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bru
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Don Knotts is Dead
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Feb 26 13:01 UTC 2006 |
Don Knotts has died. All Hail the memory of Barney Fife!
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mcnally
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response 1 of 38:
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Feb 26 21:03 UTC 2006 |
This is going to keep happyboy going for months..
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marcvh
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response 2 of 38:
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Feb 26 21:05 UTC 2006 |
I guess the kids on That 70s Show will get a new landlord.
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richard
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response 3 of 38:
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Feb 26 21:27 UTC 2006 |
Don Knotts was a great comedic actor, he won five Emmy awards for
playing Barney Fife. But he was also wonderful in movies like "The
Ghost and Mr. Chicken" and "The Reluctant Astronaut".
His role on "Thats 70's Show" is a spoof, because that show takes
place back in the late seventies, when he was playing the landlord,
Ralph Furley, on Three's Company.
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tod
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response 4 of 38:
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Feb 27 01:12 UTC 2006 |
You can leave a message for his family here
http://www.donknotts.tv/guestbook/
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klg
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response 5 of 38:
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Feb 27 12:18 UTC 2006 |
What about his work on Steve Allen's show? (Or does Richard discount
that because Allen was conservative?)
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tod
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response 6 of 38:
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Feb 27 17:27 UTC 2006 |
He had a pretty good 2nd career with cartoon voices, too.
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happyboy
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response 7 of 38:
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Feb 27 18:12 UTC 2006 |
re1?
what's that supposed to mean?
rip don knotts. :(
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mcnally
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response 8 of 38:
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Feb 27 19:36 UTC 2006 |
re #7: my impression was that you were already pretty prone to making
jokes equating bru with Don Knotts' most famous character even *before*
bru entered an item which read, in part, "All hail Barney Fife!"
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happyboy
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response 9 of 38:
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Feb 27 20:00 UTC 2006 |
like you, i can separate an actor from a character which he
or she is playing.
you know, like klg is probably actually remmers.
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slynne
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response 10 of 38:
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Feb 27 20:07 UTC 2006 |
I was beginning to think that klg was writing a bit like tsty today and
I wasnt sure what that might mean.
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nharmon
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response 11 of 38:
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Feb 27 20:19 UTC 2006 |
Well, happyboy, some of us might think you're actually Todd! :P
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edina
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response 12 of 38:
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Feb 27 20:20 UTC 2006 |
Nah. Happyboy's hair is much better.
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tod
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response 13 of 38:
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Feb 27 21:30 UTC 2006 |
Too true
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happyboy
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response 14 of 38:
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Feb 27 21:59 UTC 2006 |
oh you guys!
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richard
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response 15 of 38:
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Feb 28 00:59 UTC 2006 |
One of my favorite "Andy Griffith" episodes was where Barney decides
the Mayberry Sheriff's department needs to expand its "vehicle
inventory". So he goes to an army surplus auction and obtains a world
war one motorcycle with a sidecar, as well as a leather biker outfit
and helmet.
Barney goes around on his motorcycle writing tickets to everyone in
town, and then back in the office, he puts his helmet down and turns
around while he's talking. With Barney's back turned, Andy puts on the
helmet.
Barney turns around and his eyes bug out as Andy says, "hows it look"
and in dead serious monotone, he goes, "don't wear my helmet Andy" "Aw
Barney" "Don't wear my helmet Andy"
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klg
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response 16 of 38:
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Feb 28 03:44 UTC 2006 |
You tell 'em, Richie. (And people say culture is dead.)
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remmers
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response 17 of 38:
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Feb 28 14:35 UTC 2006 |
My first exposure to Don Knotts was the "Man in the Street" fake
interview segments on the Steve Allen show in the 1950s. Knotts was the
"nervous" one, the other regular interviewees being Tom Poston
(dull-witted) and Louis Nye (pretentious, debonair). Hilarious stuff.
Steve Allen was responsible for introducing all three of these
successful comics to the public. He gave Andy Griffith, Jonathan
Winters, and Lenny Bruce (yes!) some of their earliest national exposure
as well.
Steve Allen became something of a conservative fuddy-duddy when he got
older, but in those days he was a political liberal. (And I think that
Ronald Reagan, at least officially, was still a Democrat.)
Can't say that I paid much attention to Knotts' career after that. No
interest in watching "Andy Griffith" or any of the Disneyish
kiddie-oriented movies.
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klg
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response 18 of 38:
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Feb 28 17:12 UTC 2006 |
In those days, a "liberal" was a conservative of today. We couldn't
help it if the Democratic Party drank the Kool Aid.
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twenex
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response 19 of 38:
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Feb 28 17:58 UTC 2006 |
So people are becoming less fascistic? How awful.
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richard
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response 20 of 38:
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Feb 28 18:49 UTC 2006 |
re #18 wrong, liberals then are liberals now, ideas like universal health care
and using government for the benefit of the public good were as valid then
as they are now. klg shows that he knows no history at all. Do you think
Edward Kennedy is less of a liberal now than when he was first elected more
than four decades ago?
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klg
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response 21 of 38:
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Feb 28 20:41 UTC 2006 |
The Senior Blimp from Massachusetts hadn't killed anybody when he was
first elected, so far as we know.
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happyboy
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response 22 of 38:
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Feb 28 21:56 UTC 2006 |
and the republicans back then produced mcarthyism.
after they got over their pre-war association with the
german american bund, that is.
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tod
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response 23 of 38:
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Feb 28 22:03 UTC 2006 |
I bet if Wes Clark had been a warmonger then he'd be in GW's spot right now.
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twenex
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response 24 of 38:
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Feb 28 22:07 UTC 2006 |
Those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to become
conservatives.
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