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12-29-2020, 04:38 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2009
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Originally Posted by Livefree
It was a good memory..but mostly for how it unfolded before the game.
After the game 6 Heroics, my friends and I headed into Boston without tickets.
As we headed down Landsdowne street, it was a chaotic scene. People with ladders, ropes etc. and police all over.
We shimmied up a drain pipe near center field. and came down onto a flat roof, and then scaled a short wall in right field and ended up in the Bleachers!
We stayed there for most of the game, and an attendant we knew let us through the gate leading to the good seats, where we ended up behind home plate.
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Livefree my respect level can go up even another notch if you can post a pic of you in center field burning records in Bill Veeck disco night riot! 
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12-30-2020, 01:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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RIP - Dawn Wells
Sad news
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan) dead at 82. From covid complications  .
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Dawn Wells, the actress best known for her role as Mary Ann in the '60s sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died Wednesday from COVID-19 complications, her representative told USA TODAY. She was 82.
Wells died Wednesday morning at 7:30 in Los Angeles from "causes related to COVID," representative Harlan Boll told USA TODAY in an email. He said she "passed peacefully... in no pain."
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12-30-2020, 01:16 PM
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#583
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Northern Virginia
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Wow very sad.
And that just leaves Tina Louise.
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12-30-2020, 01:19 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Location: SF Bay Area
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Oh no! She was my favorite.
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12-30-2020, 01:22 PM
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Location: Fair Lawn
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Originally Posted by anothercog
Oh no! She was my favorite.
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Mine too. Sad.
ETA: I know Wikipedia is not a 100% accurate source. But per Wiki, she had a long career post-Gilligan's, but had serious financial hard times in 2018.
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12-30-2020, 01:32 PM
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My favorite top. I would have never left the Island.
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12-30-2020, 01:33 PM
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#587
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When I was a teenager, I wanted to take her home to my parents.
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The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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12-30-2020, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuckanut
When I was a teenager, I wanted to take her home to my parents.
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I know. You and me and about six million other guys.
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12-30-2020, 01:54 PM
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I just recently realized Gilligan wasn't a moron ruining their plans every week, but a genius who sabatoged the rescue plans so he could stay on the island with Maryann. FB_IMG_1607873118541.jpeg
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12-30-2020, 04:50 PM
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#590
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No one in their right mind would choose Ginger over Mary Ann.
She was great. Sad loss in a sad year.
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12-30-2020, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by steelyman
No one in their right mind would choose Ginger over Mary Ann.
She was great. Sad loss in a sad year.
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Agree with everything you wrote.
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12-30-2020, 05:00 PM
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Even little children loved Mary Ann.
When I was going to grad school down in Columbia, Mo., Dawn Wells was the most mentioned alumna at nearby Stephens College. Anytime someone mentioned the college's name, the words "Dawn Wells" were soon to follow.
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12-30-2020, 05:26 PM
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It is nice to see that some of youse guys would choose Mary Ann over Ginger. Growing up, we girls never thought that was possible.
Actually even though I was the right age for this sitcom and watched it with my siblings all the time, I always thought it was corny. Gilligan drove me nuts.
RIP Mary Ann.
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12-30-2020, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by mystang52
Mine too. Sad.
ETA: I know Wikipedia is not a 100% accurate source. But per Wiki, she had a long career post-Gilligan's, but had serious financial hard times in 2018.
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I think in 2018 when this occurred some of her fans did a go fund me or something and raised all kinds of money for her.
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12-30-2020, 05:39 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Rest in Peace Dawn Wells, thank you for being part of one of the best television shows ever made.
Dammit 2020, please stop.
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12-30-2020, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Marita40
Actually even though I was the right age for this sitcom and watched it with my siblings all the time, I always thought it was corny. Gilligan drove me nuts.
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More dumb than corny, IMO. I preferred the rustic surrealism of Green Acres.
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12-30-2020, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Marita40
It is nice to see that some of youse guys would choose Mary Ann over Ginger. Growing up, we girls never thought that was possible. ...
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Actually, most of the guys I have ever known would pick Mary Ann over Ginger. Myself included.
RIP Dawn
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12-30-2020, 06:24 PM
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Sad news
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan) dead at 82. From covid complications .
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That tears it. 350,000, one in a thousand out of the US population dead from Covid, but dammit - Mary Ann?! This virus needs to be stopped!
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12-30-2020, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Lewis Clark
Actually, most of the guys I have ever known would pick Mary Ann over Ginger. Myself included.
RIP Dawn
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Count me as another Dawn Wells fan. Tina Louise? Meh.
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12-30-2020, 06:36 PM
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I was a MaryAnn guy myself. Ginger never did anything for me. Gilligan was a lucky guy, but too dumb to take advantage.
After losing a ton of my baseball heroes this year, this is really tough news.
Hopefully, nothing happens to Marcia Brady. I don't think I could take it.
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