TEST!! Had this been an actual post, you'd have been instructed to...

[moe]

Start walking!..........................

[westgrandboulevard]

Dead Man Walking.....

[moe]

Walk this way, westgrand!!!

[westgrandboulevard]

I always walk this way, moe!

[arr&bee]

Little known fact about[bonanza]guy williams who joined the cast as[wil cartwright]adam's replacement was first chosen portray adam but he chose to star in his own series[zorro].

[westgrandboulevard]

Presumably his starring part in Zorro didn't last too long, otherwise he wouldn't then have been available to join Bonanza?

[arr&bee]

Actually the series[zorro]from walt disney was very popular and ran for two seasons before tv politics got it canned...poor guy williams it was fan mail that got him canned,adam's character was so popular that the fans started a massive writing campaine to keep him on the show...[that and a clause in his contract for another season]and for some reason the other cast members didn't like guy,well guy williams went on to star in[lost in space]which did wonders for his career,while bonanza without wil or adam cartwright ran for another eight years.

[westgrandboulevard]

Bonanza seems to have been the much bigger show, at least in terms of longevity.

Sounds as if Guy W was really a substitute character, and Pernell Roberts then stayed on longer than originally intended - so GW was out.

Some internal politics at work there, no doubt.....

[arr&bee]

Pernell roberts fancied himself a great shakesperian actor[maybe he should've moved to the uk]and thought he was above the show.

[westgrandboulevard]

Pernell Roberts had charisma on screen, and held strong principles off screen.

I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave and work in the theatre, which was where his career began. His skills as an actor were never going to be fully utilised on Bonanza. I believe his contract did not permit him to work elsewhere while appearing in the show.

[arr&bee]

But he never did anything note worthy after bonanza,and it was twenty years before he got another series[trapper john,md].

[westgrandboulevard]

There's more to acting and show business than appearing on TV, as many make a good living in legit theatre or performing music onstage.

That said, if you're not seen on TV, many do wonder if you're dead.....

[arr&bee]

Heck west,folks ask me if i'm dead everyday.

[westgrandboulevard]

You really should stop hanging around those cemeteries, and start to live a little.

[arr&bee]

You're right after awhile they become a bunch of stiffs.

[westgrandboulevard]

Difficult to keep your composure with that crowd.

[moe]

They have nothing to say, westgrand!!

[westgrandboulevard]

Silent, as the grave!

[arr&bee]

Well time for another poem...ahem...i think this one comes from the great rubard frisk...who's woods these are i think i know,but i ain't tellin though my little horse must think it queer to see me standing out here in these woods in the dark i must be on my way gotta find that corner store before my horse sees the mist...they don't write em like that anymore.

[westgrandboulevard]

"Standing out here in these woods in the dark" - ?!

I doubt that Rubard Frisk was there, simply waiting to see dawn break, or the corner store open for business.....

[arr&bee]

Or how about the great ungrit eeland poo...hark said the buzzard,for it is with or not to know one's true amounts for to with and hark nevermore or maybe just a littlemore...what a poet.

[westgrandboulevard]

Must have enjoyed the countryside. There's a tendency to ramble........

[arr&bee]

Hey west i might get into this poetry business myself,hmmm let's see...it was a dark and nighty night but wit forth see for it cannot bet all forthwith knowith thou must have joined the crusted forest bears in the common truth fortold....that's just deep.

[westgrandboulevard]

Ah yes, but so, too, is the Atlantic Ocean.

Your poetry isn't yet rhyming. Neither does it scan [[like a faulty bar code).

The words are good, though. I'd file it under 'miscellany' at the moment.

[144man]

I dread to think what the result would be if Arr&bee wrote a limerick.

[moe]

Brace for impact if he did!!

[westgrandboulevard]

A crash course in poetry!

[moe]

Well said westgrand!!

[westgrandboulevard]

Thanks moe, but 'well written, arr&bee', is what we're really waiting for....

[moe]

Then we'll wait...........[[Final Jeopardy theme here)

[westgrandboulevard]

The clock is ticking. No pressure on arr&bee, of course [[)

[arr&bee]

AHH YOU GUYS[got me blushing over here]ACTUALLY I DID WRITE TO THAT LIMERICK GUY AND SENT IN A DONATION TOO,HE NEVER DID WRITE BACK.

[westgrandboulevard]

Maybe the bottle is still in the ocean, and hasn't reached him yet?

[arr&bee]

I threw a bottle across the ocean once and somebody threw it back with postage due.

[westgrandboulevard]

Well, how do y'like that?! Those barnacles must have increased its weight....

[144man]

I blame privatisation of the Post Office.

This thread was three years old two days ago. Happy Birthday, Test Thread.

[westgrandboulevard]

Privatisation of the Post Office should have been stamped on, right from the beginning.

Three years old! I should make a cake....

[moe]

They thought of cancellation, westgrand.....

[arr&bee]

they thought of cancellation, westgrand.....

we've been cancelled in all fourty eight states and alaska and we're still here.

[westgrandboulevard]

I'm counting here and..... isn't there a state missing, arr&bee?

Or perhaps it's just you, in a state....

[arr&bee]

Ohhh,you're right west,the state of mind...cancelled there too!

[westgrandboulevard]

You're in a "Cancelled State Of Mind" - as in 'This Section Is Closed'.

[moe]

Let's open it up again..........

[westgrandboulevard]

'Now fully open following essential maintenance'....

[moe]

So............wonder what was the "essential maintenance" on R&B?

[westgrandboulevard]

Resurfacing.

[moe]

Don't know how to take that, westgrand........you know what I mean!

[westgrandboulevard]

Now that arr&bee is back at large, Highway Patrol are on the lookout.

Well, they wouldn't want him to fall into any deep holes in the dark....

[arr&bee]

You all read about the new volcanoes found in north dakota...i told them to sip it slowly,but do they listen,now i'll be blamed for this one too.

[144man]

Are we cancelled in Hawaii? The volcanoes there are active.