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


OK, don't remember it. The Our Gang stuff was just brilliant. It's hard
to think of anything else so ageless. Where I grew up the guy who showed
them on TV on sat AM was Pete Boyle. He was an artist as well and his
set was a little shack of a clubhouse like the kids had. His son was
also Pete Boyle, the actor. Looked just like him except I think he was a
lot smaller.