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Zoom, 1.23. 3 Repack, WGBH-TV, Boston. Presentation of Zoom is made possible in part by a grant from General Foods Corporation. And by this station and by other public television stations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. I'm Joe.

I'm Nina. I'm Kenny. My name's Tracy. I'm Tommy. I'm Nancy. Oh, I'm John. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Come on, give it a try. We're gonna show you just why. We're gonna teach you to fly high. Come on and zoom. Come on and zoom, zoom. Come on and do, come on and do, come on and do, come on and do. Here's another version of a Merrimack sent in by Susan Kultenuck of Union, New Jersey.

Miss Mary Merple, Merple, Merple, all dressed in purple, purple, purple, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her girdle, girdle, girdle. She asked her mother, mother, mother for fifty cents, cents, cents, to see the boys, boys, boys climb over the fence, fence, fence. They jump so high, high, high They reach the sky, sky, sky And I never came back, back, back Till the fall of July, fly, fly A while ago, I asked what the longest word in the English language was. And here are some of the answers that people sent in.

Yeah, go ahead. Can I read a letter? Yeah. Thank you. Dear Zoom, I know the longest word in the dictionary. It is rubber because it stretches. That's great. And that was sent in by Kim Warren of Bristol, Pennsylvania. That's great. That's beautiful. Dear Zoom, this is from Ivan Reeder of Vienna, Virginia. He says, I would like to inform you that the longest word in the English alphabet is anti-disestablishmentarianism. Dis-ism. Oh, yeah. With 28 letters. It means the people oppose the church that the government chooses. Talk to that. Susan Craft of Miami, Florida, says that the longest word is anti-interdenominationalistically. That has 32 letters. Here's one from Linda Luxon and Eleanor McCall of Keokuk, Iowa. They say it is smiles because there is a mile

between the first letters and the last letters. Yay! Oh, here's one by Sharon Gilman of Florence, Mass, and she says that the longest word she knows his children this is one from Stacey Neff of Columbus Ohio says I think the longest word in the English vocabulary is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Ana Rodriguez and Rosa Cepeda did a Puerto Rican hand clapping game. It tells the story of a man who says goodbye to his lady before he goes off to war. He tells her to be true to him and reminds her if she's unfaithful and he dies,

he may come back from the dead and find out that she lied to him. Naranja dulce, se, se, limo pa' ti Do, do, do, dame un abrazo, so, so, que yo te pi Do, do, do, si fuera falso, so, so, mi durame Do, do, do, en los mome, do, do, do, te olvidaré, te olvidaré Si acaso muero en la bata, ya, ya, ya, tendrán cuida de no llorar, de no llorar, porque su ya, todo, todo puede surfar, sososo que hasta pudiera resucitar, resucitar, resucitar. Good. This one was sent in by a lot of you, including Danny White of House Springs, Missouri,

Fan Christian of Modesto, California, and Jerry Isle Knight of Ridgewood, New Jersey. It's the longest word ever to appear in English literature. A Greek named Aristophanes made it up to mean a meal cooked out of 17 different sweet and sour leftovers. Star Wars. Reale, gachari, anap, patek, efe, ali, eak, ejek, lap, ali, ealag, owesi, ha, ha, ira, eab, ape, etra, agan,

apte, reagan, and. Yeah. Who do you think is the richest person in the world? I don't know. An athlete. A king. George Washington. President. A mint. President of General Motors. A friend of my father's. My father. Some movie star. J. Paul Getty. He has 83 million. It's either Howard Hughes or Jean Paul Getty. I don't have any idea. I've heard of him before, but I wouldn't remember the whole name. I saw it in the Guinness Book of World Records. Do you have a camera and sometimes take pictures of your neighborhood? Well, our next Zoom guest did just that. And here he is, Natchez Gathers.

That's me, Natchez Gathers, in the mirror, holding my camera up. And my camera club instructor, Tom Lang, he's holding the mirror up so I can take the picture. I like that picture because it looks like he's holding a picture of myself. In this picture right here, I just aimed a camera at me and I took the picture of myself. My friends, they like for me to take pictures of them in school, because every time I come in with my camera, they always, they'd cry around me saying, take my picture, take my picture. I'll pay you a quarter. He's always showing off, this kid right here. He thinks he's Mr. Cool. Every time I take a picture, he always say, I'm the baddest man in town. My picture came out the best, so I just focus it blurry. A sneak shot is like you're taking a picture of a person when he's not, he don't even know

This is a sneak shot right here. Like, that's my home teacher, Mr. Green. I framed the picture like this so his bald hair wouldn't chill. That's a sneak shot right there. Because, like, when I was feeling around, she knew I was going to take a picture, right? And so she kept on looking down, right? So I said, hey, teacher, and as soon as when she looked up, I caught her. This is a drug store that's near the school. This is a picture of my mother. I took a picture of her in the kitchen.

I asked her, did you want me to take a picture? And she said, yes. Well, this is my brother and sister. They're just fooling around. My brother, he, after I started taking pictures, he got interested in taking pictures, too, because he saw how good they were coming out. We'll be right back.

Here's a Zoom card that came back to us from Angela Martinez of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. She says, Dear Zoom, my idea is to have some people write in and to show you what they have made. Here's what I have made. She made a paper chain, and I'm going to show you how to make it. You take a piece of paper, any construction paper that you have in the house, or plain paper. If it's this big, you take a piece of scissors and you try to cut down the middle. Then you take this piece of paper and fold it over like you fold a card. And you can crease it if you want to, so it won't come out.

Then, you open it up and you take the two sides and fold it into the crease, like this. Then you do the same over here. Then you fold it like you fold a letter, like this. so you get two folds like this. Then you take your pair of scissors again and you cut halfway down to the fold. Then you turn it over and do the same like this. Then you keep on doing it till you get all the way down to the end. Then you close your scissors and put them over to the side.

Then you open this up all the way. Then all you have to do is take these two ends and pull. and there you have a chain. Can you do that? Silence is quiet. Silence is when you're walking down the road. You hear the birds, your feet crunching in the snow, and you hear the wind blowing. Silence means to me that the wind is coming at me on a sunny day, and no one is there.

No noise, no people, no cars, trucks, machines, just nothing. Silence is talking, not out loud, but to yourself. You can sense silence not by really hearing it or seeing it or tasting it or feeling it, but just by knowing it. Silence is having the whole world to yourself. Good evening. This week's play involves us in all the excitement of a hockey game. Lorenzo Binet of Brookline, Massachusetts, sent in a sort of cartoon with his impressions of a hockey game.

We made an animated film out of his pictures. Here it is. It's called Joey and the Hockey Game. Joey is going to a hockey game. He is waiting a night to get into the game. Quit pushing! You want to start something, hippie? Are you looking for something? No, I'm a catcher for the Red Sox, and I got arthritis. You dunce! He's looking for his ticket. How do you know? I swiped it from you. Joey eventually gets in and starts to look for his seat. I wish they'd get that drunk off the ice already. Young man, will you help me find my seat?

Let me see your ticket. Well? Ma'am, you got the wrong place. Heavens to Betsy, I was sure this was Madison Square Garden. Ma'am, you got the wrong state. Quit hugging the beer, you pig, and give me a swing. Okay. The hockey game has started, but Joey is reading his program. Get that bum out of the way. During the game, Joey decides to get something to eat. Will you sit down and watch the game? What do you want, kid? A hot dog and a coke? Joey gets his food and drink. On the way back, he decides to pet the nice puppy. You're crazy!

When Joey comes back, the Bruins are losing, and the crowd is tense! And Esposito ties the game up with a tip-in. On the power play, Esposito catches a pass and flips it to the goalie. to make the score 3-2 with only 17 seconds left in the game. Boy, go past the ball. Watch him go. Check him into the ball. Go, Bozy, baby. What a game. Time finally ran out, and the Bruins won. Joey and all the other fans went home happy. Will you stop pushing? You got bad breath. Shut up. Joey went to wait for the subway train to come, and when it did, he hopped on and went home. If you have a play or story that you have written and would like to see acted out by our company,

please send it in to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. Thank you. I don't know. When you hear silence, your mind takes over your ears.

You can think loud thoughts, but no one will hear you. You may sometimes wonder about silence. I do because I don't hear very often. Silence is being alone and still. Not a lot of people sitting saying nothing, but being away from the group, being able to think without being bothered. Silence is a happy thing because you can concentrate and listen to many sounds you have never heard. You can always hear silence. You can hear wildlife and trees and other things like that. Here we go.

Silence means to me that the wind is coming at me on a sunny day and no one is there. No noise, no people, no cars, trucks, machines, just nothing. Silence is talking, not out loud, but to yourself. To me, silence is peace. It is when I'm alone. It is when I can think of sailing across the ocean, bigger and wider than anything, but I keep sailing. I often wonder what would happen if I yelled something straight up into the sky. Would it go to another planet where Martians would hear it, or would it just keep going

and going and going? My father was the keeper of the Yeti stone light, he quartered a mermaid one fine night. From this reunion there came three A porpoise and a forgy and the other was me

For all the wind blows free Oh, for the life of the rolling sea Captain, I still don't get it Will you come down here and tell me a part of the story? Yeah, come on, Captain Tell us some more Come on One night while I was a dreamin' of a glim Singin' the verse of the evening hymn A voice from the star bed shouted, Ahoy! And there was me mother, a sittin' on a board Oh, Captain Don't be ridiculous. A boy is a juvenile male. No. A boy guides the ship to sail. A boy guides the ship to sail? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Come on, Captain. Captain, tell us a little more. Come on. A little, a little. Tell me, what has become of my children three? My mother then she asked of me. One was exhibited as a talking fish, and the other was served on a tree. In the fall of how the wind goes free Over the life of the roaring sea Oh, I get it.

We go up, right? Under! Under! One more time. I know you don't either. Hang on. Nice. Come on, Captain. Just a little bit. We're all waiting. I'll turn it at the end of the story. Oh, okay. Then the phosphorus flashed in her seaweed hair. I looked again, my mother wasn't there. A voice came and rang out of the night. To the devil with the caper of the Yeti stone light. You'll come when we're free. Oh, there's a life of the Laurencee. Hey! This word was from Arthur and Julie Damon of medford massachusetts and kenneth jones who didn't give any address it's the name of a lake in massachusetts and it means an indian you fish on your side i'll fish on my side and nobody will

fish in the middle shigag agog agag a guard man shigag agag agag teabon agon agang mug Actually, the right way to pronounce it is We know what the longest word is Pneumono-ultra-microscopic Silico-volcano-coniosis Pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis! We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom

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