On Mar 18, 2:46 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dan wrote :

On Mar 18, 2:25 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
BTW, did you know that Alfalfa was murdered? Some kind of argument
over a bet. I thnk he got juiced up and went over to rob a welched
bet out of the guy's house and ended up getting shot over it.
Something like that, anyway. I looked up loads of stuff about these
guys on the net when they started showing them a few years ago.
There's a site somewhere that shows a few of the silent ones.

No way!

I know buckwheat was shot. It was all over the news....

He was? I don't remember reading about that. One of the black kids
worked at the studio into old age. I think it was Buckwheat. I'm pretty
sure he was still alive when Eddie Murphy was impersonating him.
You've prolly got him confused with alfalfa. Alfalfa's real name was
Carl something. Carl Black? I think Spanky became a banker.

Bertie

I was being a bit too tongue in cheek (hard in a non-visual medium).

Of course I was referring to the absolutely hilarious "Buckwheat has
been shot" sketch on SNL.


Dan Mc