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Remember 'Our Gang?' - Whatever happened to these people? (interesting . . . and "sad")
Email | MAY 20, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 05/20/2005 7:50:48 PM PDT by CHARLITE

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To: CHARLITE

There's a few good 'Little Rascals' sites, and I mainly cut-and-pasted.
Fun stuff. I LOVED the 'Our Gang' (AKA 'Little Rascals') shorts when I was growing up.


21 posted on 05/20/2005 8:40:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: CHARLITE

Nobody mentioned "Froggy"


Froggy -- William Robert Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident at
age 16. Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident near Huntington Beach, CA in the early 1950’s.

Wheezer was killed at Merced AAC field when my father was stationed there btw.


22 posted on 05/20/2005 9:48:55 PM PDT by L`enn
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To: L`enn
I'm not superstitious, but really.........one has to wonder if some kind of a spooky jinx was placed on all of these people!

Char (:

23 posted on 05/20/2005 10:12:21 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
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To: CHARLITE

I met Spanky (George McFarland) before he died. His sister still lives in my hometown, (a small Dallas suburb) and was once on City Council.


24 posted on 05/20/2005 10:17:56 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Qwertyuiop!)
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To: CHARLITE
"Fat Joe" Cobb died in May 2002, aged 85.

"After his acting career ended in the early 1940s, Cobb became an assembler for North American Aviation, a division of Rockwell International. He retired in 1981."


http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00756.html
25 posted on 05/20/2005 10:23:46 PM PDT by decal (Where were YOU when AndyScam broke?)
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To: SerpentDove
Nice memory for you!

And now...........can you tell me what this means?

"Qwertyuiop!"

Sounds like a canary trapped in a doorjam!

Char

26 posted on 05/20/2005 10:24:18 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
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To: CHARLITE
I like to change my tagline every now and then, when it gets stale.

I couldn't think of anything, and I was in a hurry to go somewhere, so I just typed the first few letters on the top alphabet line on my keyboard.

Not that it relates to this thread, but I just did this, too:

Have a lovely morning!

27 posted on 05/20/2005 10:56:22 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Qwertyuiop!)
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To: SerpentDove

Geez, that's funny!


28 posted on 05/20/2005 10:58:57 PM PDT by CHARLITE (Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
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To: CHARLITE
Compare your "data" against Snopes.
29 posted on 05/20/2005 11:50:42 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: CHARLITE
300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation

Died at age 18, not 22. (b. 1918, d. 1936)

Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke at age 56.

Matthew Beard (not Bear). He went sober and went back into acting. He can be seen in a few episodes of Sanford and Son.

He was poisoned by an unknown assailant.

There were several Pete's.

You didn't know that was Robert Blake (in the middle, being hauled away by the policeman!). Did you? Robert Blake, Born Mickey Gubitosi was indeed on Our Gang.

Speaking as an Our Gang fan, No S$%^ Sherlock.

30 posted on 05/21/2005 6:42:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Old Sarge

Hal Roach lived to be 100 (and was a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno).

He outlived most of his discoveries (Our Gang and The Little Rascals, as well as Laurel and Hardy).


31 posted on 05/21/2005 9:44:39 AM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: CHARLITE

I met Dorothy De Borba a few years ago (Echo), probably around 2000.

This is not my photo, but here she is with Porky:


32 posted on 05/21/2005 9:50:17 AM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: tahotdog

OMG that is sooooo funnny!


33 posted on 05/21/2005 9:52:27 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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To: Lancey Howard

I was baptized by Pastor Smith(Waldo) when i was 12.
He was my pastor and family friend for many years, and went to school with his son Donald.
We would watch his private collection of Our Gang movies
on an occational Saturday night.
Darwood K. Smith was an incredible man


34 posted on 04/14/2008 8:32:30 PM PDT by otay4u (Waldo)
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To: otay4u

Thanks for your kind reply.
I grew up watching the ‘Our Gang’ shorts (during the ‘60s). They were on TV every Sunday when we got home from church.


35 posted on 04/14/2008 9:04:11 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: CHARLITE

Pics won’t show up and I can’t get the related website’s links to open at that website.

Can you offer a link that will work?

Would love to see the pics.

Blessings,


36 posted on 04/14/2008 10:06:49 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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