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Doug’s World with Jim Farris.

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Here is Jim Farris.


JF: Hello everyone and welcome to our new Silly Thinking feature, “Doug’s World with Jim Farris”.
I’m Jim Farris.

As regular visitors to “ST” know, “Doug’s World” was a regular weekly feature featuring our own founder and regular contributor, Doug Lain. We have received a letter and E-Mail wanting to know what happen to Doug.

Well it is my sad duty to report that Doug’s no longer with us. We here at “ST” will miss Doug and his one of kind contributions and his special courage. But as they say in show business “the show must go on”. So it is with a heavy heart that I, Jim Farris, continue as the new host of “Doug’s World” and will do my best to keep doing the feature the way Doug would have wanted it done, with integrity, guts, and a real point of view on the world around us. So with that in mind here is “Doug’s World”.

dOugS wOrlD!!

Tomorrow is the finale of “Friends”, the popular NBC situation comedy that has charmed the world and fascinated a nation. We will miss all the “Friends”: Bumbling Ross, Klutzy Judy, Bobby the actor, and of course, everyone’s favorite
Jane.



Thursdays won’t be the same without all our “Friends”. The “Friends” who helped us get over 9/11 with laughter and tears, the “Friends” who made us laugh and cry after the Iraq war, and most of all the “Friends” who got us thrOUGH that bout with venereal warts, with humor and more than a few tears. Milk prices are about to sky rocket and gas is now over two dollars a gallon, but somehow with the “Friends” on NBC that wasn’t important.

Now it is.

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What will Thursday nights be like without “Friends”? That’s easy: unbearable. But life without “Friends” is now going to be a reality. So come Thursdays we’ll have to get know the “Survivors” on CBS or “Test Pattern Playhouse” on ABC, or even worse “WWF Smackdown!” on UPN. Yes without “Friends” Thursdays will no longer be “must see TV” because it’s going off the air, but we as a people are not. We will still be there waiting, waiting for NBC to thrill us, or sadden us with another comedy Milestone. Will it be “Law And Order: Friends Unit” or “Whoopi Friends”? Perhaps they’ll just show Donald Trump all the time. Whatever it will be it will not be our “Friends”. Because they are gone. Bumbling Ross, dead. Klutzy Judy, dead. Bobby, not dead and coming back with a sequel to “Friends”. But will it suck? Will it get us through the pain and anguish of 9/11 again? Will Bobby alone make us laugh and cry? Will one “Friend” take the place of three? Well four if you count him, but he will still be on. So I don’t know. And of course Jane, dead.



I’m reminded of a line from the haunting theme of “Friends” by the Rembrandts: “I’ll be there for you, I’ll be there for you, through everything you do…” Doug, wherever you are tonight I’ll be there for you, Ill be there for you, through everything you do…. even though, like “Friends” you're gone. Well that’s it for this week. Be sure to Join “Marlon Brando” and the cast of “Friends” tomorrow night. I’ll be back on Friday with “STHT” and Saturday’s it’s “Dead Celebrities”. Sunday’s join Hal Holbrook for “STShowcase”. On Monday’s join me, Jim Farris, for “STHT” and Tuesdays Connie Chung will be here with her new “1 On 1”.

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