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Originally Posted by jj
good stuff, linda...welcome back 
i was thinking of a pretty short list themed on time...we've done the number thing (first i saw of that was when Nanci created the really cool GL clock as a raffle prize/fundraiser...then b and rm extended it for the Deal or No Deal bid (i still haven't seen a leggy model deliver a suitcase to B yet on tv!)...but how about songs referencing specific years, month names or days of the week?
eg)
back in '39 (from drink your glasses emplty)
May I (song title,...ok, that's a bit of a stretch)
Saturday clothes (song title)
oh, btw...how could we forget "Aunt Bea" for the Name list? |
Speakin' 'a your Aunt Bea, did you say you saw her in a MINK coat ?noooooo
I declare'a - I wonder if'n Gordon Meredith (I always think of "Dandy" Don Meredith from football player to sports announcer when I hear Gord's middle name) so I wonder if GML...watched the-'The Andy Griffith Show'? - when he was 'tseeer in 65 he'd of been 27..unlikely...add 20 years, or subtract 15, and maybe so, but 27 - he was probably planting and reaping harvest as they say in the farming busniess.....with combines....and alll...lol
dear old Aunt Bea... up dancing til two or three...we've all got dates dancing all night to the to the 78's....git out all the old Old Dan(ce)(s) Records....lol....
mini 'Back To Mayberry' - brought to you by
Geo Steve !
Maybe in Opie's genius mind - proven later as a director.... thought things like this for scripts way back when..... ? -
"Now,now, Opie.... you'll are just gonna HAVE to wait, unTIL, Aunt Bea finishes cookin that cake....dont you be a-licking the beaters now, Opie,.....he kneels down condescendingly eye-to eye with Opie and blows cigarette smoke in his face - its just rehearsal anyway... "you see Opie, its kinda like this... If
Thelma Sue..were to cook dinner for
Barney, do you think it would be polite for him to start eating, bfeore she's done cookin ?" - "Well gee, Pa,you mean like the other day when we went by the market and you grabbed an apple out of the barrel outside ? Isn't that the same thing Pa ?" (Opie tilts his head like a German Shepherd tryin to understand its owners arcane remark - in Dog language anyway...)..
to which
Andy - "Anj" - replies. coughs, stammers, and admits "wELL NO Opie, err..uhmm...welllll, I rekin you are RIGHT on that one.... Why I shoulda known bettaa ..., and, first thing in the mornin.... we're gonnan walk to see Mr Drucker in the market - and PAYYYY him right-fair for that apple... you see, Opie,....even adults make hasty mistakes absent mindedly doing harmless things sometimes....and
ever since the Dawn of Time Opie.../" -
Opie interrupts"So Pa, if I understand you're 'grown-up analogy, using the apple as an allegorical symbol of temptation , your attempt to ameliorate yourself of genuine guilt, wrong-doing, and travesty of Man's law... is by writin' it off as an 'absent-minded mistake', whereas the lickin the beaters from the frosting...was a form of THEFT?...THAT seems DISPARATE and inconsistent in your application of what I think we are makin' a mockery of Pa, is justice for the adults, is a different paradigm than justice for us Kids, is that what you mean Pa ?" - "...uhm...No,No, Opieeee, of COURSE not... well hang me if you didn't catch me in my own words there son, why I declare you are RIGHT, and we are going to go down to that new toy store they never show on the TV, and get you whatever you want...now how bout them
APPLES ?" -
'sure Pa, (DEJECTED , SAD MUSIC STARTS PLAYIN ), but,, are you makin the
common mistake parents do when they feel guilty over (being caught, pa..) in unjust treatment of their children, and application of a double standard by which different age groups must suffer varying admonishment and consequences by BUYING my forgiveness and affection with a toy ? -(thinking quick) 'cause thats OK - I want that new bat,ball and glove set they got, and those new adjustable-length metal skates, this one's reaaaally gonna
cost ya Pa, I ain't kiddin around here...lemme call and check and see what you're Mayberry World MasterCard's balance is...(
click-click on the fake 2-piece phone(.. besides Pa - its all just make-believe on TV - there won't really be any bills for it...'HELLO Clara - this Opie....-yeah, OPIE Bit**, get me Mastercard, Inc on this piece of sh** anachronistic phone anyway, RIGHT NOW" ... pause... ... -'cep I talked the producer into lettin me keep the skates, ball and glove and DRUMSET in exchange for editing his Screenplay - and sketching his story boards in crayon for the next 6 episodes on break earlier..., and you know what Pa ?
I'm gonna grow up just like you Pa, real nice, fair, honest, and make 100x your salary Dad, no civil service for this boy, I'm gonna reap the whirlwind of all its worth in Movie-makin....reall BIG stiff...I'm gonna be RICH...and if your nice - I may give you a cameo or a walk-on... in a show, seeins how your type cast as a legal-related character actor, aren;t ya Pa ?
-
Andy Griffith walks off the set to have a smoke - and mutters "how the
sh88 did he get so smart, with just 15 minutes a day of book learnin' by that tutor? Boys got pipe dreams for sure, the day a child actor makes 200 Million in a movie is the day I'll........" "wha...whats that Opie (holding his ears over a screaching noice) 'Nothin PA....snicker...its just feedback circular doppler action in this piece of sh88 Radio Sh88 bullhorn' - 'just finish yer smoke right NOW - PA... I'm directin this eposide at age 8....how 'bout THEM apples
Mr. Griffith ? lets get crackin......turns away - 'Allright, quiet on the set...soon as Mr. Griffith
deems to grace us with his presence- I will return to my metaphorical lesson of the day where everone's
happy at the end...
what a crock a sh88....he mutters, under the bullhorn.... its a livin....' lol...... I wonder some times...but in reality, if there was a Mayberry-like town with folk like that... a step-back near 60 years in time...I'd go... I LIKED that show...good values...a good father that reminded me of mine, less the accent is all.... what a dream of a town..I could liive there...if working for the Town or County, or State Burrough paid over...say $60k...lol...Mayberry?.....NOT.....
They could have made that set a real town for a ...amusement park of sorts...Like the Incline Village Poderosa Village - from Bonanza - the town set made complete....tourist trap...closed around '84 I read.... after a 17 yr run of that ole' show....
Whu did I write this, in this thread ? ..lol.. well the Aunt Bea caught my funny bone......and I aso wanted to make a few on-thread comments....
well dangit all if'n I cain't remember what they were....I'll have to chew on that one a while....
On-Thread -
I do remember now a few things I mean to bring up besides nostalgia T,V, ...lol... - jj et al, I do also like the calendar months, days, time, etc references in Gord's songs, maybe even allowing in-direct =references to time, as an idea if it gets thin, quick, as in bsides the first and strongest strain of time named entitities eg 'Saturday Clothes', and I was stone cold sober, it was daylight in
October - thats
my first offical entry !...
I also like for an in-keeping with, and I think mentioned allready idea- if not. thow it in the hat - cars, references too, incl driving, the car,bus,plane, - thats what I remember - the thread name --lol dughhhhh oy - my fits entry -
This rented car never sent so far, but with each passing mile one more dream had ....turned to clay. - am (scuse the illicit refence ladies), cover your eyes- I thought when I first heard that song - with a Beavis and Butthead essential mentality or ack thereof at 15, I thought Gord was going to sing "I would gladly offer you my love in this rented car, in the back seat - meant to.........lol.
Pardon the lewd imagery - but you know how 14 yr old boys think.....now if I could only figure out how to think like a 15 yr old........