A moment of silence in the blogosphere, please, for Eddie Albert, gone to greener acres at the age of 99.

… thank you.

What can I say? I liked that show. I’ll still stop my surfing and watch it. Those were days, boys and girls. … land spreadin’ out so far and wide…. True, we didn’t have shows like Survivor and Elimidate, and 35 flavors of Law & Order and CSI. But when you got up from the TV, you didn’t feel like Alex de Large, like you’d been bombarded with insane, inane images. You felt like you could go on chuckling at little things for a while. Maybe you felt so good, it didn’t matter if you had to climb a pole to answer your phone.

I’m telling you, I was there and TV was happier then. People were happier to be sitting and watching it. And the people who knew how to do that for us are leaving. So let’s hear it for Eddie Albert, for giving us Oliver Wendell Douglas.