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wbmutbb-digest Saturday, February 12 2000 Volume 02 : Number 054
Topics in this issue:
Mornin' Dear !!
Spignesi book
Priceless moments
Tip Top Cafe and Daphne
Re: Lifting Ben's Spirits (Cheers!)
Man In A Hurry
liquor law
liquor laws
Trying to catch a WAV
No more care-free days?
Mr. Spignesi
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #53
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #53
Trivia questions
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:08:41 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mornin' Dear !!
After reading a few more comments about folks' comments in the Digest over
the past few days, I just wanted to make a suggestion ...
If you really feel something is inappropriate or deserves a mention, why not
write to the person privately? We all appreciate a little understanding if
we've made an error in judgement, and don't need to be stood up in front of
the entire class and lectured ...
Besides .. you never know that you might make a new friend that way, by
opening a personal level of dialog ...
Rockin' on the back porch for now ...
Kathy Jo
Rudy says "Woof!"
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:02:27 -0500
From: Janine L Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Spignesi book
I liked the Spignesi book too but everyone is certainly entitled to their
opinion and I believe they should have the right to express it. What is
life without a little disagreement or controversy or difference of
opinion now and then: boring! Let's keep an open mind and listen to one
another; we're never too old and/or educated to learn something new. Of
course I'm a bit prejudiced when it comes to Mayberry memorabilia; I like
to collect it all, except I could never warm up to those bobbers! How
about the rest of you collectors out there? Aunt Bee of Orlando
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:19:52 -0500
From: Janine L Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Priceless moments
LauraLee you're a scream! How about when Big Maude says "you're a doll!"
after Barn gives her one of those smoky looks and says "you're startin'
to get to me....."; that one kills me. In that get-up and the scar on
her face, it's hard to equate her with the elegant, refined music
teacher, Eleanora Poultice. The whole episode kills me due to Floyd's
just calmly situating himself into the situation, like when he says
"we're home!" I die laughing every time I see that. Those writers were
so terrific; where did they go?
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:35:06 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tip Top Cafe and Daphne
<< So there Bernie sat with Skippy (and ain'tshe cute!) and Andy is being
rubbed by Daphne when all of sudden Daphne starts to talk, you know in that
low, low voice of hers, and this little guy sitting behind them turns
around--like that is the strangest thing he has ever come across in his
life--and he just keepsstaring at her, as though if he moved he wouldn't be
able to hear any more >>
I remember the scene - fell in the floor laughing and skint my wittle knee.
Anyway, do you know who I think that guy was? He was the guy who played
Yancey Tucker in the Walton's. What was funny about it to me was that Daphne
remarked that they should go to "Yancey" where there was a floor show.
Linda - the Goober who Loves Helen and Laura Lee Hobbs
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:51:13 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Krentz)
Subject: Re: Lifting Ben's Spirits (Cheers!)
> True, he IMPLIES it in "The
>Christmas Story," but that's not proof. He may be using that as a
>hypothetical example. Here is what he says, word for word:
>
>"I'd like to see how forgivin' you'd be if you had a store that sold
>spirits, and half the county was cuttin' in on your sales by making =
their
>own -- again' the law."
>
Paul, I've studied on your response for some time here, and I
can't pick up what you are layin' down. I would think that Ben
was literally explaining why he wasn't being forgiving. Here's
the play by play.
A. Our man Muggins is moonshining, just barely so's you can
notice.
2. Ben catches him at it.
c. Ben is angry and unforgiving because moonshining cuts into
his own sales of spirits - hence his remark.
Why else would Ben care? I can't seem to come up with an
alternate meaning here.
Whether or not such spirit sales tie into the Mayberry "dry
county" scenario before or after that can be attributed to all of
the other continuity inconsistencies, right?
=09
Jeff
"Sure Mike, Sure"
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:17:25 -0800
From: rateike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Man In A Hurry
I was thrilled to see "Man In A Hurry" on TAGS last evening.(I guess I
should say this morning since it was the 1:00am episode---we don't roll up
our sidewalks at 10 around here). Even though I have seen it a multitude of
times and have it on tape, I love to watch it scene by scene over and over.
To me, that episode epitomizes the spirit of Mayberry---its provincial
simpleness. When Malcolm Tucker says "You people are living in another
world!" I think "oh, to be removed to their world for even a short time."
Losing his cool on the front porch when Barney repeats his evening plans
three times is so typical of how tense and caught up we get in the mundane
"trivial trivialities" of this world.
Sometime I would like to be 7 again(for about 5 minutes) just to see what
it would be like to sleep on an ironing board between 2 chairs. How
adventurous is that?
Anita
I think we are spoiled with our modern "potato peelers" where we can easily
peel an apple without breaking the skin. Kind of "takes the starch out of
the whole thing."
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:09:09 -0600
From: Gloria Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: liquor law
Oh yes, they sound like the laws in West Virginia when I lived there. All
of the stores were owned by the state government. They said it was to keep
the housewives from getting drunk. The guy that said this was serious. I
think it was a way to get more revenue for the state. Since I am a
non-drinker, I didn't care one way or the other.
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:13:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: liquor laws
Even today it is illegal to possess untaxed alcohol. The stuff Otis
poured down the sink was 'hooch' or 'shine' and therefore was illegal.
Weaver's must have sold spirits or there must have been a state run
package store because how else do you explain 1) Morrelli's allowing
folks to bring in a bottle? Where would said bottle come from? And 2)How
about the wine bottles at Morrelli's that the candles were in? Where did
they get those? And 3) the brandy at that fancy club that Barney and
Andy wanted to join. I realize this was in Raleigh but the whole state
was supposed to be dry, wasn't it?
After doin' all this thinking, I need a drink!
~the groovy MissPoovey~
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:06:32 -0600
From: Andy Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trying to catch a WAV
I've been looking for a WAV file with Andy saying "G-o-o-d cracker!" from
the old Ritz commercials. Anybody have one or know where I can find it?
Yeah, boy!
Andy Baker
River Valley Church of Christ
P.O. Box 297
Fisher, Illinois 61843
Personal E-Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Phone (217) 897-1260
Pager (217) 261-3678
Jude 1:24-25
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:51:40 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: No more care-free days?
In my recent (and first-ever) posting, I made a comment directed at all
the Helen bashing in the digest lately. To make my point, I then threw a
good-natured jab at one of Mayberry's most talked about, but never seen
character, Juanita. I was joking, of course, but there in the very next
digest was a letter blasting all character-bashing! Boy, do I feel small!
Didn't mean to go rule-breakin' right off the bat! I'm hoping most of you
knew I was kidding. You know, one of the most endearing things about TAGS was
Andy's occasional jokes towards Barney, which might seem somewhat cruel
except you know how Andy really feels. I guess this was what I had in mind,
and I'm sorry if it came off the wrong way.
Since I brought up Jaunita, here's a trvia quiz for you. She WAS shown
one time, on a show featuring Mayberry characters! It wasn't TAGS or
Mayberry, RFD. Anyone know what it was?
More power to ya-- Dave "Quiet Sam" Tosh
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:10:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Kyle and Conor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mr. Spignesi
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Hello everyone,
Conor and I would like to welcome Mr.Spignesi to
WBMUTBB. It is a great place and it has great people
who know everything about TAGS!
We would also like to say that we got our dad
'Mayberry My Home Town' for Christmas and he loves it.
He has a lot of books about TAGS, and he says that
yours is his favorite one.
Thank you,
Kyle and Conor J.
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:44:05 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #53
I hope that about Jim varney,earnest is a rumor, IM a fan,his humor may not
be for the upper crust types but its always clean, I love watching him with
my 3 boys.has anyone elce heard?William upchurch,no kidding.
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:54:53 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #53
Where can you buy Mayberry My Hometown?
J. Boyd
Huntsville, Texas
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:19:54 -0800
From: Bob Bravetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trivia questions
Here'a couple for ya:
1. We know that Alan Hale Jr. played the part of Jeff Pruitt on
TAGS. In what episode was his wife in? Bonus - What was her name
in that episode?
2. In what episode will you find Andy, on two separate occasions
have a cigarette?
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