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Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86

...Howard, who grew up to become the Oscar-winning director of "A Beautiful Mind." Don Knotts was the goofy Deputy Barney Fife, while Jim Nabors joined the show as Gomer Pyle, the unworldly, lovable gas pumper. On "Matlock," which aired...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-03/beloved-actor-andy-griffith-dies-86
News | Entertainment
Unbeaten Gophers coach has Minnesota by tail

...2010. The Twins have struggled to a 9-12 start.Being a Minnesota sports fan lately has been, as Mayberry deputy Barney Fife, my favorite American, used to say, "Heartache, nothing but heartache."Amidst the doom and gloom in Minnesota...

http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2011-04-25/unbeaten-gophers-coach-has-minneso
Sports
Names and faces

...television's most beloved programs. Knotts was the senior class president. The 78-year-old actor, who portrayed bumbling Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," kept a low profile Saturday as he mingled with about 60 classmates at a local hotel...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072902/wha_0729020012.shtml
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Tapping into the down-spirit of Mayberry

...Don't Throw That Rock at Me," "It's Sunday (Aunt Bee), Fry That Chicken," and "One Bullet Man," an ode to Barney Fife -- he assembled his first CD, "Searching the Map for Mayberry." It starts off with a narrative, backed by the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/101202/wha_1012020034.shtml
What
Write-ins run the gamut, from Mayberry to Green Bay

...candidate or put an entirely different man in the office. Instead those votes went to candidates like Mayberry deputy Barney Fife, Packers Quarterback Brett Favre and legendary "hanging judge" Roy Bean. "Maybe I should be right in between...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/111606/new_20061116039.shtml
News
Names and faces

...class of 1942 wasn't dwindling in size, actor Don Knotts would probably still stand out. Knotts, best known as Barney Fife, the bumbling deputy to Sheriff Andy Taylor in "The Andy Griffith Show," joined 80 former classmates at a reunion...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/073100/wha_0731000031.shtml
What
Beatles are big again, this time in their book

...in text and more than 350 photos, some in color. The book reunites Sheriff Andy Taylor, Opie, Aunt Bee, Deputy Barney Fife, Floyd the barber and Otis, the town drunk who "arrested" himself when he'd had too much to drink. A chapter...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122100/tem_1221000012.shtml
Entertainment
OUR OPINION: RECOUNT

...Packers quarterback Brett Favre and television's Deputy Barney Fife now wish they had voted for a real candidate and tipped...serve him well. After all, any sheriff who's a fan of Barney Fife no doubt has the sense of humor the job sometimes requires...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/111706/opi_20061117037.shtml
Opinion
VOX POP

...in property taxes. Is that what you're striving for? Your silence says yes. Lawsuit I want to know what kind of Barney Fife deputies we have to shoot a family dog when they were the ones who went on to her property? The car didn't even have...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/100407/opi_20071004012.shtml
Opinion
Europe is not our boss anymore

...European influences that have been creeping into American life. In the immortal words of another good American, Deputy Barney Fife, we've got to nip it. Nip it in the bud!Here are more European influences which I'd call to your attention.? Beer...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/2011-02-09/europe-not-our-boss-a
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