RIP Russel Johnson

[KK4AMI]

The "Professor" from "Gilligan's Island" just passed away. Just Ginger and Mary Ann left now.

[n2ize]

Sad to hear this. I have seen him in numerous movies, TV shows including the Twilight Zone, Superman & others. But of course he became famous for his role as "The Professor"... the logical thinking, level headed guy who apparently had a degree and expertise in every suubject known to man. Without The Professor and his knowledge and innovative skills the Islanders would not have managed as well as they did.

[NQ6U]

As smart as he was, it wasn't smart enough to realize that Mary Ann was hot for him, though. Poor bastid.

[NY4Q]

My current radio was built by The Professor out of palm tree parts, and sand.

RIP buddy!

[WØTKX]

Wasn't smart enough to fix a leaky boat, either. This was a major WTF for me watching the show as a kid. I also remember him from some cowboy gigs as well as the SciFi stuff.

He was a good actor, but he got typecast with the Gilligan Gig.

[n2ize]

Okay... I ask the eternal question that seems to have defied an answer for decades.... Ginger or Mary Anne ? Or both ?? Perhaps, on the island, Ginger and mary Anne were content with one another.

[NQ6U]

Okay... I ask the eternal question that seems to have defied an answer for decades.... Ginger or Mary Anne ?

Or, you could ask: Skipper or Little Buddy?

[kb2vxa]

More like the professor or little buddy, the skipper was too fat. As for the Ginger or Mary Ann question, we've already answered that. Some prefer their Italian boardwalk specially, the Teachizone with Ginger for a spicy touch, or Mary Ann for sweet. Those who were bugged about not fixing the boat, you missed the episode where the professor tried a patch and glue made from stuff growing on the island, the glue wasn't waterproof. Chemistry wasn't the professor's strong point, electronics was. I still can't make a microphone out of a coconut shell no matter how I try. I finally gave up after everybody said my audio sounded hollow, a hollow mic only works on a hollow state radio. (Hollow state is what the Boat Achchor Brigade calls tubes.)

[N2NH]

Ginger was too snobby. Mary Ann was hot. Daisy Dukes before Daisy Duke even wore them.

Now if you'd have asked Ginger AND Mary Ann, that's the ticket.

RIP Perfesser. Never did patch the SS Minnow, but made all those incredible labor and life saving re-inventions.

Gilligan was the bigger fool that we always talk about. If the Perfesser could invent it, Gilligan could screw it up.

[W5BRM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbr16NUVYA

[W9JEF]

That little radio must have needed fresh batteries from time to time.
Did the Professor know how to get electricity from a coconut?

http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/sb_gilligans_island_radio.jpg

Listening intently, but shouldn't the radio be facing them?

[W9JEF]

Okay... I ask the eternal question that seems to have defied an answer for decades.... Ginger or Mary Anne ? Or both ?? Perhaps, on the island, Ginger and mary Anne were content with one another.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/GINGER_0ce2ee_76161.jpg

They both made the casting couch cut. ;)

[n2ize]

Mary Ann was too snobby. Ginger was hot. Daisy Dukes before Daisy Duke even wore them.

I think it's the other way around. Mary Anne never struck me as being snobby at all. For the most part neither was Ginger, she was however somewhat pretentous. I liked Ginger out of my affinity for redheads. However I have read somewhere that the actress who played Ginger was rather snobby in real life. However, true this is I don't know, I can't judge another on gossip and rumours.

[n2ize]

More like the professor or little buddy, the skipper was too fat. As for the Ginger or Mary Ann question, we've already answered that. Some prefer their Italian boardwalk specially, the Teachizone with Ginger for a spicy touch, or Mary Ann for sweet.

From what I have heard Mary Anne is probably the more desireable of the two, particularly if you like smoking weed. Rumor has it that she has an affinity for the herb. In fact it appears Gilligan was a stoner as well. My guess is that the two of them had a private stash of the stuff growing somewhere on that island... Guess thats why they always came back laughing and in a good mood after taking those walks to the other side of the island.

[W9JEF]

From what I have heard Mary Anne is probably the more desireable of the two, particularly if you like smoking weed. Rumor has it that she has an affinity for the herb. In fact it appears Gilligan was a stoner as well. My guess is that the two of them had a private stash of the stuff growing somewhere on that island... Guess thats why they always came back laughing and in a good mood after taking those walks to the other side of the island.

I too, would be partial to Mary Ann (the way she looked back then). :)

But would you kick the either of them out of bed for eating crackers? ;)

[NQ6U]

But would you kick the either of them out of bed for eating crackers? ;)

Assuming that any of us here could have manged to end up in bed with either of them in the first place...

[N2NH]

I think it's the other way around. Mary Anne never struck me as being snobby at all. For the most part neither was Ginger, she was however somewhat pretentous. I liked Ginger out of my affinity for redheads. However I have read somewhere that the actress who played Ginger was rather snobby in real life. However, true this is I don't know, I can't judge another on gossip and rumours.

Ginger used to get Gilligan his pot. I mean, Dawn Wells used to get Bob Denver his weed.

[K7SGJ]

Assuming that any of us here could have manged to end up in bed with either of them in the first place...


In bed? IN BED? Shit, us old bastids would have been lucky just to have been walking down the opposite side of the street from them. And even then, we would have had a hard time seeing them due to shitty eyesight.

Just trying to put it all into perspective. (spelled "reality")

[kb2vxa]

Re JEF:
"But would you kick the either of them out of bed for eating crackers?"
Not if I were the cracker they were eating!

Of course the professor knew how to get electricity from a coconut, the milk is acidic. Just scrounge two dissimilar metals from the boat, stick them in a coconut and you have a battery that BTW is hidden under the table. The radio is facing away because TV shows and movies have been advertizing products for ages. Once upon a time that transistor portable looked familiar but it's been a while.

Dawn Wells, an ex Playboy centerfold was cute and cuddly, nice and friendly on camera but I have no idea how she was off camera. Hollywood gossip had it was Tina Louise was her snobby self off camera to which I can attest. Back in my CB daze I had a few chats with "Lil' Mae" at her uncle's house in Bedminster, NJ. He invited me over one day and when I got there I got the shock of my life when she answered the door, there was Tina Blacker standing in front of me grinning, It Dawn Wellsed on me it was well planned.

A few years later I had to fight my way through a crowd of horny little boys surrounding Bonny Lee in Glen Gardner from my station all the way out east in Rahway. When I rode up there to meet her with Ramblin' Jack, future WA2V (SK) I learned the little 17yo screwball's name was Bonny LeBakeley aka Bonny Lee Bakeley because she hated the name LeBakely. I also learned she was an amateur porn model using the name Bonny Lee which immediately sent up a red flag, they usually have some pretty nasty pimps so that was the one and only time I saw her and last time I bothered to compete with her horny locals stepping all over each other and me. Incidentally I was somewhat surprised when on late night TV she advertized "Bonny Lee's escort service", the one and only time I saw that commercial. I suppose station management realized what an escort service is. Star struck and golddigging she worked her way up through Jerry Lee "Killer" Lewis and married Robert Blake where she met her end in a dumpster. I'm pretty sure you remember her and read she was from Morristown, NJ but what the story never told was she was thrown out of the house by her abortionist father and mother as being incorrigible and went to live in her grandmother's trailer out in the woods behind Glen Gardner. The official story says she was raised by her but that's just another bit of sanitizing done to protect family honor, truth is she was a bad apple from an early age. I'm just a little reluctant to post some censored pictures of the amateur porn queen so I'll leave it to you to find them on Google Images if you're so inclined... at about a 45 degree angle.

No, my name isn't Rudy and I don't have a pink Bell 47 helicopter with an APU. It only goes to show that so many people are right, CB is a VERY strange place and you meet the strangest people. Some are surprising and some step right out of the Twilight Zone! Some are celebrities and some grow up to marry celebrities, then some like me step into the Twilight Zone and run like hell.

On edit re IZE:
"From what I have heard Mary Anne is probably the more desireable of the two, particularly if you like smoking weed. Rumor has it that she has an affinity for the herb."
That rumor comes from a reckless driving incident. Being too lazy to write about it myself, here's a copy and paste from Stickypedia, everybody's source for imagination and conjecture.

While driving home from her birthday party celebration on October 18, 2007, Wells was observed swerving across the roadway, was found in possession of marijuana[10][11] and was arrested by Idaho police. A third party, who had been in possession of Wells' car that day and had left the joints behind, came forward and claimed full responsibility for the marijuana.[12] Wells plead guilty to one count of reckless driving, was fined and served six months' unsupervised probation.[13]

In a statement, Wells admitted swerving, saying she was reaching for her car heater controls.[14] Wells lost a speaking engagement because of the incident.[15] After the fact, she made light of the situation, saying "I think it is so hysterical that people went nuts over it. I am what, now, 102 years old? I get booked for the first time in my life and suddenly I am a drug-using bum? I have told people the facts, but facts don't interest people or the media. They only trust headlines. The only reason I even cared was because it negatively affected my film festival and film school, and my sponsors were concerned. If I did not own a not-for-profit school, I would be on Saturday Night Live making fun of it!"

10 "Mary Ann--More Like Mary Jane!!". TMZ. Time Warner. 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
11 "Mary Ann of 'Gilligan's Island' Caught With Marijuana in Car". Fox News. Fox Entertainment Group. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
12 "It Wasn't Mary Ann's Mary Jane!". TMZ. Time Warner. 2008-03-12.
13 ""Gilligan's Island" Good Girl In Hot Water". CBS News. March 11, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
14 "Statement of Facts from Dawn". Dawn Wells. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
15 "'Gilligan's Island' star Dawn Wells won't be Girl Scouts speaker after arrest". Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group. March 14, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2010.

[WØTKX]

Mrs. Howell the III. For the gratitude. :mrgreen:

[N2NH]

I think it's the other way around. Mary Anne never struck me as being snobby at all. For the most part neither was Ginger, she was however somewhat pretentous. I liked Ginger out of my affinity for redheads. However I have read somewhere that the actress who played Ginger was rather snobby in real life. However, true this is I don't know, I can't judge another on gossip and rumours.

You are right and the post was fubar'd. It's been awhile since I've seen the show. Like 40 years.

[kb2vxa]

TKX:
"Mrs. Howell the III. For the gratitude."

Oh noes, a friend's brother called his girlfriend Lovey. <ugh>

[WØTKX]

As long as she's providing chips and whips... :evil:

http://www.eastafricantube.com/media/47451/Illusion,_Coma,_Pimp_&_Circumstance/

[W9JEF]

Of course the professor knew how to get electricity from a coconut, the milk is acidic. Just scrounge two dissimilar metals from the boat, stick them in a coconut and you have a battery that BTW is hidden under the table. The radio is facing away because TV shows and movies have been advertizing products for ages. Once upon a time that transistor portable looked familiar but it's been a while.

Sort of like the radio in my avatar--facing the reader.
And all 12 disciples seated on one side of the table.

But if the professor was really that smart,
couldn't he have reconfigured that radio
to transmit a distress signal (on 500 KHz)?

[n2ize]

TKX:
"Mrs. Howell the III. For the gratitude."

Oh noes, a friend's brother called his girlfriend Lovey. <ugh>

Forget Ginger and Mary Anne. Mrs. Howell was the Island hottie. Besides she could afford to buy you a private island.

[kb2vxa]

Chips and whips, like cheers and beers?

JEF:
"Sort of like the radio in my avatar--facing the reader."
Have you ever looked at your avatar? The bottom is black and I can't see any radios. Right, not so smart after all since he didn't reconfigure the 455KHz IF as an oscillator, tune it up 45KHz and magically make it into a transceiver like he did on shortwave. On the other hand are four fingers and a thumb, maybe a coconut amplifier since the ground wave signal wouldn't travel far. MAYBE enough wire on the boat for a base loaded vertical, still a problem since the base loaded tower at WSC is 300 feet tall. Ah forget it, it WAS a TV show... where nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about, Gilligan's Island forever.

True again, half anyway, Mrs. Howell could buy you a private island. One thing though, aren't we more fun than she is all wrinkly and squishy?

[W9JEF]

Chips and whips, like cheers and beers?

JEF:
"Sort of like the radio in my avatar--facing the reader."
Have you ever looked at your avatar? The bottom is black and I can't see any radios.

Yeah, hard to see, but the radio's there. I can see it plainly by standing;
viewed from this higher angle, the details will become clear.



Right, not so smart after all since he didn't reconfigure the 455KHz IF as an oscillator, tune it up 45KHz and magically make it into a transceiver like he did on shortwave. On the other hand are four fingers and a thumb, maybe a coconut amplifier since the ground wave signal wouldn't travel far. MAYBE enough wire on the boat for a base loaded vertical, still a problem since the base loaded tower at WSC is 300 feet tall. Ah forget it, it WAS a TV show... where nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about, Gilligan's Island forever.

It wouldn't be the most efficient antenna, but don't forget--the salt water
surrounding the island makes for many mS/m of conductivity.

While Gilligan and the Skipper are always seen wearing the same clothes,
Mary Ann and Ginger had the foresight to pack so many different outfits. ;)


True again, half anyway, Mrs. Howell could buy you a private island. One thing though, aren't we more fun than she is all wrinkly and squishy?

Network "standards and practices" of that era would dictate
that the only guy on that island getting any would be Mr. Howell. :)

[kb2vxa]

The island didn't have anywhere near the ground conductivity as the salt marsh RCA chose for WSC so there goes that idea. Gilligan and Skipper didn't need a change of clothes for a three hour tour, can't you see Mary Ann and Ginger are WOMEN? Forget network, MY standards and practices dictate steering clear of wrinkled squishy things. In addition to being a grumpy old bastid I'm a DOM.

[KK4AMI]

I just watched about 8 old episodes of Gilligan's Island today. :shock: I'm here to dispel some myths!

The SS Minnow changed shape to at least 3 different boats as it sat there rotting on the beach.
The Professor tried to patch the SS Minnow with Gilligan's special glue. The glue dried out and all the freshly sawed lumber popped off.
They did power the radio once with Gilligan on a bicycle.
Mrs Howell was younger on that show then I am now!!!! Now the question becomes Mary Ann, Ginger or Lovey.

[NQ6U]

Mrs Howell was younger on that show then I am now!!!! Now the question becomes Mary Ann, Ginger or Lovey.

Huh. You know, you have a point. At my age, Lovey ain't half bad...

http://img6.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/n/j/njgabcqub2n7baqn.jpg?obn5da3o

[NA4BH]

Forget Ginger and Mary Anne. Mrs. Howell was the Island hottie. Besides she could afford to buy you a private island.

You should seek help. :rofl:

[AC8KF WALT]

Mrs. Howell the III. For the gratitude. :mrgreen:

and the skills!

[W9JEF]

According to Ben Franklin:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98062-in-all-your-amours-you-should-prefer-old-women-to

[KK4AMI]

According to Ben Franklin:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98062-in-all-your-amours-you-should-prefer-old-women-to

Whatever Mr Franklin said becomes merely an academic exercise when you are the most ancient thing in the room. My point was that its getting increasingly difficult for me to find older women!

[K7SGJ]

Whatever Mr Franklin said becomes merely an academic exercise when you are the most ancient thing in the room. My point was that its getting increasingly difficult for me to find older women!

Try a bingo parlor, or beauty parlor on a Wednesday.

[KK4AMI]

Try a bingo parlor, or beauty parlor on a Wednesday.

How would we know about that...hmmm? Whoa, I just had one of them deja vu moments. Wow, now I can see into the future. Your going to answer with a comment on your grandmothers wrestling and her box?

[kb2vxa]

A few decades later and it's grandma had a squeezebox... but the kids are alright.

[WØTKX]

Well, in the real world, Natalie Schafer died in 1991 of cancer.

[n2ize]

Huh. You know, you have a point. At my age, Lovey ain't half bad...



Okay, so the age old question, Ginger or Mary Ann has finally been answered. If you are over a certain age the answer is neither.

[kb2vxa]

Under a certain age same answer.

[W9JEF]

Okay, so the age old question, Ginger or Mary Ann has finally been answered. If you are over a certain age the answer is neither.
.


. . . . . . . YMMV. ;)

[kb2vxa]

When there's THAT much mileage on the car it spends more time in the shop than on the road. In other words, unless you're a doctor your time with either or both is short. I'd still go with the Howell fortune, that way I'd have my dream station on my own private island giving you guys a (sic) run for the money, more sic(k) than money I suppose.

[K7SGJ]

When there's THAT much mileage on the car it spends more time in the shop than on the road. In other words, unless you're a doctor your time with either or both is short. I'd still go with the Howell fortune, that way I'd have my dream station on my own private island giving you guys a (sic) run for the money, more sic(k) than money I suppose.


If you hooked up with a someone with that much $$, you'd be so pussy whipped, you'd be grateful just to be able use the inside bathroom, much less have dream station or a radio room.

[kb2vxa]

Never happen. Thuuston Howell the thuud died in 1989 and Luuvay died in 1991. The suitcase was picked up by one of my trained seagulls and the rest of the flock relay flew it toward New Jersey but along the way got shot down by a hungry Mexican making tacos. I shot the Mexican and ate the tacos. Hello?

When you are over sixty who gives a shit?

The guy with the prunes.

[suddenseer]

Or, you could ask: Skipper or Little Buddy?Neither, I'll take Mr. Howell for $1000 Alex.

[suddenseer]

Mrs. Howell the III. For the gratitude. :mrgreen:Ben supposedly said, "They don't swell, they don't tell, and they're grateful as hell'.

[W9JEF]

When you are over sixty who gives a shit?

.

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. . . . . . . . . . . . "YMMV" :)

[KC9ECI]

Ginger or Mary Anne ? Or both ??

Both AND Mrs Howell.

[kb2vxa]

You like boinking wrinkles AND you're a necrophiliac! EEEWWW!!!