Jim Nabors is not dead!

[ladybug_archive]

If anyone has heard that Jim Nabors, beloved as the character Gomer Pyle, is dead, it's not true. He's currently fighting false death reports due to some International Idiots who got their people mixed up and started announcing his death. In actuality it was George Lindsey, who played Gomer's cousin Goober (... weird name, I know), who died.

This is sad on two levels. First, it causes an uproar over people thinking someone is dead who isn't. And it doesn't allow the proper respect for the person who really did die.

**headdesk.**

Comments

[moonshadowmagic.livejournal.com]

Slightly worse than the other phenomenon, the misqoute... I got one recently that attributed a rant entitled "83 and Tired" to Bill Cosby (he's 78 and American, and internal evidence suggests the actual speaker is Canadian or British.) But the greatly- exaggerated- reports- of- death are just as rude... the most famous example, I think, is a child actor who played "Mikey" on a cereal ad when I was young. He was supposed to have died from eating Pop-Rocks candy and drinking soda. He's still alive though, and I have no idea whether he ever even tried Pop-Rocks....

Remember those few days the other year when Sean Connery was supposed to have died?

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, misquotes are annoying too.

Good grief. I think I heard about that nonsense. I wonder what immature idiot started that rumor swirling around.

Indeed! And several others through the years.