"Our Gang"

[corvetteulose]

Go to www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com - it tells about most of the old TV show stars.

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One more. Pete Boyle. Froggie, Midnight the Cat & Squeeky the Mouse.
Remember Froggie saying Hi Ya Kids Hi-ya Hi-ya

[ssrgarage]

One KOOL KID!!!

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Originally Posted by ssrgarage

One KOOL KID!!!

Midnights' sound was?

[ssrgarage]

If it was a cat I hope it would meow?

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Midnight would go 'NICE'.

[jleas524]

And I thought I was old when I can remember TRANSFORMER Cartoons...

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How about?
WINKIE DINK
SHOCK THEATER....WITH ROLAND

[William]

Now I know why my wife calls me Buckwheat sometimes - ever since we met in 1989.

I never knew his name was William Thomas too.

Later,
Buckwheat

[WearyEagle]

Originally Posted by WOW_FCTR

I would have never thought to look this up on snopes.com, but I was trying to figure out who the dentist was (I see doctors, accountants, etc., but no dentist).
It says that the info is mostly correct (sighting Blake was Mickey not Spanky), but it also shows that others on the show lived long lives.

What I didn't know was there were at least 29 children that were on the show!

http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/ourgang.asp

. . .In general, most "curse" lists which supposedly document remarkably high levels of premature deaths and other tragedies of life within a group of people connected by some common bond should be taken as nothing more than frivolous entertainment because they are constructed through a number of misleading means:

They list only entries that fit the assumed pattern, omitting any mention of the (usually much larger) group of entries that don't fit the pattern. They include inaccurate or distorted information in order to bolster their length with entries that don't appropriately belong there. They make the ordinary and commonplace seem unusual through the use of selective inclusion.

To amplify on that last point, we'd explain it this way: If one were to choose any group of thirty or so people born in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s and follow them through the course of their lives, it wouldn't be the least bit unusual to find that several of those people died well short of their average life expectancies due to disease, accident, homicide, or suicide. People get sick, die in accidents, and kill each other (or themselves) all the time; these are the facts of life (no pun intended), sad as they are. Such deaths may be tragedies, but they're hardly outside the pale of ordinary human experience. . . .

This is called DATA MINING . . . and is, unfortunately, done all the time. Whenever I get an e-mail telling of some influential person saying something of import, I always go to www.snopes.com as they INVESTIGATE if it was said or what was said and don't have an AGENDA on them.
Religious zealots using e-mails to disseminate their particular slant on the World are great at this.

[WOW_FCTR]

Originally Posted by WearyEagle

This is called DATA MINING . . . and is, unfortunately, done all the time. Whenever I get an e-mail telling of some influential person saying something of import, I always go to www.snopes.com as they INVESTIGATE if it was said or what was said and don't have an AGENDA on them.
Religious zealots using e-mails to disseminate their particular slant on the World are great at this.

I data mine all the time (see my posts on this site )

No....actually if during my research I find that I'm wrong, I just won't post anything.

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Originally Posted by William

Now I know why my wife calls me Buckwheat sometimes - ever since we met in 1989.

I never knew his name was William Thomas too.

Later,
Buckwheat