Thread: RIP Ernest Borgnine

merryb wrote:

> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone

That wasn't from McHale's Navy. Did you know Borgie won an Oscar, way
back when?

On Jul 8, 7:20*pm, George M. Middius <glanb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> merryb wrote:
> > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>
> That wasn't from McHale's Navy. Did you know Borgie won an Oscar, way
> back when?

Yes, from "Marty". And the Mermaid Man reference was from Spongebob.

On Jul 8, 8:32*pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>
>
95 years old!

On Jul 8, 7:49*pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
<itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 8:32*pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>
> 95 years old!

He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.

On Sunday, July 8, 2012 9:00:05 PM UTC-7, merryb wrote:
> On Jul 8, 7:49*pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 8:32*pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
> >
> > 95 years old!
>
> He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
> guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.

It always comes in threes, except when it doesn't.

On 09/07/2012 2:03 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sunday, July 8, 2012 9:00:05 PM UTC-7, merryb wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>> On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>>>
>>> 95 years old!
>>
>> He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
>> guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.
>
> It always comes in threes, except when it doesn't.
>
It's part of being an actor. Some of them put on a nice guy act for the
public. Then there are those actors who people take a dislike to
because they play the bad guys. People assume they are like that in real
life.

"Dave Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:MzzKr.171831$[email protected] com...

> It's part of being an actor. Some of them put on a nice guy act for the
> public. Then there are those actors who people take a dislike to because
> they play the bad guys. People assume they are like that in real life.

Watched Poseidon Adventure again a few months back. He was really good in
that. You don't see many movies these days where many of the likeable
characters get killed off.

On Jul 8, 9:32*pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone

A couple of films I really liked him in (they don't get mentioned
much) were 'Spike of Bensonhurst', and 'Emperor of the North Pole.'

George M. Middius wrote:
>
> That wasn't from McHale's Navy. Did you know Borgie won an Oscar, way
> back when?

In the Masons he's known for doing his three degrees in three weeks.
There's a significant amount of memorization work for each degree.
Apparently he was extremely good at memorizing parts in scripts and he
applied that to his Masonic membership as well.

"merryb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>> > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>>
>> 95 years old!
>
> He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
> guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.

Whoopie Goldberg said she met Ernest Borgnine a few times over the years and
at first she was a little intimidated. Then she said he was a "teddy bear".
An extremely nice man.

Jill

"merryb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
<itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>
> 95 years old!

-He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
-guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.



I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!

> Watched Poseidon Adventure again a few months back. *He was really goodin
> that. *You don't see many movies these days where many of the likeable
> characters get killed off.

I still think the Poseidon Adventure was the best of the 70's disaster
movies, and all the survivors were likable to some degree (Borgnine
least of all) and you hated to see any of them die; it was the rare
action adventure movie that did not have a villain except for maybe
the guy from the shipping company who was in a hurry to get to the
destination so the ship could be dismantled, but he was gone about 15
minutes into the movie.

On Jul 9, 4:00*pm, "Pico Rico" <PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
> "merryb" <msg...@juno.com> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...
> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
>
> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> > > My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>
> > 95 years old!
>
> -He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
> -guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.
>
> I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
> Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!

Ted Bundy seemed like a nice guy.

On 7/9/2012 5:00 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
> "merryb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>>
>> 95 years old!
>
> -He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
> -guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.
>
>
>
> I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
> Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!


The entertainment industry does not tend to attract PhD candidates.

gloria p

On Monday, July 9, 2012 11:36:07 AM UTC-7, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> George M. Middius wrote:
> &gt;
> &gt; That wasn&#39;t from McHale&#39;s Navy. Did you know Borgie won an Oscar, way
> &gt; back when?
>
> In the Masons he&#39;s known for doing his three degrees in three weeks.
> There&#39;s a significant amount of memorization work for each degree.
> Apparently he was extremely good at memorizing parts in scripts and he
> applied that to his Masonic membership as well.

I thought there were 30-some degrees in Masonry?

On Monday, July 9, 2012 4:00:37 PM UTC-7, Pico Rico wrote:
> &quot;merryb&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, &quot;itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net&quot;
> &lt;itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net&gt; wrote:
> &gt; On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb &lt;msg...@juno.com&gt; wrote:
> &gt;
> &gt; &gt; My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
> &gt;
> &gt; 95 years old!
>
> -He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn&#39;t know the
> -guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.
>
>
>
> I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
> Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!

Your memory for how actors presented themselves on a vapid talk show over 40 years ago is better than mine.

On Jul 9, 7:38*pm, Chemo the Clown <bhansen1...@yahoo.com> wrote:



> > I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
> > Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!



> Ted Bundy seemed like a nice guy.



Maybe he was a nice guy - a nice guy with a few problems. Yes,
looks can be deceiving - which in the case of Bundy is funny because
of the way women love to go around boasting about their special gift
of women's intuition - but we only hear about their special gift when
things go right. When things go wrong they remain strangely quiet.
It's like a psychic making 100 predictions and being wrong on 98 of
them but boasting about the 2 they got right.

TJ

"Tommy Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:53d0bbf6-b87b-4689-a48d-

It's like a psychic making 100 predictions and being wrong on 98 of
them but boasting about the 2 they got right.

TJ
---

did you hear about the guy who bet Federer would win 7 Wimbledon's? He died
in 2009, but left everything to Oxfam... Sunday, Federer won his seventh,
and Oxfam won a million dollars.

On 7/9/2012 7:00 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
> "merryb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> On Jul 8, 7:49 pm, "itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net"
> <itsjoannotjo...@webtv.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 8:32 pm, merryb <msg...@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My son knew him as Mermaid Man. Another great one gone
>>
>> 95 years old!
>
> -He seemed to me to be a nice guy, like Andy Griffith. Didn't know the
> -guys, but I like to stick with my illusions of them.
>
>
>
> I too think he was a really nice guy, but I saw him years ago on Merv
> Griffin or Mike Douglass or some such show, and boy was he stupid!
>
>
Maybe he learned a few things in his 90s? I saw a fairly long interview
when he was maybe 93 and certainly didn't get that impression.