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It's a sad day in Mayberry #1
hpmowog Karl Keiger Covington, LA, USA 1959 Austin-Healey Bugeye 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite	Posted: July 03, 2012 09:41AM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 2,004

Andy Griffith has died at the age of 86.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #2
taskadog Phil Burke Tequesta/Orlando Florida, USA 1972 MG Midget	Posted: July 03, 2012 09:58AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 1,381

R.I.P. Ben,
I'll wear my seersucker tomorrow. sad smiley

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #3
bleteaches6 lee orphan Sumner, WA, USA 1956 MG MGA 1500 1979 MG MGB Limited Edition (LE) 1979 MG Midget 1500	Posted: July 03, 2012 10:13AM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 6,992

He had a great career and represented a different era of film and TV well. I wonder how Ron Howard took the news.

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #4
JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: July 03, 2012 10:17AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,907

That's terrible news... my all-time favorite TV program..

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #5
tbarker7815 Tom . Knoxville, TN, USA 1979 MG MGB Limited Edition (LE)	Posted: July 03, 2012 10:25AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 2,886

Classic show, classic performer, could never be replaced.

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Naomi Naomi C Between Greensboro and Roanoke, USA 1964 MG MGB "Kirby" 1979 MG MGB "Bandit" 1980 MG MGB "Robbie" 1995 Mazda Miata Special Edition 2003 Jaguar S-Type	Posted: July 03, 2012 10:47AM Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 13,324

Hubby's favorite show and I know he has every line memorized. I, too, loved every character on the show. Mayberry Days will be very sad this year. RIP Andy

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Jack Long Forest Hill, Maryland, USA 1955 MG TF 1500 "Harriet" 1974 MG MGB "Lucy"	Posted: July 03, 2012 11:40AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 3,927

Sorry to see him go - his show helped define 1960's Americana. I enjoyed visiting Mt. Airy on my way to Dillard last month.

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #8
gooser Drake Myers Danville Va, USA	Posted: July 03, 2012 12:14PM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 6,995

he was a fine fella. i'm going to get drunk.

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wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: July 03, 2012 12:40PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

....he was a fine fella...I'll have an iced tea please.....

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hpmowog Karl Keiger Covington, LA, USA 1959 Austin-Healey Bugeye 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite	Posted: July 03, 2012 12:49PM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 2,004

In reply to # 2110087 by wyatt ....he was a fine fella...I'll have an iced tea please.....

I'll make sure Aunt Bea puts an extra slice of lemon in it for you. winking smiley

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #11
wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: July 03, 2012 02:04PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

.....it's a sad day in Mayberry...

which begs the question....do you think Barney Fife was doped...??

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wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: July 03, 2012 02:07PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

...we won't even get into Howard the barber and his "odd ways"......and Goober...he knew more about chemistry than just pumpin gas..

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #13
tbarker7815 Tom . Knoxville, TN, USA 1979 MG MGB Limited Edition (LE)	Posted: July 03, 2012 03:11PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 2,886

The play “No Time for Sergeants” was turned into a movie and Griffith reprised his role of Air Force recruit Will Stockdale, a naive rustic plucked from the Georgia backwoods.

“I think that I would rather live in the rottenest pigsty in Tennessee or Alabama than the fanciest mansion in all of Georgia,” says a needling major played by James Millhollin. “How about that?”

Griffith, as the drawling Will Stockdale: “Well, sir. I think where you wanna live is your business.”

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LaVerne LaVerne Downey Colorado, USA 1952 MG TD "Black Bitch" 1954 MG TF "Green Hornet" 1969 MG MGB	Posted: July 03, 2012 05:06PM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 4,401

Floyd was the barber and yes both he and Howard....well...

My favorite TV show of all time.

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #15
tarboy71 mike cole knoxville tn, USA	Posted: July 03, 2012 05:25PM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 264

Makes you think him and Barney might be telling the BIG GUY up stairs jokes.

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #16
wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: July 03, 2012 05:34PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

In reply to # 2110275 by LaVerne Floyd was the barber and yes both he and Howard....well...

My favorite TV show of all time.

..yup...floyd....first it's the legs....then the brain..........

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Naomi Naomi C Between Greensboro and Roanoke, USA 1964 MG MGB "Kirby" 1979 MG MGB "Bandit" 1980 MG MGB "Robbie" 1995 Mazda Miata Special Edition 2003 Jaguar S-Type	Posted: July 04, 2012 10:53AM Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 13,324

Hubby said to me last night "I'm betting all the Baby Boomers can name more characters from the Andy Griffin Show than any other show in their lifetime" . Would you agree smiling smiley

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #18
Montrose Robert Carley Campbellville, Ontario, Canada	Posted: July 04, 2012 11:22AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 5,099

I think your hubby is right.

For the past few years, we have been vacationing on the Outer Banks, and each year we made a day trip to Manteo, on Roanoke Island, hoping to catch a glance of Andy. We never did, and now I am the sadder for that. We did drive past what we thought was his residence, and we did see his boat launch on a sail we took in the bay, but no Andy himself.

I still watch re-runs of that show.

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LittleBritishCar Rick Anderson Napa, California, USA 1966 MG 1100 "Julia" 1975 MG MGB "Chiquita"	Posted: July 05, 2012 11:33PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 853

Andy Griffith was a roll model for me and I feel like I lost a relative. As a "latchkey kid" I learned much more about life by watching The Andy Griffith Show than I ever learned from my parents. Although it was a comedy, every single show was a lesson in how to live by the golden rule (treat others the way you want to be treated.) When I think about kids growing up watching Jersey Shore and The Kardouchians, I feel sorry for us all.

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Re: It's a sad day in Mayberry #20
JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: July 06, 2012 07:21AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,907

In reply to # 2112476 by LittleBritishCar Andy Griffith was a roll model for me and I feel like I lost a relative. As a "latchkey kid" I learned much more about life by watching The Andy Griffith Show than I ever learned from my parents. Although it was a comedy, every single show was a lesson in how to live by the golden rule (treat others the way you want to be treated.) When I think about kids growing up watching Jersey Shore and The Kardouchians, I feel sorry for us all.

x1000!!!! Nothing on TV that I have seen in years, except Andy's reruns, is decent enough for kids to watch...

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