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

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Oy vey, that is just as bad as all those people who insist that Richard Dawson is dead.

But it is sad on so many levels, as you said.

(And I'm trying to figure out why we've been having to contend with so many celebrity deaths. I was mostly "Oh, dear" for all of them until we got to Harry Morgan last year, which was a real blow. But Davy's death was, easily, the one that has affected me the most so far.)

[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?