Dewey, I also enjoy watching that choir member smile. I've always wondered if he was supposed to or if he just couldn't help it. There are several scenes where Barney or Floyd are doing something particularly funny and you can see Andy put his hand over his mouth to cover a smile. The comment about Andy being raised by Aunt Bee but his father still being around when he was 6 or 7 brought to mind my own father. He was the youngest of 8 born right before the stock market crash in 1929. His mother died when he was 6 weeks old and his father raised he and the ones who hadn't grown and moved out until my father was about 5. Then he and his remaining brothers and sisters were sent to live with relatives because his father was a mean old son of a gun. My father was raised by a woman who even though she was in her 40's was his first cousin. As far as my father was concerned, she was his mother and her daughters were his sisters. My grandfather lived to age 80 and passed in 1964. I have memories of him still being what everyone then called "an ornry old cuss" til the day he died. _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
