Today is a National Day of Mourning cause Howard Morris passed away last night in Hollywood. Howard had a million TV roles but was best known as "Ernest T. Bass" on the Andy Griffith show. The rock throwing hillbilly would usually say "It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T". While never being recognized with an Emmy, or Grammy, or Oscar for his role he was wildely held as a bastion of regional character acting by many. It will be a long time before another character as unique and odd comes our way. Goodbye Ernest T.
News Flash: Arkansas man puts his bid in to be the next Otis....
Yesterday a 38 year old Arkansas man was riding in the passenger seat of his pickup (he had asked a buddy to drive because he was drunk, so he's not totally stupid), when his cigarette flew out of his mouth out the window. He stepped out of the vehicle to retrieve his cigarette....unfortunately they were doing about 60mph at the time.
Emergency room folks said he was lucky, and only scraped up a bit. No word on whether his first words after coming to were "I need a beer".
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Arkansas is no Tennessee....
"Take a big ol' farm in Seymour, mix in some dirt-track racing and cockfighting, toss in a little suicide-by-cop and sprinkle it all with marijuana and cocaine. Simmer for a week and then ask a panel of 12 East Tennesseans if it tastes like a federal drug conspiracy."
5-25 Knoxville News-Sentinel
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