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Dingbat discovers M*A*S*H*

General Discussion
#1

Ok we all know and love the show right? Those of us who don’t know it from its original airing, have at least seen it in syndication on just about every channel ever made…rating right up there with The Andy Griffith Show for American TV ICON status…

So y’all are familiar with my co-worker “The Cleaning Freak”…a never ending source of wonder and aggravation known hereafter as …“The Pam”…There can be no other…(Thank God)…

So The Pam has discovered the misadventures of the 4077th on TV land in the early mornings…Does she catch the caustic social commentary veiled in the satiric setting of the Koren War? Does she catch the comic genious that is Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce? NO…she focuses in on the factoid that Frank Burns is cheating on his wife…

The conversation goes like this…

The Pam: “So he’s sleeping with that girl and he’s married?”
Me: HUH?
The Pam: On this show…
Me: No, they just smooch a lot…
The Pam: What happens when they go home?
Me: Huh?
The Pam: When they come back to America?
Me: well they don’t 'til the War is over
The Pam: So the War was over pretty quick then?
Me: HUH?
The Pam: This war they’re in…
Me: Ummm no…it went on for several years (facts are useless with The Pam)
The Pam: They get to come home after so long a time, my cousin who went to Iraq told me so (Same cousin who claimed to have single handedly rescue Jessica Lynch, even though he was an aircraft mechanic in Saudi Arabia at the time?)
Me: Umm no…this is a different war…

So then comes the history lesson…The KOREAN War…THE DRAFT…The New All Volunteer Army…

The Pam: I feel so sorry for them…
Me: Huh?
The Pam: The people on the show…
Me: Umm ya know this is just a TV show right?
The Pam: But they still had to live in those tents in Korea while they were making it…

Hoo boy

Me: No…it was actually filmed In California in the Santa Monica Mountains…

The PAm: Is Klinger gay?

Man I need a beer…

#2

Is that the same Pam that works in the “Office”.

TOG

#3

Bart…O…M…G… ! ! !

I really truely do feel sorry for you dealing with that, you have the patience of a saint! This person obviously has some problems discerning reality from TVeality???

I have a very hard time suffering idiots, I think my final comment would have been something along the lines of, “Oh fer chrizzzakes, read a history book will ya!”

Got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn’t watching
A few fries short of a Happy Meal
An experiment in Artificial Stupidity
A few beers short of six-pack
Proof that evolution can go in reverse
Doesn’t have all his Cornflakes in one box
The wheel’s spinning, but the hamster’s dead
One Fruit Loop shy of a full bowl
One taco short of a combination plate
A few feathers short of a whole duck
All foam, no beer
Body by Fisher, brains by Mattel
Has an I.Q. of 2, but it takes 3 to grunt
Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear
Couldn’t pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
Too much yardage between the goalposts
An intellect rivaled only by garden tools
As smart as bait
Doesn’t have all her dogs on one leash
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, she only gargled
Elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor
Forgot to pay her brain bill
Her antenna doesn’t pick up all the channels
Her belt doesn’t go through all the loops
If she had another brain, it would be lonely
No grain in the silo
Fell out of the family tree
Receiver is off the hook
Several nuts short of a full pouch
She fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down

Just wonder what she’d make of Star Trek?

#4

She don’t like Star TRACK…nothing on Sci FI Channel can be any good…Got to be Judge Judy, Judge hatchett, Judge Joe Brown, the People’s Court, Jerry Springer, and Maury…she whined all day once when I made her watch a Battlestar Galactica Marathon…

#5

…all you guys do is watch TV …egads…

#6

Bart, isn’t there a sentience clause at your workplace?

#7
John Bouck said:
Is that the same Pam that works in the "Office".

TOG


TOG

There could only be one like her in them there Hollers in WV! Bart, you gotta fix that situation before you retire. BTW Does she have a twin? Did the twin end up with all the smarts? :confused: :lol:

#8

Just wait until you have to tell her that Mayberry isn’t a real place

#9

God help you all should she ever get a hold of Archie Bunker. She’d make “Dingbat Edith” look super intelligent. :confused:

#10

Bart, the sad thing is she probably gets to vote.

#11

She reminds me of the Thermian aliens in the movie “Galaxy Quest”, who thought our TV programs were “historical documents”:

Earth person: “Surely you don’t think that Gilligan’s Island was…”
Thermian: “Those poor people!”

#12
Ray Dunakin said:
She reminds me of the Thermian aliens in the movie "Galaxy Quest", who thought our TV programs were "historical documents":

Earth person: “Surely you don’t think that Gilligan’s Island was…”
Thermian: “Those poor people!”


It wasn’t? There goes another of my cherished beliefs :frowning: