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wbmutbb-digest Monday, March 5 2001 Volume 03 : Number 070
Topics in this issue:
Re: Living in Mayberry
Modern Day Mayberry
Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #68
Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #69
(no subject)
Boxes
epilogue
Mayberry
Re: Abyssinia
Living In Mayberry
Pinball machines
Move to Mayberry
Pinball and other sinful games
snow
Rural realities
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:37:21 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Living in Mayberry
I read Ellen's post, after working half a day here on Sunday, sure wish no
one expected THAT of me!
And YES! I'd love it if someone delivered my milk and butter and eggs
(though I already get a lot of stuff from the Schwan's man!). We used to
have an egg man, who brought fresh apple cider in the fall, but you had to
have your own jug. We also had a bakery man who brought bread and donuts and
hot cross buns during Lent. And then the grocery boy, Stuart, used to bring
the rest of the stuff every Saturday afternoon ...
Who goes to the movies more than once a week anyway? The shows change on
Thursdays so you can plan your weekend .. right?
I already do a lot of my shopping at Weaver's and other catalog merchants,
though I will admit to using the Internet instead of mail to place my orders
... and it's great to have the UPS and mailman bringing packages!
And going to each store or other establishment .. it was the greatest! We
used to go the the phone company to pay the phone bill, and the gas company
to pay the gas bill .. and at every stop you got to talk to a friend or
neighbor, and find out what all was going on in town, who was sick, getting
married, had a baby .. better than the newspaper for sure!
And I wish, I truly wish, I had a MAN to call for repairs! Do you know what
it's like to try and find a trustworthy handyman when you're new in town?
Other Mayberry kinds of things that I miss from my small town upbringing ..
pot luck suppers at church or at the American Legion .. bring a dish to pass
and your own table service. Everybody eats well, and no one has too many
dishes to do! My Mom used to make this great elbow spaghetti dish, with
several secret ingredients .. I've never been able to duplicate it!
I miss going to the drug store for a coke, and spending time sitting at the
soda fountain
And being able to ride my bike and not have to find a parking meter to lock
it up ..
Yes .. I'd move to Mayberry in a minute!
Kathy Jo and Rudy
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:47:14 -0600
From: tsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modern Day Mayberry
In answer to the query about wanting to live in Modern Day Mayberry, the
answer is unquestionably YES! What a great way to live a life, there's
much to be said for talking to folks face to face, spending time with the
family and just slowing down a little bit.
Theresa
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:14:09 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #68
<< As for Barney's littering, it comes to my mind that he littered up the
barn
pretty good with gum wrappers while he was watching for that es-cape-ee. >>
Like Gomer said - maybe there's two sets of laws - one for the ordinary
citizen and one for the police. That Gomer had a lot of wisdom for a Pyle.
Linda - a Goober with some smarts too.
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:10:42 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #69
About modern day mayberry,there's something else I think the person who wrote
this forgot for 1)there would be no such thing as prejudice,and wouldn't that
be a great thing.I would love to live in a small town like Mayberry and have
a small town sheriff like Andy and Barney running the town,I think for a lot
of people that would be a dream come true,and we could just go in to the
sheriffs office just to shoot the breeze,play checkers with the the people of
the town and for those who like fishing there would be a lake nearby and a
fish in the lake like old sam that everybody talked about but never really
comes close to catching,I think that would be a great world to live in and to
raise our children in,this is from Mayberry fan in Louisville
danielsdandav46........have a good day my Mayberry friends,and thanks for a
very good happy thought.
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 02:20:31 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (no subject)
March 10th---TV LAND FANDAMONIAM WEEKEND----"THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW" ...
I'll wear my heart on my sleeve. Love to all. The Milo Boys.
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:18:36 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boxes
The 'window boxes' were an old-fashioned contraption that kept cold air from
blasting down the windows. Thus, saving heat. Also, heat did not rise up the
window, behind the venetian blind & cause both heat loss & condensation.
Ted
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:24:16 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: epilogue
Just wondering if the TAGS DVD's have the epilogues. T.V. consistently cuts
them off, in favor of commercial time.
Ted
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:48:25 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mayberry
I would move to Mayberry in a moment!! One thing I remember from my
"Mayberry' Louisa, VA, was on a holiday, the stores closed. It was not a day
to rip off the public in the name of profit. July 4th was a day everything
closed, as was Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, New Years, Easter and Labor Day.
Things have changed as "progress" came along, but was it progress or
"digress" to the worship of money?
Ah, yes! My Mayberry was a great place to live! No air conditioning but we
got used to it. Now if it gets above 90, schools close!
In Mayberry, no one needed turn signals, because everyone knew where you were
going.
No one needed locks, because no one would dare steal from his neighbor.
You could speak to any dog in town and call it by name, and he responded by
wagging his tail.
If you got disciplined at school, you got it worse at home. Now, it is a
lawsuit if a child gets disciplined!
If you bought a dozen, you got a "bakers dozen" which was 13.
These are just a few of the things I remember from growing up in my
"Mayberry" like town. I won't say how many "Otis's" we had, but more than
one! And the night watchman, a small man, was referred to as "Barney Fife."
No Kidding!!
Happy days!
TheCameraNut
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 03:52:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Robin Jaynette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abyssinia
"Abyssinia"
Maybe someone has already cleared this up, but it is
"I'll be seeing ya" and you say back to them "I'll be
seeing ya some more" that is a common saying down here
in NC, you can also reply with "Not if I see ya
first".
Robin in NC
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:03:49 -0500
From: "Robin's Nest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Living In Mayberry
YES, ALLAN, IT IS WONDERFUL, living in a community like Mayberry. That list
you mentioned is pretty close to how it is here in Dayton, TN. I must admit,
I don't get eggs and butter delivered to the door. My eggs come to church on
Sunday, when I take Delmer empty cartons! We do have our share of drive thrus
at the fast food chains, but we can also go "up town" and get whatever we need
at Rogers Pharmacy. The local radio station is owned by a friend of mine,
it's Oldies (of course), the barber - Bobby Beard - had been cutting hair
right across from the courthouse (where the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1926 was
held), and you can't help run into somebody you know at the Dayton Coffee Shop
around lunch time (it's always packed), they're only open from 10a - 2:30p and
if you go early, they'll still have the special of the day! We go to the
Dunlap Drive-In every Friday night, if we like the movies (they usually have
two), and you pay per car, not per persons in the car, so we don't have to put
nobody in the trunk (just kidding, we wouldn't do that!). Personally, I like
sitting on my porch swing, counting the cars on the trains that go by. I live
near a crossing, and I tell everybody, "The engineers all know me, that's why
they always blow their whistles when they go by the house!" Sounds like to
me, you might be a little bit spoiled! Stop by the house some time, and I'll
fix us a glass of lemonade, and we'll talk about them Monkey Trials. The
Strawberry Festival is fixin' to commence in April, gotta fix up the '57 Ford
so's we can be in the parade again this year. Guess, I'll just have to CALL
THE MAN (Gerard Johnson), cause we got a leaky spot in the ceiling in the
bathroom. Oh, that reminds, I need to call Mr. Washington to come till the
garden for me, it's time to plant broccoli and sugar peas. Went out and
picked some daffodils today to go along with the basket of flowers mom and dad
sent for my birthday, Arthur delivered them from the florist "up town". Sorry
to keep rambling, this'll prob'ly be cut down for length, just wanted to tell
you how nice it is living in "Mayberry".
Robin (Miss Peggy from TN)
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:40:10 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pinball machines
Paul, are you speaking of that little cafe in Mt. Pilot where Barn
dragged Andy to "run into" the fun girls when Peggy had company? I can't
think of any other place. Meanwhile, I'd like to see you do this often
as it's so much fun!
Aunt Bee of Orlando
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:37:01 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Move to Mayberry
I'd love to live in Mayberry! So much so that I think of it the last
thing before I go to sleep after prayers. I would miss the theme parks
we have here but then I like to think that all the small-town activities
and events would take their place and in a much more homey,
personal-relationship sort of way. Like others, I think about
air-conditioning but if you were in the hills of NC like Mt. Airy is,
maybe you don't need it but a few days a year. Even so, I wouldn't let
my hubby come to the table without his shirt, like a naked savage!!
Aunt Bee of Orlando
P.S. That Phil sure has a way of making an apology entertaining; he's one
clever guy!!
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:03:57 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pinball and other sinful games
<< Where in or near Mayberry can one play a game of pinball? Name the episode
please -- just saying "I think I remember seeing a pinball machine at the
.... " is not good enough.
>>
OK Paul - I'll bite - Is it the Tip Top Cafe? They ain't supposed to serve
beer there but if you go over in Yancey, you can see a floor show.
Linda - this Goober can sew my fingers together
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:29:12 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: snow
In light of the storm on the East Coast, did Mayberry ever receive snow?
Ted
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:55:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rural realities
As to the list of "what it would be like to live in
Mayberry". There are still places like that today. I lived
in a place called Highland County Va.. I was the United
Methodist pastor there for three small rural churches.
When we went on VACATION we did not lock the doors!
None of the churches were locked and nothing ever got
stolen. There was crime occasionally but it was usually
vandalism to empty houses.
Now, living in a small community like that has its
disadvantages too! The disadvantages are overlooked
because Mayberry is so ideal.
Some negatives of living in a small rural area:
1. Everybody knows everybody - that can be good or bad.
Sometimes folks THINK they know everybody - but people
change. In a small rural community folks aren't going to
usually give you a second chance because they've already
decided what you're like (kind of like Barney's opinion of
Ernest T.).
2. There are few places to work.
3. There are few things to do (no mall, no movie theatre,
no 7-11s, ATMs or traffic lights!).
4. There are few services - it took an hour to drive to the
nearest hospital!
5. No dentist (lots of toothless folks - never saw that
"side" of Mayberry)
So, all in all, there is good and there is bad with every
where we live. I heard plenty of cussing by the good old
boys (until someone whispered that I was the "preacher" and
they'd stop) in Highland County Va.
Violence on TV has been with us since its inseption. Those
Indians Andy and Opie watched didn't fall off their horses
on their own! The only way to escape the violence on TV is
by turning it off. WWF is big in rural areas - much
violence, much skin.
Drinking is a popular past time in rural areas because
there is little to do.
The illiteracy rate is high in rural areas. Folks drop out
of school after 6th grade to work on the farm and never
learn to read. Ernest T. was not alone in his lack of
education. I now live in a rural, but much more urban,
area and there is probably MORE illiteracy here than there
was in Highland County!
Yes, I would like to live in "Mayberry" but alas I fear it
only exists in our dreams. I can drive to Mt. Airy and
check out the real thing if I'm so inclined. I'm only an
hour away now! There are "Mayberry"s around but there are
both good and bad qualities anywhere you live.
"Hey" to you and yours,
Rev. Joe
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