Att: Dan Cahillane

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:31 am

Dan,

Please email me; a VIP wants to talk to you. The MD.

Cole

BTW, my email is colegaskins at aol dot com

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:58 am

Dang, I can only decipher part of this...

Where's my Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring?

Where's my Ovaltine?

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:34 am

Where's Jean Sheperd when you need him?

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:13 pm

Dead, I'm afraid. What a great writer!

Saw growed-up "Ralphie" (Peter Billingsly) in the Jennifer Aniston movie "The Breakup." Scary that time as passed so cruely.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:48 pm

Right you are, Paul. He was also one great radio person. A true personality of the over-night.

Meanwhile...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:29 pm

I was a longtime JS fan and was sad to learn of his death in '99. He introduced me (among other things) to the poetry of Robert Service, and I cherish the volume of Service's work that I picked up in a Salvation Army store in Skagway, Alaska.

I was incensed when, the day after his death, I overheard the Almighty Howard Stern, call him a "loser", and "forgettable". Jean was one of a kind, lovable and memorable.

But the decoder rings DID exist before Jean made them famous!

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:43 pm

Stern's a pr--k. In all likelihood he didn't even know who Sheperd was or what he did.
I too recall the old decorders long before Jean fabricated Ralpie and the infamous story which went with it.
Best for me to draw my historical lines at decorder rings before I start talking about what a great fella Gutenberg was.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:08 pm

Good one Paul.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:28 pm

My favorite Shepherd piece was "Phantom of the Open Hearth", one of the episodes of "Jean Shepherd's America" done for PBS in 1977 or so...it (like many of his narratives) cross-pollinates with others...there are scenes in POTOH that are quite similar to some in "A Christmas Story".

Those of us from Chicago who sometimes trucked East for whatever reason, will recognize Hammond, Indiana as the scene for most of Shep's childhood shenanigans.

A full set of Shepherd's TV work is available in DVD form from [email protected]. I don't know the price, but they are of very high quality.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:03 pm

16 4 19 26 14 6 8 12

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:01 pm

That's the part we get, Cole. But the rest...

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:03 pm

Over my head...What's Arnquist got to do with any of Jean Shepherds stuff....

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:31 pm

J.C.'s origional post....

janglerocker · Post by **janglerocker** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:21 am

OK, email sent, but I'm as clueless as the rest of you.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:59 am

Why so clueless? The MD is a Very Important Person in my book!