Porky Dies

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:05pm

Porky of the Little Rascals has died @ 71 in a nursing home in Mn

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:07pm

Aw. Sad!

[Craig]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:08pm

I thought this was old news by the thread titles since Chuck Mitchell died in 1992. Chuck was Porky in "porky's", "porky's II" and "porky's revenge"

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:09pm

Bye Potey...we'll miss you.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:25pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:42pm

As I recall it was Porkie & not Buckwheat that said OTAY

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 11:34pm

Right you are, Mr Roxy. from the "Dictionary of Playground Slang" (I kid you not):

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otay
n.

Synonym for "okay". Originally from the 1930's short films of "The Little Rascals", this is how the Little Rascals character "Porky" said "okay".

Cast members ranged in age from about two to seven, and being little, their grasp of English was far from perfect, and "okay" became "otay", often quoted as, "Otay, Buckwheat!" (Buckwheat was one of the characters), and it was often said to someone when they were acting stupidly (kind of a "Yeah, whatever!").

Later popularized by Eddie Murphy in one or more Saturday Night Live sketches, mistakenly (or intentionally) assigning it to the "Buckwheat" character. Another contributors entire middle school started saying this but he couldn't remember why. He was on Guam at the time.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 11:43pm

Didn't another of the kids, "Butch", just die a week or two ago?

Meanwhile, Little Mickey Gubitosi is a free man...