# Whatever happened to....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705 "2008-09-15T15:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/61 "2008-09-16T06:08:36Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Well, I learned something new today. I could have _sworn_ that Ernest Borgnine had passed away years ago. > > My nomination? The token good-looking guy on the Carol Burnett Show; I think he was also in Wonder Woman. Lyle Waggoner? I think he is alive, but that is all I know. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/62 "2008-09-16T06:15:33Z")
I also found [THIS](http://www.westliveson.com/artists/waggoner/waggoner.html) on Lyle Waggoner. I guess he is an artist, and owns a large trailer company. Who knew?! And yes, he is still handsome. I had a huge crush on him when I was about 5 years old. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/63 "2008-09-16T06:21:39Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Wow, that’s a useful reply. > > **chowder** , Michael Brown was the head of FEMA (the government agency responsible for disaster preparedness and response) when Hurricane Katrina hit, and was an exemplary model of lethal inefficiency in American bureaucracy. Oh that dipstick. Come to think of it, Monica sure had the lips for a BJ, right? ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/64 "2008-09-16T06:27:23Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > I also found [THIS](http://www.westliveson.com/artists/waggoner/waggoner.html) on Lyle Waggoner. I guess he is an artist, and owns a large trailer company. Who knew?! > > And yes, he is still handsome. I had a huge crush on him when I was about 5 years old. Artist? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/65 "2008-09-16T06:34:18Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Every now and then I wonder what Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf aka: Baghdad Bob is up to these days. > > “I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad.” -Baghdad Bob- Didn’t he surrender to US forces and after they stopped laughing they told him to bugger off. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/66 "2008-09-16T06:48:23Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Tabitha Soren > > and another MTV thing. > > I can’t remember her name, she was a very young singer songwriter. I do remember her quote they used to play a lot. > > “Cows make milk and I make music” > Is she still making music? Debbie Gibson springs to mind, though I don’t know if she ever made the milk comment. She did talk a lot about being musical and how many songs she’d written…that they just came to her natually, etc. Old photo [here](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Debbie_Gibson.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/67 "2008-09-16T12:18:47Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Wow, that’s a useful reply. I figured since someone answered the question in post immediately after **chowder’s** , I really didn’t need to answer again. I thought an apology was sufficient. But thanks anyway for your useful contributuion. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/68 "2008-09-16T12:34:10Z")
Mykelta Williamson aka “Bubba” in \*Forrest Gump \* ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/69 "2008-09-16T12:41:49Z")
I think Ollie North has a weekly show on Fox News. Tim Conway has been touring with Harvey Korman & on his own. Last year, he hosted a DVD of Christian standup comics “Thou Shalt Laugh II”. I am sure that Michael Dukakis has never been the Libertarian candidate for President. Let me see if he ever ran for the nomination… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/70 "2008-09-16T12:53:59Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I think Ollie North has a weekly show on Fox News. > > Tim Conway has been touring with Harvey Korman & on his own. Last year, he hosted a DVD of Christian standup comics “Thou Shalt Laugh II”. > > I am sure that Michael Dukakis has never been the Libertarian candidate for President. > Let me see if he ever ran for the nomination… Michael Badnarik was the 2004 candidate. No sign that Dukakis ever got involved at all with the LP. He has been a PoliSci professor & active in Democratic campaigning. > **[Michael Dukakis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis#Subsequent_activities)** > > Michael Stanley Dukakis (/dʊˈkɑːkɪs/ duu-KAH-kiss; born November 3, 1933) is an American politician and lawyer who was governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush. > Born in Brookline, Massachuset... ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/71 "2008-09-16T13:12:38Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Well, I learned something new today. I could have _sworn_ that Ernest Borgnine had passed away years ago. You HAVE to check out [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXT6TGPFv4). It answers everything 😃 Very slightly NSFW ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/72 "2008-09-16T13:16:39Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Mykelta Williamson aka “Bubba” in \*Forrest Gump \* Mykelti Williamson was on the short-lived “Boomtown” and was had recurring roles on “Third Watch” and more recently, “CSI: New York,” which stars Gary Sinise, also of “Forrest Gump” fame. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/73 "2008-09-16T13:33:18Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > You HAVE to check out [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXT6TGPFv4). It answers everything 😃 > Very slightly NSFW He wasn’t dead, he was just in his bunk the whole time! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/74 "2008-09-16T19:48:04Z")
What ever happened to “Ernest?” That fellow had enough sense to make money while the sun shined. Even made a couple of movies. I do not even know his name. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/75 "2008-09-16T19:53:47Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > What ever happened to “Ernest?” That fellow had enough sense to make money while the sun shined. Even made a couple of movies. I do not even know his name. He [died](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/). ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/76 "2008-09-16T19:57:03Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > What ever happened to “Ernest?” That fellow had enough sense to make money while the sun shined. Even made a couple of movies. I do not even know his name. Jim Varney died in 2000. He was the voice of Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/77 "2008-09-16T19:59:02Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_Hall#Life_after_Iran-Contra) Yah, I read that. It doesn’t say what she she’s doing now, other than be a former drug addict years ago. (Regarding Fawn Hall.) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/78 "2008-09-16T20:25:14Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Debbie Gibson springs to mind, though I don’t know if she ever made the milk comment. She did talk a lot about being musical and how many songs she’d written…that they just came to her natually, etc. > > Old photo [here](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Debbie_Gibson.jpg). No it wasn’t Debbie Gibson. She was much more serious. Kind of like Avril but a little before her. She had long dark hair and I think her big video featured a bunch of people laying around a dark house like they were stoned on Herion. You know like those Calvin Klein ads. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/79 "2008-09-16T20:29:28Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > No it wasn’t Debbie Gibson. She was much more serious. Kind of like Avril but a little before her. She had long dark hair and I think her big video featured a bunch of people laying around a dark house like they were stoned on Herion. You know like those Calvin Klein ads. I can picture that but I have no idea of the name of the person you’re talking about. This wasn’t really a hepful reply, was it? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/80 "2008-09-16T20:55:05Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Dukakis ran for President on the Libertarian ticket last time around, and garnered a fair bit of support on college campuses. 😕 No he didn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705.md?page=5)