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David Mitchell

Bonnie,

Thanks for the correction. I thought you were the eldest daughter.  

And as for the real kiss - OMG - I had completely forgotten that!  Too funny!

And that is probably what caused my blackout. Now I can laugh even harder when I think back on it. I have a photo of the two of us in makeup and costume taken right after that last night by my mother, but cannot find it. Darn - It's a doozie!

Remember Sister C. made us all watch the black and white 1940 Hollywood version of the story, and it's the first time I was ever really aware of who Lawrence Olivier and Greer Garson were. I became a bit a of an old film buff because of those two. I don't think either one of them ever made a bad film. 

p.s. What do you mean - you had a boyfriend?  You never told me you were seeing someone else on the side!    I am completely undone girl!

Michael McLeod

All I want to know is: where was I when Dave Mitchell was making out with all the hotties? Look at this picture. Just look at it. The bangs. The narrow tie. What's not to like?

James Hamilton, M. D.

OK, it is winter, even though that does not officially begin until 21 December 2016. We had our first measurable snowfall here in Colorado Springs this past week - quite late for us. So it is time to think about winter stuff. Thus, here is a classic picture of winter, taken in - well, let's just say somewhere in Watterson's domain.

What is this?

Where is this?

What is the nearest BWHS "feeder parish" to this place? Hint: You can navigate to this church from here without going through any Irish cities.   

How many of our 1966 classmates graduated from this parish's grade school?

What kind of ducks are these? (Yeah, they are dumb ducks to be out for a swim in this freezing water! And yes, the photographer was not too smart either for being out there at 15 degrees with a chill factor close to zero!)

Jim

Fred Clem

Jim,

Hayden Falls,

St. Brendan the Navigator parish

0, did they have a school back then.

Cold duck?  No, that's a sparkling wine.

Fred

James Hamilton, M. D.

Fred,

Excellent as usual! You only missed the ducks.

The parish of St. Brendan the Navigator was not established until 1981 so NONE of our classmates graduated from there. It is on Dublin Road (an Irish name but not in the city of Dublin, Ohio - thus the hints which you obvisouly recognized).

They are Mallard Ducks, very common in Ohio and many other places.

Fred Clem

Jim,

St. Brendan parish was founded in 1957, 2 years after St. Andrew, but without a school.  We had quite a number of those children attending classes at St. Andrew. The school came much later. Today they actually feed into both Watterson and Ready. 

I was a member of St. Brendan in 2007 when they celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Fred

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Fredericks

Hi Jim....more precisely, a drake and a hen mallard.

Dave F.

David Mitchell

MIke, I'm guessing with those bangs you needed a British accent. Or at least some skill with a guitar.

(and actually, I don't think I ever kissed a girl before Junior year - and damn few after that)

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Mike,

Speaking of girls, I had one really funny shared memory at our reunion. I was flying into Columbus that afternoon on a flight from my helicopter squadron reunion in Texas the night before. We landed to the west, and as we dropped down over Steltzer Road on short final, I had a memory that hadn't crossed my mind in years.

Litzinger and I had a double date with Carolyn Winchester and Beth Broadhurst (Tom with Carolyn & I with Beth). We were so full of ourselves and our own cleverness that we decided to take them out to watch some planes land as we parked along Steltzer Road and then surprise them with a visit to the dog cemetary out near there. It was pretty corny and I don't think the girls thought it was all that cool. It was Tom's idea first, but I bought it, thinking the novelty of it would really impress the girls - yea, right!  

So I'm at the reunion, walking from the Mass across to the reception hall and Beth comes running up to me yelling, "Dave Mitchell, do you remember the night we went to the pet cemetary?"  We laughed together, and I wanted to say something about how impressed she must have been because it was the only date we ever had together. I had quite a few "one and done" dates back then. They must have all been fast learners.

I think that ranks somewhere up close to the time I had Tess over to my house to help me rake leaves.

David Mitchell

Jim,

The photos look great. Are you shooting with your new K-1 yet? I'm dreaning of the day I can affort to get back into the hobby, but it will be with one of the new Fuji-X systems. Love the new "old" analogue contols, and their color pallette is gorgeous. And best lens selection of any maker.

Also, what kind of printer do you use? Some of those expensive "pro" Epsons and Canons do fantastic blowups.

James Hamilton, M. D.

David M.

Thanks for the kind words. I am still using my Sony A-700 DSLR, have not yet spent the $$ to get the K-1 but that is still my next camera of choice (full frame sensor). Sometimes I use a Sony DSC-F828 with a fixed (Zeiss zoom) lens. My printer is a Canon Pro 9000 that I bought 8 years ago but it is a workhorse with 8 ink cartridges and does everything I ask of it. It can print up to 13" x 19" photographs plus rolls for large panos and is programmable for many different paper textures. Epson also makes great pro printers but I had one bad experience with a non-pro epson several years ago so I stick with Canons.

Fuji is making some great cameras and you certainly could not go wrong with that line. Their X systems are highly rated by several photographic publications.

Jim

Bonnie Jonas (Jonas-Boggioni)

To Dave Mitchell & Poppa (Mike):  How humiliating that our Kiss was so forgetable...it is probably that you were so traumatized by forgetting your line you blanked out everything about it!  Seeing someone else behind your back was probbly a good thing - you didn't want to kiss me anyway!  (Besides, I married him! But later divorced him, too!)

AND, Mike, THANK you for considering me a "hottie!"  But, you were my Poppa after all!  Momma would not have approved!)

Timothy Lavelle

Jim, I am almost embarrassed to post this photo of the recent change of weather here in Mossyrock...but you know that, in truth,I have never been too embarrassed to do almost anything for a grin.

Before I do try to post this picture, if anyone has ever read Spoon River Anthology - a real oldee - I want to mention that our "Mark of Hollywood" has written a play that incorporates some of that book. It's really enjoyable.  

I haven't been writing but I have been reading. So to all the questions, my answer is "yes". If you didn't ask, the answer is "yes" anyway.  If you are Mary Margaret, you are as special as you ever have been. I mean, you know, for a conservative fanatic....

I offer a new topic. Not girls; not conflict; how about favorite comedians we all loved as kids. There was a fat guy and a skinny guy...the fat guy told a very sad story...the skinny guy wept and said "O, what a terrible-cats-after-me". Of course you know who they were...hell, we all know who they were but who were your favorites? What did they say. I'd love to hear what some of the clowns and non-clowns recall.

Tough one...maybe even tough for Fred The Memory who came up with a little known restaurant I used to get to enjoy with my folks (Atta Boy, Freddie)...no internet searching...too easy...who was The Banana Man? What was his act - c'mon now, how hard can that be?? - and what made him exceptionally weird? Do you recall the show????

I thought I wrote "OK, here goes" before I pasted this larger-than- I wanted-it-to-be shot. Maybe the over-large shot covered that text??  The man made, with snow still on the fence wire and post tops, set against the natural background punched my ticket. OUT. Tim

James Hamilton, M. D.

Janie Albright (Blank)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uaw3WIOlc&sns=em

Drug humor- the Hippie Dippy Weatherman. Lol. George Carlin

Timothy Lavelle

Janie...just spent the last hour listening to the link you posted and a few others that followed it. One was Carlin and Richard Pryor on Johnny Carson...ad lib hilarious.

I wonder if our humor evolves or is altered by our lives. JIm mentioned Lucille Ball and John Belushi...one I loved and one I simply could not stand...makes me wonder if humor can be ruined by someone pushing it on you. My mother loved Lucy and it became a staple that I thought was just too slap stick for words. But fat man and skinny man were as slap stick as they get and I loved them.  To. carry that a step forward, I came home on R & R from Saudi Arabia at one point, all happy and such and when I got off the plane I saw the headline that Belushi was dead. I wasn't sorry, I was angry as hell. At him and anyone around him that alowed him to die when he still had so many laughs to give me! Such talent foolishly flushed for a buzz.

For me...the evolution...Fat n Skinny...then A n C...then my oldest brother...then J. G....then J. B. and B H. As I grew up I loved Carlin and Pryor as I was counter-culture "all the way Man!" but I actually walked out of a Carlin show at Vets Memorial (I think it was) as his whole act in those late years devolved into seeing how many times he could use the "F" in front of college audiences who ate it up. Really boring.

As a clown, an empty pot for attention to fill, I have loved all kinds of humor but not all humor. Jim is right that some guys/gals have an edge I don't find all that interesting. I know it is probably pathetic, maybe sexist of me but when I hear woman use extremely vulgar language on stage I wince. Although off stage......

I am going to wait and not write anymore until someone remembers The Banana Man.

Fred, c'mon man...McLid....Jocko...somebody....Debbie, Linda, yeh - Mike Hill, hit me up with some Banana Man, I need more Banana Man. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANKIE.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Tim,

Yeah, Lucy was a lot of slapstick and her TV show was a staple for my parents and most of their whole generation. But if you think about it, most comedy in those early days of television was slapstick. I would imagine that our parents' generation was transitioning from totally audible comedy (i.e. radio) to a new brand of visual (TV) comedy and the comedians had to adapt to that media also. Additionally, that generation's sense of humor was totally different from what we enjoyed and ours is different from what the college kids and millenials like. I know when I view one of the old "I Love Lucy" or other '50's comedy shows, they don't seem as funny as they were to me back then. I also thought that "Laugh In" tried to bridge the gap between slapstick and stand up comedy.

Forgot to mention that I was once a "Hee Haw" fan. Not cool, right? But they did have some good country music on that show.

Jim

Fred Clem

Two of my all time favorite comedians are Buckeyes!

Tim Conway was funny on "McHale's Navy" but the skits on "The Carol Burnett Show" were classics.  His ad libs would often break up the other cast members.  He is from the Cleveland area.

Jonathan Winters performance in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is hilarious.  Nearly every comedy star of the era was in that movie, but Winters role was my favorite. His frequent appearances on "The Tonight Show" were always fun.  He was from Bellbrook (just south of Dayton) but his first TV job was @ WBNS here in Columbus.

Fred

David Mitchell

Tim, great topic!

We used to watch the comedians my parents watched. Dad loved George Gobel, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason. Mom liked some early sitcoms and so we watched the Danny Thomas Show, The Phil Silvers Show, and George Burns and Gracie Allen. I also liked Sid Ceasar, and Red Skelton.

I watched Laurel and Hardy on Saturday mornings (right after The Lone Ranger, Mighty Mouse, and Fury) as a kid, and still love them to this day - silent, or with sound. They were simply artists - like Charlie Chaplin (who I never learned to appreciate until I was middle-aged, watching him on the Disney channel with my kids) - pure genius!  And so was W.C. Fields.   

I loved the young early Woody Allen (doing stand-up on Ed sullivan). And Elaine May and Mike Nichols were awfully good together. One of the more enjoyable periods was when we would buy, the "albums" of Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters. We'd sit around at our cottage up at Lake Erie with family and our guests and laughed together as a family for hours. Newhart's phone call from Admiral Doubleday calling Madison Avenue, trying to explain his new game called "Baseball". The driving instructor. And the submarine Captain's speech to his crew. Wonderful stuff. 

I liked George Carlin early but he lost me when he had to make such a point of doing "blue". The shock value thing never grabbed me as being funny. He did a season (1972) on the John Byner Show, a Canadian comedian's summer show that was really funny.  

I still think Richard Pryor was a genius - loved him. And of course Robin Williams. I watched Robin Williams years ago in an interview and he could mix two accents, and two personas at the same time. He was answering the questions in a Shakespearian Hamlet style with a John Wayne accent and the interviewer was laughing so hard he could hardly keep asking the questions. He may have been thee best of them all in my book.

Does anybody remember those totally wierd shows of Ernie Kovaks? (and his smoking hot wife who did the cigar comercials after he died and left her broke?)

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P.s. Bob Hope is still a hero to me. I got to see his show live at Dong Tam (on the Mekong) on the day after Christmas 1968. He had Ann Margret, Jonny Bench, and Miss World from Australia. Ann Margret really knocked us out! 

David Mitchell

Fred,

Didn't Jonathan Winters have his own 30-minute live show from Dayton way back in the 50's?

David Mitchell

Tim,

I fogot to try my guess at the Banana Man. Was he the wierd guy on Captain Kangaroo who used to pull all kinds of junk out of his huge coat?

And I also forgot about "Soupy Sales" - and White Fang and Black Tooth. Dumb, but funny.

Fred Clem

Dave,

Jonathan Winters was a radio personality in the Dayton/Springfield market.  I don't recall him having a regular TV show in Dayton.

Fred

David Mitchell

Bonnie,

Please don't take offense at my fogetfulness. My memory is so bad anymore I can hardly remember where I'm going once I get in the car. And I get up from the couch to go back to the kitchen to get something and by the time I walk the 20 feet, I forget what the hell it was that I got up for.  

And it wasn't that I didn't want to kiss you. It was that I didn't want to kiss anybody in font of all those people - least of all my parents.