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Keith L
They had a segment called "Small Town News", which featured an article from the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
I think it's an outrage they think Webster (a city of 40,000) is a "Small Town"!
Crabwell Corners is a Small Town... Pixley is a Small Town... Hooterville............ Well, you get the idea.
Harrumph!
;-)
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> Did anyone catch The Late Show with David Letterman last night?
>
> They had a segment called "Small Town News", which featured an article
> from the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
>
> "Small Town"!
>
> Crabwell Corners is a Small Town... Pixley is a Small Town...
> Hooterville............ Well, you get the idea.
>
> Harrumph!
>
> ;-)
If they got it out of the 'Webster-Kirkwood Times' they were probably
judging by the size of the 'paper' itself. Imagine if you found a copy
of the Whirl and thought it was the main newspaper of St Louis.
Bobo Bonobo®
>
> They had a segment called "Small Town News", which featured an article
> from the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
>
> "Small Town"!
>
> Crabwell Corners is a Small Town... Pixley is a Small Town...
> Hooterville............ Well, you get the idea.
I'm not sure about Crabwell Corners, but Pixley and Hooterville are
not small towns. They are imaginary towns.
Bug Tussle (AR? MO?) is also imaginary, though there IS a Bug Tussle
in AL.
>
> Harrumph!
>
> ;-)
--Bryan, huge Beverly Hillbillies fan
Keith L
K
jt august
<748ace86-1826-4b02...@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Bobo Bonobo® <CLAS...@brick.net> wrote:
> > Crabwell Corners is a Small Town... Pixley is a Small Town...
> > Hooterville............ Well, you get the idea.
>
> I'm not sure about Crabwell Corners, but Pixley and Hooterville are
> not small towns. They are imaginary towns.
Come on, Brian, where is your sense of humour? Of course the Green
Acres references are fake, but they are still small towns. So is South
New Bummfuk, MO, Scratchass, Ark., West Nozebleed, CO and Eastern
Azzniff, NJ. All of theses are small towns too.
jt
jt august
Keith L <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Did anyone catch The Late Show with David Letterman last night?
>
> They had a segment called "Small Town News", which featured an article
> from the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
>
> I think it's an _outrage_ they think Webster (a city of 40,000) is a
> "Small Town"!
>
> Crabwell Corners is a Small Town... Pixley is a Small Town...
> Hooterville............ Well, you get the idea.
>
> Harrumph!
Compared to NYC, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, St. Louis, Little
Rock and KC, a town of 40,000 residents IS small. You are trying to
give the impression Webster is big by treating it as part of the
conglomeration of the STL metropolitan area of well over a million
people, but 40,000 is only 4% of 1,000,000, and by itself, Webster IS a
small town.
Joplin, MO is a small town, and its population is currently 45,xxx.
BTW, from the same list, Webster Groves population is 23,xxx, so it
really is a small town. See
http://www.maps-n-stats.com/us_mo_population.html for my reference site.
True, Webster is bigger than the roadkills you sited, but otherwise, it
is small, and there is nothing to be outraged at.
jt
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--Bryan
Actually I think those towns got more air time on Petticoat junction.
Weren't Jed's folks from over near Bug Tusssel?
Tell me the truth, is my age showing?
Keith L
exposure on Green Acres.
KL
Bobo Bonobo®
Usenet is mostly older, and mostly male, and yes, those towns were
mostly in the PJ/GA world, but the tie-ins are there. It's a shame
that CBS killed off all their *country folk* shows. They were funny.
While on vacation--really the only time we see cable TV--we saw a
couple of funny cartoons on the Cartoon Network. The cartooning was
modern, but the sensibility harkened back to the early 60s stuff. The
shows are "My Gym Partner is a Monkey," and "Camp Lazlo."
I have absolutely no problem with the liberalization of TV, in regards
to the standards about sexuality and other taboos, like the
unambiguous good guy triumphs crap (I really like The Simpsons), but
those two shows are simple, child-friendly, and poke fun at adult
authority in a way that I don't see as promoting hostility toward
authority, but merely as making fun of all-too-human flaws in both kid-
kid relationships, and kid-adult interactions. There are no "action
scene" explosions or weaponry, and any violence is clearly slapstick,
and easily recognizable to kids as a joke. There's no sexual innuendo
designed to make adults chuckle while leaving kids perplexed, and,
IMO, none is needed to make it entertaining for this middle-aged guy.
The plots are better than we got with Roadrunner, Bullwinkle, Bugs
Bunny or Scooby Doo, where it was just the same thing over and over.
I heartily recommend both "My Gym Partner is a Monkey," and "Camp
Lazlo," as shows to watch with kids, and heck, even w/o kids.
>
> KL
--Bryan
Keith L
them off is that they wanted to change their image. NBC used to call
CBS the "Country Broadcasting System".
> I have absolutely no problem with the liberalization of TV, in regards to the standards about sexuality and other taboos,
allow sex on TV, and get rid of the _violence_!
> --Bryan
>