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Posted: Jul 11th, 2006 06:32 pm |
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Okay, I feel like I'm a day late and a dollar short jumping in here, but I'm going to do it anyway...
I'm not really a JD fan (I think he's just kind of weird), but I thought Edward Scissorhands was great. My oldest daughter loved it when she was little, and watched it over and over, calling it "Edward Scissor-man." (That part with the Desperate Housewife-type character just went right over her head.)
I love those Spenser novels, but not the TV show.
I love me some Westerns, too. I grew up watching Bonanza every Sunday night and Gunsmoke on Monday. In those days, we only had 3 TV channels, and as the youngest, I was usually picked to be the "remote control" (the one who had to get up and change channels).
On old movies, does anybody remember Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum? He was supposed to be a preacher and followed those two little kids everywhere trying to get the money they had hidden, all the time riding his horse never faster than a walk and whistling a hymn. (Favorite line, as the kids are hiding in a barn loft in the middle of the night and watch him go by : "Don't he never sleep?") And how about The Birds? Scared me so bad as a kid I was afraid to go outside again!
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Posted: Jul 11th, 2006 08:41 pm |
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Glad you jumped in, Sandra!
Laws yes, nobody can do the menacin' bad guy like Robert Mitchum!
Bonanza on Sunday nights, brought to you by Chevrolet.
"See the USA, in your Chevrolet!"
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Posted: Jul 11th, 2006 09:08 pm |
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Hey Sandra!
"Being" the Remote is WAY better than being the Antenna!
I speak from experience! 
I don't know anything about that Robert Mitchum show, but I do know that Dinah Shore sang that See the USA song!!!
(didn't she??)
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Posted: Jul 11th, 2006 09:13 pm |
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Cracker Jax wrote:
Hey Sandra!
"Being" the Remote is WAY better than being the Antenna!
I speak from experience!
Hey its better than being the TV stand
The Wild Wild West....Jim would save the day
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Posted: Jul 11th, 2006 09:15 pm |
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I DID watch the wild wild west!!!!
Spoose (we were infants  ) loved it and MADE me watch!!!!
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 12:00 am |
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Cracker Jax wrote:
"Being" the Remote is WAY better than being the Antenna!
I speak from experience!
Sounds like one of those "My Favorite Martian" experiences
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 02:24 am |
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Oh, you guys are bringing back some memories. We didn't get a TV till I was about 10, but I remember all those old shows.... Lucy, Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Bonanza. I remember my brother had one of those chenille bedspreads with Roy Rogers (I think) on it.
I like to do things to my kids like.... "Timmy's in the well?" with the cats/dogs. The first time I did it they looked at me like they thought I was nuts. (Now they know I am.) I saw something like that on some movie preview recently....
I had crushes on cowboys (and pretended to be Dale Evans) long before I ever got interested in boys and musicians!
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 12:30 pm |
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| Vicki, for awhile I was Steve McQueen in "Wanted: Dead or Alive." I have also been The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Cheyenne Brody, Bronco Lane, Maverick, an' The Rifleman. I never got aroun' to bein' Richard Boone in "Have Gun Will Travel" but now that I'm older an' uglier, I might try it on fer size.
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S. Smith
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 03:29 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote: Cracker Jax wrote:
"Being" the Remote is WAY better than being the Antenna!
I speak from experience!
Sounds like one of those "My Favorite Martian" experiences
If we're going to talk martians, you've got to include Star Trek. I hated it as a kid, but my "spoose" got me hooked on it after we met.
Sorry, but I HATED Wild, Wild West. That and the Three Stooges. I thought they were both stupid.
Sorry you had to be the antenna, Cracker. We had tin foil for that. Later we got "sophisticated" and got a Tenna-Rotor. It was a fancy roof antenna with a dial that you turned and the antenna would turn up on the roof so it got the ultimate in TV reception.
As the youngest and smallest, I also had to be the one to sit on top of the ice cream freezer. Those were the days ... sitting out on the screened-in porch, listening to the crickets and treefrogs and eating homemade ice cream. But until it froze, boy, did my hiney get cold!
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S. Smith
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 03:32 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Vicki, for awhile I was Steve McQueen in "Wanted: Dead or Alive." I have also been The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Cheyenne Brody, Bronco Lane, Maverick, an' The Rifleman. I never got aroun' to bein' Richard Boone in "Have Gun Will Travel" but now that I'm older an' uglier, I might try it on fer size. If you're gonna talk about Steve McQueen, how about Bullitt? Flying through those San Francisco intersections in that Mustang -- wheeee!!!. I wanted to try it when we visited San Francisco a few years ago, but hubby talked me out of it.
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Posted: Jul 12th, 2006 04:29 pm |
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If you're gonna talk about Steve McQueen, how about Bullitt? Flying through those San Francisco intersections in that Mustang -- wheeee!!!. I wanted to try it when we visited San Francisco a few years ago, but hubby talked me out of it.
Too bad the Kiss-me-quicks down yonder on Lake Brandt Rd are all straightened out now. I'd take 'em in my truck just like I was ol' Bullitt's daddy! Yee Haw! Here's how you do it, boy! Hee hee!
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Posted: Jul 13th, 2006 02:54 am |
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S. Smith wrote:
Sorry, but I HATED Wild, Wild West. That and the Three Stooges.
Aw Sandra, you had to bring up Three Stooges.
When I was too young to know better, ie probably around 5 - 6, I tried some of their slapstick comedy on my baby sister. Don't remember if I poked her eyes, pulled her hair, or slapped her, just know I didn't get the sound effects like on TV.........but sure got some others !!
My parents were not amused, I was banished from watching the Three Stooges again, and my hiney resembed "Rawhide" for awhile.
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Posted: Jul 13th, 2006 04:18 am |
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Steve Adkins wrote: My parents were not amused, I was banished from watching the Three Stooges again, and my hiney resembed "Rawhide" for awhile.
Too funny Curly! Uh... I mean Steve-O!
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Posted: Jul 15th, 2006 07:08 pm |
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| Been keepin' an eye on old movies today.... Caught bits and pieces of some old westerns, Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, which had some hilarious lines and skits! -- and am settlin' in for some Thunder Road!!! Pappy, Ya paying attention?? Break free from them aliens and come in and catch ol' Bobby Mitchum. He's on TCM! ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jul 15th, 2006 09:04 pm |
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Thunder Road?! Why didn't you say so!
Unfortunately, right now Pappy's got a few deliveries to make his own self.
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