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Offline Pigmeat

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It makes you wonder what became of Andy Devine, doesn't it?

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Had to look him up. He's the 'Andy' in the song on 'One size fits all'. How interesting! Good tune/Album for those who haven't heard....

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Pigmeat do you remember Andy's Gang ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtmR-cCjn0
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"Plunk yer magic twanger, Froggy!"

I saw it in re-runs sponsored by the local "Buster Brown Shoe Store" in the early 60's. Our Buster Brown store shared a building with Western Auto. When their "Red Ball Express" sneakers hit the market their slogan was "Run faster and jump higher!". In 1964 to promote the brand, they strapped a guy into a jet pack in an empty lot behind the building. He flew over the building and scorched the Hell out of couple of antique cars at the street fair.

I wore Buster Brown's to school and church. Red Ball Express? They weren't P.F. Flyers, my normal playground kicks. In the summer we went barefoot. "Aaw Ma! I don't need no shoes!"

Fansome had hooves, we had to take him across the river to get shoed once a year by the blacksmith.

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I always suspected Al was a satyr!
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Satyr? Yeah, he can write it all, fiction, non-fiction, plays, poems and all the rest of that junk. Cypherin' is his top skill. He can figure out train schedules and racing forms at the same time.

My real exposure to Andy Devine came from old cowboy movies on cable access. I lived in a place where you were lucky to get two channels due to terrain. In the mid-late 60's a friend's Dad started a cable company, seven channels, plus the access one. It was a modern miracle.

The guy and his best friend, the local HS sports announcer loved old cowboy movies. They showed those old two and three reel serial westerns from the 30's, with cliff hanger endings, between 6 and 8 p.m. on weekday nights. Andy was in probably a third of them as either a sidekick or a bad guy.

The guy who owned the cable company and his buddy were more entertaining than a lot of those films. They started with a bit of buzz and got drunker as the show went on. The mistakes in the films were a real hoot. Our heroes of the Old West would be saving wagon trains from wild Natives, while you could see cars and trucks going up and down highways in the far background. Why those settlers didn't take the bus is beyond me?

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That reminds me....we haven't heard Orbital Mind Control Satellite in quite some time! It would be nice to see if they are still around! Hopefully they haven't been captured by the Plutonium Underground  :-\

Orbital Mind Control Satellite was/is one of the best pirate stations, ever, with Commander Bunny following at a close second.

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Which Commander Bunny? I had the honors in the Radio Al Fansome broadcasts. Easiest damned station I ever did. While I'd be looking at the reports thinking of QSL ideas, Al's own pre-printed ones would be hitting DX'er's mailbox's starting on Monday. That man is a wonder!

There were at least three I know of, the original Radio Bunny, tapes of which were supposedly found by the second Commander Bunny, of the WBNY you guys know, at a yard sale.

Those are the three Commander Bunny's I know of. It wouldn't surprise if there weren't more? That voice was dead easy to do.

If anyone else wants to be the Dread Pirate Bunny, feel free!

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Which Commander Bunny? I had the honors in the Radio Al Fansome broadcasts. Easiest damned station I ever did. While I'd be looking at the reports thinking of QSL ideas, Al's own pre-printed ones would be hitting DX'er's mailbox's starting on Monday. That man is a wonder!

There were at least three I know of, the original Radio Bunny, tapes of which were supposedly found by the second Commander Bunny, of the WBNY you guys know, at a yard sale.

Those are the three Commander Bunny's I know of. It wouldn't surprise if there weren't more? That voice was dead easy to do.

If anyone else wants to be the Dread Pirate Bunny, feel free!

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Have fun storming the secret base!
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Have fun storming the secret base!

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Trejo is in? That means Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent are in, too. If they can get Robbie Kneivel and his motorcycle daredevil  buddies up to help, they won't have to storm the gates. Robbie and his friends will jump those puny fences, then blast the gates open from the inside.

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I put "interested"
I figured it was a joke, sorta like the "Stevie Wonder Performing Live At Eyeglass World" sorta thing. But I thought it would be funny to follow

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I just want to say that pirating is illegal, and the idea of my participation is just preposterous.

Which Commander Bunny? I had the honors in the Radio Al Fansome broadcasts. Easiest damned station I ever did. While I'd be looking at the reports thinking of QSL ideas, Al's own pre-printed ones would be hitting DX'er's mailbox's starting on Monday. That man is a wonder!

There were at least three I know of, the original Radio Bunny, tapes of which were supposedly found by the second Commander Bunny, of the WBNY you guys know, at a yard sale.

Those are the three Commander Bunny's I know of. It wouldn't surprise if there weren't more? That voice was dead easy to do.

If anyone else wants to be the Dread Pirate Bunny, feel free!

You've got to turn the transmitter on to violate the law, Al. Being a weirdo that mails out QSL's isn't an offense. However, the FBI might want to talk to you about that box outside your trailer and who you kept in it? There's no statute of limitations on kidnapping or false imprisonment.

BTW, have you seen Capt. Ron lately?

Scotty, do you remember the "Save Ronnie Milsap's  Eye" movement in the country music world of the 1980's? The man was blind as bat from birth, there was nothing to save! The country music industry in Nashville is worse than a nest of TV preachers.