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see Barney Fife: Calling a police officer or authority figure "Barney
Fife" has become an American slang term for gross ineptitude or
overzealousness. (This was done recently in the Scott Peterson case,
where the defendant's mother referred to the local police captain as
"Barney Fife".)

see Mayberry R.F.D. (R.F.D. is a postal abbreviation for Rural Free
Delivery) is a spin-off, or, perhaps more accurately, a direct
continuation of The Andy Griffith Show under a new title.

see Return to Matberry

see The "rural purge" of American television networks was a series of
cancellations in 1971, of still popular rural-themed shows and shows
with demographically-skewed audiences. It is commonly referred to as
"the year CBS killed everything with a tree in it".




On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 157:
> Why does Bambi call Doc "Barney?"  Is it a take-off on  Barnum & Bailey
> because of the "entertainment capital" line?  Barney Flintstone?   How about
> "Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes"?  That was the 1920s (Barney
> Google comic strip)  but the phrase was kind of popular in my circles ca.
> 1970.
> http://www.szepseg.com/uploaded_images/barney-google-tijuana-bible-744402.jpg
>
> "As Jade told it later, this pimp,  Jason Velveeta,  could have used better
> career counseling."
> Yes, I think pimping was probably a pretty slow business in LA 1971.
>
> Jason Velveeta
> (translated, imo:  Jason Sleazy Cheese)
>
> Jason has become a scary name ever since the Friday the 13th movies but that
> was in 1980.   So who we have here are "Jason and Ashley" - names with a
> truly  1970s ring - but I think people were naming their kids that in 1970
> -there weren't a lot of 20 year old Ashley's in 1970  (I had no friends
> named Ashley).
> http://www.babynameshub.com/baby-names-boys/Jason.html
> http://www.babynameshub.com/baby-names-girls/Ashley.html
>
>
> Back to Velveeta:
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_10
> "Velveeta, a notoriously plastic "processed cheese product" is probably
> fueling a roundabout slang joke on "cheddar," used recently to mean money,
> specifically a pimp or dealer's money. Hence, Jason Velveeta is not really a
> very good pimp.
>
> http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32975
> As cheeses go, Velveeta is fake, soft and easily melted. "Jason" is a
> quintessentially middle-class white first name. Velveeta is also associated
> with middle-class white culture in its most unhip and soul-free form. See,
> for example, this recent spoof news story."
>
>
> ***
> Cheap Mexican weed with stems and seeds is nasty stuff - it stings kind of,
> burns the eyes.   And it can't even take care of Jason's headache.  I don't
> know about "Columbian commercial,"  but Columbian in general used to be
> smoother and more potent due to the soil there.   In the 1970s most of the
> marijuana in the US was imported - that's not true anymore.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lm2ie7BOM&feature=related
>
> Btw,  about the apparent shortage of pot - there was a definite drop in
> supply in 1969:
> http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU59.html
>
> *****
>
>