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David Wilson · #16 07-03-2012, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The Clk Man

Opie Taylor + Ritchie Cunnigham = Opie Cunnigham.

BTW is "Look at me I'm Ernest T" still living?

Ernest left us a long while ago.

I still remember how hard I laughed the first time I saw "No time for Sargents" What a hoot!
But his show and it's lessons of goodness and fairness will last for a long time. Nothing like it today.

RIP Andy

Dee8go · #17 07-03-2012, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by retmil46

A true gentleman. He will be sorely missed.

Having also grown up in a small rural NC town, you'd be surprised how often the background setting for that show, once past the comedic situations, actually did mirror real life.

Perhaps not surprising, given Mr Griffith's home town of Mt Airy NC.

Most celebrities passing I just duly note, but this one hurts - it feels as if not just the man, but something good and decent, has passed from the world, never to be seen again.

Me, too! Isn't there a famous battlefield in where you live? I know I've been there for something. I grew up in Kinston and always thought Mayberry was very familiar.

retmil46 · #18 07-03-2012, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee8go

Me, too! Isn't there a famous battlefield in where you live? I know I've been there for something. I grew up in Kinston and always thought Mayberry was very familiar.

A couple county's to the west - King's Mountain. Most of both my father and mother's families hail from that area.

20 or so years ago, when I was trying to track my father's side of the family, I found a small church near there that had grave markers with the family name going back to the early 1700's.

Stoney · #19 07-03-2012, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by The Clk Man

R.I.P Mr Griffith.

I guess Opie Cunnigham is the only one left.

My Step Father used to golf with him and did some financial work for his charity endeavors. I can't mention names but many, many people in both the Theatre and Acting community plus the AA organization benefitted from Mr. Griffith's charity.

The Clk Man · #20 07-03-2012, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Stoney

My Step Father used to golf with him and did some financial work for his charity endeavors. I can't mention names but many, many people in both the Theatre and Acting community plus the AA organization benefitted from Mr. Griffith's charity.

When the wife and I want to escape to a simpler time, we watch reruns of the Andy Griffith Show.

The Clk Man · #21 07-03-2012, 08:43 PM

He has already been buried. That was fast.

jplinville · #22 07-03-2012, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Since66

My first year at college was 1951. At that time "Deacon" Andy Griffith was a relatively obscure southern comedian but he had just come out with a recorded routine, "What it was, was football", that got a lot of airtime. I must have punched the B2 key on the juke box in the Student Union 50 times a week. Couldn't get enough of it. It was hilarious in its day, and even now I get a chuckle.

Thanks for the laughs.

RIP, "Deacon".

We heard that one, as well as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliette, and others today on Pandora while driving. Great material.

t walgamuth · #23 07-04-2012, 01:42 AM

In no time for seargents he was put in charge of the latrines because he was so good at cleaning them, I remember him telling a friend he was on PLO all proud.....permanent latrine orderly. And when they had a big shot general visit he fixed all the WC seats so he could pull a rope and they all flipped up to attention when the general looked in the latrine.

I always enjoyed him and his work.

RIP Andy!

chasinthesun · #24 07-04-2012, 01:18 PM

I heard a snipet of the AG show yesterday ,Barnie Fife askes Andy ,"Andy ,what would you do If a knife weilding maniac comes up to you out of the blue? What would you do Andy ,well what would you do? Andy pauses ," Ahhhh ,run.