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11-20-2005, 10:07 AM
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Dewey
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New Evidence
A recently discovered lost episode from Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" shows naturalist Jim Fowler trying to subdue a CRAZED prong-horn jackalope. Marlin Perkins was heard to say "try giving it a carrot Jim."
Fortunately Jim had good insurance.
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12-03-2005, 09:35 PM
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Rivet Master 
2020 30' Flying Cloud
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Originally Posted by Rog0525
Mark and Kimber, thanks a ton for verifying my information.....If you should see Molly again, please convey my undying love and best wishes along with my apology for putting that rubber snake in her sleeping bag.
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Your post has provided me with an incredible motivation to return to the truck stop and share your long-held feelings with Molly.
I have managed to make the multi-hundred mile trip to the truck stop, and you will be comforted to know that your putting the rubber snake in her sleeping bag has not deterred her feelings.
Her response can be paraphrased by "oh contraire, monfrair". I didn't want to interrupt here, but I do believe that to be a movie quote. It appears that she has always held the perspective that you were acting as a middle-school-aged boy would act to a girl. Meaning that the snake in her sleeping bag actually gave her hope that you had feelings for her.
I don't know if her obvious feelings for you are true or if they are related to a feeling of despair, knowing that you can pull her out of the reality that she lives on a daily basis. I'm sure she would love to have you pull her into a world of not worrying about rent and food on the table. It is an interesting human experiment to look at her current attractive appearance, and wonder if having money would have treated her body different. If she had money, would she have retained a figure that is desired even by a 20 year old male on spring break? Would her flirting really increase her tips by such a large amount if she were a "healthy" looking woman?
An example of what I mean to say is... in grad school, I had a Chinese National tell me I was "fat". To her that was the ultimate compliment. To me, well let's just say I wasn't all that flattered.
What she was trying to do was give me a compliment, as rich people in China are "healthy" (as I like to call it) in her experience, and only the rich are able to afford enough food to be "healthy". The poor do not have enough money to over-eat and become "healthy". Of course, as an American, being called "fat" wasn't the happiest point in my life.
But I digress, she is greatly disappointed to hear that you have sold the jackalope business, as in her eyes this was her ticket out of serving the (fill in the blank) at the truck stop.
The sparkle in her eyes, as I told her that you still loved her, was a wonderful thing to experience. It nearly compared to the watching the sun set as you are in Negril, Jamaica.
So I don't know if this has helped, but she would love to have you walk in the truck stop and take her away.
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-03-2005, 11:26 PM
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Tom, the Uber Disney Fan
2006 30' Safari
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Originally Posted by Rog0525
She no longer has a twinkle in her eye or a zip to her step, but she still remembers Perkins congratulating her on her giant rack.
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Truth is she has one additional thing from that "episode": a love child named Jim. Yes, she and Jim conceived a love child that very night in Marlon's tent as Marlon watched after he had drug her back to his tent and was too exhausted to, well you know, so he called Jim to do all of the physical stuff for him. Yes, that was in the early days back before viagra. 
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12-04-2005, 01:10 AM
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Well, I could go on and on......so I will. Jim and Molly took a vacation to Austrailia with their love child to escape the scandal. When things quieted down, they returned to the states and went their separate ways. They left the boy with a nice couple in Queensland who owned a wildlife zoo. They renamed him Steve. The plan was to bring the boy home later but Steve fell in love with the Australian wildlife (especially the crocodiles) and refused to leave.
Steve and his lovely wife Teri (who coincidentally happens to be from the nortwestern USA) started their own tv show years later. Perhaps you've seen it and if so. you've probably noticed the uncanny resemblance between Jim Fowler and Steve Irwin. So now you have it.....the rest of the story.
As for Molly and me, well.....thinking of the world's best cherry pie does make me drool a little, so who knows?
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May you camp where wind won’t hit you, where snakes won’t bite and bears won’t git you.
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12-04-2005, 06:02 AM
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Rivet Master
1993 30' Excella
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Originally Posted by sovereignrwe
An example of what I mean to say is... in grad school, I had a Chinese National tell me I was "fat". To her that was the ultimate compliment. To me, well let's just say I wasn't all that flattered.
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maybe she meant you were "phat".....
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The only true nobility is found through giving good food to your friends- Anton Careme
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder-cosmo fishhawk
if something is too good to be true, its usually gone before i get there-mister boffo
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12-07-2005, 06:53 PM
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Rivet Master
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Originally Posted by norbert
maybe she meant you were "phat".....
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The funny thing is that I'm built more like a linebacker at 245 than that hippo that Jim saved Marlin from.
Ah I miss those innocent Sunday evenings/nights of 60 Minutes and Mutual of Omaha. Throwing in Maverick, the Muppet Show and Walt Disney for good measure.
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-07-2005, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by sovereignrwe
Ah I miss those innocent Sunday evenings/nights of 60 Minutes and Mutual of Omaha. Throwing in Maverick, the Muppet Show and Walt Disney for good measure.
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What about BONANZA!
duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-DA-DA
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12-07-2005, 07:35 PM
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This thread has headed off in a truely weird direction. Funny as hell, just...weird.
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12-08-2005, 12:11 PM
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Rivet Master
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Ah yes....Hoss, Adam, Little Joe, Hop Sing, and of course, Ben.
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-08-2005, 12:42 PM
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Rivet Master
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Mark and Kimber,
I think you are kidding me. Bonanza was off the air before you were old enough to get up and change the channel. You kids!
Another great Sundaqy night show was "The Twentieth Century" by Prudential, narrated by a young Walter Cronkite.
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12-08-2005, 12:56 PM
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Tikiman,
Your pic is obviously a 1968 national geographic xmas greeting card...I also believe that animal research may have been done in your coach!  Thanks for sharing...cloud
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12-08-2005, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by markdoane
What about BONANZA!
duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh duh-duh-DA-DA
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dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-DA-DA....dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-da-da
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Illegitimous noncarborundum(dont let the bastards wear you down)
The only true nobility is found through giving good food to your friends- Anton Careme
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder-cosmo fishhawk
if something is too good to be true, its usually gone before i get there-mister boffo
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12-08-2005, 04:31 PM
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Norby, have you taken your meds today?
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May you camp where wind won’t hit you, where snakes won’t bite and bears won’t git you.
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12-08-2005, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by norbert
dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-DA-DA....dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-dun-da-da-da-da
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Thank you. My wife will verify that I know absolutely nothing about music. I can't even get the hum right.
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12-08-2005, 06:49 PM
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Rivet Master
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Originally Posted by markdoane
Mark and Kimber,
I think you are kidding me. Bonanza was off the air before you were old enough to get up and change the channel. You kids!
Another great Sundaqy night show was "The Twentieth Century" by Prudential, narrated by a young Walter Cronkite. |
Ok Ok....yes I barely remember the Osmonds and Sunny and Cher, and know that the Mandrell sisters were on several years later. Yes, I admit that it is possible that I actually remember the reruns rather than the original Bonanza shows. 
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-08-2005, 07:04 PM
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Didn't Lowell Thomas (High adventure with Lowell Thomas) and Marlon Perkins had a tranquilizer shootout while filming a segment in Africa. I believe Lowell traveled in an Airstream and thought Marlon and Jim were wild game hiding in the bush. Lowell was known as an arm chair video photographer often found lounging outside his Overlander with a cool one in his hand. He was startled by the rustling in the bush which could have been Marlon instructing Jim to tranquilize the large silver beast for tagging. When the dart missed, deflating a tire, the fracas begin. Eventually both Marlon and Lowell were tranquilized and Jim made off with the Overlander that he took back to camp to show Molly. That is where the real action happened, not the tent. The rest of the story may be true to a point, as I remember being told by my great grandfather. I could be wrong, but the Overlander is where all this ties into the Airstream Forums and this incredibly
informative thread.
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12-08-2005, 07:14 PM
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Rivet Master
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... Eventually both Marlon and Lowell were tranquilized and Jim made off with the Overlander that he took back to camp to show Molly. That is where the real action happened, not the tent. ...
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I always wondered why Molly described the caribou as being silver. I never really understood that part. Now it makes perfect sence. It certainly does explain the fact that love child was named Jim (but went by "Wally") and was well known for being a bit of a roamer with a penchant for ground travel.
Wait for it...you'll get the ground reference eventually.
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-08-2005, 07:27 PM
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Rivet Master
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Man, I should get my facts straight before I end up starting rumors. Steve and Jim were actually brother's rather than renamed. Jim was older and Steve came just a short time later. Right around 12 months after Jim, I believe I remember Molly saying.
Molly claims that both children are Jim's, but I was reading the enquirer the other day and there was a debate about Steve being the love child of either Jack Hanna or "Siegfried and Roy". The enquirer didn't attempt to pick the father. They mentioned that the three animal lovers were rumored to have attended an international rally around 9 months before Steve's entrance into the world. Remembering correctly the artical talked about the rally being in the swamps of Florida that year.
Maybe someone has some information about Molly in her younger days. I haven't heard of Molly having any wild times. It is true she flirts well, but I was always of the impression that this was a survival technique designed to increase her tip cash flow, not a natural disposition.
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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12-08-2005, 08:49 PM
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3 Rivet Member 
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Moderator please don't bug me about not posting often. I can't play at this level. These people are proffessionals. Besides it's hard to type while laughing your posterior off.
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12-08-2005, 08:54 PM
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Rivet Master
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hehehehehe ....... denellen said "post.....erior"
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72 Sovereign: L couch, mid-twin, rear-bath "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
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