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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Yep,I definetly Agree.Mary Ann.Downnnn by the Seashore sifting sand,,,
Mary Ann.

......D-Day Larry
(cuhulin)

In ,
Jim Burgan typed:
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.

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\

"drewdawg" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jim Burgan typed:
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.

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\



But not years before XETRA (then XTRA) were experimenting with AM stereo
using a sort of split modulation scheme (right channel modulating one
sideband and the left modulating the other). They used this for many years.
I used to be able to use two radios, one tuned to each sideband to listen to
(very poor separation) stereo. The system was called the Kahn ISB system,
which stood for Independant SideBand.

25) The sad AM Stereo Saga

a.. 1960 - AM Stereo first demonstrated on XETRA, Tijuana, MX, using the
Kahn ISB system.

"drewdawg" ) writes:

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\



I'm sure that was a joke about stereo, but I seem to recall one of
Gilligan's fillings was acting as a rectifier, in effect a simple crystal
radio. Though how there'd be a signal strong enough to be rectified by
that, no antenna after all, way off on that isolated island, I have no idea.

A similar thing happened on The Partridge Family. Laurie gets braces,
and suddenly she is picking up radio signals.

The explanation was a bit off, because it only happened when some guy
with a transistor radio (one that fit in your palm) was nearby with
the radio playing. The braces might have worked as a rectifier, but
only in the presence of a strong radio signal. The radio would at most
be radiating a weak signal, and the local oscillator which would be
more likely to radiate than the IF would not convey modulation whichis
what Laurie was picking.

The kid with the transistor portable was played by Mark Hamill.

Michael

But thereby lays the rub.Women's brains are wired differently than us
dudes brains and women can concentrate on two or more things at the same
time.Us dudes brains can't do that.
cuhulin

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"drewdawg" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jim Burgan typed:

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\

But not years before XETRA (then XTRA) were experimenting with AM stereo
using a sort of split modulation scheme (right channel modulating one
sideband and the left modulating the other). They used this for many years.
I used to be able to use two radios, one tuned to each sideband to listen to
(very poor separation) stereo. The system was called the Kahn ISB system,
which stood for Independant SideBand.

That's what drewdawg was talking about. Kahn had a prototype of this system on WABC
in the late '50s. At the time, it was an idea called "powerside", because all the
power was in one sideband. The concept was that you could pack more stations into
the spectrum, since each one would only use on side of the channel. I think it was a
bonehead idea, myself.
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While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm

might have been a goof in the writing or might not have been. Stereo was
invented way back before the 60's. A radio station here once played stereo
records from the 1930's!!!

It just wasn't used much or wasn't popular until later.

I'm pretty sure that people knew what stereo was in the 50's. Although not on
FM radio.

So even if it wa a goof, it can still be explained away.

Today, we know what 3-D tv and holographic tv is, but how many people have
them? ;)

It's my understanding that they can't even do holographic tv yet (unless
possibly if it's only still images instead of moving images), yet we know what
it is.

Back in the 30's and 40's, most people only had radios, but they probably knew
what tv was, and were probably waiting for it to be invented.

And yes, I'm aware that tv was being worked on even back then, and that there
were experimental tv stations broadcasting then.

But thereby lays the rub.Women's brains are wired differently than us
dudes brains and women can concentrate on two or more things at the same
time.Us dudes brains can't do that.
cuhulin

yes, but women's brain can do something that us dudes' brains can't, which
drives me crazy since the women expect us dudes to always be able to do it, and
we can't.

That is mind-reading. The women expect us dudes to know stuff without being
told, that is completely impossibl for us to know without being told.

Stuff like meeting them at a certain place and time they changed their mind and
decided to be at after leaving the house, without ever telling you where or
when or that they changed their mind while you're still at the house.

Telling you to cook to spaghetti for supper at the house while they go grocery
go shopping, and then when they get back, they're angry at you for making
spaghetti for supper, becaue they changed their mind to wanting you to make
chicken for supper at the grocery store, and expect that you should have known
that they changed their mind to you making chicken for supper insstead of
spaghetti while they were at the grocery store without them ever calling you to
tell you they changed their mind, and without ever teling you they changed
their minds at all, until they get back and yell at you for making spaghetti
for supper that they told you to instead of making chicken for supper that they
changed their mind to while they were away, without ever telling you they did
so.

idea called "powerside", because all the
power was in one sideband. The concept was that you could pack more stations
into
the spectrum, since each one would only use on side of the channel. I think
it was a
bonehead idea, myself.

not as boneheaded as an earlier U.S. government idea

to purposely assign all (and I mean all) broadcast stations in the entire
country to the exact same frequency.

which is exactly what they did.

You can just imagine the interference.

They were all AM mode.

Stereophile22 wrote:
not as boneheaded as an earlier U.S. government idea

to purposely assign all (and I mean all) broadcast stations in the entire
country to the exact same frequency.

which is exactly what they did.

You can just imagine the interference.

Yeah, but you never missed your favorite programs, even when two or more
were on at the same time.

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