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Report: Andy Griffith Has Died at the Age of 86

http://news.yahoo.com/report-andy-griffith-died-age-86-141449183.html

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

Hey to Goober! R.I.P. and thanks for years of entertainment.

 

[Damocles]

Wow... Now we have to wait for two more...

 

[Rationalist]

Very sad day... I still watch the Andy Griffith Show reruns and I was always a fan of Matlock while growing up.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

To steal a line from Billy:

0 fucks given

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Oh no, I got groaned. My life is now in total disarray. Whatever will I do.

edit: damn... now it is the dreaded double groan... will the pain ever stop?

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

To steal a line from Billy:

0 fucks given

Communist

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Communist

sorry, just don't care when 'celebrities' pass... and I of course have to share how much I don't care by posting such on threads about them rather than ignoring the thread.

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

sorry, just don't care when 'celebrities' pass... and I of course have to share how much I don't care by posting such on threads about them rather than ignoring the thread.

Oh, I thought you just didn't like Andy Griffith.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

To steal a line from Billy:

0 fucks given

God damned liberal!

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Oh, I thought you just didn't like Andy Griffith.

I actually watched the show growing up and liked it and him. But I think we put far too much importance on 'celebrities'. So it is more a general problem than one with Andy in particular.

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Andy Griffith, for a LONG time, was my favorite TV actor. I loved his sense of humor most of all, and was a big fan of his TV show as well as the movies he made before. He and Don Knotts had a special chemistry together that we don't often get to see... like Martin and Lewis or Abbott and Costello.. it just clicked. I never was a big Matlock fan, I think because he wasn't playing a comedic role. Later in life, he became a huge pinhead, but he was probably pinheaded all along, like Walter Cronkite.. it just started oozing out when he got old and senile.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

God damned liberal!

True, stealing from others like that is indeed a liberal trait.

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

I actually watched the show growing up and liked it and him. But I think we put far too much importance on 'celebrities'. So it is more a general problem than one with Andy in particular.

I don't place any real importance on celebrities, per se. But seeing one of the icons of my youth has died always makes me sad for the times lost. Am I a sentimental old fool? You betcha.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I don't place any real importance on celebrities, per se. But seeing one of the icons of my youth has died always makes me sad for the times lost. Am I a sentimental old fool? You betcha.

I understand that sentiment involved. I simply choose not to be the fool

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Well since this is a political message board I think I should point out Andy Griffith's contribution to American Politics in his movie "A Face in the Crowd".

The movie is a morality play on American politics about how demogogues like Hewey Long, Father Coughlin, Joseph McCarthy, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck use the media to build a following and then manipulate that following to advance a particular agenda and how the American public is always wise enough to discover these demogogues for what they are and to discredit them.

To the younger posters on this board who find the propaganda and rhetoric in the media from the Becks, Limbaughs, Madows, Fox News & MSNBC disturbing then "A Face In The Crowd" is a must see. Griffith is brilliant in this role.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Andy Griffith, for a LONG time, was my favorite TV actor. I loved his sense of humor most of all, and was a big fan of his TV show as well as the movies he made before. He and Don Knotts had a special chemistry together that we don't often get to see... like Martin and Lewis or Abbott and Costello.. it just clicked. I never was a big Matlock fan, I think because he wasn't playing a comedic role. Later in life, he became a huge pinhead, but he was probably pinheaded all along, like Walter Cronkite.. it just started oozing out when he got old and senile.

Hey Dixie. I think Andy had you in mind when he performed this.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I don't place any real importance on celebrities, per se. But seeing one of the icons of my youth has died always makes me sad for the times lost. Am I a sentimental old fool? You betcha.

Yea me too.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Well since this is a political message board I think I should point out Andy Griffith's contribution to American Politics in his movie "A Face in the Crowd".

The movie is a morality play on American politics about how demogogues like Hewey Long, Father Coughlin, Joseph McCarthy, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck use the media to build a following and then manipulate that following to advance a particular agenda and how the American public is always wise enough to discover these demogogues for what they are and to discredit them.

To the younger posters on this board who find the propaganda and rhetoric in the media from the Becks, Limbaughs, Madows, Fox News & MSNBC disturbing then "A Face In The Crowd" is a must see. Griffith is brilliant in this role.

Barney Fife is 'brilliant' to a sheep fucking Ohioan... so the above really isn't saying much

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Barney Fife is 'brilliant' to a sheep fucking Ohioan... so the above really isn't saying much

I keep telling you don't knock sheep fuckers cause if I was a pig fucker I'd be your daddy!