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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to guess with that faux Gilligan's Island song. I did enjoy Katny's reference to the atrocius 'rock' songs that cropped up in 60's tv. The "Ladybugs' were cute to look at, but yikes what a song. I couldn't believe the F troop episode where they played frontier hippies and sang 'Lemon tree' It does sound like Melody patterson is really singing at least-If you call that singing. Then there was the Bewitched episode where Serena, (Elizabeth Montgomerey playing her identical cousin) played a 'hippy' with a gawd awful song called 'If'n". They liked it so much they even played it over the closing credits. I know there are more. if I think of some I'll post later.

I was never that crazy about the show either, though I watched it most of the time, probably because the leading lady was hard to change the channel on, even with her covered belly button. This is one show that I didn't feel was hurt by the leads getting married. ('Get Smart' is my standard for shows sinking after a marriage). It changed the dynamics, certainly, but I didn't think it was any great loss. The theme song is actually the second theme. The first season had a very different theme, that in my opinion was more appealing. If you can pull that one up it would be cool.

Let's just say I wasn't a fan of the other Trek shows, though I certainly saw them. I didn't care for Deep Space Nine at all, and rarely watched it. Voyager had it's moments, but I never got into it, though I watched it now and then. I wanted to like Enterprise, and watched most of them. It was very disappointing , but gathered steam in the season where they had to journey to that hostile warped space for the season. But no, I don't recognize that guy-maybe it's the angle of the picture, but I can'r place him. I can't play the song that A La posted, but am curious.

ok the second guy played a Romulan in 'Balance of terror'-first season original Star Trek He then played a Vulcan, Spock's father, first in "Journey to Babel'-second season original series, then returned as Spock's father in several of the Star trek movies, and ultimately passed away in that role in 'Star Trek-the Next Generation '. He also played a Klingon in 'Star Trek-the Motion Picture'-destroyed by V'ger in the first five minutes. He was the main 'heavy' in 'Here Comes the Brides'- forever trying to buy out that damn mountain the Bolt brothers owned Now that I've impressed you all, I have to say I don't even recognize the first guy

Sushi, you may be mistaking Jane Wyatt for Jane Wyman, wife of Ronnie Reagan. A common mistake. Unless you're thinking of another 'presidential connection'.

I'm softening my critique of Father Knows Best, as I consider that I've seen every single episode! I couldn't have hated it that much if I watched the reruns so faithfully. I still contend that the show was often way off base with their scale of 'values', and I still get bad vibes from Robert Young. Still, it had merits. I've never sat through more than 10 miutes of any Brady Bunch-so there's a show I REALLY hated.

I remember when Clem was writing 'PFAL' , and 'Go WOW', as graffiti on walls in the Marvel Comics he was lettering. I only met him once or twice, but remember him as a real professional and a fine fellow. I think I've still seen his work in recent comics.

oh gawd, a 2006 version of that show is too revolting to ponder. A bunch of wisecracking know it all kids, and 'one liners' for half an hour. Though maybe in the spirit of today, that show would be perfect, as it seems there are many who are trying to send the country back to the 50's. Maybe the time is ripe for a rerun revival ! I'm kind of surprised tv land hasn't done it. On further reflection, I shouldn't be THAT hard on the show-there are LOTS of shows that deserve that kind of lambasting. Brady Bunch comes to mind, for one.

I'll be glad to elaborate on that show , sudo. For now, and this is just how I felt, I never believed the father in the series. It may be unfair, but I pictured him as being a real sob in real life. As far as show specifics. The actor who played the kid talks about this, and I have to concur. In one episode the mother and father are having an arguement, which freaks the kids out. parents argue? Not in a REAL american home. The oldest daughter concocts a rationale that the parents were PRETENDING to argue to show an example of how BAD families live. Then the parents go along with her-oh no, we weren't arguing, we never argue.Everyone calms down. whew. That's an extreme example, but it's the vibe I always got when watching how they interacted.Maintaining the image of a wholesome , perfect, family was more important than dealing with truth. One could almost compare it to life in the way, if one were so inclined. I know in real life, the father had drinking problems, the son was arrested for pot and black balled in Hollywood, the youngest daughter 's real life was abusive and dysfunctional, and she became a prostitute for a time . The oldest daughter had perhaps the most success in her career, but to me she was always whiny, petty, and snobbish. 'Princess' indeed. It's not that I didn't watch the show. I've seen probably every episode !-so obviously something kept me coming back. Like I said in my last post-they had tear jerking down to a science, and I must admit that at times I'd choke up when those violins came in right at the climactic moment. I also liked the mother very much. A woman who's abilities should have gotten her out of the kitchen more. I know it was the 50's and a different time, but it still bothers me. I do recall an episode where she does decide to get a job, but in true 50's fashion she saw the error of her ways by the final violins, and realized making dinner for those kids and worshipping dad was her true calling. Maybe I'm too hard on this show. It's not like there weren't a hundred other 50's family sitcoms that seem archaic in retrospect. I dig Beaver, and the Nelsons. This show just got under my skin somehow.

George, at least you weren't ordered to get rid of your comic books. I had a lc 'suggest' that I remove said items from my bedroom. Everything gives off something you know. Not exactly a positive step in my goal to become a comic book artist, but 'goals' and the way were like oil and water, unless your goal was to get a class together.

That theme was from a show that was even more insufferable than Dennis the Menace-at least to me.I could expound in depth on how wrong, pretentious, and creepy that show made me feel, but i'll spare you all that rant. Variations on the theme music were plugged into the show for maximum emotional effect quite skillfully. They had tear jerking down to a science.

I couldn't stand the Dennis the Menace show , either. I did however, love the original Dennis comic strip-or panel, by Hank Ketcham, one of the great American cartoonists. For anyone interested, Fantagraphics books has begun to print the entire Dennis the Menace run, starting with the 1952 panels, in a gorgeous book format. I'm also very fond of the Dennis the Menace 'travel' special comic books from the early 60's, where the Mitchell's travel to Hawaii, Washington DC, Mexico, Hollywood, and other places. Am I the only one here who remembers those? The tv show was awful though. It was almost saved by Joseph Kearns as Mr Wilson, but, but almost doesn't count.

Not only was that the theme music for that cow licked little brat, it was also used extensively in the stop motion animation adventures of a green stretchable character, made infamous by Eddie Murphy on SNL. I wonder if that music wasn't in the 'public domain'. I also wonder about the incidental music from the old Hanna Barbera cartoons (Yogi bear etc) turning up on 'My three Sons" and 'Ozzie and Harriet'. But as usual, I digress.

Cowgirl, I'm embarressed to say I got that in one note. I liked the comic books better. Speaking of 'manufactured' groups, I'm reading a very interesting book about 'the Monkees'-sort of a day by day history of them , focusing on their studio sessions, if you can believe it. They were certainly a product of a television attempt to cash in on the Beatle's success, but to their credit, they group never claimed to be anything else. And with that, they still made some music that made alot of people, including myself, happy, and they did have some genuine talent that eventually went beyond the studio manufactured stuff.

Speaking of overhead projectors,when I did the mural for the New Knoxville High Scghool, gym, I used the school's old opaque projector. I drew my design on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, and projected it on the gym wall. I had scaffolding built , and painted the black line over the projected image. That left a finished black line mural that I then went in and added color. I remembered all my school years, and how many uses there were for opaque projectors. Opaque projectors rule.

This is a reply to Belle from a 2 week old post here, but Ididn't see it until this morning. I didn't create the Noid, just did a couple of comic books about him that were licensed by the company I was working for. Actually, I liked the noid about as much as I like Domino's pizza, and that's not a compliment. Thanks for the kind words about my dog ,Amber. Unfortunately she passed on awhile back, and I haven't had the heart to take the picture down. Keeps her alive in a way. I'd love to hear your Dodger Stadium experiences. That is (or was) one special ballpark, though with the current renovations and 5 year plan, who knows what we'll end up with. Did you used to live in LA? I apologize for the outdated message, but felt some clarifying was in order. Back to the very cool artwork that's been coming in here.

Very subtle clue ,Sudo-but true enough. "Love American Style" was the earliest incarnation of the show it was spun off from. That show also spun another show, that DIDN'T suck-at least in this greasespotter's opinion. Actually it spun another show also- and that one didn't suck either. As far as 'Here Comes the Brides"-I remember liking that show for about 2 months when it first aired . It lost me when Bobby Sherman became a 'teen idol'. His character had a pronounced stutter when the show began, which became a problem when he was suddenly the idol of millions of teen age girls. They wrote an entire episode to cure him of that stutter, and lost me in the process. I understood why they did it, I just felt cheated as I stuttered some myself back then, and I was just irked by the whole thing. There are 2 Star Trek connections from that show. What were they?

Thanks for the cool pics jard. You're hardly dating yourself. Alot of us love, or loved, major league baseball because of players like them. You are so tiny in those pictures though, and you look so nice that day. You're more important than the statues !

if anyone ever REALLY went out of the nine dots in the way, they would have been reproved, screamed at, accused of being off the word , for starters. Independent thinking was NOT the way lifestyle. The exception was if you were an outgoing, 'salesman' type who could figure out creative ways to coerce people to sign those green cards. Then thinking outside the nine dots was a wonderful thing. On further reflection, we existed solely to bring fresh meat to their table. The way could have cared less about individual lives, apart from being good sales tools to bring more in.

Sure sounds like Harpo to me, tho I don't know what film it's from. It surely wasn't one of their earlier movies at paramount, as Harpo rarely played such a 'production' type piece in those fims. In 'Duck Soup' he doesn't play the harp at all, only strumming some piano wires for a few seconds. Groucho hated those harp and piano interludes by Harpo and Chico. In 'Horsefeathers' just as Chico is about to go into his piano thing, Groucho tells the audience "I've got to stay here, but you can all go out to the lobby for a smoke". I always enjoyed them myself. Harpo was really gifted on that harp. As a kid, it was a little jarring to see this crazy guy, suddenly turn serious and play the harp. It was like the Jackie Gleason show with Frank Fontaine as 'Crazy Guggenheim". 'Crazy' would act all retarded for 10 minutes, til Joe the bartender asked for a song, then he suddenly became 'Frank'. Even Gomer Pyle became normal when it was time to sing. It was all very confusing.

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When I lived in St Marys in 1985, as a'regular believer' (a staff woman I was dating ,referred to me as being 'on the field' in all seriousness), they had an 'open cfs night in the osc building , with hundreds of staff and locals attending. They showed the 'rin tin skin' film that night, much to our amazement and befuddlement.I'd heard about it for years from corps friends, and was kinda glad for the opportunity-for about 5 seconds in, then I felt sick. Suicide is another matter. I personally knew 3 people who went this route. In each case they were brother's of friends, and was only somewhat close to one, but each one was damaging to say the least. The way played varying degrees of roles in each case, so I'm not laying the blame there per say. In my entire life I can't think of any other suicide in my sphere of contact tho.

Noone likes the rent a player of today. I just don't know what you're going to do about it. Unless baseball imposes a salary cap-which will never happen-we're reaping the fruits of the free agent market. It's important to remember that the days of team loyalty and stability were largely due to the teams owning the players, who had no options. The stadiums have become corporate owned and named , due to the pressure of funding, luxury boxes and other perks in this big money sports world. Football and basketball have many of the same problems, but are kept somewhat in check by salary caps. If I want to see the Lakers I still have to go to the Staples Center though. I miss identifying players with teams. Oddly, 2 names that come to mind of players that are 'old school' are Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter of the Yankees. They just signed Bernie to another year, based largely on his years of service and popularity. They don't even know what role he'll play, but it was a good move to keep him. I can't imagine Jeter in anything but a Yankee uniform, but never say never in baseball.

I agree that it's a sick amount of money. Outside of salary caps, which won't happen, or MLB operating as a socialist organization, there's not much you can do about it. The Sox aren't exactly pinching pennies, since they were the second highest paid team in baseball last year. It will be weird to see Damon in pinstripes with his hair cut, and shaved. Still-I'm an ex long haired hippy who loved Oscar Gamble's giant afro-especially with a batting helmet squeezed over it-but I think Damon looked kinda ridiculous last couple seasons. Dodgerville is ecstatic because they now have some players you've actually heard of. IF Nomar regains his former form, IF Muellar can stay healthy, IF Kenny Lofton can play to his potential-I wonder how hes managed to be on about 8 teams in 5 years, then the Dodgers might be respectable next year. The median age seems to be about 38 though-ok I'm exaggerating, but the philosophy seems to be to plug in old veterans until all the 'phenoms' in the minors come up. I've been hearing about these phenoms for years-somehow they're always a year or 2 away.

I'm hoping for a big year for Nomar also, but am not counting my chickens. Dodger stadium has a way of sapping the life out of a player who isn't self motivated. I don't think Nomar fits that description, and if he's healthy he'll love playing here, and the town will go nuts over him. Now the Dodgers only need an outfield, a catcher and a few pitchers-and alot of luck to keep Nomar and Muellar healthy. Still-they're already miles ahead of where they were last year. Might even make the new pastel seats tolerable. For my money, the most exciting young player was Jeter, but six of one and all that.