>>>So do me a favor. If you read this post, please post a simple thank you to Allan for all his hard work and please share one thing about TAGS that really makes you smile and feel good. Let's see if we can get a day where the digest has lots of things to read that will give us a smile or two.<<<
I do appreciate all that Allan does with the digest and his many other Mayberry pursuits. I believe I found the digest and joined WBMUTBB? not long after we got Internet access. I want to say it was in the spring of 2000, but it may have been a little later than that. (Is there a record somewhere of when we joined?) Anyway, I've been reading and posting to the digest since then. I've made some friends through the digest over the years. I "met" Aunt Bee of Orlando when I sold her my VHS Columbia House collection of TAGS tapes. We still e-mail back and forth sporadically. Harriet the Chicken Thief was kind enough to sell us her tickets to Mayberry Days events last year, and it was such a thrill to have front-row or almost-front-row seats to some of the programs. I've corresponded with other folks, such as Ken himself. Even though I haven't had the privilege of meeting these folks in person (yet, anyway), I do consider them friends. And isn't that the spirit of Mayberry? As for what makes me smile about TAGS, well, it's pretty hard to narrow it down to only one thing! I guess if I must pick only one, I will say the character of Barney and Don Knotts' comic genius that brought him to life. Truly, Barney Fife is one of the (perhaps *the*) greatest TV characters of all time. Can you imagine if Don Knotts's Barney Fife never "existed"? Oh, I don't even want to think about it! A lot of laughter would be missing from our lives. TAGS represents the nearest to perfect combination of casting, acting, writing, and production that I believe TV has ever seen. Thelma Lou (Janet) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
