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To unsubscribe/change address, scroll to the bottom of this issue. wbmutbb-digest Saturday, August 25 2001 Volume 03 : Number 251 Topics in this issue: Re: Golden Door BITS AND PIECES Episodes with only 2 main characters Dabbs Greer TAGS portrait... MT. AIREY Radio Voice Impersonators Re: Town names Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #250 Little White Lies? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:46:04 -0500 From: Allan Newsome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Golden Door <<From what I read, it seems to be a good place for those (me included) who yearn for a little controversy occasionally.>> That's the idea....let folks talk pretty much about whatever they'd like. Since folks have a choice as to reading a topic or not (more so than with this mailing list), I think the Golden Door is a better place for conversation. The Digest is for talking just about Mayberry and related stuff and keeping it positive. The Door is a place folks can go for more indepth discussion without forcing that discussion on everybody else. I hope y'all will enjoy it. http://www.tagsrwc.com/wbmutbb/goldendoor/page1.html Allan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:24:20 -0400 From: Tom Mattingly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: BITS AND PIECES My favorite episode has to be the one where Goober makes a U-turn, Barney gives him a ticket, Barney resigns and puts himself in jail and has an argument with Otis. Barney tells Otis to "nip it" and Otis says, "Who's going to make me?" Barney says,"Me, myself and I." Otis responds, saying, "That's three people." Others have to be "Man in a Hurry," where Barney prattles on about taking a nap and going to Thelma Lou's to watch TV and anything involving the town choir. The man in "Man in a Hurry" showed up again as Mr. Foster of Foster Shoe Polish and puts Aunt Bee on television. I also noticed that Aunt Bee appeared on the "Lone Ranger" as a villian who almost burned down a shed with the Lone Ranger and Tonto in it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:37:33 -0400 From: "Dan Ridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Episodes with only 2 main characters "Andy and Barney in the BIg City" was cited as an episode that had only two of the main cast characters in it. I believe that the opening of this episode involved both Aunt Bee and Opie at the Taylor house as Andy and Barn are getting ready to leave. Aunt Bee gives them a sack of sandwiches to take and Opie offers to carry his Pa's suitcase (but Andy say's it's too heavy). "I know some momma's that weren't proud of their son's... , because they were rotten." -Barney ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:42:12 -0500 From: Paul Mulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dabbs Greer >>>YOUNGER "watchers" will notice his name listed #14 in the Tom Hanks' movie cast credits for "GREEN MILE"-- he plays the Tom Hanks' character as an old man-- with very little make-up needed-- but his voice is UNMISSABLE...that's Dabbs Geer! >>> He also has a small part in Con Air, as the guy hiding under the truck. BTW, it's Greer, not Geer. Mr. Greer was originally from my neck of the woods (the Missouri Ozarks - he was born in Fairview or Anderson, depending on which source you check). I've never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I have talked with some local folks who "knew him way back when." - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:19:45 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TAGS portrait... Hey Gang, I was goofing off in the mall here in Jackson, TN the other day and ran across a lady at one of those setups in the middle of the corridors with some TAGS drawings. I was looking and there was one of Goober, Opie, Aunt Bee, and Barney but no Andy when I saw a card that said ask to see the TAGS collage. I asked and found what I was looking for. It is a nice portrait with Opie and Andy eating pie as Aunt Bee watches in the middle, Floyd and Gomer on top, Barney and Andy on each side, and Oits and Goober on the bottom with "The Andy Griffith Show" across the middle. It's nice...REAL NICE!!! If you want to see it or any of her other work go to <A HREF="www.my-portraits.com">www.my-portraits.com</A> and go to the movie/TV section. I got me one so check it out... Jacob in Jackson, TN "Nip it! Nip it in the bud!!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:48:12 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Oliver) Subject: MT. AIREY BOB BRAVETTI WROTE THAT ANDY GRIFFITH DID NOT BASE MAYBERRY ON HIS HOMETOWN OF MT. AIREY, N.C. WHERE AND WHEN DID HE SAY THIS? IT WAS BASED ON THE TOWN AND IF NOT WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE MAYBERRY FOLKS NAMES TAKEN FROM THE TOWN AND TOWN NAMES. ETC. GO TO MT. AIREY AND SEE. ANDY EVEN HAD A AUNT HE MODELED AUNT BEE FROM. THE JAIL, BARBER SHOP, SNAPPY LUNCH, BLUEBIRD CAFE. THERE ALL THERE. STAN OLIVER MECHANICSBURG, OH MAKE PEACE NOT HATE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:09:23 -0400 From: "GRITTON, JOE A. (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Radio Voice Impersonators I don't know if they use these in every market, but here in Central Indiana we often have radio commercials involving celebrity voice impersonators. Every one from John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart to Ross Perot and other politicians are parodied. A very popular character to imitate is our beloved Barney Fife. There is a particularly funny Barney bit running currently advertising a Gun and Knife show. (what a natural, right). It involves such things as Barney hunting Dinosaurs and trying to shoot a Thesaurus, a Lesson in Life from Fife, and a jealous Barney hearing of a purple dinosaur who dares go by the name of Barney (he says there's only room for one Barney around here.) The voice is so-so, he's no David Browning, but the lines are really funny, and true to Barney's character. I wish you could all hear it. I saw something on Ebay that had the name "Opie Howard" in the listing? Do you think there is there an Opie Howard senior? I guess you would call that guy on the radio ad a "trained voice" but I wouldn't know, because I am, The Untrained Voice ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:26:51 -0700 (PDT) From: David and Angela Forbus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Town names Some of the towns I've lived in or near: Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Comfort, Happy, Center Point, Norton, Clear Lake, Baytown, Kingsville, Shiner, Luling, Abilene, Alice, Austin, Beeville, Sweet Water, Big Spring, Hunt, Huntsville, Grand Prairie, Junction, Waxahachie, Rocksprings, Nacogdoches, Texarkana, Uvalde, Utopia, Alpine, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Wink, Muleshoe, Dimmitt, Bronte, Marble Falls, Peggy, Camp Wood, Concan, Conroe, Agua Dulce, Driscoll, Union Bridge, Gulfport, Gulf Shores, Brownsville, Pascagoula, Johnsville, Ellicott City, Dundalk, Walkersville, Taneytown (pronounced Tawn-ee-town), Braddock Heights, Patchogue, Sayville, Bayport..... However, the best town names are in the Amish Country of Pennsylvania. But if I printed them, I'm sure Allen would censor me again! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:05:12 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #250 In a message dated 8/24/2001 9:03:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was watching the manicurist episode last night also, and asked myself the same question. I don't recall ever seeing a beauty parlor in mayberry. Have you? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:42:58 -0400 From: "Ronald Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Little White Lies? While Andy Taylor was meticulously fair, generous, prompt and honest (qualities he gained from working with Deputy Fife), he was not above telling a "white lie" now and then to protect those for whom he cared. Mayberry not based on Mt. Airy? Surely that was just another of those "white lies" to protect the innocent. "We defy the Mafia!" Ron Marietta, GA ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V3 #251 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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. To remove yourself from the WBMUTBB Digest mailing list goto: http://www.tagsrwc.com/wbmutbb/unsubscribe_digest.htm To change your email address, first unsubscribe using the command above and then re-subscribe by going to: http://www.tagsrwc.com/wbmutbb/joinwbmutbb.htm
