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Jim Nabors, TV's the lovably naive Gomer Pyle, dies at 87
la times ^ | Nov. 30, 2017 | Dennis McLellan

Posted on 11/30/2017 11:41:18 AM PST by Morgana

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To: onedoug

Right on!


21 posted on 11/30/2017 12:57:10 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: NCC-1701
Not one of the main cast
but memorable


22 posted on 11/30/2017 12:57:21 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mj1234

Yes, very funny shows.


23 posted on 11/30/2017 12:57:56 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

I did not know he was Gay...

Sorry folk...men don’t marry men and women don’t marry women, in my World.


24 posted on 11/30/2017 1:05:50 PM PST by haircutter
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To: Morgana

Buy Gomer - thanks for the memories.


25 posted on 11/30/2017 1:06:15 PM PST by Jolla
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To: NCC-1701
That leaves Ron Howard and Betty Lynn left from the main cast.

Other surviving cast members (although none had a long tenure with the show): Elinor Donahue (Ellie Walker, Andy's love interest during the first season), Jack Burns (Deputy Warren Ferguson, Barney Fife's replacement, in the 1965 season), Maggie Mancuso, sometimes billed as Maggie Peterson (Charlene Darling, who chased after Andy in a number of episodes), and Ken Berry (Farmer Sam Jones during the last season, before transitioning to the spinoff, "Mayberry RFD."),

26 posted on 11/30/2017 1:11:07 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Morgana
Nabors sang "Back Home Again In Indiana" for eons at the Indianapolis 500, and did a wonderful job. I remember when he was outed and the 500 powers that be, afraid of what 400,000 drunken race fans would do when he showed up, did not invite him that year. Know what 400,000 drunken race fans did? They started chanting, "We want Gomer, we want Gomer ...."

Ok, I exaggerate slightly. Only 395,000 of the attendees are drunken. But the sober ones were chanting for Gomer as well.

Nabors was back the next year, and returned ever since as long as he was physically able to do it. The 500 loves its traditions. I think this year, I'd put up a video of Nabors singing the song on a big screen.

27 posted on 11/30/2017 1:12:51 PM PST by sphinx
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To: haircutter

The shows were funny.

Nabors did a lot to support the troops in Vietnam.

Nabors is talking to God now, not you.


28 posted on 11/30/2017 1:13:44 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: haircutter

See, he was queer all those years he made you laugh.

The horror....


29 posted on 11/30/2017 1:39:08 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Morgana

I just can’t seem to come to the place where I honor the life of a sodomite . . . who knows how many lives he has influenced to come to the dark side upon learning of his ‘secret’ life.

Got no use for him . . . alive or dead.


30 posted on 11/30/2017 1:50:52 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Jim 0216
Pretty sure he was Christian.

He sang a lot of gospel songs.

Since he was from Alabama I assumed he was a Baptist.

He might have been initially, but it says that he converted to Catholicism in the '60s.

He wasn't a loudmouth about his politics, but he was a staunch republican.

31 posted on 11/30/2017 1:57:51 PM PST by boop ("So much wasted time"-David Cassidy)
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To: mountn man

Leon...........lol........what a cutie. Always willing to share his PB&J.........;)


32 posted on 11/30/2017 2:11:27 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Morgana

RIP, Gomer Pyle seeing reruns of Andy Griffith was great...


33 posted on 11/30/2017 2:16:54 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Morgana

He sang The Impossible Dream in dress blues for an episode of GPUSMC.


34 posted on 11/30/2017 2:27:36 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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The Andy Griffith Show: Who's still alive?
35 posted on 11/30/2017 2:29:10 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Morgana

I didn’t know a liver can be transplanted.


36 posted on 11/30/2017 2:32:41 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: libertylover

Yeah...in some cases they just transplant a piece. And it regenerates.


37 posted on 11/30/2017 2:36:11 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: haircutter

As a teen, I have to disagree with you. Most of my friends don’t care about hay marriage. We my friends are more libertarian in terms of gay rights. I have a gay friend, big deal...


38 posted on 11/30/2017 2:51:20 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: mountn man

Clint Howard?


39 posted on 11/30/2017 3:03:59 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: ConservaTeen; haircutter

As a teen, I have to disagree with you. Most of my friends don’t care about hay marriage. We my friends are more libertarian in terms of gay rights. I have a gay friend, big deal...


Thanks to progressive schools and television/media programming forcing it upon the masses as ‘normal’.

It IS a big deal.

It is NOT natural (homo’s cannot naturally reproduce) and there is usually not very much ‘gay’ about the homosexual lifestyle.


40 posted on 11/30/2017 3:10:34 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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