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To unsubscribe/change address, scroll to the bottom of this issue. wbmutbb-digest Friday, March 16 2001 Volume 03 : Number 085 Topics in this issue: Re: Loaded Goat: the Soundtrack fan and spare time Moonshinning Re: Memorable Moment Re: moonshining moonshinin' back then a solution to overalls vs bluejeans question Earnest T. Raps Jimmy's demise Moonshining More small town memories... About them winders.. Links Re: Continuity Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #81 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:13:13 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Loaded Goat: the Soundtrack In a message dated 3/15/01 11:40:58 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > this episode is one of my least favorites. > The reason is the harmonica music. I have nothing against a nice, lively > little mouth harp selection, but this one is so SAD! Believe it or not, I am told this particular selection Barney was playing was none other than..."Juanita," the same little love song Barn often croons to his favorite waitress... Dixon =========== "Well, I guess to sum it up, you could say, there's three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. There's Andy, there's me, and [patting gun] baby makes three." - --Barney Fife Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 03:42:30 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: fan and spare time It was one of them "fer-in" jobs wasn't it? Everything over there in that Europe works funny! :-D > I was watching the "Goober Takes the Car Apart" episode > today and noticed something. I do a little work on cars myself and believe the fan on the engine when it's inside the courthouse is turning the wrong way. Engines rotate clock-wise and the fan is rotating counter clock-wise. As a matter of fact, I went out to my truck and started it, raised the hood, and watched the engine run. We gotta get you a hobby! Watching your engine run is right up there with watching the grass grow! Best of luck to you and your'n! Rev. Joe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 03:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Jaynette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moonshinning <I had never heard of anyone actually "moonshining" after the anti-liquor law was repealed. Comments, gang?> Hey Linda, I am not sure where you live, but here in NC, moonshining not only went on during the time period TAGS was on, but it is alive and well today, it is a real big industry up near the NC/VA border, the stills are bigger and fanicer nowa days, and it is usualy a big time operation not just a one man thing like Rafe had going (Although there are plenty of those too). Every Christmas season you can count on batches of moon made with Damsons (it is a very festive burgandy color) and in the spring Peaches, the fruit is right in the moon and eating the fruit is more likely to give you a "snoot full" than drinking it. Robin in NC Morrison Sisters Elixir Chapter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:09:29 +0100 From: Tod Lawlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Memorable Moment I've enjoyed reading about everyone's most memorable Mayberry moment. There are so many. I don't think anyone has mentioned the episode in which Helen accidentally puts the wrong grades on Opie's report card. Andy and Aunt Bee are so thrilled over his grades and make such a fuss that Opie feels terrible when the mistake is discovered. I think my most memorable scene would be the end of that episode in which Opie says that he was going to run away until he could do something to make his Paw proud of him again. Andy tells him that "you're my son, and I'm proud of you for that". I regret that I can't quote the scene better. It's worth watching. It's one of those moments that for me sums up the relationship of Andy and Opie. Tod "Baron von Rick-toven" in Nigeria "Now wait a minute. Ain't we a-pickin' our peaches 'fore they're fuzzed up good?" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:15:52 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: moonshining In a message dated 3/15/01 11:40:58 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Even back when the show > originally aired, I had never heard of anyone actually "moonshining" after > the anti-liquor law was repealed. Comments, gang? > I believe Andy said on more than one occasion that Mayberry was a dry county, which is why the moonshining and the crackdown on it, presumably. I assume the surrounding counties were dry too, as opposed to Otis just running up to the county line beverage store (like the ones that sprout up around the few remaining dry counties in Alabama). Dixon =========== "Well, I guess to sum it up, you could say, there's three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. There's Andy, there's me, and [patting gun] baby makes three." - --Barney Fife ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:40:55 -0600 From: "The Hendersons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: moonshinin' back then <" I had never heard of anyone actually "moonshining" after the anti-liquor law was repealed. Comments, gang?"> When I first began teaching school in the little farming community of DeWitt (arkansas) I was told by other teachers that there were kids in the grade school whose parents or relatives still moonshined.(This was 1972/1973 !). Some even made what was called "PGA", pure grain alcohol, 200 proof (which is 100%, as a proof was a 1/2%, I was told). If the truth were known, some folks still "shine" to this very day. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:13:15 -0600 From: "The Hendersons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: a solution to overalls vs bluejeans question The answer to Aunt Bee's "slip-of-the-tongue" use of the word overalls instead of bluejeans might be rather simple: back then the words could be interchanged. Why? Let's go back in time for a possible answer. Folks have forgotten, but back in the "olden days/pre-late 60's", folks did not wear bluejeans as everyday acceptable clothing. I went to school in the fifties and 60's. NO body wore bluejeans, except maybe a few of the "country-kids". Any thing denim in those days was looked down on and not accepted. Start watching the kids in most old tv shows; most often, none of the kids wore denim. Required school clothes:Girls wore dresses ALL THE TIME and boys wore pants, NOT jeans. Even when kids were playing at home, jeans were not worn, usually. So, Aunt Bee could have called the jeans "overalls" interchangeably. Both were denim. Kinda like when my husband calls ALL the stuff he HAS to have when he goes fishing, whether top water bait , deep running bait, scented plastic worms, shiners, minnows, what ever....he calls it ALL BAIT ! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:13:24 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Earnest T. Raps I wonder how many of you realize that our Earnest T. Bass was the original rapper.Remember when he was wooing Charlene? I've always wanted a 2 chair shop. a floyd fan,Bill. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:29:25 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jimmy's demise << > . What I am wondering is what ever happened to that goat? > Did he still go "blooey"? >> It's my humble opinion that Jimmy did indeed go "blooey" but it was just too messy for viewers to see all that violence. But it's a good lesson - Don't Dine on Dy-no-mite !! Linda - the Goober who munches on nothing stronger than bottle rockets ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:22:52 -0600 From: "Danny Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Moonshining "I thought I had finally thought of a question to ask that hadn't been covered, but I think you got it before me - well, maybe not quite. A lot of the storylines have Andy and Barney looking for a still - was there really that much "moonshining" going on back then? Even back when the show originally aired, I had never heard of anyone actually "moonshining" after the anti-liquor law was repealed. Comments, gang?" I don't know where you grew up but in rural arkansas even when I was a growing up from the mid to late 60's to late 70's there was still quite a bit of moonshining going on around there. Lots of folks either just liked making it or couldnt afford to buy store bought liquor. I rem our neighbors coming home with homemade hooch in mason jars several times. Even after moving away my sister wrote me in the late 80's about someone getting arrested for moonshining. Dapper Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: MICHAEL KATT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: More small town memories... I'm from Tuscaloosa,Alabama (not quite as small as Mayberry,probably more like Siler City).I remember going to a small town a few miles north of us with a friend to watch a movie (Top Gun,if I remember correctly).Anyway,about 10 minutes into the show the sound went off and we heard the projectionist make an announcement over the loud speaker.He said "I hope y'all dont mind,but we had a couple who had car trouble and just now got here,so if it's o.k. with everybody I'm gonna go ahead and start the movie over again so they won't miss anything".Needless to say,nobody had a problem with that,so they rewound the film and we all got to see it from start to finish.I sho' do wish there were more places like that around! Mike "Bama" Katt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:48:35 -0800 (PST) From: MICHAEL KATT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: About them winders.. Her's something I noticed a long time ago and was wondering if anyone else noticed it or if there ever was an explanation for it.Every time you get a view out of the right hand cell window,there is a brick wall directly behind it.But in the episode where Barneys cousin Virgil visits and cleans the keys so well they'll no longer work in the lock,not only is the wall not there,but Barn has enough room to hook a rope to the cell bars and pull 'em out with the squad car.I like to think the owner of the building was kind enough to tear it down so Otis could make his appointment.Or was that whole situation explained elsewhere and I missed it?Remember...it is NO fun when those cell doors slam behind you! Mayberrily Yours,Mike "Bama" Katt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:06:59 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Links Many thanks to Allan for the links on Kenneth Junkin and his squad car (what a comical photo LOL!) and on Don Knotts' current appearance in Kansas City. I was able to print them out, in color even, for my scrapbook for all things Mayberry!! Aunt Bee of Orlando ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:42:19 -0800 (PST) From: Rafe Hollister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Continuity I'd like to thank Tom (Henri D.) Strongbow for his EXCELLENT explanation of the Script Girl/Script Continuity question. It's nice to have an expert on board to answer some of these "behind the scenes" questions for us. Hear! Hear! (That's somethin' you say when you agree with somethin' somebody else said.) Doug "Rafe Hollister" Garretson "Oh, let me move. I never get to move." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:44:28 -0800 (PST) From: David & Angela Forbus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #81 In regards to the most "touching scene" I witnessed on TAGS, I would have to say there are 2: 1) From "Mr. MacBeevee", (if he's Scottish, why is he called McBeevee, which is Irish?) when Andy said he didn't believe in Mr. MacBeevee, but he did believe in Opie. (while Andy was smoking a cigarette) 2) From the episode where Andy is pushing Aunt Bee to marry Fred Goss, when she can't stand him. Opie brings up the point about "deep down kinda love" or something to that effect. Andy realizes she doesn't want to marry Goss, and gives a beautiful, brief soliloquy on Aunt Bee and the Taylor's consensual happiness. Many others, including Opie giving the man in a hurry a penny, Barney sticking up for Andy after he blabbed to the "college kid", etc. Dud Walsh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V3 #85 **************************** ************************************************** ~ 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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