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wbmutbb-digest Wednesday, December 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 404
Topics in this issue:
all those Darlings
Birdnest in a bottle
Mayberry Christmas Meeting
Mayberry Christmas, parolees and just for the birds
SPECIAL MOMENTS
Mysterious disaperences
Digest submission
What's the matter with you...?
Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #403
Re: Birdcages and Birdsnests
This one makes me cry
Car Phones.......
Tear Jerkers
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:06:49 -0600
From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: all those Darlings
>>>
From: "Kevin and Dawn Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...I heard Andy say he had to break up a fight between the Darlings, but the
names he gave( Carl and Jed ) ... Was there
another set of Darlings?
>>>
We never see any Darlings other than Briscoe and his offspring (Charlene and
her brothers (technically, Andelina is a Wash, not a Darling)) but perhaps
they have more relatives up in the hills somewhere.
In the original script for the first Darlings episode, the names of the four
boys were Frankie, Jebbin, Ward, and Cobb. Of these, only Jebbin was used
in the episode (when the banjo player starts picking after dinner, Charlene
says, "Jebbin, it's ten o-clock at night.") Earlier in that episode, after
they climb up the rope into the hotel room, the mandolin player is called
"Other" (pronounced like Luther, but with a long O and no LU) by Briscoe.
The name Other was actually the middle name of makeup man Lee Greenway.
If memory serves, and it usually does, the boys aren't called by name again
until their sixth and final appearance, which is "The Darling Fortune." In
this episode, Briscoe calls all four by their real first names, as follows:
Rodney (Dillard, guitar)
Doug (Dillard, banjo)
Dean (Webb, mandolin)
Mitch (Jayne, bass)
So, either Jed and Carl are alternate names for Rodney and Mitch, or there
are more Darlings in Mayberry County. I'd guess the latter, because I can't
imagine Briscoe's boys ever speaking up enough to have an argument, and
besides that I doubt any of them believe in Santa Claus.
- --Paul
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:43:14 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Birdnest in a bottle
TAGS fans,
When I was little, we had a parakeet in a birdcage much like the one
Opie used for the baby birds. The bottom was removable, for cleaning
purposes, which is probably how he got the nest in. And, for those of you
who are wondering how you take the bottom off without your bird escaping:
set the cage on a piece of cardboard as you slide the bottom out from under
it.
Sam
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:12:05 -0400
From: David Millard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mayberry Christmas Meeting
I saw the posting from the Opie chapter re: there Christmas meeting, so
I thought I'd share ours. We had a covered dish dinner for our chapter,
we watched the Andy Griffith Reunion Special from 1993, we had a
Mayberry Gag Gift Exchange, and one of our club members favored us with
some tunes on his banjo( " Dooley, Doug's Tune) etc. + my daughter(our
youngest member) played some keyboard carols. All in all a wonderful
meeting for December.............Happy Holidays....Dave from " A Dollar
and a Quarter " Club, New Phila, Ohio.
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:13:16 -0500
From: "Harriet Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mayberry Christmas, parolees and just for the birds
>10 ways to tell it's Christmas in Mayberry:...
>Feel free to add to the list.
It's Christmas in Mayberry when I find among my decorations the little
wreaths and string of lights to put on each of my Hawthorne pieces! How
thoughtful of them to include a wreath, lights (ok they don't actually light
up) and the hooks on the buildings. It always adds so much to the holiday
spirit once I get Mayberry styled for Santa!
>We were separated for a while when Allan went out on parole, but thank
>Heaven we're all together again at Christmas.
I bet I know which craft Allan and Paul picked for their
rehabilitation.....Paul chose the wood burning set cause he's hot on trivia
and Allan chose the metal set cause he makes Floyd electic!
>How did they get that big bird's nest inside that little cage door
>opening in the Taylor's old used bird cage?
I know....they used a pair of tweezers.
My heart strings pull on any of the scenes where Opie's lower lip starts to
quiver....that look could break Scrooge!
Harriet, the lie-low chicken thief
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!!!
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:19:29 -0600
From: David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SPECIAL MOMENTS
WHAT ABOUT EPISODE #1"THE NEW HOUSEKEEPER" WHEN OPIE GOES RUNNING OUT OF THE
HOUSE AND TELLS AUNT BE NOT TO LEAVE. THAT SHE NEEDS ME(OPIE). THAT SCENE
GETS ME EVERY TIME.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
THE OTHER DAVID IN ALABAMA
"EVERYBODY COMPLAINS ABOUT THE WEATHER. BUT NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT"
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:33:43 -0500
From: "Bruce and Mary Nail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mysterious disaperences
This sighting was completely accidental and actually made a liar out of me.
The other day I was watcing the Gypsy curse episode when I spotted the
young Gypsy maiden wearing a nice Tiajuana blanket as all the Gypsies came
into the courthouse from the rain storm. all the other Gypsies were
eithere wearing slickers or ponchos. I called my wife in to check out the
patently obvious blanket and, lo and behold, it had vanished! In the next
scene all the Gypsies were clad in rain slickers!
Also, my daughter is becomming a trained noticer (I am not one) she
pegged the head Gypsy as the mad scientist from Gilligan's Island. She did
not, however catch Jamie Farr, him she pegged for Gilligan.
Happy Holidays everyone.
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:34:32 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Digest submission
There's been talk in recent digests about how references to TAGS pop
up at the most unexpected times.
Well, here's one I'll never forget.
In October, Missouri suffered a wrenching tragedy when its
governor, Mel Carnahan; his son, Randy; and top aide Chris Sifford were
killed in an airplane crash just south of St. Louis.
In the weeks that followed the state expressed its grief in
countless ways. One example came at a memorial service for Sifford beneath
the rotunda of the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City.
Speaker after speaker on that Friday afternoon talked about what a
fine man Sifford was. Indeed, he was one of the best press secretaries I've
dealt with in more than 20 years as a reporter.
At the end of the service, a local band offered up one more salute
to Chris. The band members put down their horns, started snapping their
fingers and started whistling the AGS theme.
Besides being a fine public servant, Chris was a huge AGS fan, and
we talked about that many times over the years. I couldn't make the service
that day, but when I heard about the playing of the theme song, well, that
got to me.
Merry Christmas, all.
Steve Kraske
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:55:18 -0500
From: Don Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's the matter with you...?
A couple of recent posts have caused something to prey on my mind.
How many times does Barney say, "What's the matter with you? Haven't
you ever seen...?"
With giving it only about 30 seconds thought, I can think of:
- -hanging in the closet
- -taking a dog for a ride
- -taking off a dress
Surely there are others. It's little bits of consistency like this
that give the characters real personalities. Thank you Mr. Bullock,
et al.
Don G.
(who beats ever'thing)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:05:08 -0500
From: Don Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #403
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:44:46 -0500
>From: "GRITTON, JOE A. (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Thanks Paul for your nice words on my Basketball in Mayberry story. Now I
>know at least two people have read it, cause my mother is on this mailing
>list too. Now about your mother...well, folks will just have to read the
>story to see how she saved you. Digest readers will remember a few weeks
>back Paul had a dialogue with Harvey Bullock going, and Harvey told us how
>he and another writer used to stick each other's name in a script as some
>no-good desperado or something. Paul mentioned he wanted to be in a script,
>so he AND Harvey are in this one, as well as some other famous names, you'll
>recognize. check it out.
Joe, I'll make at least three people who've read it. You did a
really great job of preserving the personalities of the characters.
Goober and Floyd said things that, well, like you'd expect Goober and
Floyd to say - and without being predictable. Also, as a native
North Carolinian, I smiled at the inclusion of Dean Smith. Very nice
touch all the way through. Just wanted you to know that your labor
of love is 'preciated!
Don G.
(There's no actor in this man, but I play a college administrator at
least 5 days a week! Maybe I'll sleep in a Holiday Inn Express
tonight....ah, never mind.)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:01:56 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Birdcages and Birdsnests
In a message dated 12/20/00 12:15:24 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Sandi, on the birdcage, with the pan that is the bottom removed, a clever
prop man could possibly insert a nest (with some assistance mind you) then
slide pan/bottom back on. Oncest upon a time I had similar cage and had to
put sticks in for perches that were larger than the door and that's how I did
it. >>
Hi To All!
I guess that is the logical answer, Phil. I had a birdcage when I was Opie's
age but when the tray slid out, there was a welded sheet of metal as the
underneath of the cage to the bar part of the cage. The tray just slid in
and out but it didn't leave a opening underneath when the tray came out. The
slit wouldn't have been nary wide enough to even think of putting the bird
nest in through it! I had carnaries and parakeets as a child but it has been
many a year ago. I am sure the new cages have more conviences. I guess I
had my birds about the time Opie had his. Ooops! I'm starting to give my
age away!
I guess I should just trying to stop pondering the Houdini of birdnests in
birdcages and just enjoy the fullness of the trees!
Happy Holidays!
Sandi
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:36:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This one makes me cry
YO,
Talkin about tearin up...
How bout when Charlene sings "There is a time to
wander"? This one makes me cry(even though I try and
fight it) I guess I really would boo hoo if the
Darlings ever got around to playin "Never hit your
Gramma with a great big stick"
I can't hardly wait for the family get together meal,
over the Holidays,so's I can holler...MEAT!....BREAD!
Or maybe I could just pass the potatoes one at a time.
The only thing is though,if I put my elbows on the
table my Mom's liable to hit me on my crazy bone with
a wooden spoon and I ain't about to beat to death with
no spoon!
Happy Holidays to you and yours !
Mike(Spyda Byte)Zman
PS
I'm not crying It's just that I feel a cold comin on :)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:36:30 -0600
From: Rodney Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Car Phones.......
As I write this, I am watching and listening to 'THE FOSTER LADY"
episode, which aired on March 21, 1966. In the episode, the actor who
plays Mr. Foster ( and was also the "man in a hurry" ), had a car phone.
I was just wondering how common that was in 1966. Also....how did car
phones back then work in small rural areas. I doubt that Mayberry had
any cell towers around. Any ideas?
YENDOR
"makes you think!"
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:28:17 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tear Jerkers
The episode that gets to me? Anytime the Darlings visited, they would do a
song that made me cry. There were so many, but I guess in the bully episode,
I was most touched. Opie dropped of a change of clothes at the courthouse so
he could change when he got beat up. When he looked up at Andy to be
reassured that it didn't hurt to get hit by the bully was a real tearjerker.
BUT, when Andy picked him up and hugged him, that opened the floodgates!!!!!!
And everyone have a Merry Christmas. If we do, maybe we can make Ben Weaver
sing along to "Away in a Manger".
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