The reception was pretty amazing...that is some groundwave!

You may recall that there was a later episode where the professor had
the entire cast sit at a table and stir liquid in coconut shells in
order to "recharge" the batteries that had finally gone dead...

Perhaps they employed this method often between episodes to make it
SEEM like the batteries lasted forever?

Your thoughts???

Dan

PS Mary Ann is the hotter of the two in my book. Dawn Wells was
actually a beauty pageant winner in real life. Hubba Hubba!

"lsmyer" wrote in message ...
Since the mid-1960s, I have searched far and wide to find a radio that had
such good reception as the one on Gilligan's Island.

That incredible DX powerhouse of a radio could regularly pick up US mainland
broadcasters -- KDKA comes to mind -- from its location on a tiny island
located thousands of miles from the US mainland deep in the South Pacific.
Not just at night, mind you, but right in the middle of the day.

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.

I would like to get one of these radios and hopefully some of those
batteries as well. If anybody finds one on ebay, be sure to post it here.
Thanks.

On 6 Nov 2004 23:42:53 -0800, (Dan Gett) wrote:

PS Mary Ann is the hotter of the two in my book. Dawn Wells was
actually a beauty pageant winner in real life. Hubba Hubba!

Ya know, for a 66 year old, she's not too bad either...
(from imdb)

Dawn Wells
Date of birth (location)
18 October 1938
Reno, Nevada, USA

http://www.dawn-wells.com/

OK .... so I'll grant you that Mary Ann has held up well over the years and
many of my friends sure liked the look of her, but she was always just a
little too "girl next door" for me.

Ginger on the other hand looked super-hot and used to send me into
alternating hot and cold flashes.

This debate has been timeless and is the subject of a website where you can
cast your vote. I was aghast to find myself in the minority!! No
accounting for some people's taste in women I guess ... LOL. No ... I've
got it, the vote was rigged!

Lee

Here's the link: http://tbs.com/general/story/0,,36370,00.html

Lee Smith wrote:

OK .... so I'll grant you that Mary Ann has held up well over the years and
many of my friends sure liked the look of her, but she was always just a
little too "girl next door" for me.

Ginger on the other hand looked super-hot and used to send me into
alternating hot and cold flashes.

This debate has been timeless and is the subject of a website where you can
cast your vote. I was aghast to find myself in the minority!! No
accounting for some people's taste in women I guess ... LOL. No ... I've
got it, the vote was rigged!

It must have been the exit polling after leaving her hut...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Yes Ace, that had to be it. Mary Ann must have used her feminine wiles to
gain unwarranted votes. Who knows went on in the privacy of the hayloft
when she was wearing those plaid shirts and cut-off jeans.

Ginger on the other hand must have been too shy to conduct herself in that
way for something as tawdry as getting a vote.

73 de Lee

Forget those young girls... I'm a Lovey Man myself.

Mrs Howell had enough money for us to buy the entire South Pacific if we
wanted.

One properly placed poisonous spider in her old man's bunk, and the Widow
Howell and I would soon be free of that old coot forever.

Of course Lovey would need to watch for spiders herself once I got my hands
on the Howell fortune.

"Lee Smith" wrote in message ...

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.

"Someone" wrote in message
...
"Lee Smith" wrote in message
...

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?

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-

"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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