by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/07/2025 12:20 AM
I have seen before this episode of Perry Mason
Tonight, I am thinking again about how that guest-starring character makes me think of Homer Burgess
Marketing is not about what you are, marketing is about what you are not.
This guest-starring character is familiar to me because of his starring role in the 1970s "The Rockford Files" as the starring character's father and of the episodes of that series I sometimes choose to view, the old guy also makes me think of Homer Burgess. I have described before observations I have made in my original-work code-pattern.
This Perry Mason episode, with details that seem relevant to my hypothesis, was precisely 9 days before my date of birth, in Antlers, Oklahoma. This is the period I describe as Epoch 0.
Joseph Wayne Burgess is listed as my father on my birth-certificate. Homer Burgess was his father's brother.
Thedia Newman Burgess is listed as my mother on my birth-certificate. After his first wife died - in year 1964, as I recently learned from my research - he married Thedia's mother. So that made him my great-uncle and also my step-grandfather. I always called him "grandpa". One time he told me he was not my grandfather. Good advice I would think later, considering Thedia's reckless disregard for my personal well-being from the turmoil of her frequent re-marriages.
From 1/3/1906 to 11/2/1965 is 59 years, 303 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673293/trivia/
IMDb
Perry Mason
The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner
Trivia
The card sorter used by Alice Munford is in the IBM 80 Series, likely the 83 or 84 model. They were used extensively in businesses as they became more "computerized" starting in the 1950s.
THE ROCKFORD FILES (1974–1980): SEASON 1, EPISODE 2 - THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND
(from internet transcript)
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford (his father): But for a man who doesn't like to get stomped on... you are in the wrong line of work.
Jim Rockford: Not now, Rocky.
Rocky: You never gave trucking a chance. You know, I still got connections. I can help get your A-1 myself. It's good pay, steady work. And it is safe.
Rockford: Not when you're on the wrong end of the truck. I just got my tail chased... halfway across the state of Arizona by the front end of a semi. Tried to run me off a mountain.
Rocky: A tractor, was it? What kind? A Kenworth? A Mack? What was it? Peterbilt?
Rockford: What difference does it make?
Rocky: I tried to show you the differences before you could walk. Was it a cab-over?
Rockford: Yeah, it was flat nosed, high. It was a cab-over. Nice paint job, blue and white. But what are we talking about tractors for?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 01:16 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 11/07/2025
