Yes, but… what does “rea’ly” mean?
That word doesn’t appear in any of my dictionaries, and I have never previously seen that… word.
So do I, but every time I watch The Andy Griffith show, I have to wonder why their patrol car was apparently always slathered with Cosmoline. The Mayberry patrol car was always a brand new model for each year of TV production, but their paint never had any gloss.
Was this to avoid “flare” in the camera lens?
Obviously their own world view is in line with a large portion of the population. If not it wouldn’t sell.
I always figured it was NC and they were driving around on dirt roads all the time so the cars always had a layer of dust on them. I’ll have to xxxxpay closer attention now.
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I bet that was it, to avoid multiple reflections of lights on the set.
I watched the same episode last night, and laughed and laughed. Especially when the pig was upset and went under the floorboards. Reminded me of a a dog that behaved like that, anything not to his exact liking that happened, under the coffee table, and nearly impossible to extract. I enjoyed Lisa’s line when she said “Oliver, the Ziffles are here to insult you”. When she really meant “here to consult you”. lol… In my tween-age years I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy that episode. Tween-age me as I recall didn’t even understand the line from the intro “I just enjoy a fan-taz view”. I always wondered what that meant. But geezer-me enjoys the occasional surreal comedy where the characters are more like caricatures. Sort of like Punch and Judy. Gilligan’s and Hillbillies no longer hold my attention, but Green Acres, somehow it does. At least through the first 20 or so episodes of the first season. I like Hank Kimball’s Jeep too. Sort of has a post-modern design. Plus it looks like it just came from the show-room. The pig dining right at the table at the fancy New York dinner, that’s just to remind the viewer not to take it seriously.
When my daughter was young and I still had the physical ability to work on my cars, I would ask her to come “help” me. As she got older she lost interest in it, and we stopped that activity.
Is that show any good? I watched a couple of minutes but got turned off by the fumbling teenage romance part. Or is fumbling teenage romance the entire subject?
I know. Sometimes I don’t want to be on this planet anymore either. 
That photo of the bus folks camping on the pavement next to the road reminds me of a funny story. When I was a kid my folks decided to drive us kids from Colorado to Los Angeles to go to Disneyland. None of my brothers or sisters had said they wanted to go to Disneyland so I have no idea why they decided to do this. But we loaded up the truck/camper and away we went. Everything was going smoothly until we hit San Bernadino, when my eyes started itching like crazy I could barely see. Smog. This was early 60’s. My dad’s eyes were bothering him too. So apparently thinkin this was still Colorado — I’m not making this up – he pulls the truck over to the side of the freeway, parks on the shoulder of the freeway, and says we’re all to get into the camper and take a nap. … lol … Now even little-kid me thought this wasn’t such a good idea, what with the traffic buzzing by at 70 mph a few feet away from the truck. But I just did as told. After about 10 minutes we hear a knock on the camper door. “Police, Open up!!” … lol … As you might expect the policeman explained to my dad that taking a nap beside the freeway – while it might be OK in Colorado – it isn’t an LA-thing, and not to do it any more. No harm done fortunately, and Disneyland was more fun than expected. I enjoyed the Long Beach beach scene, swimming in the ocean and all, better though.
Gee I dunno, maybe we glamped. When we camped we used a pop up complete with heat and electricity and it’s own water supply. We favored camping at Jellystone Camp grounds with Yogi and his friends, or at Disney’s Fort Wilderness. They all had pretty good accommodations. I didn’t have air conditioning though so on one humid day at Disney, the wife decided we would camp at hotels instead in the future. So I dismantled and parted out the camper. No regrets but campfires were fun. I did see a snake once so maybe we really did camp.
I used to tell people my Wife’s idea of camping was if the Holiday Inn had a tree.
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If you look close at that RV above, it’s at a race track. You see rigs like this all over the place even at SCCA races that don’t pay out much money. And for the teams that have the money, they make sense. You’re on the road a lot during a race season, and you don’t really care about the authenticity of the camping experience. You just want a comfortable place to crash at the end of a long day beating on a race car.
#1 comedy of all time…so yea it’s good.
What teenage romance? I think the youngest character is 25. The main male characters are research PHd’s (except one who only has a Masters) at Caltec. Two of the female characters have PHd’s. And one of the female actresses actually has a PHd in neuroscience from UCLA.
When my kids were younger the Jellystone Camp grounds were our go to place. Lot of organized activities for the kids. They loved it.
My ‘favorite’ memory of camping was at a campground in Alaska. We had just spent the night in a tent, in the rain. As we got up to put away the still wet tent, we looked across the campground to a Tioga RV with the folks drinking coffee at their dinner table, soon to eat a nice hot breakfast…we would have happily traded places!
Camping is definitely a more civilized experience if you got a nice dry, comfy place to sleep up off the ground and out of the weather. I’ve camped using tents from time to time, but most of my camping has been done with a truck/camper arrangement. It’s not too much of a burden to have to carry water from the campground faucet to the camper, so not much need for a built-in water tank, but it’s nice to have a propane stove and fridge inside the camper fed from a propane bottle stored in the space provided by the truck’s wheel well. When camping with friends who use tents, the tent dwellers, especially the ladies, and even more so if it is raining, much envy my camper method. Those big RV’s and trailers are nice once you get them to the campground and set up, but it isn’t always such a pleasant experience moving them from one campground to the next. My friends got their trailer stuck between two trees on a camping trip one time, took most of the weekend to extract it.
Saw this this morning. It appears not to be behind the paywall. These guys were actually glamping, while pretending otherwise:
If you had the same problem as I did; i.e. the Wall Street Journal website won’t let you view the link above, I was able to read it by Googling “the invention of the summer road trip” .
Obviously Miss Caroline’s portfolio requires her to keep a close track on the market @George_San_Jose1.
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