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but it is still Kentucky, sooooooo.....

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i don't really feel guilty, dude killed himself cuz he got caught exposed for what he truly was...a fraud.

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eh, true story Andy had an affair with one of the ladies on the show. also they loved to do practical jokes on each other, it was while doing one to Andy they discovered dude was unfaithful as a mutherfucker to his wife.

and listen has nothing to do with the show but this thing with men behaving horribly badly has been around a long long fucking time and it includes even Nice Guy Eddies like Andy Fucking Griffith.

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The wife comes across as a.grifter herself. All our thoughts and prayers go out to her. If her idiot husband was up to his neck in shit then he bought his own one way ticket, I say let him crash. He painted himself into a corner. Haste makes waste, but he did it slowly. Alls well that ends well. This ended very well. Guess it got too hot for him in the kitchen. He got out while the gitten was good. Last gasoline for next hundred miles. Guess his tank ran dry. Shit happenz. Watch out for icebergs. Don't bite off more than u can chew, especially if it's bullets. He's in a better place now.The time is gone. The song is over.Thought I'd something more to say.

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That is the most original writing I have ever seen.

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"First of all, I would like to respectfully request that white southerners stop using the word “lynching” — especially when they believe they are the “victims.” This was not mob violence perpetrated upon her husband outside of the law."

Thank you. Using such terms with a horrible reality for hyperbole in political rhetoric is so disingenuous. Now I have to return my thesaurus /sn

https://youtu.be/X70ft-2k5Hk

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Maaaaatlock?

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[or "Hold. Muh. Beer!"]

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The only thing separating kentucky from alabama is tennessee. That makes them practically the same state.

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Just because we're Americas wang, doesn't make us all wankers.

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It might make some of you sperm, whom I heard were sacred.

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you are right

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and a cute non-word at that!

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Death sucks. Suicide is horrible. Its not funny and if we put ourselves into the shoes of those we know who have done it or talk about doing it, we will all reach the same conclusion.

This man was "a man of the cloth". In my opinion, everything I've read about the man suggests he is a con artist and hypocrite, a grifter who used fake bona fides to swindle the gullible and the gov't out of much needed money. Then he got drunk and tried to rape a teenaged friend of his own daughter. At least this is how I'm reading the information I'm gleaning from the internets.

Now he is dead by his own hand, and his wife is looking to step in and take up "the cause". No moment of mourning, not even a split second.

I'm not sure how many kids he had, but those are the only people I feel for in this whole thing. I stand by my comments that his death is a tragedy on certain levels, I am not saying I don't think his death makes this world better...

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no, the one with little Ron Howard walking barefoot to go fishing with Andy in show's opener.

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That's true.His grandiose self-appointed titles - Pope & Bishop ?The two acts of arson to grift insurers ?The rascist, homophobic ⛪ that was big on fun-filled partying and scantily clad wimmin, bikers and tatooes? Molesting a minor ?How was this all not going to end badly ?He didn't have the strength to face his mistakes and problems and chose to end his own life. Which is always a big F-U to the friends and family left behind.Also, too, mental illness...

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