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Submitted for your approval ...Rod Serling's Twilight Zone originated in Ithaca
Daily Messenger ^ | Sun Mar 23, 2008, 03:01 AM EDT | By Stephanie Bergeron, staff writer

Posted on 03/24/2008 8:05:28 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Don’t be too hard on Ithaca. Both my kids graduated from Cornell and they both are Conservatives.


21 posted on 03/24/2008 9:31:04 AM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: Retired Chemist

The CU students are often to the right of the wackjob professors....just ask Ann Coulter


22 posted on 03/24/2008 9:35:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I’m from the Finger Lakes area so I know Ithaca well.


23 posted on 03/24/2008 9:39:48 AM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: freepertoo
Tower of Terror!!! It's that voice that always gives me the creeps.
24 posted on 03/24/2008 10:42:31 AM PDT by MJemison
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To: Hyzenthlay
the airplane episode with William Shatner was by far some of the creepiest television I’ve seen...

That episode always scared the bejeebers out of me when I was but a kid. The curtain scene still does. It probably accounts for some of my long held fear of flying. LOL!

25 posted on 03/24/2008 10:47:49 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The Presidential election is a race to the bottom. Which Party will out stupid the other to lose ?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Rod Serling’s mind was a vast swirling sea of epic and historical proportions. His LIVE on Camera original Theater things were the stuff of sheer genius and madness. “Hey Lets do it live on TV”. My personal T.Z. Favorites are “It’s A Good Life” with Anthony Fremont playing Hillary Clinton’s part (as she would be if she ever becomes President of the USA) and “And When The Sky Was Opened” which has Rod Taylor playing the “This cannot be happening to me/losing your mind” part ever so perfectly. Thank God I got to live in a world where this man made me think about things; talk about getting perspective on things as a young child. LOLOL Everybody and their Grandma was on his shows, from Jack Klugman and Cloris Leachman to Paul Newman and Charles Bronson. Hell, even Bill Shatner was on there. I don’t believe there was ever an episode that didn’t make go “Ohhhhhhhh....” at some point or another. Another Favorite, was the old woman whose phone keeps ringing at night while she’s in bed, and all she can hear is moaning, horrible moaning and the phone company eventually drive to her husbands burial plot with her and the winds had blown the other end of the telephone line so that it lay on top of it. THAT was a Classic. God Bless Rod Serling, A Real Man!


26 posted on 03/24/2008 11:19:54 AM PDT by Pagey (Horrible Hillary Clinton is Bad For America, Bad For Business and Bad For MY Stomach!)
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To: Liberty Valance
A bunch of the episodes had local places. There was one that took place in a bus station that I think was Cortland or Marathon. I can't find my Twilight Zone Companion right now.

There's a school in Binghamton that folks used to call “Rod Serling High.” It was nice to be reminded that a local guy could make the big time.

27 posted on 03/24/2008 11:50:10 AM PDT by Brucifer (G. W. Bush "The dog ate my copy of the Constitution.")
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To: OB1kNOb
I also loved it on “3rd Rock from the Sun” when the group went to the airport to meet the Big Giant Head ( their leader, played by William Shatner );

Big Giant Head: It was a horrible flight! There was a man on the wing of the plane!

Dick Solomon: The same thing happened to me!

28 posted on 03/24/2008 11:58:34 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hyzenthlay
I also find it creepy that 8 “Twilight Zone” episodes were written by Earl Hamner Jr., creator and writer of “The Waltons.”
29 posted on 03/24/2008 12:03:28 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
“3rd Rock from the Sun”

Another one of my past favorite shows. Never fails to make me laugh. Love to watch them on DVD.

30 posted on 03/24/2008 12:59:14 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (The Presidential election is a race to the bottom. Which Party will out stupid the other to lose ?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Actually Serling graduated from Binghamton Central High School in Binghamton New York...but hey Ithaca can claim him if they want to!


31 posted on 03/24/2008 1:42:11 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Liberty Valance

Hahhhh hahhh....

Thought I met Jimmy Hoffa one time, living in a certain house on 434 in Apalachin,NY!


32 posted on 03/24/2008 1:50:16 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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33 posted on 03/24/2008 9:30:34 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca, home of the Twilight Zone
34 posted on 03/25/2008 6:47:06 AM PDT by Fixit
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To: Fixit

LOL!


35 posted on 03/25/2008 8:15:22 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Liberty Valance

**Ithica may be the City of Evil ...
but it’s just one more stop ... in the Twilight Zone**

Actually, Ithaca IS THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Even Rod Serling could not think THIS PLACE UP!!


36 posted on 03/26/2008 11:10:40 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I refuse to vote for a Liberal ... even if they do have an (R) after their name)
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To: mdmathis6

**Actually Serling graduated from Binghamton Central High School **

According to my sister’s Mother in Law (who went to school with Serling):

Serling was failing English Class. Upon receipt of Report Card acknowledging the failure, word has it, he broke in to English Teacher’s Home, and hung a Skeleton in her closet.


37 posted on 03/26/2008 11:14:23 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I refuse to vote for a Liberal ... even if they do have an (R) after their name)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Cornell Professors make Lenin look like a RIGHTWINGER.


38 posted on 03/26/2008 11:18:43 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I refuse to vote for a Liberal ... even if they do have an (R) after their name)
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