Good bye Andy. You had a good run.

This was always one of my favorites of his:

It was back last October, I believe it was. We was going to hold a tent service off at this college town, and we got there about dinner time on Saturday. Different ones of us thought that we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before we set up the tent. So we got off the truck and followed this little bunch of people through this small little bitty patch of woods there, and we came up on a big sign that says, "Get something to Eat Here."

I went up and got me two hot dogs and a big orange drink, and before I could take a mouthful of that food, this whole raft of people come up around me and got me to where I couldn't eat nothing, up like, and I dropped my big orange drink. Well, friends, they commenced to move, and there wasn't so much that I could do but move with them.

Well, we commenced to go through all kinds of doors and gates and I don't know what- all, and I looked up over one of 'em and it says, "North Gate." We kept on a-going through there, and pretty soon we come up on a young boy and he says, "Ticket, please." And I says, "Friend, I don't have a ticket; I don't even know where it is that I'm a-going!" Well, he says, "Come on out as quick as you can." And I says, "I'll do 'er; I'll turn right around the first chance I get."

Well, we kept on a-moving through there, and pretty soon everybody got where it was that they was a-going, because they parted and I could see pretty good. And what I seen was this whole raft of people a-sittin' on these two banks and a-lookin at one another across this pretty little green cow pasture.

Somebody had took and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it, and I don't know what all, and I looked down there and I seen five or six convicts a running up and down and a-blowing whistles . And then I looked down there and I seen these pretty girls wearin' these little bitty short dresses and a-dancing around, and so I thought I'd sit down and see what it was that was a-going to happen.

About the time I got set down good I looked down there and I seen thirty or forty men come a-runnin' out of one end of a great big outhouse down there and everybody where I was a-settin' got up and hollered! And I asked this fella that was a sittin' beside of me, "Friend, what is it that they're a-hollerin' for? Well, he whopped me on the back and he says, "Buddy, have a drink!" I says, "Well, I believe I will have another big orange. I got it and set back down.

When I got there again I seen that the men had got in two little bitty bunches down there real close together, and they voted. They elected one man apiece, and them two men come out in the middle of that cow pasture and shook hands like they hadn't seen one another in a long time. Then a convict came over to where they was a-standin', and he took out a quarter and they commenced to odd man right there! After a while I seen what it was they was odd-manning for. It was that both bunchesfull of them wanted this funny lookin little pumpkin to play with. And I know, friends, that they couldn't eat it because they kicked it the whole evenin' and it never busted.

Both bunchesful wanted that thing. One bunch got it and it made the other bunch just as mad as they could be! Friends, I seen that evenin' the awfulest fight that I ever have seen in all my life !! They would run at one -another and kick one- another and throw one another down and stomp on one another and griiind their feet in one another and I don't know what- all and just as fast as one of 'em would get hurt, they'd take him off and run another one on !!

Well, they done that as long as I set there, but pretty soon this boy that had said "Ticket, please." He come up to me and said, "Friend, you're gonna have to leave because it is that you don't have a ticket." And I says, "Well, all right." And I got up and left.

I don't know friends, to this day, what it was that they was a doin' down there, but I have studied about it. I think it was that it's some kindly of a contest where they see which bunchful of them men can take that pumpkin and run from one end of that cow pasture to the other without gettin' knocked down or steppin' in somethin'.

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R.I.P. Candyman

Ok, this one I didn't get.

Candy rhymes with 'Andy'

Was it too much of a stretch?

Just checked out Breitbart----turns out Andy Griffith was a Commie and a liberal and they are glad he's dead.

/Seriously
//WTF is wrong with these people?????

Degenz: So now the modmins are all officially mouth-breathing twerps?

I'm rather surprised a group of people such as Farkers, who pride themselves on every facet of the media, would denigrate what is unquestionably an actor associated with one of the best television shows of all time. Yes, we all know the farking morons who put the tea baggers in charge want to return to the Leave it to Beaver days when lynchings of blacks and all other manner of stupidity was condoned.

But don't lay your anger on the backs of those who were pioneers in the the industry and helped make it all successful. Without them you wouldn't have your DWTS and countless zombie/vampire related shiat you love. What is on TV today is trash and that's because they are appealing to you, the morons who will do exactly as George Costanza said you would...watch it because it's on TV.

RIP, Andy. I spent many an hour watching your show as a kid and my dad found great comfort in them in his later years. Hope you're whistling and picking your guitar in heaven.

jj325: Just checked out Breitbart----turns out Andy Griffith was a Commie and a liberal and they are glad he's dead.

Yeah but Breitbart was a cock and his legacy of being a lying manipulative asshole remains strong

/maybe Andy'll make a quick stop-over in hell to give him a swift kick in the balls

Altitude5280: UNC_Samurai: Churchy LaFemme: The Teabaggers might be too distraught to protest Obamacare this weekend...

No, sadly, they'll complain about how he was in favor of health care reform and how he criticized the Bush Administration about the Patriot Act.

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Well, I used to have a soft spot for "Sheriff Taylor", but after the Obamacare debacle was passed with Andy Griffith leading the cheering for it, I saw a different person.

Griffith was a total communist and hated this country. He was a bitter resentful person as Libs usually are.

He was wasting air that someone else deserved.

I won't miss him in the least.

Um, wow. So, because he took an opposing position on issues from you, that makes him a cummunist and hater of America? At the risk of repeating myself, wow. As someone who has been a registered republican since i was old enough to vote, this sort of vitriol and animosity towards people who don't subscribe to your values absolutely turns my stomach. Jesus farking christ people! We are turmning into siunis and shiate Americans. Have some discourse. Agree to disagree. Common courtesy for crissakes! I've never been a fan for the traditional democrat vast array of social subsidies, but the latest incarnation of right wingers are absolutely unfathomable in their blind sighted faith. Unfortunately left wingers aren't much better.

HE FAKED HIS DEATH

CNN, NY Times, and so on have YET to report on this. Check their sites now. None of them have even posted this yet. Someone's covering this up.

I smell a conspiracy!

Degenz: Thanks, I deserved that. Still doesn't change the fact that twerps are derps

C'mon, you knew beforehand what you would see in this thread. I grew up watching the Andy Griffith show too.

I used to admire how he wore his uniform, the seat clinging to his bottom just so. And how one leg of his pants always seem to get stuck at the top of his boot. And Aunt Bea's hot pies.

Pathman: :-(
now i'm sad.

/north carolinian...even if i am irish by birth

Met my birthfamily in Ireland a few years ago and at some point The Andy Griffith Show was mentioned and I was surprised they'd never heard of it. I would have thought that show if any had reached every corner of the world.

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I had a chance meeting with him years ago when he was filming a tv series outside of Wilmington, nc. My wife and I were going the back roads to cherry point, nc. We stopped for lunch at a small diner and he was at the counter. I stopped my wife from going over and getting an autograph, telling her in a quiet voice to let the man have his lunch. My wife was steaming at me. Right after he left the diner, the waitress came over with two slices of pie and said that he had paid for our lunch. She also handed me a menu that he had signed that said thanks for the piece and quiet.