Im realy bored, Please amuse me

[gooberguy]

Im realy bored, Please amuse me.

anything, make fun of me , compliment me, make up a " i hate McDonalds song " or anything else. Or make fun of the fact i failed my gym class. o yea im 14 << make fun o that!

[Roundabout]

How about this for useless information? I guess you really are bored!
Goober was Gomer Pyle's cousin on the "Andy Griffith Show" and maybe this is the origin of the use of "Goober" to mean hick...


(Photo of Goober Pyle)


PYLE, Goober
(The Andy Griffith Show/Mayberry R.F.D.)
Mayberry, NC

Goober is a car mechanic. He is single, childlike and works outside of town at Wally’s Filling Station for $1.25 an hour. Goober likes to read comic books, play checkers, hunt and fish and do impressions (very bad ones at that) of Cary Grant ("Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy”) and Edward G. Robinson (“OK, you guys. Beat it, you guys”). To get around Mayberry, Goober drives a red pickup truck (License: M379054).

Goober was born and raised in Mayberry. He attended Mayberry High School where he played on the football team. After high school Goober trained to be an auto mechanic in Raleigh and then did a stint in the National Guard where he picked up the phrase “Yo.”

"Well I can't do William Holden he talks like everybody else."

Goober loves to eat pancakes and once won a pancake eating contest at the county fair by downing 57 pancakes in one sitting. Goober also won an arm wrestling contest four years in a row and a turkey shoot in Mt. Pilot two years running.

Goober’s favorite vegetable is corn on the cob; his favorite movie is The Monster That Ate Minnesota (he’s seen it ten times); and his favorite toy is a Teddy Bear named Buster. Over the years, Goober has owned as pets a skunk, a canary named Louise and a dog named Spot (without spots).

Although talented in many areas, Goober is shy and awkward when it comes to women. His romantic encounters included Lydia Crosswaith, Sheriff Andy Taylor’s cousin, Gloria from Siler City, Flora Matherbe, a diner waitress and Dr. Edith Gibson, a well-read intellectual that Goober met through a computer dating service. Goober had mislead the service with faulty information. For instance, "he reads 30 books per month" (comic books), and "enjoys sports" (bowling & pool).

"You don't sweat much for a fat girl."

Kindhearted, Goober is always willing to help out a person in need. Goober‘s affiliations included membership in The Regal Order of the Golden Door to Good Fellowship; a singer in the town choir; and the manager of Mayberry’s Little League baseball team (“The Giants”).

His cousin, Gomer Pyle also works at Wally’s Filling Station (he later joined the Marines). Gomer admired his cousin and once defended him saying “My cousin Goober ain’t stupid. He’s ugly, but he ain’t stupid.“ Coincidentally, Goober’s father also operated a gas station. And after working 11 and 3/4 years at Wally’s Fillin’ Station, Goober eventually purchased the station and became the proprietor (with financial backing from Andy and friends).

In his spare time, Goober likes to hang around the courthouse and chat with local sheriff Andy Taylor. Andy has deputized Goober on occasion to help out in a pinch. Once Andy even deputized Goober's cousin, Gomer who proceeded to cry "Citizen's Arrest! Citizen's Arrest!" when he saw Deputy Barney Fife perform an illegal U-turn on Main Street.

Now sometimes Goober can be irritating, but once he got so obnoxious that people in town began to avoid him. This occurred when he returned from a hunting trip wearing a beard he grew while in the woods. When someone mentioned that his new whiskers made Goober look intelligent and professorial, the remark went to Goober's pea-brained head and soon he began to act the part of a know-it-all philosopher sage. But his unsolicited advice and tidbits of personal wisdom soon distanced Goober from all of his friends. Luckily, Goober came to his senses, shaved off his beard and went back to pumping gas and reading comic books.

"Goober says hey."

One of Goober's biggest goofs occurred when he promised to answer the courthouse phone while Andy Taylor was out of town. Unfortunately, Gillie Walker, one of Goober's customers complained about the performance of his car engine. So, to kill two birds with one stone Goober disassembled the car and rebuilt it inside the courthouse to work on it. That way he could help his customer and keep his promise to Andy. When Andy returned and found an entire car sitting inside the lobby of the jail, he was furious, but it all turned out for the best, in the end. Luckily, some state patrolmen who unexpectedly visited the jail saw the car and instead of being shocked, thought the car was part of a clever "safe driving campaign" They praised Andy for his imagination and initiative and contemplated copying the idea. However, Andy was still furious at Goober, who quickly removed the car from the premises.

Another boo-boo committed by Goober happened when he mistakenly issued a bogus $200.00 prize-winning ticket during his "Grab-bag for Cash" contest. When Floyd Lawson won the grand prize ticket but Goober couldn't pay off, Floyd complained to Sheriff Andy Taylor who then arrested Goober on fraud charges. But when Floyd saw his friend behind bars, he quickly insisted that Andy release Goober from jail.

When Sheriff Andy Taylor (who once introduced Goober as "Goober Beasley") moved out of Mayberry, Goober befriended newcomer Sam Jones, a gentleman farmer who moved to town and became an elected member of the town council. While Andy was no longer around, Goober could still visit with Andy's aunt Bee Taylor who moved into Sam Jones house to become his housekeeper and a second-mother, of sorts, to Sam's young son, Mike.

One spot both Sam and Goober shared in common was Emmett's Fix-it Shop. They visited with handyman Emmett Clark to watch him work and to discuss the town's going's on. Before Emmett moved into town, Goober hung out with Andy Taylor at Floyd's Barber Shop, a longtime gathering spot for the town locals. Floyd sold his office space to Emmett before leaving Mayberry.

When Goober's cousin, Gomer left the Marines, he moved back to Mayberry and the two became partners in the filling station. And a few years after that Andy Taylor, too, moved back to town and became Sheriff once again. And it took no time at all until Goober and Gomer renewed their friendship with Andy and began to turn up at the courthouse to shoot the breeze, to share the town gossip and to drive Deputy Barney Fife crazy with their antics.

So, the next time you're in North Carolina, y'all drop by and chew the fat with Goober and his cousin, Gomer. Most likely you'll find them wiping grease off their hands with an old rag and squabbling over how to best repair an engine. And while you're at the filling station grab yourself a Nectarine Crush or Huckleberry Smash soda pop. As town barber Floyd Lawson, used to say (they've) “got the best pop in town.”

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“...It used to bother me when they (fans) called me Goober instead of my real name, but I’ve made my peace with that.”
-- Biography Magazine, February 2003


TRIVIA NOTE: Born December 17, 1935 in Fairfield, Alabama, George Lindsey grew up in the small town of Jasper and later graduated from the University of North Alabama. He used his newly earned degree to become a teacher at Hazel Green High School near Huntsville Alabama. But eventually the acting bug, which had bitten at the age of 14, urged George to pursue a career in the limelight. He left for New York to study with Helen Hayes at the American Theater Wing and eventually George moved from Broadway to Hollywood where he began acting in small parts on such shows as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Rifleman, and The Twilight Zone. Soon after landing a small role in the feature film Ensign Pulver (1964), George became a regular cast member on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW from 1965-68 (first introduced in episode #123, "The Fun Girls") and continued in his role of Goober Pyle in the spin-off series MAYBERRY R.F.D. until 1971. The next year George appeared on a MASH episode as the wild and crazy Capt. Roy and then began a successful twenty year run on country comedy variety hour HEE HAW from 1972-1992. In 1986 George reprised his role of Goober in the made for TV movie reunion Return to Mayberry and then appeared as himself on The Andy Griffith Reunion (1993). In 1992 Lindsey's alma mater bestowed on him an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. In his spare time George conducts the George Lindsey Celebrity Golf Tournament in Montgomery, Alabama that raises money for the mentally retarded. In 1998, Lindsey established the annual George Lindsey/University of North Alabama Television and Film Festival that gives young filmmakers the opportunity to show their work and learn about the filmmaking industry. In addition, George has authored two books about his career: The Way Back to Mayberry (with Joey Fann) and Goober in a Nutshell (with Ken Beck and Jim Clark).

[tgpo]

I Hate MaDonalds
By tgpo

McDonalds is a place
that I really can't stand
watching people rub their head
touch my burger with their hand

It really is nasty
when I order a McFry
and the sloppy smell of fish
makes me wanna cry

Or when you order a McFish
to find the tartar sause is cum
Now what part exactly
is a Chicken McNugget from?

Or when you see the workers
working with a frown
because they take their orders
under the image of a clown

You know they wanna bust in
it a really huge gun
and shoot up the little toasters
and the sesame seed bun

but they continue on
in a place they resembles Hell
While I continue driving
all the way to Taco Bell

[tgpo]

Ouch, the song must have been bad. I wrote it and he leaves

[indolikaa]

Don't you need your parent's permission to be here, young'n?

Just a joke, gooberguy. No flaming necessary. :P

[BJ_M]

i even read the whole "Goober" bio -- crips , it was riveting.. one question-

how did he use a computer dating service in 1965-68 ? i find that a little tough to believe ...

[lordsmurf]

how did he use a computer dating service in 1965-68 ? i find that a little tough to believe ...

I know for a fact those existed. Way before my time, but I know people that used them. In fact, there were 1950s games shows (I believe I saw it on "I've Got A Secret") that had these from time to time as gags.

[mysticgohan17]

www.newgrounds.com

[MOVIEGEEK]

"how did he use a computer dating service in 1965-68 ? i find that a little tough to believe"

Here is Goober with one of his dates(circa 1965):



You youngins' probably won't remember this tune:

McDonalds is my kinda place,
They serve you rattlesnakes,
They shove them in your face.

[Rookie64]

You youngins' probably won't remember this tune:

McDonalds is my kinda place,
They serve you rattlesnakes,
They shove them in your face.

I remember that tune goin' like this in the '70s while I growing up -

McDonalds is your kind of place
Hamburgers in your face
French fries up your nose
Pickles between your toes
Ketchup rollin' down your back
I want my money back
Before I have a heartattack

[gmatov]

Ha! Ha! Ha!,
Does anybody recall the rather long, rather complicated, rather intense, rather civil, discourse we had a few weeks back where someone said if it were not for a Mod initiating it, it would have been shut down just as quickly as all the others I have participated in?
One Aussie who said, nah, there ain't no crime here. We had all our guns took off us, so none of them bad guys would take advantage of us poor unarmed ********.

This is what we would prefer this site to become? The Jerry Lewis Home Page. Jesus Christ, the only people in the world who think that ******* was funny are the French,and we all know what they think.

We have a Swede who owns it, and, would you believe, he is more PC than even the Brits or the USA pipple. Oh, you can't say that, that's a no-no. Or maybe his mods are the ones who decide what baldrick would deem acceptable or no..

We have a Mod who is a Bible Belt Baptist, TGPO, I don't belivve in evolution.
We have a mod who is a Doctor , at least I assume he is, though I will not ask his medical advise here..

We have a buncha more Mods who are Aussies, and they are the best ones to listen to. Spinmeisters extroidanairre.

They will, WILL, I tell you, convince you that God is in his heaven and everything is allright..

I won't. I'll try to tell yo you are a bunch of dorks, waiting for the axe. And you are. ********. Young ********.

Boy, Cheers is the right word here, no,

Have fun, doofuses,

George

[pacmania_2001]

Okay, who forgot to take his pills today?

[pacmania_2001]

Now I know who stole my soap box as well.

If George is good for only one thing, it's a laugh.

[tgpo]

Yeah George. Isn't diversity great.

[MOVIEGEEK]

@gmatov,
WTF?
If the people in this forum bug you go to another website,go take a walk,listen to music,get a life,etc.

[gooberguy]

Mcdonals Song


put a smile on
come here and get fat
then die.



the end.

o yea i didnt read the thing but um some kid didnt like my full name so he called me goober. And i looked in the dictionary it says gober means peanut. in another one it says it means idiot.

[indolikaa]

yea i no i cant spell deal wit it.

You need to work on your use of the letter Z. It's lacking.

[gooberguy]

(Photo of Goober Pyle)


<<<cant do it!!!

(Photo of Gooberguy)

[Hatz]

LOL.......I don't know if that was a flame or what. Whatever it was, I am pretty confused right now........hahahahhaa. It's great coming into the off topic forum.............you never know what kind of "off" topics you will find.

But ya......diversity is great. This world would be really really boring if people didn't agree to disagree.

Hatz

[gmatov]

Pacman,

I did NOT forget to take my pill. And I didn't steal your soapbox, either. You can't pin that on me.

Mebbe I shouldna had that second glass of wine. Well, the second was OK, maybe the next or.... innhoo, a little less candor would have been advisable

I don't think there were many laughs above.

TGPO,

LOTS of diversity.

My point was (can't remember if I even had a point, but if I did, it would have been) that we can discuss anything Off Topic so long as it doesn't cross some invisible line of Political Correctness. Some one doesn't like this, you can't talk about that. Everybody is bored with the one click that DVD has gotten to be, tries to start a thread and has to find something we are allowed to talk about.

And there ain't much!!!

So, Hey, how about that outbreak of Hepetitus A at Chi Chi's Restaurants? 490 confirmed cases to date, 3 dead, to date, one of whom had gotten a liver transplant, her (I think) case progressed so badly so rapidly, the 3rd fatality was in the fast track for a transplant.

They haven't the foggiest f***in' notion what is causing it. Originally, an employee who didn't wash his hands after a potty break. Now, the green onions, some of you may not know them as such, scallions, table onions, the pencil thick onion shoots?

So, what do you do? Keep away from Chi Chi's? Hell, probably the safest place in the world to eat right now.

The green onion thing is because there are outbreaks of it in Georgia and Tennessee, right now, also. How widespread,they won't tell us.

Our news has spotted a dozen places across the country as suppliers of green onions to the wholesale grocer who supplied Chi Chi's

11,000 people are supposed to have eaten at that store in the time period iunder study. I'm sure the 490 ate at other places as well,so maybe some got it from another place.

Interesting. Deadly serious, but interesting.

Cheers,

George

[Hatz]

ahahahahhaah............We have a place called Chi Chi's in my home town in Montana........hahahahah. The place went under though.........hmmmmm a Type B case to Montazumas revenge with the scallions?

Hatz

[ChrisX]

I Hate McDonalds
By tgpo

A friend had just asked me, "Have you tried a new burger at McDonalds?" I replied, "I haven't visited McDonalds for a while, probably two or three months now".

I don’t visit McDonalds very much lately as I no longer have a car. Besides, I’d rather eat somewhere better than to have burgers all the time.