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And one of the bandits calls to the old lady: ‘Give us your money, lady.’ ‘Don’t have any,’ she says. He told the one about the Old Lady and the Train Robbery: “This old lady’s on a train headed west and bandits stop the train and make everybody climb out. And when they got through they was counting up their money and one old boy says, ‘We ain’t got no more money than we had before.’ And the other one says: ‘I told you we weren’t gonna make no money until we got ourselves a bigger truck.’ ” Took ‘em downtown and sold ‘em two for a dollar. He told the one about the Half-Bright Watermelon Salesmen: “These two old boys, wanted to make some money, so they bought up a load of watermelons.

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Hell’s Angel says to the waitress: ‘That ain’t much of a man there is it?’ And the waitress says: ‘Yeah, and he ain’t much of a truck driver either. The truck driver doesn’t say anything, gets up, pays the check and walks out. And these three Hell’s Angels come in and eat up his meal: steak, eggs, coffee, everything. Goes into a cafe and orders the blue-plate special. He told the one about the Avenging Truck Driver: “There’s this truck driver.

#Football story by andy griffith tv

“Who says you can’t come home again?”Īnd then he dove into a 15- or 20-minute monologue, consisting entirely of old jokes and stories, one right after the other, tired old chestnuts that were already on life support when Old East was new, old cornpone stories he said he’d borrowed from George Lindsay, who played Goober on The Andy Griffith Show and was by then a regular on Hee Haw, the country humor TV show. It was a little after 10 that morning when Andy took the dais, stood there a moment to soak up the applause, beamed that unmistakable Andy Taylor smile and addressed the overflow crowd with his signature Andy Taylor line: I was in the back row of Memorial Hall, covering the event for the old Chapel Hill Newspaper. The record, “What it Was, Was Football” thrust Andy Griffith into the national spotlight.