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T T T T Too Too Too B B B B Bad Bad.  R R R Really L L L Liked Him.

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1 hour ago, BadBoy said:

T T T T Too Too Too B B B B Bad Bad.  R R R Really L L L Liked Him.

In my opinion, making fun of someone's disability, after they have passed, when a thread was started to honor them, is in pretty poor taste.

I always thought Mel was funny, and extremely talented. RIP

 

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Mel turned that so called disability into an asset and at times poked fun at it himself. yes, he will be missed.

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Loved the duets album that Mel Tillis recorded with Nancy Sinatra . Agree that he was a good entertainer,songwriter ,musician,singer...and by all accounts..a nice guy.  He also gave us Pam Tillis !!   Saw Mel and his daughter in concert together, very enjoyable. Pam is touring/recording with Lorrie Morgan these days. Read Pam's heartbreaking tribute to her dad on facebook today.

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3 hours ago, pfunk said:

In my opinion, making fun of someone's disability, after they have passed, when a thread was started to honor them, is in pretty poor taste.

I always thought Mel was funny, and extremely talented. RIP

 

I agree making fun of someone’s disability is poor taste, he did a lot for country music and will be missed

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He was  a great talent. My grandparents loved him!  

Bless them all! 

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21 hours ago, pfunk said:

In my opinion, making fun of someone's disability, after they have passed, when a thread was started to honor them, is in pretty poor taste.

I always thought Mel was funny, and extremely talented. RIP

 

Mel's stutter was a part of his act, it was his schtick.  When he was in the movies, he stuttered in character - actors with a stutter never stutter in character (because they have memorized the part - same reason Mel never stuttered when he sang). To send him off with a stuttered goodbye is a form of homage.  Sorry to offend, I am sure Mel was fine with it.

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Mel's stuttering was caused by a childhood illness.

He adapted to his stuttering and used it to his advantage in his career. 

However, he never made fun of it.

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I have had a stutter most of my life, but not as bad as Mel.  He did make it a big part of his act and a big part of who he was.  Not unlike Dolly Parton uses certain assets she has as part of her act.  I don't think Mel would take offense to people pointing it out now. 

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43 minutes ago, ilovewomen said:

Mel's stuttering was caused by a childhood illness.

He adapted to his stuttering and used it to his advantage in his career. 

However, he never made fun of it.

Really?

 

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4 hours ago, BadBoy said:

Mel's stutter was a part of his act, it was his schtick.  When he was in the movies, he stuttered in character - actors with a stutter never stutter in character (because they have memorized the part - same reason Mel never stuttered when he sang). To send him off with a stuttered goodbye is a form of homage.  Sorry to offend, I am sure Mel was fine with it.

Memorization is part of it, but a major part is that music uses different parts of the brain.

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7 minutes ago, Bit Banger said:

Memorization is part of it, but a major part is that music uses different parts of the brain.

One of my favorite current singers stutters, she did a talk on it a few years back.

 

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1 hour ago, FuriousWeasel said:

One of my favorite current singers stutters, she did a talk on it a few years back.

 

I may have found a new artist to listen too!  Good Stuff! :)

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Hey, lighten up!  In the real world I am a professional disability advocate and do more for the benefit of disabled people in a week than most people do in their entire lives.  I spend much of each day with people in wheelchairs, on prosthetics, in mental fogs, dragging oxygen bottles, you name it.  So maybe I'm just a little more comfortable joking about life and it's array of challenges than most people are, since the one thing that all disabled people can joke about is their disability.

I loved Mel Tillis (yes, I am that old), and like I said earlier, my stuttered good bye was a homage to not only the man, but the character he created and fruitfully exploited.  I said goodbye to him the same way he would have said it to me, with a stutter.

So there, it's how I feel and f f f f fuck you if you don't like it.

Jeeze, everybody is so damned judgmental around here.

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Bad Boy- No need to feel like you need to defend yourself. The video you posted painted Mel in a very golden light. Highly talented entertaining man and very good looking! 

I have Retinitus Pigmatosis as well as cataracts in both my eyes. I refuse to give up on myself. I know me and what I am made of.  And ya that's all that matters! 😀😀

 

 

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BTW, Mel Tillis was a great CW artist in his day

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