http://themoderatevoice.com/14508/classic-comedians-the-great-timmie-rogers/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/14508/classic-comedians-the-great-timmie-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-96052 jpoppyd Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:51:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/entertainment/14508/classic-comedians-the-great-timmie-rogers/#comment-96052 A couple of things I remember about Timmie Rogers was a routine about how he met his wife and she got her name from him. "I met my baby in Florida F.L.A that's Fla I married her in Georgia G.A and that's Ga we honeymoond in Louisianna L.A and thats LA now we live in Pennsylvania P.A and that's PA so i call my baby Fla -ga- la- pa cause falgalapa is her name....Oh Yeah! Another one was he was talking about how poor they were when they were kids. "My sister was so skinny that when she walked in the wind she hummed". "We was so poor that we used to walk along the railroad tracks just to collect coal that fell fron the trains for our stove for heat ....then came the depression.....Oh yeah. Funny funny guy....Oh Yeah! A couple of things I remember about Timmie Rogers was a routine about how he met his wife and she got her name from him.
“I met my baby in Florida F.L.A that’s Fla
I married her in Georgia G.A and that’s Ga
we honeymoond in Louisianna L.A and thats LA
now we live in Pennsylvania P.A and that’s PA
so i call my baby Fla -ga- la- pa cause falgalapa is her name….Oh Yeah!
Another one was he was talking about how poor they were when they were kids. “My sister was so skinny that when she walked in the wind she hummed”. “We was so poor that we used to walk along the railroad tracks just to collect coal that fell fron the trains for our stove for heat ….then came the depression…..Oh yeah. Funny funny guy….Oh Yeah!

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/14508/classic-comedians-the-great-timmie-rogers/comment-page-1/#comment-94893 Jim Satterfield Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:40:18 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/entertainment/14508/classic-comedians-the-great-timmie-rogers/#comment-94893 You're right, Joe. He's great. It is a shame when someone with that talent is forgotten. It's also too bad he didn't see more work later in his career that would have given him the wider exposure I think he probably deserved just based on these two clips. You’re right, Joe. He’s great. It is a shame when someone with that talent is forgotten. It’s also too bad he didn’t see more work later in his career that would have given him the wider exposure I think he probably deserved just based on these two clips.

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