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Don Knotts Dead
me | 2/25/2006 | Puppage

Posted on 02/25/2006 2:32:14 PM PST by Puppage

Just heard on Fox News. Don Knotts dead at 81


TOPICS: Announcements; Culture/Society; US: Connecticut; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: barneyfife; donknotts; lescalhoun; mayberry; mrferley; mrlimpett; nipitinthebud; obituary; theghostandmrchicken; threescompany
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To: Puppage

He has move on to the corner room at the Y in the sky!

RIP

TC Rider
Raleigh, NC
(where Barney came to party!)


421 posted on 02/28/2006 8:28:39 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Mears
"I first remember him as the nervous guy on the Steve Allen Show in the fifties."

Yes, as part of the recurring man on the street bit, with Tom Poston as a guy who couldn't remember his own name and Louis Nye as Gordon Hathaway, a gushy fop.
422 posted on 02/28/2006 4:20:54 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Puppage

There'll be an empty seat at the diner tonight.


423 posted on 02/28/2006 4:23:23 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

They don't make 'em like those three anymore.And not an obscenity or sexual innuendo to be heard,just great humor.


424 posted on 02/28/2006 4:27:58 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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To: cartoonistx

What a wonderful cartoon! Thank you for posting it! Jim Nabors was on one of the tab shows this afternoon and said this exact thing--that he bet Don Knotts had gotten to heaven and it was just like Mayberry!

He added, he hopes *everyone* finds their own Mayberry! I loved that.


425 posted on 03/01/2006 1:46:23 AM PST by Rte66
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To: driftless

My late mother loved "It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T." also. I didn't quite share y'all's enthusiasm about him tho.

In fact, when Dennis Weaver passed away, I was thinking of Festus, the character who came after Weaver's "Chester," and I had Ken Curtis mixed up in my memory with Howard Morris as Ernest T. Bass.


426 posted on 03/01/2006 1:50:36 AM PST by Rte66
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To: TC Rider

Right now, I'm watching the AGS episode when Barney gave the governor's limo a ticket for being in a "no parking" zone.

The mayor got on Andy about it and called up the governor to "apologize," but you know how that turned out. He wanted to come from Raleigh and shake the deputy's hand for being the only guy with enough "spunk" to write him up.

Well, oops, Barney got upset when he heard the governor and Andy were wanting to see him later on - so Otis helps him "drown his sorrows" by spiking the spring water in the jail's water cooler and Barney's now drunk.

Andy finds Barn schnockered in the jailroom and tells him the gov is coming to see him and shake his hand! They're sobering Barney up now with coffee, at Andy's house, while the *ahem* mayor is drinking copious amounts of water from the jailhouse water cooler, lol!

The governor stops in, shakes Barney's hand and leaves to go back to Raleigh. Now Barney's all proud and saying he won't wash his hand for a week -- and they can't find the mayor ... ha, he's "sleeping it off" in the back room of Andy's office. Smashed drunk, he wakes up and thinks Andy's the governor!

Barn and Ange look at each other and say "Showers!" and drag the blankety blank mayor off.


427 posted on 03/01/2006 2:00:14 AM PST by Rte66
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To: cva66snipe

AMEN!! Andy and Barney are "members" of my family - he is missed.


428 posted on 03/01/2006 9:51:55 AM PST by GOPRaleigh (If John Kerry didn't exist then Karl Rove would have to invent him.)
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To: MinuteGal

What a grand character actor! How lucky we are to have his work to enjoy. Condolences to Don Knotts' friends and family.


429 posted on 03/01/2006 3:03:22 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: Phsstpok
I also remember Don from Steve Allen's Man on the Street skits. Don would dress in a dark over-sized suit wearing an over-sized wide brim hat that seemed to rest on his ears. And of course, he's shaking like a leaf. Once in the skit Steve Allen asks...

Hello Sir. Could you tell us your name and occupation?
Mmmy name is G. B. Henderson and I'm a dddemolitions expert.
I see. And what does the G. B. stand for?
GET BACK!!!

There were times when the audience would laugh so long the players couldn't get on with their lines, and you would see Don's face slip into that goofy, sloppy grin of his.

Rest in peace, Don
430 posted on 03/01/2006 4:08:55 PM PST by richlk
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To: don-o

> I heard Billy Bob Thornton say that "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" is his favotite movie of all time.

That's certainly the one that comes to my mind. And don't forget the voice from the back of the courthouse shouting "Atta boy, Luther!" while Knotts is giving testimony.


431 posted on 03/01/2006 4:50:27 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: Hi Heels
Barney: Dogs, Andy nothing but Dogs. Andy: BARNEY!! Barney: Andy, if you flew a quail throw this room, every woman in here would point.

From "My Fair Ernest" ... Such a great line given its irony.

432 posted on 03/01/2006 9:47:34 PM PST by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: Puppage

Now, everybody stay perfectly calm! A peace officer is on the scene, and everything's under control. No point in gawkin'. Move along! .....I mean it! Git!
433 posted on 03/04/2006 4:50:24 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: Puppage

You know, it's a shame he never got to portray Jimmy Carter on the big screen. That would have been a trip.


434 posted on 03/04/2006 4:58:57 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: Puppage
I know this is a week late, but I completely forgot about this until now.

Since tonight is the Academy Awards...

See the movie that has everyone talking...

Don Knotts as "Dubya".

-PJ

435 posted on 03/05/2006 3:10:57 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: NautiNurse

BUMP


436 posted on 10/16/2006 7:13:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
BUMP

Why, are you reminding him it's almost time to vote Democrat?
437 posted on 10/16/2006 7:18:04 PM PDT by Rastus
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