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Old 01-30-2013, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Center of the universe
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This makes me so happy!

As an aging Baby Boomer I grew up with Gomer Pyle.

Now I'm waiting for Beetle Bailey and Sarge to announce their engagement (Otto can be the ring bearer).
Well, Sgt. Lugg would be pretty angry at that......and why would Beetle want to marry someone who beats him up?
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Old 01-30-2013, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Western Colorado
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If he's happy, good for him. Don't really care one way or the other.
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Old 01-30-2013, 11:39 AM
 
Location: The Cascade Foothills
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Congratulations!! 38 years is an awful long engagement.
There have been lots of couples who have been together for thirty and even forty years who are finally being able to make it "legal."

Wonderful!

Congratulations to the happy couple (although my first thought when I saw this was, "I thought he was dead!" )
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Old 01-30-2013, 11:42 AM
 
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I don't get this, just because someone famous does something suddenly your convictions come into question?
Who cares when, how, or why someone has their come to jesus moment as long as they have it. If it takes a celebrity to change folks minds for the better, so be it.
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Old 01-30-2013, 12:39 PM
 
Location: southern born and southern bred
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No...YOU'RE talking about two guys doing that. The rest of us are just talking about them getting married without all the lurid details that seem to be fascinating you for some reason. It wasn't even necessary to go down that road.

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I guess he's left Sylacauga, Alabama for good!
wouldn't you?
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Old 01-30-2013, 12:46 PM
 
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Geez- Mayberry must have been the gayest town in America. Goober, Gomer and I'm all but certain Howard Sprague were all gay. Didn't know Floyd was also.

They need to dig up Andy Griffith and give hims some type of GLAD award. Although as a native Carolinian it is odd to think of a town without any black people- but I guess TV was not ready for that.

I always remember that when my Italian grandfather saw me watching Gomer Pyle in reruns he would mention his singing every single time. I miss Mayberry- and Grandpa!

Hope the two of them enjoy their golden years- or platinum in Jim's case. Marrying at 82 is pretty optimistic!
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Old 01-30-2013, 01:38 PM
 
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Some hilarious lines in this (especially given today's news), however Gomer is as usual, proved correct. A salute to Jim Nabors!


Gomer Pyle USMC 330 - Lou-Ann Poovie Sings No More - YouTube
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:04 PM
 
Location: The Cascade Foothills
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No, actually it is. You're talking about two dudes doing things they were never meant to do together. So yeah, as bad as thinking about gramps and grandma would be, two dudes is a trillion times worse.

This Gomer news isnt some shocker. You could tell that guy wasnt completely right.
Funny that when I read the news, my first thought was "Good for them!"

What they do in the privacy of their home never entered my mind.

But, typically for the homophobes and bigots, it becomes more about their most private, intimate moments than it is about a committed, loving couple finally being able to marry.
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:12 PM
 
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Geez- Mayberry must have been the gayest town in America. Goober, Gomer and I'm all but certain Howard Sprague were all gay. Didn't know Floyd was also.

They need to dig up Andy Griffith and give hims some type of GLAD award. Although as a native Carolinian it is odd to think of a town without any black people- but I guess TV was not ready for that.

I always remember that when my Italian grandfather saw me watching Gomer Pyle in reruns he would mention his singing every single time. I miss Mayberry- and Grandpa!

Hope the two of them enjoy their golden years- or platinum in Jim's case. Marrying at 82 is pretty optimistic!
Andy Griffith said on more than one occasion that not having black people on Mayberry was his biggest regret because he grew up with lots of black people in his hometown of Mt. Airy, NC....which Mayberry was based on.

I chalk it up to Hollywood politics in those years.
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:21 PM
 
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His life, his business. Hope he's happy.
It's a damn shame others made it their business and banned him and his husband from marrying at any time during last 38 years they've been together.
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