue meth, does not have terminal cancer and amazingly is also not LBJ. It's all an act.
Minnie Pearl was a ground breaking comedian and perhaps the first celebrity to speak publically about her breast cancer. Her real name hangs on the door of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.

Oh, and is Rain Dog a Waits reference? Waits is the middle class son of two Southern California school teachers, now a Wine Country dandy millionaire. His 'act' involves him wearing beat up clothing and an old hat and not shaving and singing about things he's read about in books, but which he affects as reflections of his own life.
It's called 'being an artist'.

[Orrex]

13. True, but

I have it on good authority that Cranston did, in fact, investigate a government cover-up of a huge rampaging radioactive lizard monster.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Carol would be very happy to be compared to Minnie Pearl

Ms Burnett would perhaps point out to you that her own children were born into great wealth and privilege but that their own talents and accomplishments were still their own. She's also point out that actors act. It's not a crime, it's the job.

[RainDog]

18. Wow

It's incredible that you have entirely missed the point twice now.

[okaawhatever]

15. And her family was mortified that she was in "show business". Country music was not welcome in

Nashville when it first started. Nashville was considered the "Athens of the South" and locals thought country music and performers were beneath the reputation of the city. lolz. Now that it's considered NashVegas they may have had a point

Sarah Cannon/Minnie Pearl used her family money and what she earned to start the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centennial Hospital and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.

Thought I'd throw in a little more background. Sounds like you've lived in Nashville as well.

[okaawhatever]

20. SBC? nt