Sadly, my sports attention is back on the Bears

Agreed.  Although I feel bad for those who would be starting now!  Going to see the Blackhawks and Coyotes in the 90's changed my whole perspective on the sport.  I think technology has helped this sport more than any other.  HD TV has helped become a watchable sport from your couch.  When I was a kid, my uncles (who all played hockey) would be watching the Blackhawks on grainy old TV sets.  Maybe my memory is embellishing a bit but I swear they were watching on B&W TVs with rabbit ears and I just didn't get their fascination.

I was starting to wonder if I was the only one that liked Green Acres. I thought it was funny.

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The Beverly Hillbillies were good too.  My favorite episode was when Jethro read in a comic book that there were beautiful women living on the moon.  He made a homemade "rocket" back by the "cement pond" and powered it with Granny's moonshine.  When asked if he "really" believed there were these beautiful women living on the moon, he got riled up and said, "would they print it in a comic book if it weren't true?"  He then hopped on that homemade rocket and fired it off and landed in the Pacific Ocean.  When they opened up his rocket to save him, he pops out and says "Where's the moon maidens"... it cracks me up still to think of that show :-)

Probably one reason I liked it was because my own family wasn't much more refined than those hillbillies.  We didn't even have indoor plumbing when I was young.  Still had an outdoor toilet.  We grew a lot of our own food on a small acreage.  We raised chickens and butchered a couple of pigs each year for meat.  Mom canned a large part of our food.  My grandpa was a coal miner who began working in the Illinois coal mines after the 4th grade (no child labor laws in those days... you were expected to begin work in the mines at an early age).  We were a poor family, and yes, a bit backwards like those hillbillies - but it was a good life and we were happy.