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?

sincerely
Chris

"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
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Also, this radio contained some amazing self-generating batteries. They
never ran low, despite the fact that there was no AC plug available for
charging purposes, nor did it have any type of crank-based charging
mechanism. It's possible that the batteries might have been the product
of a
secret military cold-war era attempt at attaining a self-sustaining,
zero-point energy equilibrium.

Sorry to burst your bubble about the batteries, but I remember seeing
some episodes where Gilligan was pedalling a stationary bicycle of sorts
which was generating power. They probably used that to recharge the
batteries. (I presume they were able to salvage the generator from the
SS Minnow's engines.)

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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Home come the visitors to the island were able to leave but not the
castaways? Why didn't the visitors report the location of the island
when they got back to civilization? :-)

Frank Dresser wrote:

"Sir Cumference" wrote in message
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Wonder how they powered that S40B with all the tubes?


I don't exactly remember, but it was an early episode, so I suppose there
was enough juice left in the Minnow's batteries to run a dynamotor.

Frank Dresser


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JuLiE Dxer wrote:

Does Yoko Ono count ??

No...and stop your incessant barrage of off topic postings in this
newsgroup.

Now, where were we?..Oh yes..

She's only managed to make it to the EIGHTH most hated position. Note
the rather illustrious criminals who beat her. This is amazing for an
UK based web page.


http://www.hated-celebrities.co.uk/





mike

Greetings! Back to the Ginger Mary Ann thing. I hear that all the votes on
Ginger may not have come in from Florida yet. They are talking about hanging
chad.

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:20:17 -0500, starman wrote:

Home come the visitors to the island were able to leave but not the
castaways? Why didn't the visitors report the location of the island
when they got back to civilization? :-)

I think it they had to sign a waiver saying if they disclosed the
location they could be sued...
; )

"Someone" wrote in message
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"Lee Smith" wrote in message
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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?

"starman" wrote in message
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Home come the visitors to the island were able to leave but not the
castaways? Why didn't the visitors report the location of the island
when they got back to civilization? :-)


Thanks for getting me to clarify an important point. Only the first year of
Gilligan can be properly placed in the Island Noir genre. I know it's hard
to believe, but there are still some people who don't "get it". For them, I
suggest they imagine some cast changes. Picture the Skipper and Gilligan
played by Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Mr. and Mrs. Howell played
by Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis. Ginger portrayed by Veronica Lake.
Of course, the Professor would be Robert Mitchum.

With such a cast, the true nature of the island elite would have been
obvious to even the most doltish, thick-headed viewer. Even some TV critics
might have gotten beyond the question, "Howcum they brought so many
cigarettes for a three hour tour?". But casting the castaways as comedic
figures goes even beyond the brilliance of casting Fred MacMurray as Walter
Neff. 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.

But those later color episodes in which people start showing up? Well,
those episodes are just plain silly.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:

"starman" wrote in message
...

Home come the visitors to the island were able to leave but not the
castaways? Why didn't the visitors report the location of the island
when they got back to civilization? :-)



Thanks for getting me to clarify an important point. Only the first year of
Gilligan can be properly placed in the Island Noir genre. I know it's hard
to believe, but there are still some people who don't "get it". For them, I
suggest they imagine some cast changes. Picture the Skipper and Gilligan
played by Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Mr. and Mrs. Howell played
by Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis. Ginger portrayed by Veronica Lake.
Of course, the Professor would be Robert Mitchum.

With such a cast, the true nature of the island elite would have been
obvious to even the most doltish, thick-headed viewer. Even some TV critics
might have gotten beyond the question, "Howcum they brought so many
cigarettes for a three hour tour?". But casting the castaways as comedic
figures goes even beyond the brilliance of casting Fred MacMurray as Walter
Neff. 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.

But those later color episodes in which people start showing up? Well,
those episodes are just plain silly.

Frank Dresser


For goodness sakes, it was a fantasy sitcom to entertain, nothing more.

"Sir Cumference" wrote in message
...


For goodness sakes, it was a fantasy sitcom to entertain, nothing more.


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!!"

Frank Dresser

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.




mike


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