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Thread #77800   Message #1392125
Posted By: Jim Tailor
29-Jan-05 - 06:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Stop Blaming The Republicans!
Subject: RE: BS: Stop Blaming The Republicans!
LOL!

I love that episode of Andy Griffith where the good folk of Mayberry are putting together a choir. The director can't quite figure out why they sound so awful.....but somebody's off key.

So the director walk around the choior as they are singing, smiling at the lovely sopranos, the altos, a bass or two -- each singing their parts perfectly on key.

Then the camera pans to Barney Fife just caterwalling at the top of his voice -- totally oblivious to the dischord.

When the director stops the choir's singing and addresses the situation that, "Someone among us is off key", Barney hitches up his trousers with his elbows, gives that sniff and knowing smirk that, of course it is not he who is at fault -- but he's more than willing to help the others figure out the culprit.

Frank's posts are the Barney Fife of this thread. And I fear that there is no Gomer Pyle waiting in the wings to sing over him (if you remember the episode)