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Location: NJ | You forget that Mannix didn't have to work all that hard as he had access to that state-of-the-art punchcard-driven COMPUTER (and Joseph Cappenella).
Not knowing your daughters' ages, if you're planning a fall New England trip, you MIGHT wanna consider Halloween in Salem, Mass. About 5 or 6 years ago, we took my daughter there when Halloween coincided with a weekend. Had a GREAT time! I highly reccommend the Hawthorne Hotel (it's right on Salem Common in the center of town). |
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Location: NJ | I stand corrected it was Rockford and just think he had to support his dad and that wonderful trailer on his meager salary and a firebird (or camaro) and a host of bimbos....seems like he did ok it was banacek (sp) that had the car the always broke down and was always broke.
I am pretty sure he upped it to 300 a day on the last season.
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Location: SoCal | Banacek was played by George Peppard and had major money with a guy to drive his older classic cars.
Harry O (David Jansen), in San Diego, always had his cars breaking down and had to take the bus.
I love all those shows but they are so far from reality. I have a wife, two kids, two dogs, a guitar habit, and a mortgage that I can't afford. Takes a lot to keep it all going. The only accurate thing about the shows is getting to go to bed with great looking females. Of course, I had to marry her first...
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Location: Pensacola,FL | Ovationists click HERE ! :D |
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Location: Shelton, Washington, USA | What kind of file is finger.ra? what pgm will open it? |
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Location: NJ | RealAudio
You can get the player program from their website.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Cliff- it played good on my setup, sounded fine.
Boys (cowboys always say boys when they have bad news)
The burro roundup failed badly, we may have to go to mules. I borrowed a lady burro and a horse trailer from a ranch nearby and decked her out in a straw hat with holes for her ears, she should look very pretty to a burro I thought. I took her out to the open range where I heard there were wild burros. I set her up in the trailer with my PA system and lit her up with an auto headlight, and she started hee-hawing through my PA in various tones and stamping her feet in what I assumed was the burro equivalent of Brittany and I figured I'd have my 50 burros in no time.
I went home for supper, and returned with 6 kegs of beer as I heard wild burros could be tamed with free beer. When I arrived the area around the horse trailer was so crowded that I couldn't get in, but it wasn't burros, it was about 4000 high school kids jumping up and down to the burro's braying, raving they called it. The sheriff pulled in behind me, lights flashing, apprehended me, my beer, my PA system and my friends horse trailer, and I am charged with 4000 counts of contributing to the delinquincy. My story of rounding up 51 burros to travel to the Ovation factory fell on deaf and raucously laughing ears.
What's worse, the lady burro now has an agent and is in 6 figure negotiations with 3 record labels.
Bailey (definitely headed for the last roundup)
Mules are better!
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Location: Pensacola,FL | Bailey
If you do go looking for mules, you may want to have this sign with you posted about 10 feet in the air "SIGN" , that way the kids won't confuse your roundup with a rock concert :D . Mention Bluegrass somewhere too, just for good measure. |
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Location: NJ | just don't forget the borax |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks boys
As soon as I get my stuff back, I'll go after the mules. I heard that this fellow named "Dutch" Reagan was the one to see about mule teams, has anybody got any idea where I could reach him? Last I heard, he was haulin borax out of Death Valley. Dutch should have been a politician as everybody I talk to in Borax CA, or Owens valley say they'd vote for him in a minute for President.
Mules are bigger and carry more so Gizz can fit on 2 with all his gear, 20 mule team might be enough, but we'll have to give up the idea of them performing La Bamba or Orange Blossom Special as they have much more dignity than we do and have been known to launch fools into low orbit when insulted.
We'll get the Ovation sign and meet in Mission Viejo for the cross country trek. Because of the mules dignity, dress code is business, coat and tie required, and because we now have a formal invitation from the factory, there will be no profanity on the trail (or whisky drinkin nor tobacco chawin).
Boys, bring your Ovation instruments, I've thought of a name for our singing group as we cross the desert "Sons of the Frying Ears" and a theme song "Fumbling Jungleweeds". We'll really impress them when we show up at the factory.
I think were back on track.
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Location: NJ | I may be wrong here, but "Francis" may be the achetypical "Ol' Prospector's Mule".
At least I HOPE I'm right, or else I've made yet another new enemy in Texas (two if Francis turns out to really be a girl). |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Was that "old" movie buffs, or "old movie" buffs? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Gizz
I suddenly had visions of 400 Ovation players in red shoes, some dressed as scarecrows, some dressed as lions, Tin Men aplenty and the little people, dancing behind cwktwo's small dog down a yellow brick road towards a castle with an Ovation factory sign. All playing a vaguely familiar song. In the vision was a good and bad witch whose identities were vaguely familiar also, and an overworked board master hiding behind a large fake computer monitor.
I don't know where it came from, it just flashed into my mind in monochrome and faded into a color monitor.
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Location: NJ | I dunno I just got a vision of Gizz in a frilly dress tap dancing up a the steps of ovation singing on the good ship lollipop.....I need more sleep..... |
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Location: Houston, TX | I didn't realize there would be this kind of fallout when I started the thread. Forget the convention, you guys are scaring me. |
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Location: SoCal | If they're scaring you, just think of how their wives are affected by this! |
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Location: NJ | Frankly Gizz "I don't give a damn"
or is it..."of all the bulletin boards in the world you had to wind up in mine...." |
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Location: Dallas | Al, tactfully put - I have removed all my post and will stay out of your Bulletin Boards from now on, if you stay out of Dallas...... Nice knowing all of the rest of you fun loving musicians, but I can see some don't like their toes step'd on - so I'm gone .... it was fun while it lasted.
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Location: SoCal | Gizz:
Don't take Al so personally. He's just quoting movies at you. So get your tail back in here. |
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Location: NJ | Gizz
for a guy that knows obscure Francis the talking mule movies you sure have no knowledge of the classics
your assignement is to rent the following movies and watch them this weekend
Gone with the Wind
Casablanca
hint both lines I quoted come at the END of each movie.... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Scott
What you are seeing here is an example of the top level planning that goes into many corporate projects in the U.S.A.. If some insight into what goes on every day in the boardrooms and executive suites of big business makes you nervous, you need to see the movie "The Gray Flannel Suit" and learn how to play with the big boys. Otherwise, there are those who will put you in the same category as Dustin Hoffman in the "Graduate", who was given the good advice that the future was in plastics, but ignored it and ended up driving up and down California freeways in an Italian sports car listening to Simon and Garfunkle and being seduced by good looking women. Ask yourself, do you want to end up like that?
I am sure nobody else here would want to end up like that.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by intermetroman:
I didn't realize there would be this kind of fallout when I started the thread. Forget the convention, you guys are scaring me.
Scaring you??? We already know that the folks in the factory read this... think how THEY feel at this point! We'll show up, 400 strong, and they'll have the doors locked and be hiding under the tables. We may hear John B. off in the distance..."No one here but us mice, go away." |
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Location: SoCal | Scott:
It's easy to tell that Bailey is trying to pull your leg. You can't read the last line of his message and think he's serious. Hell, everybody here wants to end up like Dustin Hoffman's character and bag Mrs. Robinson. It's just that our wives won't let us.
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