- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- September 2004
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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Funny
Girls
*
by Jimmy Tomlin
Meet three women —
a former beauty queen,
a professional storyteller,
and a newspaper
columnist — whose
humorous reflections on
the Southern side of life
give us all a good laugh.
If laughter
и,
indeed, the hot medicine, then North Carolina
ha* some of the finest physicians around. Whether you
make an appointment with professional humorist Jeanne
Swanner Robertson, or syndicated humor columnist and
author Celia Kivenbark. or storyteller Kelly Swanson,
you're bound to come away feeling better.
So just sit back and have a dose of these three Tar Heel funny
girls, and we promise they'll be good for what ails you.
Jeanne Swanner Robertson
Professional humorist — and former Miss North Carolina —
Jeanne Swanner Robertson laughingly tells the story of a group that
invited her back to speak some 20 year* after her initial appearance.
To her surprise, a poster outside the banquet room featured a
20-year-old photo of herself, rather than the current publicity
shot she had mailed ahead, and she couldn't help staring at the
dated photo. Presently, a man walked up and began staring, too.
-Is that you?" he asked.
“Well. I guess so.” Robertson mumbled, still stunned.
They continued staring in awkward silence, until the man
finally turned to Robertson and said. “What happened?”
What happened is that Robertson has aged — a phenomenon
not even beauty queens can avoid. Cray hairs and subtle wrinkles
have arrived, and she has added a few pounds onto her 6-foot-2
$4 Our State StpKmba 200*