Happy Birthday!!!!
Hey I forgot to wish our Darlin' boy Mitch Jayne happy birthday on the 4th of July. I hope Mitch, Diana and all of you had a happy and safe 4th of July. God bless America. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to one of our "Darlin' " boys, Rodney Dillard today!! ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to our Darlin' boy Mitch Jayne. Also prayers to Jim Clark and all our friends at TAGSRWC headquarters in Nashville. We hope you are all doing OK during this catastrophe. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
April's fool
Hey Paul, I don't think some people caught your intention about Aunt Bee. Might be a good time to try and move that rare, wrong facing Buffalo nickel ! Butch in Casey, IL. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday
Happy 73rd Birthday Dean Webb ! ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday !!
Happy 73rd Birthday to Doug Dillard What would life be without his banjo ? ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Mayberry in the Midwest????
I am trying to make my summer plans and am trying to find out any information about Mayberry in the Midwest in New Castle, IN. I know it's rumored to be July 23 and 24. So far I've not seen any website except for the old ones. If anybody in our Mayberry circle has any information, please let us in on it. At my job, I need to turn in my time by the 1st of April. I plan to be at Mayberry Days in Sept. and see Dean Webb's band, Missouri Boat Ride, in Kimberling City, Mo. in June. So if anyone can help, thanks. Butch Ruffner Casey, IL. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday
Monday, March 1st, was Ron Howards 56th birthday! Happy birthday Opie Cunningham!!! ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Mayberry experience
Hey to everyone on the digest. I just wanted to share a Mayberry meeting I had last week. Friday, I went to Springfield IL. (about a two and half hour drive) to a bluegrass festival, to meet Roland White. Roland was a member of the Country Boys on episodes, Mayberry On Record and Quiet Sam. He was a very friendly, talkative gentleman. He seemed genuinely tickled when I asked him to sign a couple of pictures of him with Andy and sign my jug that has 26 other cast members on it. It never ceases to amaze me that I have never had a bad experience with any of the cast members I have met, and that has been over the last 16 years! I mentioned to him that LeRoy McNees and Billy Ray Lathum, other Country Boys members have attended Mayberry Days and we would love to see him in Mt. Airy next year. I even gave him a copy of The Mayberry Confidential, the official news of Mayberry Days. He did say that he had talked to LeRoy McNees several times about going, but things never seemed to work out. So cross your fingers and maybe we'll have a new addition to our Mayberry Days family next year. Lots of Luck to you and yours, Butch from Casey, IL. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Police Chief retiring
I want to share a little Mayberryism from my town, Casey, IL. In our local newspaper, it comes out on every Thursday, was a story about our Police Chief of 25 years, Wally Whitton, retiring.In the story Wally tells how he would sit down with the new patrolmen and explains to them the role of a small town officer. He would tell them that they don't have the anonymity of a state trooper, who may never again see the person they are arresting. It's different in a small town where you see the same people on a daily basis and run into them in church or the grocery store. Wally said he would then share a quote with them that he had heard some time ago and had always tried to follow. "When you are a lawman dealing with people, you can do a whole lot better if you go not so much my the book, but by the heart." In my dealings with Wally, he took this approach. As Ernest T. Bass would say, " I'm proud" ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday Rodney!!
Happy Birthday Rodney Dillard Thank-you for all the music you have given us. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
10 things I learned from the Darlings
Hey Ken, you had Lifes Lessons from Mayberry, what about Lifes Lessons from the Darlings. 1. Playing hard to get-that gets women quicker than anything. 2.Got time to breathe, got time for music 3.Cleanliness is next to Godliness 4.Neat and reverent-a combination hard to come by 5.For a divorce, bury a beak of an owl,4 tailfeathers of a chickenhawk,strip of broke comb and with someone standing on your right, incant over them at the base of an oak tree, BUT if the intended should dig up the proceedings before the moon comes full, the divorce proceeding is null and void. 6. It's good to get bad blood out of a marriage 7.It ain't proper to look a a betrothed couple while they's a communing with one another 8.If a rider dressed in black, riding east to west on a white horse in the light of a full moon passes a bridegroom, he is cursed and the union is cursed. 9.For a sore foot- put a buckeye in your pocket and do the incant: Pain of heel, ache of toe, vanish now from my sweet bow. 10. Charlene singing There Is a Time is about the prettiest thing we ever heard. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
People, can't we all just get along?
As a nonpartisen reader who very rarely posts, I wish to give my opinion on the Tom Kessel- Ken Anderson situation. First, I come home every noon hour eagarly to read the new digest for the day. I very much enjoy the writing of both Tom and Ken. I have never talked to or met either person. Ken has been writing to the digest for a long time, so I think I feel I know the type of person Ken is. Tom, also has been writing for some time. I very strongly feel what we have is a GIANT misunderstanding. I have reread all the posts over and over and I feel there was never an intention of "charactor assasination" or any thing of that kind. I feel things were said with tongue in cheek intent, and they were misunderstood. Tom, every person who reads the digest looks forward to your next story. I'm sure Ken is included in this group. Keep sending them in, no one can make you write a book if you don't want to. We all wish you the best of luck. Ken, don't you dare take all this the wrong way and stop writing to us. I enjoy your posts also. I grew up and still live in the same small town(2500 people) for 53 years. I love to reminese about younger days in a small town. I also enjoy your new Things I learned in Mayberry list. I am copying most of them and plan to make a list for my Mayberry room. So please let's get over this misunderstanding and get back to Mayberry values. Thanks, Butch.. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Bonus DVD
I am one of the people over the last couple of years that purchased all of TAGS seasons one by one as they were released. Of course, as we know, they then released a complete set later. In this set was a bonus DVD, which had the pilot from the Danny Thomas Show, and Return to Mayberry. I would like to know from someone who bought the complete set if the pilot episode is an unedited version. I just bought ,off e-bay ,the "bonus" DVD. The pilot episode on this one does not have the scene with Will Wright . Is this how the DVD's are in the complete set or did I just make a mistake in buying this one ? If this how they all are I won't be too upset. I have an unedited version on VHS, I was just trying to have one on DVD. Also on the DVD I bought was Opie Joins the Marines, from the Gomer Pyle show. Thanks, Butch ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Andy smoking again, please!!!
Please have patience with me. Last week I asked a question of all our experts out there about how many times Andy was seen smoking on the show. Well just after I sent out the question, I stopped getting the digest. I have now started getting it again, ( thanks), but unfortunatly I missed all the replies with the answers! Please repeat those for me if you have the time. This kind of stuff happens to me all the time.. I wonder what causes that ? Thanks, Butch. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Andy smoking
I need help from all the TN's ( Trained Noticers) out there. I had the question posed to me about how many times Andy was seen smoking on the show. I know this has been discussed before, but my memory is shorter than Goober's first date with Lydia. So I'm hoping someone else will re-member the number of times. Being the local TAGS nut around here, everyone expects me to have an answer right off the top of my head. I'm sure most of you know the feeling. There is so much pressure being a fanatic, I may just find a cave and hermitize myself. So I don't have to live with possums and raccoons, please help me. Thanks, Butch from Casey, IL. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday today to our beloved Doug Dillard Hope it's been an enjoyable one. Maybe sister Charlene will suprise you with fresh fish muddle and hoot owl pie. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Doug and Rodney update
I had the pleasure to talk to Doug and Rodney Dillard Tuesday night. They were at the Old Settlers Festival in Odon, Indiana. They said everyone is doing great and are looking forward to Mayberry Days. As usual they put on a very entertaining show and signed autographs until everyone was done. They really take time to talk to everyone and embrace the Mayberry idea. Just a quick note to Paul. I'm as patriotic as anyone on this chat line, and I took no offense at your comment. Those of us who know the Andy Griffith Show forward and backward knew what you were refering to. Mr. Ryan obviously doesn't watch the show enough to understand. He should go to the diner, have the special, go watch them change the marquis at the Grand, relax and not get so tensed. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
Goober's video
I just saw Allan's post about the Find Me a Man Like Goober video. I would love to see it, but GAC-TV's Country Across America is not offered on my cable. If someone would be willing to record it, I would gladly pay for the dvd and shipping and handling to Casey, IL. You can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Butch Ruffner ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
let the men defend Barney!
For many days now, I have sat here and read all about what a scalawag Barney was. It's time for us men to defend poor innocent Barney. Don't forget how easily he could become a pawn in the hands of a wily woman. And perhaps all these women have forgotten some of Thelma Lou's flirtatious adventures. Didn't she kiss Gomer, didn't she flirt with Andy to make Barney jealous, or was that just her story? And lets not forget her gluing covers on hymnal books with Edgar Coleman ! And what about her and Edgar Coleman ! Don't forget, it takes two to tango. I'm sure there are other instances that us men folk can remember if we try. We must unite, just as we did when Ellie ran for town council, except we stay united this time. Go ahead Barney, play the field. Don't be fooled by a desprate, wily hunter, setting her trap with other men. Thelma Lou will wait. That man she brought to the class reunion wasn't really her husband. He was just a co-worker that came with her, so she wouldn't be embarrassed. Hang in there Barney, I have a feeling you will end up marrying Thelma Lou after all. (p.s., this is a joke. I too love Thelma Lou.) Butch from Casey ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
North Carolina Mayberry event TBA
I see on the event calendar where there may be a Mayberry event in North Carolina on July 22. I will be in North Carolina around that time. I was wondering, does anyone have any information or "rumors", where this might be held at? I would like to include it into my vacations plans if possible. Thanks. Butch from Casey, IL. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
