Text 9625, 73 rader
Skriven 2005-04-03 09:26:02 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 9560 av Dan Ceppa (1:123/666.0)
Ärende: FidoNews 22:12 [02/06]: General Articles
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Hello Dan.

03 Apr 33 00:20, you wrote to me:

 DC>> exception is an occasional "Best of" Night that is determined
 DC>> by viewer requests.  What TV guide do you use?

 RW>> It's the one we've been talking about. Guide/Plus or something
 RW>> like that. It's broadcast by the PBS station in San Diego and you
 RW>> need a TV with Guide/Plus to see it.

 DC> It doesn' show up on Yahoo?

A reasonable facsimili shows up on Google. I didn't look further than
the first one to come up, thus Gemstars version.

http://www.electricaldiscountuk.co.uk/guideplus.php

 RW>>> How come she didn't pay any attention to me? I'm better looking
 RW>>> than Bono and that jerk, Almond.
 DC>> Where you ever in show business?
 RW>> Winneshek Theatre back in Illinois...played Stefenowski in a play
 RW>> called; "Mr Roberts"  Had a few lines, but was noted for my
 RW>> ability to tap out a ... --- ... (SOS) in Morse Code on the deck
 RW>> with a scrub brush.

 DC> I've seen the movie but only read the play.  It appears that your
 DC> dexterity was an asset to the play.   :)

Heh. My best friend through jr and high school was a HAM who taught me
the code. This was 1960 and it took me another ten years to get my own
license.

 DC>>    If not, you didn't have a shot even if you looked like Robert
 DC>> Redford.
 RW>> Compared to me, Redford was/is ugly. :o) 'course, I don't have red
 RW>> hair.
 DC> He doesn't either.

Noting his age, probably not any more.

 RW>>> Watching someone play the pitiful drunk gets old fast. Dean
 RW>>> Martin was the worst at it!
 DC>> I'm not so sure how much of that was really an act!

Like I said.

 RW>> It was an act. He interviewed, seems like a hundred years ago now,
 RW>> on some TV show and showed his ability to switch from sober to
 RW>> drunk in a twinkling of an eye.

 DC> Sounds like a Johnny Carson show...

One of those.

 RW>>> We don't have an 8-track player around he house anymore. We do

 DC>> I'd send you my old tapes to try it out, but they have already
 DC>> been eaten years ago.

 RW>> I had a favorite back in the late 60s that I played a lot. Nancy
 RW>> Sinatra and Lee Greenwood singing some old folk songs. It got
 RW>> eaten once and so I replaced it. It isn't the newest in the lot,
 RW>> but still my favorite.

 DC> Unfortunately, none of mine survived.  :(

Having a moving sale the next two weekends and ran across a box of them
in storage. Found Nancy's LP Beatle collection too.


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