[BC] Phineas T. Bluster (old programming)

[Douglas Pritchett]

An interesting, and brave explanation. My folks were in show business early
in their lives, and the explanation I recall was that "peanut gallery" and
"cheap seats" were synonymous and were not defined by race. I've spent a lot
of my time in the "cheap seats" in the balcony.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
radiofool at gmail.com

On 10/28/07, Jeff Johnson <jeff at rfproof.com> wrote:
>
> ... and Phineas T. Bluster is this country's most popular radio host.
>
> The term 'peanut gallery' used to refer to the balcony of a theatre where
> the - warning, an outdated term here - 'colored' were required to sit.
> They
> allegedly ate peanuts up there, thus the term.