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wbmutbb-digest Sunday, July 29 2001 Volume 03 : Number 221
Topics in this issue:
Sam running for town council
Re: Illegal CD for Sale and Advertising on the Digest in general
Re: Small Towns
Re: Mayberry CD?
Re: Mayberry Thesis
Re: Paul Hartman
RE: wbmutbb-digest V3 #220
Clutch
Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #220
Color Episode Favs
reintroduction
Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #199
Two things
Taylors & Ricardos
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:12:05 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sam running for town council
>What I don't understand is what Howard was doing at the party
>waiting for the results: Where I come from, the County Clerk is in charge
>of counting the votes. Maybe he felt he should excuse himself since he had
>taken sides in the election. Any speculation as to who did the counting?
Since this was a city election, I would assume that someone from the city
offices did the counting. This would not probably be a county reponsibility.
SKip K.
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:22:25 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Illegal CD for Sale and Advertising on the Digest in general
Friends,
We recently had a member advertise a CD for sale on eBay which contained
Mayberry related clips and music.
The WBMUTBB Digest is NOT a the place to advertise for things like this.
PLEASE do not do this in the future...espeically since this particular CD is
not legal.
The property our fellow member is selling is owned by the copyright holders
and license holders and they will not look kindly on what is being done.
People that sell Licensed products pay a LOT of money for the right to sell
those products and they will protect their license.
The theme song to TAGS is still owned by the copyright holder and I know by
the listing on eBay that the theme is on the CD so that along makes it an
illegal product.
It is also not proper to take other peoples work and try to sell it. I hope
our member will please consider removing the CD from eBay before VIACOM or
other license holders of the copyrighted products become aware of it.
Just wanted to make everyone aware and to ask that we not advertise on the
Digest.
I don't mind if members post about some particular item that they have for
sale but it *MUST* be legal and it should only be done to allow WBMUTBB
Members a "first shot" or heads up on something. It should never be done on a
regular basis (as if you're running a business).
Allan Newsome
"The Andy Griffith Show" Rerun Watchers Club - Webmaster
http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:56:23 -0500
From: "K.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small Towns
Hi Holly,
Come visit me in Bellevue sometime! I just wrote an article on the Mayberry
Reunion for our local paper, and part of my premise was how Bellevue has kept
a lot of its small town feel and its similarity to Mayberry!
Kathryn
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:07:25 -0500
From: "K.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mayberry CD?
>
This sounds like so much fun, and a good idea for gifts for your friends. I
got to your Current Auctions page, but I didn't see any listings. Since I did
not see what you are offering, I am asking this from total ignorance, but did
you check on copyright and other legalities? Some people get a might touchy
when I ask questions like this, and I am not trying to be mean, but I always
encourage people to be very careful about "borrowing"
copyrighted materials. Personally, your Cd's sound like great fun to me!
Kathryn
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:40:24 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mayberry Thesis
Holly and Members,
>-I suppose I am interested in everyone's ideas about Mayberry as a physical
>place. Does it reflect anyone's memories of life in a small town?
Yes. Although the time in our country's history may be as much reflected as
the place. The small town I grew up in had places for children to run and
play. We could go frog hunting, build forts, get completely dirty and
exhausted, and come home to an Aunt Bee meal and an intact loving family.
Very few of the children in our school had otherwise. We heard about
stranger abduction and violence, and we had our share of tragedies, but they
came largely from farm and car accidents, and other problems associated with
rural living, not someone trying to deliberately hurt another person.
- -Is anyone from a small place that has tried to retain or regain its
Mayberry-like qualities?
We are selling our home to move to a community about 7 miles north of us. I
told a couple of the digest members about this little town, and Aunt Bee of
Orlando asked me if I would tell you all about it. This is as good an
opportunity as any.
We live in Modesto, population about 180,000 and the town we want to move to
has about 10,000 and a slow-growth policy (yeah!). It reminds me so much of
Mayberry. It has a beautiful downtown area, and there really is no "bad"
part of town. There is a barber named George who has been cutting my
husband's hair since he was a teenager. I can drop my children off at the
barber, remind George that my boys have Neil's double-crown, leave a blank
signed check, and when they have had their haircut, my daughters can walk the
boys to wherever I happen to be in town, the church, Schemper's Ace Hardware,
Cups Coffee Shop. My friend walked her pig "Wilbur" to town to be weighed by
Pat, the Animal Control lady, and no one yelled at her or called the police.
Any place I go to in town I'm likely to run into someone I know well. We
have been commuting from where we live to this little town for 15 years for
church, sports, banking, and fellowship. It's time to move!
Aunt Bee of Modesto, CA, soon to be of Ripon, CA
Jacquie Bauman
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:33:41 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Paul Hartman
The reason most people don't likely remember Paul Hartman on "Petticoat
Junction" is because most of his appearances were during the first season.
The first two seasons of PJ were in black and white and are rarely
rerun--ironic, considering Hartman only appeared on TAGS during the *color*
years!
Dixon
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:01:42 -0700
From: "David Walwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: wbmutbb-digest V3 #220
Not only that, but Floyd's Barber Shop looks EXACTLY like the bridge of the
Starship Enterprise! Uncanny, isn't it?
- - --Paul
Funny....that's EXACTLY the idea I had!!!
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:13:26 -0400
From: "Phil Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clutch
There were some cars in the fifties I believe that did have a Vacuum Clutch,
when you let off the excelerator pedal the vacuum decreased in the engines
intake manifold
and an vacuum operated valve would disengage the clutch, so you could stop
or shift gears,
and then when you pushed down on the excelerator pedal (Gas Pedal) you
loose vacuum
and the clutch engages. (I think they were on GM cars, but could be
mistaken)
Now even today you can shift a manual transmission without using a clutch
if you use the engine rpm
to syncronize. Truckers almost never use their clutch pedal after take off.
Phil
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:06:32 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #220
Re: Aunt Bee driving. May I say something about this subject from a personal
viewpoint? My mother was about the same size as Aunt Bee, and she always
told my dad that she never wanted a car with a clutch cause it was difficult
to change gears when you are overweight! We didn't argue with her. The other
reason would be that Francis would not have wanted the camera concentrating
on that portion of her anatomy because it would have drawn attention to her
weight . Just an opinion of course. Carol Faver
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:30:07 -0400
From: "April Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Color Episode Favs
My 3 favorite colored episodes are:
1. Dinner at 8. It cracks me up everytime Andy finds out the secret
ingredient to the spaghetti sauce is oregano.
2. The one where Howard catches Old Sam. Watching Howard make such a
splash when he first starts fishing is so funny. And when he decides that
the right thing to do is to put Ol' Sam back in the lake is touching.
3. When Aunt Bee learns to fly. I think it took courage to go against all
the criticism she was getting and do what she set out to do.
And I am also one of those that have took a second look at the color
episodes and have made a big turn around. I used to would just turn the TV
if it were a colored episode, but now that I have watched all of them. I
find that I judged them too quickly, besides they are still TAGS and that is
all that matters to me.
Thanks,
April
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reintroduction
1. Name: Charles Valentine
2. Home: Sevierville, TN
3. Have you ever been to Mayberry Days: not yet
4. Favorite Quote: "The quality of mercy is not
5. Favorite Episode: Opies Charity
6. Favorite Character: Barney
7. Favorite Barney Nickname: Barney Parney Poo
8. Favorite Tags Song: "The Fishing Hole"
9. Favorite Tags Thing You Own: Pictures autographed
by Betty Lynn, Howard Morris, and The Dillards. Books
autographed by Don Knotts and George Lindsey.
10. Do You Have Any Pets Named After Tags Characters:
yes we have fish named Barney, Thelma Lou, Daphne and
Skippy ( the fun girls), and Andy. A 10 month old grey
weimaraner named Opie.
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #199
i just read that julie's 4 yr old nephew didnt want
the tag to be cut off his jeans thinking it was Opie
on it. well i have a 4 yr old son and a 9 yr old
daughter. whenever they go to bed they are allowed to
take turns picking out movies to watch until they fall
asleep. my son will often pick out a TAGS tape i have
recorded, but my daughter picks out a TAGS tape each
time. They are now quoting the show as much as i ever
did and know each of the chacters just by their
voices.
with the way t.v is today i am very proud i have been
able to pass this to my children. its the one thing
that keeps TAGS from ever going "off-the-air"
Charlie
Its me its me its Charlie V.
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:46:50 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Two things
Even when the Snappy Lunch is crowded, Charles will make those sandwiches
"to go" and you can eat in your car (get plenty of napkins).
The poster in the courthouse is similar to ones found in classrooms when
I was a child. They depicted the presidents and other patriotic info and
were very inspirational to little ones. I wonder what today's classrooms
look like. Do they still have flags and things like that poster?
Aunt Bee of Orlando
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:52:12 -0500
From: "DEBORAH DUBOSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Taylors & Ricardos
Laura Lee Hobbs here. Now I feel like I'm shooting in the dark 'cause
I've only seen a couple of posts concerning members saying things like
they had no idea the Taylor's living room was the same one used by Lucy
and Ricky (I assume we're taking about when the Ricardos moved to
Connecticut). Well, I certainly may be wrong, but I believe the reason
no one has ever noticed this before is because those two living rooms/
kitchens are totally different. The fireplaces not only look different,
they are located on different sides of the room, the Taylor living room
has one main entrance which is the front door (I believe I have seen what
looks like a French door off to the side, but I have never noticed anyone
using it), while the Ricardo's living room
has two main, often used doors--one by the kitchen (which is located
opposite where the Taylor kitchen is) and one on the other side of the
living room near the stairs. The kitchen (and if the living room was
used, it would only make sense that all other rooms would be used too) is
completely different, as well as the upstairs bedrooms with their different
windows and adjoining baths. Totally different from what
we see at the Taylor's home.
Desilu produced many shows over time, and the last show for Lucy and
Ricky aired in 1959?, so the timing would be right for Andy to pick up
and start producing in its old building. But I honestly do not believe
too much was used on the Andy set from "I Love Lucy." (Its last show
was "The Redhead Meets the Mustache) and co-starred Edie Adams and Ernie
Kovacs. A really nice little show it was, too.
If I am wrong, my apologies to those who know better and I am glad to
have learned something. It's just that I do like "I Love Lucy," too.
Laura Lee Hobbs, dime store clerk & gold truck watcher extraordinaire
Laura Lee & Lydia say "Hey, and Happy Motoring!"
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