First one thing and then another

[Paul Mulik]

The other day somebody wanted to know which episode contained the quote "how I 
vote, brother, is my business."  This is in the episode Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain. 
 Barney's telling Andy a story about how he deliberately got bad marks in 
school so the other kids wouldn't think badly of him. The scene goes something 
like this:

Barney: Listen, an IQ can be a mixed blessing.  Some people want it and can't 
get it -- I got it, and had to get rid of it.

Andy: you know what I think? That was real democratic of you, real democratic.

Barney: (suddenly angry and defensive) How I VOTE, brother, is MY business!  
When I man walks into that booth, he's alone with his conscience, and NOBODY 
gets to ask him how he voted.  That's the American Way, and I'm FOR that.

Andy: Well, you can put me down for it too.

Barney: (after a few seconds' pause) How'd you vote, Ange?

That's all from memory so it's not a perfect word-for-word transcription.

Now, about Andy's past. Barney mentions that Andy flunked biology in 1938, but 
there is no mention of what grade they were in at the time.  Might have been 
kindergarten, for all we know.  It does seem like that would be starting them 
awfully young for Biology, but maybe they had to because there was more of it 
in those days.

About military service, there is no proof in any episode that Andy Taylor ever 
served in the United States military.  He mentions in two early episodes (Ellie 
Comes to Town and A Feud Is a Feud) that he was "over there [in France] during 
the war" but there must have been tens of thousands of people, maybe even a 
million, who were "in France during the war" who were not part of any military 
group.  Maybe he was helping the Red Cross or some similar humanitarian 
organization.  Maybe he was a reporter or photographer.  Maybe he was a 
missionary.  Maybe he was studying in France as a foreign exchange student when 
war broke out, and he couldn't get out right away.  Maybe he had distant 
relatives who were French, and he sneaked in somehow to try to help them get 
out of the country.  Maybe he was on vacation in France during the Korean 
conflict.  These are all just theories, of course.

Paul Mulik



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For the "Extry Good" Trained Noticers

[Curt Granger]

While watching a very familiar TAGS episode yesterday I spotted a short, 
3 second clip where the film had been reversed, or "flipped" if you 
will. I noticed it first by observing that something just didn't look 
accurate with the Mayberry landscape, and upon further (DVD) review, 
found concrete evidence that the film had actually been flipped to it's 
mirror-image side, during editing I'm sure.


The first trained noticer to identify the episode and evidence wins a 
Lucky Peppermint with a green center. :-)


Curt
Birmingham, AL

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[Harry Brewbaker]

Patty, It's true, a lot of underage young men lied about their age and joined 
the armed forces in WWII.  I had an uncle that ran away and joined the Navy at 
16.  He claimed to be 18.  I was watching the History Channel just last night 
and they mentioned the youngest to do that was 12 years old.  Before being 
discovered as being underage he had won two medals.  He was dis-honorably 
discharged.  I'm not sure I would have agreed with that.
  
Harry in Salem, VA
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Readers Digest

[jlj9675]

I am happy to report that our Mayberry, Mt. Airy, is listed in this month's 
Reader's Digest as one of America's Most Interesting Towns; it includes a 
photo of one of the squad cars!
Aunt Bee of Orlando 



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