The Uvula

[Ken Anderson]

I just finished reading my 143rd mystery fro 2017.  It is interesting the
tidbits I pick up during my reading.  For instance,here is something I
learned about the uvula, and I quote.

"If your uvula pulses in time with your heartbeat it's called Muller's sign
and it can be an early indication of heart disease."

Now we know Barney had concerns with his uvula, and I do believe at one
time he mentioned having heart palpitations, so I guess there must be
something to this theory.

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Reflective Meanderings

[Ken Anderson]

There are many reasons why I enjoy TAGS so much – the simple and
unpretentious people who live there, the quietness that enfolds the town
once the sun goes down, the safety and innocence that abounds everywhere
within Mayberry.  But perhaps the most compelling reason for loving TAGS is
that nothing changes.  No matter when and where I am when I tune in to TAGS
I know that everything I love will still be there -unlike the town where I
grew up.

Several weeks ago I once again went back to my home town to attend the
funeral of a high school classmate.  As I usually do when I go home, I
spent time driving around town looking for places that were so special to
me when I was a boy living there.

However, just about every one of those memorable places is now gone.  The
school I attended has been razed.  The pond where we fished and ice skated
has long since been filled in and covered with buildings.  Every single
shop on Main Street is gone with only an empty lot as evidence that they
once existed. The few that remain have been converted to apartments.

The four garages that repaired cars and sold gas are all gone, replaced by
a convenient store a mile out of town.  The water tower that we all climbed
at one point is also gone as are some of the homes where my childhood
friends once lived.

Nowhere is there the sound of children playing on a school playground and
there is absolutely no place for a child to go for a bottle of pop or an
ice cream cone on the way home from school.

This will be my 71st Christmas, and I always thought that when I retired I
would go back to my hometown to live and spend a few Christmas seasons
there.  But now I know that will never happen.  I think it would just be
too sad for me live there and not being able to see any of the special
places that once were such an important part of my young life.

So I am going to continue to live where I am and I am going to continue to
watch TAGS every single day.  For I know that everything I want to see will
be there and every one of those wonderful simple folks of Mayberry will be
there for me to enjoy.
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Ken Anderson
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RIP Jim Neighbors

[Daniel Santos]

You were a nice guy.
Johnna Fayetteville AR
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LA Times Jim Nabors obituary

[Jacob Shepherd]

TV’s lovably naive Gomer Pyle
‘WELL, GAAWL-LEE!’“Everybody thought [Gomer] was stupid; he really
wasn’t,” Jim Nabors said in a 2008 documentary. “He just wanted to see
the goodness in everybody.” (Ken Hively Los Angeles Times)
By Dennis McLellan
J im Nabors, the singer and actor who became a TV icon in the 1960s
playing the lovably naive Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and
the spinoff series “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” has died. He was 87.
Nabors, who underwent a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis B
in 1994, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii, his website announced.
“Everybody knows he was a wonderful man. And that’s all we can say
about him,” said Stan Cadwallader, who had been Nabors’ partner for 38
years before the couple married in 2013. “He’s going to be dearly
missed.”
A tall and lanky Alabama native, Nabors was singing at a small
nightclub in Santa Monica called the Horn in 1962 when Griffith caught
his act, in which he’d sing in a booming baritone and then talk in a
higher-pitched Southern hayseed accent.
“It was the stupidest act you had ever seen,” Nabors said in a 2000
interview with The Times. But Griffith was so impressed, he told
Nabors he’d call him if a part in his TV series ever came up.
“Two weeks later, they called me,” Nabors recalled. “The character’s
name was Gomer Pyle. So I read it as the character I was doing in the
club. It was the first time I had ever acted.”
The guileless Gomer was the attendant at Wally’s gas station in Mayberry.
As Gomer said to Griffith’s Sheriff Andy Taylor: “Me, I don’t do no
engine work. Just gas and oil, water and air. Water and air is free.
We don’t make no charge for it.”
The eager-to-please character who wore a ball cap with an upturned
bill soon became known for his signature exclamations: “Well,
gaawl-lee!” “Shazam!” and “Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise.”
“Everybody thought [Gomer] was stupid; he really wasn’t,” Nabors said
in an interview on 2008’s “Pioneers of Television,” the PBS
documentary miniseries. “He just wanted to see the goodness in
everybody.”
Gomer’s popularity led to a spinoff series in 1964, in which the
Mayberry innocent joined the Marine Corps, where he encountered the
gruff Sgt. Vince Carter (played by Frank Sutton).
“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” a top-10-rated show, ran on CBS for five seasons.
In his 2000 interview with The Times, Nabors said the military series
never generated criticism, despite airing during the height of the
Vietnam War.
“We had established it was a peacetime situation and every episode was
a peacetime situation. War wasn’t mentioned,” he said. “I shot the
first few episodes at the Marine base in San Diego — the opening where
I was marching along. The Marines were very supportive of it.”
In fact, he said, one of the “biggest thrills” he ever had came when
he performed at the Marine base in Da Nang during an entertainment
tour to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope.
“I got the most moving ovation I have ever received in my life,” he
said. “There were 40,000 Marines, and all Hope said was, ‘Gentlemen, I
bring you your leader.’ And they cheered.”
Nabors had no problem being so closely identified with Gomer Pyle.
“If you had to play a character, I probably played the nicest
character of all,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times in 1997.
“It was a real joy to play that because he was always up. It forces
you, as a person, to be up too when you feel like dragging around.
Being Gomer could bring you up from your toes.”
After the “Gomer Pyle” series ended, Nabors hosted “The Jim Nabors
Hour,” a comedy-variety show on CBS from 1969 to 1971. In 1978, he
hosted “The Jim Nabors Show,” a daily syndicated hour of music and
guest stars.
He also was his close friend Carol Burnett’s guest star on the opening
telecast each season of her comedy-variety show during its run from
1967 to 1979.
Nabors had roles in three Burt Reynolds movies: “Stroker Ace,”
“Cannonball Run II” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
But singing dominated his post-Gomer career.
“What happened was that I decided that I liked music, and I wanted to
gear my career that way,” Nabors said in a 1995 interview with the
Birmingham News. “I never thought much of my acting ability. I only
did the one character.
“There’s something so joyous about music. Acting pales in comparison.”
Nabors headlined in Las Vegas and recorded more than a dozen singles
and more than 30 albums. He also was a beloved decades-long fixture at
the Indianapolis 500, where for 35 years he sang a pre-race rendition
of “(Back Home Again in) Indiana.” His last appearance was in 2014.
The son of a policeman, Nabors was born June 12, 1930, in Sylacauga,
Ala. While growing up, he sang around the house and in his high school
glee club and church choir.
After earning a degree in business administration from the University
of Alabama in 1952, Nabors moved to New York City, where he found work
as a typist for the United Nations.
After a year, he moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., where he worked as a

Trivia

[Rodney Blackwell]

I have found two web sites that this is a photo of Frances Bavier not long 
before she died. Can anyone verify this?
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Re: Great Dismal Swamp

[Janet Anderson]

Brenda, her name was Dixie Belle Edwards.  Coincidentally (or not), Andy 
Griffith's daughter is named Dixie, and his first wife's maiden name was 
Edwards.

Thelma Lou
(Janet)

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Today's Topics:

   1. Great Dismal Swamp (colonialcott...@netzero.net)
   2. Harriet (panderson...@verizon.net)


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Okay, a trivial triviality here.  What is the last name of the woman that Mary 
Pleasants, the notary public, went with to Great Dismal Swamp to hunt black 
bear?  I remember her first and middle names, Dixie Bell, but I can't remember 
her last name.  I just saw this show a couple of weeks ago and have always 
laughed at Otis when he says that line. Hoping someone can help me.Bee in New 
Concord, OH


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Yes. Harriet you can?t make a move without the official verification

John 3:16 Thelma Anderson





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Mayberry Historical Society - 

Aunt Bee

[panderson431]

Aunt Bee was on wagon train today as a nun and was killed by an Indian so sad 
she was a brave woman 

John 3:16 Thelma Anderson



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A Fine Howdy-Doo

[B P]

  It was "The Horse Trader" where Andy sells the towns cannon, albeit by 
questionable tactics.
Quote occurs at 17:33
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cxha7

Rafe in Bent Mountain, VA
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Does anyone remember which episode that SiriusXM got the Sheriff Taylor quote 
"Well this is a fine howdy-doo" ?

Jeff

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