Dropping like flies

[Bucko]

Now Jed Clampett has gone to that log cabin in the sky.......

[Georgie]

I loved to watch Buddy dance. Ok, now, show your age...raise your hand if you know all the words to the Beverly Hillbillies theme song!

[thewoodman]

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed...

[Bucko]

a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed......

[Drew]

And then one day, he was shootin' at some food

[Botafogo]

and up from the ground came some bubbling crude....

Anyone remember Weird Al Yankovitch remaking the "Money for Nothing" video by Dire Straights as this song? Classic!

[Bucko]

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

Well the first thing you know ol' Jed's a millionaire....

[Georgie]

Kinfolk said, "Jed move away from there!"

[randery]

they said: "Californy is the place you ought to be" so they loaded up their truck and they moved to beverleeee...

[Innkeeper]

Hills, that is.

[winoweenie]

Remeber that sucker dancin' with a cute lil' tousseled blonde named Shirley. WW

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[JagFarlane]

Ok I must confess..I never watched that show much [kinda before my time] but I do remember that song and watching the scenes of them on a vehicle loaded in thier stuff heading to Beverly Hills..

[Bucko]

Swimmin pools, movie stars.

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Well now its time to say good-bye to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You’re all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality
Hillbilly that is. Set a spell. Take your shoes off. Y'all come back now, y'hear?

[Georgie]

TA-DA!

[winedope1]

one of my favorite fun TV shows. Waaaaaaah! He was a pretty smooth dancer also. I would have put in a line myself but you all beat me to it! WD

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[Georgie]

Well, Bucko, show-off that he is, hogged the whole last verse....

[Bucko]

Sooey! Piggy, piggy, piggy......

My granddad on my mom's side was a pig farmer in Okrahoma. Killed by a tornado when I was five, but I still remember him calling those hogs and slopping them down. Kinda like WW at dinner.

[hotwine]

Have to admit I never watched that show.... too close to home. I was born in Tennessee and raised in Texas (got here as fast as I could), and jokes about "hillbillies" (or Lollywood's version thereof) always struck me as extraordinarily condescending. Buddy seemed like a good guy, though.

[Georgie]

Hmmm...sure your name ain't Davy Crockett there, Hotsie? Seems to run in my mind that he was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee and ended up at the Alamo....something mighty coincidental about you two...

[Jackie]

Fess Parker, my girlhood hero. Ended up running a darn good winery.

Was it...

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.