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    CP wrote --   
      
   > damn, sorry. . . I hads a perfect pet, too -- Punkin, also passed on. . .   
   I've never missed a pet so much -- she was the pefect blend of cat, dog,    
   playful, & cuddly, & alweays knew which to beat any given time.. .   
      
     Blanche was the same way.  She was the only cat I knew that came when   
   called.   
     She was indoor/outdoor cat.   
     When evening came she would be in back and I would go out on the back   
   steps (I live on the third floor) and call out "Blanche!"  She would turn to   
   look and I just had to say "Beddy" and up the stairs she ran.   
     Her adopted sister Molly McGee (named after the radio character) could   
   care less about anything past the apartment door.   
     Her "sister" Muffy, whom I had before Molly, was the same.   
     I would take Muffy on car trips with me, sans carrier.  She put up a fuss   
   and would lay under the front seat mewing all the time.  She had food, water   
   and her box on the floor of the back seat.   
     Once I stopped at a roadside picnic area in Ohio after visiting a cousin   
   in the Detroit area.  She flew out of the car and headed for the woods and   
   tall grass.   
     After about a half hour I called and called and no reply.   
     Finally I said loud enough for her to hear, (she hadn't gone far, never   
   did) "Well, I can't find her, I guess I'll just have to leave her here to   
   fend for herself.  Hope some big animal doesn't eat her" and slowly walked   
   towards the car.  She came out of th   
      When in the car if on the highway she was under the seat.  But in stop   
   and go traffic she would get between my feet and the pedals. :)   
      
   > When I play poker(& other games)   
      
     I've never been good at card games, other than solitaire.  :)   
      
   > Pretty much as TV began -- they grabbed the best of radio & put them to work    
      
     There was a joke in the late '40s that vaudeville didn't really die, it   
   just moved to television.     
     Some shows were not adaptable to tv simply due to the the constraints of   
   the time.  It was much cheaper and easier to broadcast a live show than a   
   filmed one.  (Tape didn't come along until the late '50s).     
      Some shows were kinoscoped where basically a film camera was placed in   
   front of a monitor so whatever went over the air was filmed.  Those are the   
   ones we have to day.  The quality wasn't always the best but with all sorts   
   of inference (snow, wavy lines, e   
     On radio a few words set the scene, but on tv they had to provide the   
   scenes.   
     On radio: I'm going to walk over to that door and see if it opens, with   
   footsteps heard.   
     On tv: the actor walks across the room and opens the door.   
     There is a reason radio was "the theatre of the mind".   
      
   > I'm especiallyl awed by those giys who could make ANT sound effect,   
   uwithout  technology, on demand, to make a radio show (whether a short comedy,   
   or a longer story("The Shadow" I used to listen to in the '70s, & others.)   
      
     Sound men were the unsung heroes of radio.   
     While actors had the words written out for them and they provided the   
   inflection etc, the sound men had to come up with the sounds that were needed.    
   Some were standard sounds everyone used (ball bearings in a bowl for   
   breaking glass, rattling a thin metal    
     And there were times a sound didn't work, such as gun that jammed or   
   something.   
     There is a story of a murder mystery where this guy was to be shoot.   
     The actor read his lines, but the gun jammed.  Immediately the quick   
   thinking actor said, "No, I wouldn't shot you, I'll stab you instead".   
     There is much disagree on whether or not this actually happened, or any   
   show, etc.  Its sort of a urban legend.   
     Joe   
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