Posted on 09/22/2006 6:07:48 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Beloved TV star Andy Griffith is reportedly fighting for his life after breaking his hip in a fall. The 80-year-old actor had hip surgery on September 5 and has been in hospital in Los Angeles ever since, where he's being monitored for heart problems, according to reports that have not been confirmed by his publicist.
Griffith is a high-risk patient because he has suffered from heart problems and underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2000.
A source tells the Globe, "He's in a lot of pain right now, but he's just trying to tough it out so he can get back on his feet... He's pretty frail."
Griffith is best known for his namesake family show, which was a TV favorite in America throughout the 1960s, and spin-off "Mayberry R.F.D."
No, I must have missed that one. I had a lot of other things on my mind back in those days, and most of those "things" had their hair in ponytails and wore layers of crinolines under their long pleated skirts. I guess you hadda been there to appreciate them.
A lot of good lessons in that show. I think some conservatives could stand to watch the episodes dealing with Mr Wheeler who owned Wheeler's department store.
No need to shoot you now. With nearly all the shows you mentioned on DVD why would anyone watch the filth and crap oozing out of Hollywood today?
'...and Cleopatra said, "Inarticulo mortes." Inarticulo Mortes. Now class, I hope you remember what that means, ...because I surely don't.'
I think his explanation of the Opera Carmen was his funniest.
LOL -- I remember my aunt -- the youngest of my dad's siblings -- wearing a ponytail -- and big skirts.
I don't remember that one -- I was trying to think of some of the other lines -- Et tu Brutae? (you too, Brutus?) and Brutus said, Yeah, me, too.
He's only 80???? Didn't he do Matlock about 20 years ago?
My prayers for Andy to have some more good years.
Bump
I watch TAGS every middle-of-the-night.
Tuther night Sheriff Andy was rousted outta bed 'bout that same time, to marry up a young couple. Aunt Bea and Opie helped put his symbolic JoftheP nightgown and nightcap on him and he commenced to marryin'.
Then came the dads, bustin' in Andy's house with shotguns. Turns out the kids were 1) a Carter and 2) a Wakefield. Those families have been feudin' since Methuselah was a baby.
Andy caved and the kids went home with their respective dads. Next morning, Aunt Bea and Opie wouldn't speak to Andy at breakfast. They thought the young'uns shoulda been married up.
So, Andy is forced to tell them why he thought it better they not get married. He said this old guy named Bill Shakepeare told it best. He explains about the young'uns in Bill's story who wanted to marry, but couldn't because of their names.
Boy's friend tells him to change his name - he won't. He's out moping around in the bushes near the girl's house when he notices some thing up on the balcony. He hears his GF's voice.
"Hey, what's that light?" I fell on the floor, laughing.
Bless his heart - hope it all works out OK for him. I went to that page and it redirected me to Miss Crump's Blackboard, but I never found anything recent about Andy at all.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefor art thou Romeo? Well, Romeo, he pops us and sez, "I'm right chere!"
They were fightin' over a punkin!
Oh, yeah - that was great. Better'n Joos-tan Wilson.
That was how he wrapped up the story of Antony & Cleopatra.
I've always thought the funniest part of that routine was when news of Antony and Cleopatra's affair got back to Rome. 'Augustus, when he heard about it, went to his sister, Antony's wife, and said, "I think I'll go down there and make war on them, and she said, "Would ye?!"'
I don't know the latter reference. My family grew up listening to Andy's comedy albums. The Discovery of America, by Andy Griffith, was probably our favorite. Now anytime anyone says, "What do you think?', the standard reply is, "I think there's lots of flies in the castle today, somebody musta left a window open in the turret" [King Ferdinand wasn't paying attention to Columbus's plea for sponsorship.
I like the fun girls episodes -- the girls from Mount Pilot. "Hello doll" and "Bernie" and Andy saying "you got to git them girls outta here!" to Barney. And I like the Ernest T. Bass episodes "Kelsey's woods, Kelsey's farm, Kelsey's ocean."
Nah, he smoked after dinner on the porch when he wasn't playing the guitar. I thought it was odd that he never smoked at the office, because *everybody* who smoked back then did so at their office.
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