One of our few TV channels has old "Lassie" shows on Sunday morning.?ÿ Today's episode was from 1960.?ÿ The County Engineer shows up at the Martin farm with court documents indicating the County will be working on a road along their farm.?ÿ The existing fence is six feet into the right-of-way so the County is going to rip it out.?ÿ Mr. Enders, the Martin's neighbor, ?ÿgets the same bad news.?ÿ However, Mr. Enders has heard old, old stories of how some of the early settlers had moved the monuments set by the Government surveyors (PLSS work) to protect certain parts of their pre-empted property.?ÿ So Paul Martin and Mr. Enders set out to find section corner monuments that do not agree with the reference monuments from the original survey.?ÿ Meanwhile, discussion is held around the dinner table as to how to stall off the County workers to give them more "surveying" time.?ÿ Somehow they had learned that the SPCA would get involved if a family of wild animals happened to live under the fence line the County needed to destroy.?ÿ So Timmy and Lassie round up a family of possums and move them into a big den that conveniently was available and directly under the fence.?ÿ The possums moved out of their new home by the time the County Engineer arrived on scene so he brings in a little bitty dozer and a chain and is prepared to yank out the fence.?ÿ Meanwhile our erstwhile surveying heroes discover proof that some monuments had been moved.?ÿ They arrive about the same time that Timmy has grabbed onto the fence and stood directly over the chain attached to the dozer to prevent the County Engineer from doing damage.
It was fun watching Paul and Mr. Enders reading from the Government notes and measuring from a blazed tree and a stump to a big pile of stones with a sharp stake in the middle of the pile.?ÿ This was repeated until they finally found the erroneous monuments.
Here is a link to the details of the show.
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"...Wait 'til the county surveyor hears about this".
PS - That's a cute little "dozer" in the last scene.
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We leave closed captioning on most of the time as I watch a lot of TV while the little missus is sleeping.?ÿ According to the captioning, that little dozer is a tractor.?ÿ I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at that.?ÿ To let you know Mr. County Engineer has fired it up and you would hear it running,?ÿthe captioning says, "starts tractor".
I use Bluetooth headphones when others are asleep or when they are listening to something else or doing homework and such.
SWMBO likes closed caption on and has superior hearing so the sound is low and headphones I can turn it up.
That is a tractor not a dozer, since it does not have a dozer blade. Numerous crawler (cleated) tractors where used at that time and some still are for certain soils. The county would have used their tractor to pull a grader for blading road surfaces or a pan for moving material more that a few feet. Farmers would have used a crawler tractor to pull any non self propelled implement. International Harvestor sold cleated tractors along with their standard tractors, I operated an IH TD-6 about the size of a Cat D-3 for a while, it did have a dozer blade. Oliver called their Crawler Tractor Cletrac. That was a Cletrac or Caterpillar model in the Lassie video. Tractor is also a common name for a truck that pulls a trailer, just as a team are horses, mules or oxen that pull wagons. Teams and tractors leave very visible tracks on the ground.
Paul in PA
What kind of lame Lassie episode was that? Timmy didn't fall off cliff or into a well or nothing. Now the episode where Sky King, the Munster's, My Mother the Car,?ÿ and Lassie all get in the act of looking for Timmy after he fell off a dam was a good 'un.?ÿ ?????ÿ
@flga-pls-2-2
Packy got tired of falling into the old well. His agent and the Screen Actor's Guild filed a grievance and the writers were forced to produce less violent episodes... 😉
I wanted to share with some cohorts and realized they were to young to appreciate an old episode of Lassie. 🙂 . Thanks I sure appreciated it. ?ÿRight up there with the survey episode of Father knows best and survey episode in the Rifleman....staring Chuck Conners... 🙂 Jp
Well it's obvious you aren't qualified for the very privileged "Ancient Surveyors Secret Forum" on here yet. Too young I suspect, otherwise you would have included "Amos 'n Andy", "Howdy Doodie", "Flash Gordon", "Wagon Train", and "Rawhide". ????
@flga-pls-2-2
Yep I’m on the tail end of baby boomers, but had 10 year older brother and 13 year older sister so I’m familiar with those titles but there not dear to my heart like Lassie which was on right before The Wonderful World of Disney if I remember right ;)..... so maybe an probationary member of the Ancient Surveyors Secret Forum ???? Jp
It doesn't take long to figure out the approximate age of someone based on their awareness of certain television shows, or the lack of awareness.
I grew up with Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit and Grandfather Clock at the Treasure House with Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans.?ÿ The Electric Company and Sesame Street were more in line with my children's?ÿ youth.?ÿ Sponge Bob Square Pants was popular with my grandchildren, so far.?ÿ Heaven only knows what kiddie shows will be like for any future grandchildren or their children.
Westerns were on every channel at nearly every time of the day and every day of the week when I was starting school.?ÿ Situation comedies were standard TV fare.?ÿ In my children's time it seemed everything was some sort of heroic topic from Emergency and Adam-12 to Hill Street Blues and The Six Million Dollar Man.?ÿ Situation comedies were being replaced by dramas.?ÿ By my grandchildren's time everything became gory, violent and high speed...??...especially the scripts which had five times more words per minute than normal.
During my tender years many TV shows revolved around families, but many of those had missing family members or a mixture of family members.?ÿ My Three Sons were missing their mother but Uncle Bub or Uncle Charley was there to take her place, for instance.?ÿ Little Opie had no mother but Aunt Bee was there.?ÿ Then there was the weird Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch.
Today we have Modern Family...????????..who resembles no family I know.
"We've come a long way baby". In the beginning we had "Pong" (actually "Hunt the Wumpus" on a Wang 2200 system was before Pong), a simple fun game (for 15 minutes), then more sophisticated gaming consoles arrived. And now, today, we have much better entertainment on gaming consoles for adolescents:
"Rape Day"
"Rape Day?ÿwas listed as an upcoming title on Steam around early March 2019; according to its description,?ÿRape Day?ÿwas a "dark comedy and power fantasy" visual novel that allowed the player to "[control] the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist during a zombie apocalypse." The game's store page included numerous warnings related to the content, including "violence, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, obscene language, necrophilia, incest, and the death of a baby". Many journalists quickly expressed concern about the game's content based on the description and troubling screenshots and how it appeared to glorify rape, and opined that the game would be a type of?ÿlitmus test?ÿof Valve's recently-developed hands-off policy in terms of Steam storefront curation, believing Valve should block the game. By March 6, 2019, Valve had issued a statement that it will not allow the game to be published on Steam, and removed its upcoming store page. In the company's statement, Valve said "We respect developers?? desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that."
I'll take "Pong", a bong, and a couple pitchers of beer please. ?????ÿ
