Hey fellow Townsfolk! I was gone for a week, and then spent a week catching up on Email so I hope you've enjoyed the quiet period from The Untrained Voice. I have enjoyed reading all your posts about the various ailments in Mayberry (and other posts. What a human touch the writers gave our favorite characters. I wonder who was the healthiest well-known character? Thelma Lou???
This whole discussion reminded me of a discussion that we had a few years back (2003 to be exact). It was one of my favorites. Not because I wrote the kickoff, but because of all the fun interaction that came afterwards. You old-timers will remember it perhaps. I've updated the scale a bit, so you better get a fresh diagnosis. >From the files of The Best of Untrained Voice" An outbreak of TAGS-L-versitis OK admit it we've all got it...a case of TAGS-L-versitis..or as Doctors know it -- "The Andy Griffith Show Lover-sitis". I think we need a scale to know just how sick we are. How bad is it Doc, are we gonna pull through? So we need to make this scientific. Here's a start. Give yourself 5 points for how many episodes of TAGS you watch live on TV (or on tape or DVD) in a week. Do you read the Digest every day?..add 20. Give yourself 1 point for every self-taped episode you own on tape, 1/2 point each for DVD of tape if they're store-bought. Give yourself 10 points for every book that you own about the show. Add 10 for every piece of memorabilia that you own. Add 15 for every autograph you have of TAGS personalities. Make it 30 four autographed memorabilia Add 15 for each Hawthorne House piece of your Mayberry Village. Add 25 points for every Reunion Event you have been to in person. Make it 50 if you went to Mayberry Days and stayed overnight (each time). 20 points for every year you've been on the Digest. 10 points for every episode of Mayberry Podcast Two Chairs no Waiting you've listened to 25 point if you have downloaded ring tones with the TAGS theme and /or have a TAGS screen saver and/or use a TAGS related screen name or pass word on your computer 100 points if you dress up and act like a Mayberry Character 10 points each for # times you quote a line From the show in general conversation ...OK I'm sure there are more symptoms of TAGS L-vertsitis. Help me out here. ------------- Then we need a scale. I'm just guessin here, so we probably need to refine this. 0-150 Consider yourself normal, a casual fan. 150-300--This is the early warning time. Take drastic action if you want to avoid the Versitis. It gets a lot harder to get rid off after this. 300-450--The signs aren't good. The Barney infection is already in your system and you're developing the Andy-bodies that prolong the affliction. 450-600---This is serious? Have you thought about a life outside of TAGS? 600-750 or more--You've got it for life. You probably talk Mayberry and maybe even dress Mayberry. Hopefully your family will learn to love you the way you are. 750 and above--You are anemic because you bleed TAGS black and white. Take your pills and hope for the best. You might as well put you head in a sling in front of the TV with TAGS running on your DVDs all day long. OK, I'll share more of the good comments from others later, but lets see what this 2009 bunch says. Do you have it? How bad? What factors did I miss? Mayberily Yours The Untrained Voice _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
