.....Hi I'm Dry, and I'm a Mad-aholic!

.....Is it August yet?

Lily, can you give us a "12-Step Program" to deal with our withdrawal??? It's gone on for months now....help!

LOL?

Looks like Dry has already taken the first step...

Here's mine:

Hello, I'm SCfan and I'm a Mad-aholic.........too!

.....How 'bout now?

.....It's nice, the busier we get, to be able to come to one central MM spot, and catch all the great interviews and articles on the internet, about the show, the cast and crew.....that's more work that most people realize, and if you're any kind of fan, it's almost required reading.....

If you could just answer one question.....

When in God's name does Season 3 start???

.....SCfan.....We're busted. Now we'll have to behave!

You first!

lol

.....It's time, I think.....the grown-ups will be here soon.....

Ya think? I thought they took a cruise.....

Hey, Rizzo. Hey, Frenchy. Summer school's almost over! Did you two juvenile delinquents make up that civics class you failed? You'll never get into beauty school that way! See you around the smoking court.

Hi Lily, thanks for keeping your eye on us Maddicts. It's good to know you're there. Sometimes we feel like we're out in never-never-land! lol

Best wishes to Clayton wherever he is!

Hey, Mambo....I'm a "beauty school dropout"!

Now as for Rizzo....well, we all know about her....come on, Riz...let's hear a chorus of "Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee"!!!!

Oh, I think I hear Frankie A.....yes, yes, that's definitely him....Teen Angel.....sigh....

Beauty School DropOut....No graduation day for you....

Here we go: (Mambo, you should have known better than to encourage me!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOxhzAm7fY

Hello Lily and fellow Maddicts!
- You know the "Trouble with Angels" is we just need to remain busy or we're sure going to act out on our marvelous ideas!

.....Would that I could, Frenchie.....would that I could......

Too funny, Mambo!

Dry and all, did you catch that surprised look on Rizz's face when Frankie A. sang the line "...get off the pot.." pretty far into the song... it's quick, but, it's perceptible....

I've posted this viewpoint before ages ago, about that song (Sandra Dee from Grease) but, why would she sing about her like: "lousy with virginity" and "won't go to bed til I'm legally wed.." when we all know what a slut (by the standards of the times) she turned out to be in "A Summer Place" ---getting knocked up by Troy D. and all and "having" to get married....oh well....when oh when is MM going to get here....I'm so desperate....sigh

Slut? Bite your tongue, SC! MY Sandra is Tammy! She is "lousy with virginity" alright.

.....Thank goodness.....For a second up there, I was worried I wouldn't be Rizzo. Good call, Erda Mae.

You guys are sooooooo funny!!

Dry, ya mean Moondoggie didn't teach Gidge more than surfing????

Live and learn!....lol

No, he most certainly did not!

Wwwell! O-Tay, 'Panky!!!!!

Here's a clip of the Original Tammy singing for us...(hell, it's one more way to pass the time until Aug. 16...humor me!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYymDZtlvgs&feature=related

Hey, Frenchy, that video is "unavailable", or so YouTube tells me.

Damn that YouTube....

I just went there and typed in Debbie Reynolds Tammy in the main search there and it came up the first one in the list page....don't know what happened with the link up there....oh well...it's just DR singing Tammy from Tammy and the Bachelor....kinda sweet.

BTW, while I was there on YouTube I checked out the clip of Michael Jackson's "Rock With Me"....yes, the guy weirded out in later years, but when he had it he really had it...(talent and charisma I mean)

RIP to him and God be with his family....

"Rock With YOU" is the name of the clip...sorry....

There's YouTube links that work (so far) over on Dry's "Bad Day" thread...MJ's MTV videos...doesn't seem that long ago...time flies...RIP

This is the second thread where I called Mambo "Dry"... (Sandra/Tammy/Moondoggie post up there)....CRS...only excuse...only one I can think of anyway.....

...sigh....

I'm actually... almost enjoying this lull to go back and rewatch S1 and S2 and catch the subtleties I missed the first time around! Oh, BS! Is it August yet?

.....I just figured you'd taken to calling everyone "Dry" and was wondering why you were mad at them!

Now, Dry.....be nice......

You know the day is probably coming for that (me calling everyone "Dry" (a la Betty's dad!) -- and a sad sad day it will be....

P.S. You're mean to old persons....shame shame shame.....

LOL

I'm crying in my Old Fashioned...I hope you're satisfied...it's all watered down....now I'll have to get another one.....mean MEAN Doolah!

BUUUUUURRRRRRP!

...hic...

Good idea time for some red wine.

.....You can call me Doolah, and you can call me Rae, and you can call me Doolah Rae, but mostly you can call me Doolah Rae Salmonella Yokum!

Erda Mae and Chelsea.....Cheers!

Where're Jethrene and Drink&Smoke?

It's been awhile since we've had a Happy Hour blog. ;o) Don't forget to drink and write responsibly. Cheers.

"Raymond J. Johnson"!....soooooo funny, Dry!

Dry, we need to come up with some good "hill folk" names for Drink and Chelsea......hmmmmmm, let's see.......

this could take awhile....all the good 'uns are taken....

.....I was thinking that too..... You're the talented one there.....

You guys crack me up!!! Who's gonna buy the next round?

Dry, I think conjuring up "Salmonella" wore out my brain....

They may not even want to have hill folk names...not everyone on here is as nuts as us......Thank God....

"I prefer Utz, not nuts"...Cheers ;o)

Let's see, Drink....Utz Hezekiah Nurfel....howzat?

Haslem Bocephus Rasselus?

Take yer pick....

I'm still a'puzzlin' on your'n, Chelsea....any suggestions are mighty welcome....much obliged....

Anyone?????

How about Naftel Ramer? I swear my husband and I saw that on a road sign (Naftel Ramer Rd.) in the back roads of L.A. (Lower Alabama, not that other L.A.) driving back from Florida years ago.

.....OMG where do you come UP with this stuff!!

(I knew you weren't out of gas!)

Hmmmm I'll try thinken of sompen. When's happy hour?

God, I hope it's soon....I know I could use me some hard liquor, and I don't even drink the stuff! A jug of moonshine, yeah, that's the ticket, and I know just whose head I'll drop it on, too. Or maybe I'll just shove her down the privy......no sense wastin' good liquor.

....AAAAhhhhh, good ol' sippin' likker...let's all pass this here jug around....Thanks Z!

..OOOOWWW....Help!!!!! Uh..... Z, It don't smell too good down here....

Dry, I don't know where it comes from...sad sad sad...BTW,do you happen to have a rope on ya? ---and some lye soap ---- and a scrub brush????

Mambo....soooo funny! Well, Drink, (I mean Haslem Naftel Bocephus Rasselus...which'll it be?)

.....Should we bring her up, or leave her down there a little longer??

.....the least you could'a done was throw me a flashlight and a Farmer's Almanac to peruse in my misery....Sears catalog??? Anything?????

........sigh....or a clothespin fer m' nose......

For the lord's sweet sake, SCfan, I didn't mean you!! I was talking about that mean spirited troll on that other thread that showed up, bit me and ran away like a coward. She really depressed me, and I think a privy is a darn good place for the likes of her.

Yeah, what's up with that troll Z? I think she took a bite at all of us. Don't let her get to you, that's just what trolls do. Ok, SCfan you've had WAY too much of Granny's medicine.

.....I'm just concerned it's a former friend who is cranky with us because we had too much fun, so I won't mention it again.

Either way, it was uncalled for, and way off base, and that's all I'm going to say.

Hopefully they won't do it again.

.....How's it going down there, SCfan?

I'm freeeeeee I'm freeeeee! When Z was taking a swing at "her" she missed and hit me.....I forgive you Z...I managed to take her down with me!

I was sitting down there (well standing...NOT a good place to sit down, waaaay down there, you know?) EEEeeeeeewwwww....

Anyway, I shined my flashlight aaaalllll around and suddenly -- there "she" was -- she lunged at me but I was able to hop up on "her" shoulders and climb out....she's still down there...think you guys could help me roll a big rock over that thang (the privy seat)?

And, Drink...didn't ya like either of them?

I was hoping you'd maybe take a shine to Haslem....oh well...time to git on along outta them hills I think....

They're both funny. ;o) Let's go with Haslem just to stir things up a little. Cheers.

Oh...I forgot about Obelzer!....but, Haslem is from an old Rifleman episode (Bless ol' Lucas Boy's heart!)...so it's got to be a winner! I'm still trying to come up with a good one for Chelsea....I liked Mambo's "Naftel Ramer" up there --- would work for either a man or a woman....like it, Chelsea?

I don't know about you all but it probably is time to mosey on along out of them hills....I think I caught a glimpse of some Deliverance-type folk a'sneakin' through the woods!

Yikes!

.....I liked "Obelzer." Maybe you could string them all together. It has to be fun to say, to the person who owns the name.

Well, it's up to Drink...he has to like it...

Haslem Obelzer Rasselus Bocephus Naftel Ramer----Utz!

...somehow it jes' don't have no "rang" to it, Dry.....

....maybe go with Haslem Obelzer....it's all up to Drink, I suppose...although I'm sure by now he's ready for plain old Ned!

Hey, what about Obelzer Utz? Doesn't that name sound like an owner of a potato chip company? ;o)

....C'mon, SCfan.....Just link all the crazy names in the right order, and then have D&S repeat them back....

You gotta have at least four names, right?

.....Oh wait, you did that......

This is good.....

"Haslem Obelzer Rasselus Bocephus Naftel Ramer----Utz!"

Drink....what do you think? Any changes?

I think Drink&Smoke deserves to have one of those honorary "Colonel" titles...."Colonel Obelzer Bocephus Utz, at your service, ma'am"...."Why yes, ma'am, I surely would enjoy a nice mint julep".....“Ah! Happiness! A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” *

*That last was a quote from George Burns

It's the "Utz" part that sets it off so well....and I do like that "Colonel" addition, z...makes me recall "The Colonel" from Hee Haw...he'd stroll out on the porch, speak his words of wisdom....and promptly get his hat spun by an off camera assailant!

Sooooo funny!

wish I could find a clip of him on YouTube...haven't really looked though...

Colonel Obelzer Haslem Bocephus Utz....sooooo distnguished!

Here's your walkin' stick, Colonel!

"A woman is only a woman....but a good cigar is a smoke"

Who said that?

Wish I could remember (CRS)....

Z, I miss George Burns and his "songs" (?!) they were so funny...

.....We haven't heard from D&S on this....."Col. Utz".....hmmmmm.....not sure it fits in this case, Drink is so laid back and smooth.....

I know - how about "Dino?"

(The entertainer, not Fred's pet dinosaur.)

Dry, I think maybe he decided we were full of shit (can you blame him?) and just decided to go with "Ned"....

Here's one last possibility, Drink, try this one on for size:

Cletus Benny-Clyde

That's it...all thunk out...

P.S.... I like "Dino" just fine, Dry!

And you're right...Drink is too laid back and smooth to run with such trashy so-and-so's as Jethrene, Erda Mae, and Doolah Rae....those three wild gals from Mount Pilot (or was it Raleigh?) Big city trash at any rate....don't blame ya, Drink (uh, I mean.....Cletus?)

.....Well, we are, in case there was any question.

Was "Ned" a selection?

"Cletus...." you never run out of the crazy stuff!

Poor Drink...how did you get roped into this crap, huh?

First, you wake up with an un-asked for makeover, manicure/pedicure at that infamous wild party a while back, and now this?

We sorry!

.....Notice he hasn't said a thing......

Oooh man wat you guys drinken? I want som! Hey I liked the name cletus fur drink ... it made me laugh out loud. Drink haddn't siad anathang cuz I think he went fur a likker run. I wanna "fun girl" name if you can thank of one.

I don't know why I've got a mental block on that, Chelsea..."Doolah Rae" and "Jethrene" hit so fast...I'll keep trying...Dry thought of "Erda Mae" (mine)...bet she can think of you a good one....Dry?

Well, here's one, Chelsea...it's ok, but Dry or ? could probably think of a better one...

Petunia Rose-a'shar'n (Rose of Sharon)

That's it!...Drink's gone to check on his still, Chelsea!

....checkin' fer them revenuers, I 'spect....

uh oh....now the theme from "Thunder Road" by Robert Mitchum is going through my head....help....

"Thunder was his engine and white lightnin' was his load" ------------------
...."and it was moonshine moonshine, quenched the devil's thirst! The law they swore they'd get him, but the devil got him first!"

Is it August yet?

sigh

.....SCfan.....All that pressure!! No, you are the talent there....I'm not channeling anything amusing right now.

Seriously, I'm just about daily impressed with your knowledge of the retro music world.

Drink&Smoke, you're very quiet.....

Happy holiday Maddicts!

I leave for a few days and look what happens. ;o) I get an honorary "Colonel" title, I get sent on a liquor run, I get a new still and a whole s**t load of other names. I better speak up fast before I am the victim of another Maddict escapade that involves makeovers.
BTW - "Colonel Obelzer Utz" is your best name so far. Cheers.

He lives! I thought you'd left us for good, Drink!

Don't scare us like that...we couldn't do without you, you know that! Please be patient with our over-the-top nonsense....I know it do git teejus...only a few more weeks to go....

"Colonel Obelzer Utz".....sounds good, Drink.....I can just picture you in your white suit, black shoestring tie, walking stick, straw hat ~~ and accent (like z said above!) ~~

"Cuunel Obelzaah Uuuutz heah, ladies! Wah, ah'd shorely looove a refreshin' nip o' Jack Daniels (MR. JOHN Daniels to me, deah...I am so well acquainted with that particulah gentleman....ahhaaaaahaaaw) on this stiflin' Julaah day of owah fine country's independence!...I mus' say ah do feel maahty pawached (parched) ~~ an', Miz Zereldah, daawlin'.. may ah kiss yo lovely white hand in grateful thanks, mah deah..."

sip sip....

.....Oh good, there you are. We were starting to get a complex. I didn't know you'd also gotten a mani/pedi on another thread!

Did you see my post up front, about "Josephus Wartson?" I just saw that name, and had to laugh.

Obelzer Josephus Utz.

Obelzer Josephus Wartson Utz.

Or how about Obelzer Jehozah Utz and his brother Josephus Wartson Utz.

I once worked with a guy whose last name was Eller.

When his wife got pregnant, we decided the two names that were off-limits were "Cinder" and "Smeller."

OMG, how bored are we??

(Is it August yet?)

SCfan, how long did it take you to come up with that Southern slang? That's funny. ;o) Dry, by the looks of this (and many other) threads, we hit BORED at least five months ago. Cheers.

We are like a band of settlers holed up in some western fort.....running low on food and water (and liquor), suffering attacks from nasty, evil outlaws, and binding up our wounds while encouraging each other to hang on. Oh, surely Captain Weiner will arrive with the cavalry on August 16th to save us from going out of our minds! He is coming, isn't he! Please tell me the Mad Men cavalry will be coming to save us......I fear it will be too late for some, already teetering on the brink of madness.....not pointing any fingers, of course, just sayin'....

Too many repeat viewings of Andy Griffith, over the years, maybe Drink???? Dear God, who knows, definitely not me......

Uh, I mean Colonel Obelzer Josephus Bocephus Haslem Benny-Clyde Rasselus Naftel Ramer Utz! ~~ whew!) ~~ Actually I have no idea where it could have come from

....maybe I'm possessed by the ghost of Blanche Dubois???

Yes, Z...we are settlers struggling to last until Dan'l (Boone) and Mingo return.

we're fadin' fast....

...or the ghost of Foghorn Leghorn.....!

....I'm teetering, I'm teetering.....

Yes, I can see the Andy Griffith connection. You probably got your inspiration from the "My Fair Earnest T." episode. "How do you do, Mrs. Wilder". Classic!

Are any of you other Maddicts teetering?

....teeter.....teeter....

....help ~

Z, any sign of the Captain yet????

And you were so right up there, Drink -- (I'm too tired to type the entire Colonel names list! ha) --"we hit BORED at least five months ago"....truer words were never typed.

Speaking of Earnest T....did you read the "1964?" thread posted way back there at the end of April by DD?

It had quite a few "Andy Griffith" memories from all us pathetic bored-out-of-our-minds Maddicts (we have MMD Syndrome -- Mad Men Deprivation -- oh the misery! -- and we're doing the best we can considering our affliction, right??)

It has "The Ballad of Andy and Barney" and some of the songs by the Darlings (..."That Made 'Em Cry)" from "The Andy Griffith Show Book" (a modern classic)....and lots of fun memories by a lot of us....funny stuff...

Now, the question is ~~ are you bored enough to scroll all that way back??

lol

When you hear the distant strains of "The Irish Washerwoman" floating on the air, you'll know the cavalry is on its way.

We here at Fort Apache are a mighty weary band, but we've held down the fort this long, and I reckon we can hold on a might longer. Just hope the Colonel doesn't run out of tobaccy and his sippin' whiskey....things might get ugly.

Ha Ha, z!

We might have to have a foraging expedition to see if we can find some o' that "wacky tobaccy" if it comes to that! Anyone seen any strange looking shrubbery around here? We might luck out yet....

Now, as fer that sippin' whiskey...Drink? Is that still of your'n still distillin'??? Time to cut up some more taters, I guess.

...well, it worked for Hawkeye and Trapper....

just for fun (I actually made this Coffee Liquor (over on the left blue side area) one time for Christmas gifts...not too bad!)

http://www.ehow.com/how_4962615_homemade-hard-liquor.html

.....Hic.....

...it was the Kahlua (not the Coffee Liquor...although they seem similar in reading the recipes) I made...and it was good!

....Urp....

What were the name so the ladies in Andy G that made the "recipe" loved that episode. SCfan you must also be channeling a little hank williams jr. Wasn't he called bocefus too. Anyhoo I love your hillbilly stuff.

Chelsea, the Fun Girls on Andy Griffith were named Daphne and Skippy. And Barney's girlfriend that he dated on the side (when he was going with Thelma Lou; even Barney cheats, I'm afraid) was Juanita, the waitress at the diner. I can't think of the recipe ladies' names. Weren't they sisters?

Thanks Mambo. The recipe ladies were spinster sisters. Yeah that Barney was a ladies man.

.....You guys are nutty-good.

Sometimes we feel like a nut . . .

Hidey, Chelsea and Mambo... Why, I do believe ol' Hank Jr. (the ORIGINAL Bocephus!) did get in there somehow (during the channeling of old Andy Griffith stuff, Foghorn Leghorn, and Blanche Dubois& Beverly Hillbillies (!) crap) I just hope it's all departed my brain...enough is enough.....

Are those sisters making "the recipe" on AG show where that idea (The Baldwin sisters) came from on The Waltons,do you think?

That's another good old show (The Waltons)....there's a clip on YouTube of John Boy and Grandpa in a hot tub and they jump up to hop out... and are bare-butted! There's blurring over their butts, of course....must have been an outtake....sorta funny...although it looks staged to me.

Wish it was August.....sigh.....

I remember Michael Lerned (Mama Walton) on a talk show back then talking about how shocked she was to discover Will Geer was actually naked in the bathtub in one scene she had to do with him. I think that was on Dinah Shore's talk show. He harrumphed back at her something about being an ACTOR, and since he would not normally take a bath in swim trunks, he certainly wasn't going to spoil the reality of the scene just for her modesty.

So I guess we have to ask ourselves just how much of an ACTOR is Jon Hamm? Was he naked under that pink towel and in all those scenes under the sheets? If so, those actresses in the scenes with him deserve some major awards....I don't think I could even remember my lines if I was in the same room with a naked Jon Hamm....in fact, they would have to call for makeup 'cause I know I would be drooling....I am 59 years old - I should be ashamed of myself.....but I'm not.

Oh brother, z...your mind works the same as mine...Naked Actor....Jon Hamm....a completely natural progression of thought, no?

Yes, that would be distracting (to say the least!) to act with him ~~ in bed~~ if he was naked....and I'm 58...and no, not ashamed at all...uh...just need a drool bucket/towel... uh, fill that bucket with ice water to pour over my head...there, that's better.....sigh...

..."Makeup!!" (remember Milton Berle yelling that and the guy would rush in with a gigantic powder puff and plaster him with it??)

Jon Hamm and the Pink Towel....oooooooWWeeeeeee!