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wbmutbb-digest Friday, December 22 2000 Volume 02 : Number 406 Topics in this issue: Happy holidays! Mayberry Citizen sighting Darlin Boy Referred to As "Other" Barney's first car Opie's mother Andy Delivers a baby! party lines Re: What's the Matter with You... Bird nests Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #404 merry christmas Re: Mr. Foster's Fone WBMUTBB Digest Archives!!! My birthday present ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:58:37 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Happy holidays! To all the many Andy Griffith Show fans from another TAGS fan, I want to wish all of you the best holidays ever. I hope you have a happy Christmas and a wonderful 2001! God bless you all! James Moody, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. The Christmas episode with old Ben finally coming around to the spirit of Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I enjoy seeing it over and over. Whatg a message of compassion, care and concern for others this is. How blessed we are to have these shows on video so we can experience them over and over 35 or 40 years later! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:30:51 -0800 (PST) From: Joe and Sandra Causby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mayberry Citizen sighting Good Morning Mayberry Was watching a tape with some episodes of The Real McCoys and saw Olan Soule (aka John McMasters) trying to buy George McMichaels' farm. Guess he decided to retire from hotel clerking and start farming or just needed a quiet place to work on his music! :0) Have seen lots of Mayberry people off and on on these old episodes - of course it was about the same time frame as AGS, but its a looooong way from NC to Californy...they do get around.. Ya'll have a Mayberry kind of Holiday Season! "According to Elanora Poultice, I'm just a great big bundle of singin' talent". Sandy in Saudi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:13:09 -0500 From: "Rice, Steven R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Darlin Boy Referred to As "Other" This message is in reference to Paul Mulik's comment about "Other" in the first episode that featured the Darlin family (reference wbmutbb_digest V2 #404). I couldn't find my video tape of the episode but I thought the missing Darlin boy that was the last to be pulled up into the hotel room was Rodney Dillard, not Dean Webb. I'm probably wrong and I ought to know better than to question Paul's expertise. Steve "That boy ain't got much personality" Rice ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:11:48 -0600 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Barney's first car >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was watching the episode where barney buys his 1st car. After the car breaks down when returning it to mrs. Lesch, there's the scene where Andy and Barney are asleep in the car. My question is, why were both andy & barney in the back seat????? >>> The "correct" answer is that in order for the scene to work, they had to write it that way, so that the tow truck man, having looked only at the front seat, would conclude that the car was empty. It does seem like if they were going to take a nap, one would have taken the front seat. Perhaps a better question is, why didn't Andy drive the lemon and have Barney follow in the squad car? How were they planning on getting back to Mayberry, anyway? Were they planning on walking the whole way, in the middle of the night? For that matter, how did they know where to find Mrs. Lesch at all? She told them she was from Mt. Pilot, but that's not much to go on. Anybody who was that dishonest about a used car would surely not have given out her correct name and address. Still, it's a wonderful episode and one of my favorites. The little plot inconsistencies don't detract from the story. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:22:15 -0600 From: "Paul Mulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Opie's mother >>>I have always wondered about Opie's Mother. We never do learn her name, or anything else about her, but there are a few hints here and there. In the pilot episode, Andy reminds Opie, "I lost your mom when you was just the least little speck of a baby." Of course, there are lots of things in the pilot episode that changed before the first episode, but I'd consider this official since it established from the very beginning that Andy was a widower raising a boy, and that never changed throughout the entire series. Therefore, Opie never knew his mother. Perhaps she died giving birth. Andy might have meant something else by "lost," but I doubt it. It would have been unthinkable for a woman to "run off" from a good man like Sheriff Taylor. We also learn in other episodes that Barney was Andy's best man (he says "I stood up for you when you first got married," which I assume means he was best man), and that Barney is Opie's Godfather. I suppose it is possible that Andy had been married twice (before Helen came along), but there's no evidence to suggest this. The answers to many other Frequently Asked Questions can be found on the WBMUTBB web site under "FAQs." All new fans should check them out. As Bill Cosby used to say, "If you're not careful, you just might learn something." - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:18:59 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Andy Delivers a baby! Hello Tags. I was watching the show about Andy deliverying the baby out to the farm for frank wifes, And i was so surprised to see Andy go out side and smoke a cigarette, I didn't know Andy smoked, and it hurt me to see this. But I love Andy anyway. I am so glad that we can still see some of the good ole shows from when we were younger, and that our children like to watch them also. Thanks for a thing well done. Andy Andy you should have called Barney, you know how good he is at this sort of thing. We love you Andy and Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee, Goomer, Goober, Otis, and Floyd, and everyone. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Tell Every Body, "Mary Says Hey" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:43:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: party lines All this talk about mobile phones and party lines and what-not has got me to thinkin'. I guess I'm kinda young for my age (I'm 26), but I've been 'round plenty. I can remember party lines very well, having grown up out in the country. There were four of us on one party line, and I can remember having to check and see if anyone else was using the line before making a phone call, or listening to see if it was "our ring" before answering. I can remember one time my mom picked up the phone, and she had no more than picked it up 'til Old Mrs. Vandergriff down the road said (gruffly, I might add), "Hang up--This is a long distance phone call!" My daughter, 7, also made me feel dated the other day. Someone on Dragnet, I believe it was, was dialing a phone with a rotor dial. My daughter looked up at me and asked, "What are they doin'?!?" Almost as bad as the first time I felt dated, when my little cousin asked me if my 45 record was a big CD or something. Whew!! Well, I'll quit chatterin' now. I'm sure some of you are in a hurry. - --Jason at the Hotel _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:51:54 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the Matter with You... In a message dated 12/22/00 1:42:58 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << "What's the matter with you, didn't you ever see a man drinking a cup of coffee before?" >> Isn't that the one where Barney's hair is messed up and he has lipstick prints all over him?? Hilarious!! Dixon =========== "That's something you can't talk enough about...sin!" - --Barney Fife Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:02:14 -0000 From: "Alison Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bird nests In reference to the question of how Opie got that big bird nest into the cage: I'm thinking it has something to do with that book of scientific tricks he has. If he can get an egg in a milk bottle and make disappearing ink he can probably get that nest in there too. Hope everyone has a merry Christmas. Here's hoping Ben Weaver, I mean Santa Claus, brings you the ball glove or baby doll you wanted. I'm still trying to win that electric razor down at the carnival. That would make a great gift for somebody. Merry Christmas from just past the Robert E. Lee Natural Bridge, Doug Johnson _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:12:13 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V2 #404 Is there any chapters or just people in the Santa Clarita area in California that are TAGS fans? If there are please email me. Mayberry 4ever Elaine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:03:13 -0500 From: "Tim Hutcherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: merry christmas to all the members of the wbmutbb and all of our tags friends we want to wish you a very merry christmas and a happy new year!!! the mayberry undercover agents chapter-tagsrwc _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:15:07 -0500 From: Jeff Krentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mr. Foster's Fone >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? Maybe they used thicker wires? Mr. Foster's phone was So uncommon as to be an oddity even in a big city back then. The old car phones were along the lines of "ship to shore" radios. They had more range than the current cell phone towers so there didn't need to be an antenna locally. You actually made contact with an operator via radio and the operator patched you through to a land phone line. Somebody else probably knows more about this than I do. I never used one of those radio babies, but I got my first cell phone in 1987 when they were just becoming a little bit more common. Back then car phones were still unusual and cost a couple of thousand dollars - typically would lease for $150 or more a month back then. The dashboard part where the big ole handset was bigger'n Aunt Bee's breadbox and the electronal marvel that actually did the work was mounted in the trunk was as big as an attache case that could hold a quarter million dollars. Conspicuous Mayberry content added in a feeble attempt to stay on topic. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:47:03 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WBMUTBB Digest Archives!!! Hey Folks, We have a new feature here at WBMUTBB. We're now begining to "archive" the mailing list so you can go back and search for things if you missed it. Each email sent to the WBMUTBB Digest is archived on a service called eScribe.com and to access the archive you'll need the following information: Username: floyd Password: lawson http://www.escribe.com/tv/wbmutbb/index.html The link above will take you to the archive and you'll have to put in the username and password to get access. There's only 3 days of archives there right now but I'm looking into having our older archives added to this as well as all our new messages. I hope you'll all find this new feature useful. I know I will because it will allow us to search the archives for information we've seen before. This is gonna be BIG!! Merry Christmas everybody!!! Allan ------------------------------ Date: 22 Dec 00 14:51:43 EST From: SANDRA SILS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: My birthday present Winter Greetings! Living here in northern Indiana we have a lot of snow on the ground! I just wanted to let you all know about the lovely birthday present I received yesterday from my husband. No, it wasn't a bed jacket, but it also wasn't a dozen preserve jars (I could use them, though, lol). Last spring my husband took me to the Mayberry Cafe in Danville, IN for lunch and took my picture beside the squad car that's parked out front. Well, knowing how I love TAGS, he snuck the photo out of the house and took it to Kinkos and had it made into a calendar. It is now hanging over my computer so I can look at it everyday and remember the delicious lunch we had there. Hope everyone has a delightful season. "Lots of luck to you and yours" Sandra ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #406 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ Visit our sponsor ~ Weaver's Department Store ~ http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/ ************************************************** You must send your comments to the Digest from the address you used to join WBMUTBB or your message will not be posted. Only members may post to this mailing list. 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