Frank Dresser wrote:

And Gulliver's Travel's can be read as a children's story and not as a
biting political satire.

I think it's interesting that so many elements of what has become known as
the Globalist New World Order are represented on that bleak, monochromatic
island. The acumen and the stupidity. The mendacity. The authority
unearned by any accomplishment. But most importantly, the central character
who is doomed by her innocent trust.

One can almost hear Alex Jones shouting "Mary Ann, WAKE UP!!"

On a roll, are we?

What next? Dehumanization and destruction of reason as reflected in
"My Mother, the Car"?

'Maynard G. Krebs' as the contrapuntal antisocial evil twin of a
sanitized, bleached and folded parallel universe Gilligan?


Cool, daddy-o...




mike

"m II" wrote in message
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Frank Dresser wrote:

In this way, we get to see the other islanders as the trusting,
innocent Mary Ann sees them. It's only as we mature, and listen to
enough
domestic shortwave radio, that the lies and moral corruption of Mary
Ann's
fellow islanders become apparent.


You have a keen eye for the reality, nay, surreality, of the human
condition. Well done.


Thanks, but the credit goes to domestic SW radio. Thirty four years of it,
since the eighth grade when I'd rush home to hear WINB's Rev. Carl McIntyre
explain how the world really worked, has more than supercharged my brain.

I now look like an Alan Maxwell QSL card.






mike


(thinking..Frank musta bs'd his way through English lit too...)

Didn't take English Lit in High School. I suppose the Junior College I took
some trade school courses offered English Lit, but I dropped out.

I did get an A in Motorcycle Mechanics.

Frank Dresser

The coordinates for the island were given to the surfer (who rode the
tsunami into the lagoon and back to Hawaii) by the professor. I don't
recall the exact coordinates but it wasn't any where near Hawaii when I
plotted them out.

Frank Dresser wrote:

I did get an A in Motorcycle Mechanics.


Neat. I learned how to set up a Ducati Desmo head in the late
seventies...and how the Brit engines had a left hand thread on the oil
pump gear. The Super Sport 900 Ducati was probably the funnest bike
I've ever owned. I still have a Triumph. It's a 1200 Daytona mind you,
so it doesn't leak. Lots of Nortons over the years...no Commandos though.

I'd like a new Triumph Thruxton in the spring. The Daytona is getting
to be a pain handling in the parking lot. The 560 lb weight and Old
Age, you know. We'll see what the budget looks like next year.


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mike

"m II" wrote in message
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Frank Dresser wrote:

I did get an A in Motorcycle Mechanics.


Neat. I learned how to set up a Ducati Desmo head in the late
seventies...and how the Brit engines had a left hand thread on the oil
pump gear. The Super Sport 900 Ducati was probably the funnest bike
I've ever owned. I still have a Triumph. It's a 1200 Daytona mind you,
so it doesn't leak. Lots of Nortons over the years...no Commandos though.

I had a Royal Enfield Interceptor back then. Speaking of radio, the
workshop manual gave instructions to convert the bike's wiring so the
alternator would develop full power with the headlight off in order to power
a radio transmitter for police work or what not. The alternator could
provide all of 60 watts at high RPM, and maybe 20 watts at idle. The damn
thing could hardly power the headlight!`

The Interceptor leaked everything. Motor oil. Gear oil from the
transmission. ATF from the clutch/primary chain housing. More motor oil
from one leg of the fork. I wasn't pouring expensive fork oil through that
thing. The other leg of the fork somehow held it's oil. Inconsistent
quality control, I guess.

Actually, I still have the Interceptor. It's all in boxes, so I can't
rightly call it a motorcycle.

Did you have an Atlas? They are rather Interceptor-like.



I'd like a new Triumph Thruxton in the spring. The Daytona is getting
to be a pain handling in the parking lot. The 560 lb weight and Old
Age, you know. We'll see what the budget looks like next year.

What, new?


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mike

In article , cd637299
@bellsouth.net says...
Hey....

Since we're on it, was there *not* one episode of the show where the
announcer on the radio said, "This is KGU Honolulu"?

I keep thinking it was uttered on an episode, but I'm not sure....maybe it
was in a dream of mine....I just thought it unusual to hear *actual* calls &
COL on a fictional show....

Did this *really* happen?

Could be. I haven't watched a GI episode in many years....

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

This [Ginger or Mary Ann] debate has been timeless...

I'll say it is. Whenever I set up a new server for a client that
includes
the SharePoint company web site, I always start things off by putting
up a survey entitled, "Ginger or Mary Ann?"

The sad thing is that there are beginning to be some people who don't get
it.

All this time its the question that was wrong. it should read; Ginger,
Mary
Ann, or both?

Of course a more politically correct version of the debate could very-well
be:
Ginger, Mary Ann, Gilligan or the Professor!
A timeless debate indeed, but I have always cast my vote for Mary Ann.
Ginger was too snooty and I always felt I ("the boy next door") had a chance
with Mary Ann.
There were two or three made for TV movies about the castaways being
rescued, but Tina Louise didn't appear in them.
I haven't seen any of her more recent work, so I can't judge how she's aged,
but last time I saw Dawn Wells, she still looked hot.
-Jim-

Since we're on it, was there *not* one episode of the show where the
announcer on the radio said, "This is KGU Honolulu"?

I keep thinking it was uttered on an episode, but I'm not sure....maybe
it
was in a dream of mine....I just thought it unusual to hear *actual*
calls &
COL on a fictional show....

Did this *really* happen?

Could be. I haven't watched a GI episode in many years....

Not in the first season, for sure.
I purchased the first season on DVD and I've seen them all with no legal ID
on the radio.
Yes, I admit that bought the first season... those black & white episodes
with the opening theme that calls the professor & Mary Ann "and the rest".
They went to color in year 2 and changed the theme to give credit to Russ &
Dawn.

"Jim Burgan" wrote in message ...
This [Ginger or Mary Ann] debate has been timeless...

Of course a more politically correct version of the debate could very-well be:
Ginger, Mary Ann, Gilligan or the Professor!
A timeless debate indeed, but I have always cast my vote for Mary Ann.
Ginger was too snooty and I always felt I ("the boy next door") had a chance with
Mary Ann.
There were two or three made for TV movies about the castaways being rescued, but
Tina Louise didn't appear in them.
I haven't seen any of her more recent work, so I can't judge how she's aged, but
last time I saw Dawn Wells, she still looked hot.

According to Who's Alive and Who's Dead
(http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/...ilm#Agilligans)
Russell Johnson just turned 80 last month!
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"Jim Burgan" wrote in message
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I haven't seen any of her more recent work, so I can't judge how she's
aged,
but last time I saw Dawn Wells, she still looked hot.

Last thing I remember was an episode of Kojack. She looked OK, not like she
did.

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