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BREAKING NEWS: Longtime 'Saturday Night Live' announcer Don Pardo dies at 96
Fox News ^ | 8/19/2014 | Fox News

Posted on 08/18/2014 10:20:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003

Longtime NBC announcer Don Pardo, best known as the often-heard, rarely-seen constant during 38 seasons of constant change at "Saturday Night Live," died late Monday. He was 96.

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To: boop

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21 posted on 08/19/2014 2:41:50 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: GOYAKLA

Oh,Sorry. You must answer in the form of a question.

Who is Art Fleming?


22 posted on 08/19/2014 6:58:45 AM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: logitech; GOYAKLA; Rummyfan

Whoops. Should have gone to rummyfan


23 posted on 08/19/2014 7:01:57 AM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: freedumb2003
Barukh Dayyan Ha'Emet.

To me he was the original announcer for Art Fleming's "Jeopardy."

24 posted on 08/19/2014 7:09:36 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: freedumb2003

Wow he was that old? Wow, damn back when SNL started in the late 70 he must have been already in his 60s.


25 posted on 08/19/2014 7:41:17 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: boop

I haven’t watched that show literally in decades, was he still announcing it in his 90s?


26 posted on 08/19/2014 7:43:12 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: iowamark

Frank Zappa - I’m the Slime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWA-TXJmeQo


27 posted on 08/19/2014 7:43:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: freedumb2003
Lovely voice! He will be missed...


28 posted on 08/19/2014 7:48:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("LEX REX." ("The law is the king.") -- Samuel Rutherford)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
back when SNL started in the late 70 he must have been already in his 60s.

He was 58.

29 posted on 08/19/2014 7:51:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("LEX REX." ("The law is the king.") -- Samuel Rutherford)
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To: Rummyfan; GOYAKLA; wardaddy

oooh, I’m sorry... you did not phrase your response in the form of a question...


30 posted on 08/19/2014 7:53:52 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: freedumb2003

One of those widely recognizable voices.

RIP, Don!


31 posted on 08/19/2014 8:35:41 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: logitech

Excuse: At that time in AM, I’m usually working AZZBACWARDS.
Looks like we all were.
Have a GREAT day.


32 posted on 08/19/2014 8:40:03 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: freedumb2003

Yes, his voice does echo from my youth... when the show was actually half-way good.


33 posted on 08/19/2014 9:02:18 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: freedumb2003

Who’s going to tell us what we won?

RIP.


34 posted on 08/19/2014 9:04:18 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: freedumb2003

35 posted on 08/19/2014 9:07:49 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Albion Wilde

John Facenda and Don Pardo, two voices that everyone knew but rarely saw the face that housed the voice. There are going to be some great voice-overs in Heaven. Can’t wait to hear that.


36 posted on 08/19/2014 9:18:47 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: tumblindice
He’s as dead as disco.

You mean he's coming back as a Broadway musical like 'Mama Mia'?

Somehow I think he might like that! (-:

37 posted on 08/19/2014 10:11:29 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: NCC-1701
John Facenda and Don Pardo, two voices that everyone knew but rarely saw the face that housed the voice. There are going to be some great voice-overs in Heaven.

And let us not forget the inimitable Don La Fontaine, the Pavarotti of voice-overs, IMO.

38 posted on 08/19/2014 12:15:52 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("LEX REX." ("The law is the king.") -- Samuel Rutherford)
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