Scott, The research you did was a fine job - a FINE job! There's more to the story than what you discovered. What you pieced together was entirely right - only in a tree branch, directly hanging above the lake was Goober, with a rock and a crazy owl, who dropped the rock into the lake, causing the ripple splash. Fortunately, it was NOT the rock on which Barney's dad had him strike the match to light his pipe. Nor was it the imaginary rock that Andy claimed that was in his shoe when he was stalling while Barney rode the horse East to West. It WAS one of the rocks that came from Meyers Lake area that was used as a skipping stone, as demonstrated by Andy and Miss Peggy. Sorry it took a couple of days to finish our report. Yours truly, One of the Boys at the Lab that only Barney knows about. Scott of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:10:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Sportz Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Opie's Rock Throwing Scandal! To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dennis, I don't know much about the opening credits and who gets billing and how, but I HAVE done some research into the Opie rock throwing scandal! If you watch the opening credits where Opie picks up a rock and, supposedly, throws it into the water, you'll notice he doesn't throw it into the water at all! Slow down the DVD and you'll notice that Opie's rock flies off-screen to the right and a rock is dropped from the top of the screen and falls straight down into the water. Somebody is up there on a crane or something and drops a rock. I bet it ain't even a local rock. Well, anyway, if you watch in slow motion, you can watch the rock fall straight down and it's clearly not the rock Opie throws. Now, if they'da had Ernest T. heave a rock, he coulda hit the water no problem. Scott Gary A. Johnson _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
