I would have been 12 years old when the "Opie's Newspaper" episode aired. I certainly wasn't particularly precocious but I did "get" the meaning at the time when Barney said the warm weather was related to the bomb. (I'm sure I'd remembering asking my mom or dad 'what'd that mean' if I hadn't known).
Even though above ground nuclear bomb testing had ended in 1962 by both the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and "Opie's Newspaper" aired in 1965, it was sort of a common "joke" to blame anything you had no explanation for on "THE bomb". Ken "...but I ain't gonna be beat to death with no spoon!" _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
