Barney Fife won't be down for breakfast

[Basket case]

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[super-bee_ski]

He died on Feb 24th 2006 silly!

 

[Budnicks]

I didn't know & that was 10 years ago...

may he still RIP

 

[Basket case]

yeah....my Dad emailed me, and after I had posted this I got to thinking he had already passed......:eusa_wall:

 

[Richard Cranium]

He died on Feb 24th 2006 silly!

 

[Budnicks]

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken was a great or funny one too

 

[Brandy]

Hmmm...I don't remember being in that one....lol.

 

[1967coronet]

I still remember the ghost one LOL , Opie hit a baseball into the haunted house I think, That was a classic.

 

[GetX'd]

Thanks for keeping us up to date.......

 

[wvmarv]

Another great WV native. But as you know well now, he passed several years ago.ops:

 

[Habib]

Catch up with the times brother.

 

[Richard Cranium]

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken was a great or funny one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_crHdfggY

 

[hawkeye]

This just in, Don Knots fighting valiantly to remain dead.

 

[Cranky]

This just in, Don Knots fighting valiantly to remain dead.

I'm sure his eyes have remained closed (if they are still in there) and he could care less if he's dead or alive..... :grin: But...may he rest in peace.

 

[khryslerkid]

https://youtu.be/0mj6B4DtNyM

 

[hawkeye]

I'm sure his eyes have remained closed (if they are still in there) and he could care less if he's dead or alive..... :grin: But...may he rest in peace.

It was an attempt at humor.

"The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night served as the source of the phrase. Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. On slow news days, United States network television newscasters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20, 1975.



In subsequent weeks Chase developed the joke into a parody of the earlier news coverage of Franco's illness, treating his death as the top story. "This breaking news just in", Chase would announce – "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!"[3] Occasionally, Chase would change the wording slightly in order to keep the joke fresh, e.g. "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead."[4] The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, "head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing", whose "aid" involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it. The gag ran until early 1977."

 

[72Fourspeed]

I wonder who inherited the bullet ?

 

[ws23jrt]

I always enjoyed Barney Fife. He reminded me of many I have run into over the years.
Don Knots was a very human actor that used his assets for all of us to enjoy.
RIP Don

 

[threewood]

In other news, Titanic sinks. Thousands feared dead. Search is underway. Keep them in your prayers.

 

[69roadr]

I didn't know & that was 10 years ago...

may he still RIP

didn't know either. yep, RIP Don.
Barney in rare form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmFp0I8AZqw