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Subject: Gomer Pyle Was: 283 aliens here
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:49:57 +1200
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On 17/05/25 23:44, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 
> I am amused at all the railing against the "mainstream media" in a thread
> about aliens watching television, which is mainstream media at it's finest.

> Gomer Pyle debuted in 1964, sixty-one years ago.

I vaguely remembered that name so searched youtube and watched the first
episode. Amazing. Further to recent posts explaining the term "marines"
in relation to the us military, I now have a better understanding.
Doesn't a vice president of some evil empire claim to have such a
background?

  This means it is now
> visible to aliens as far away as 6 Ceti.  With crap like that on view,
> is it any wonder that they have made no attempt to contact us?  And only
> a year later Green Acres came out... just imagine what the folks at 
> Sirius and Procyon must think of us.
> --scott