Googled Oxford dictionary describes it as 'strong, virile, and straightforward' and considers it North American.

I suppose some foreigners might view it as American for 'stealing with both hands'

referred to someone who was an heavy drinker.

I was there in 1976--MANY, MANY MOONS AGO--as a 15 year old with my friends and late brother who escorted us there when he got into it with ABC over a relay race, and when he lost to Gabe Kaplan in a run off. Some of the BEST times I've had in my life ...... He was quite a handsome guy, even then and at that age, and even with that hideous cigarette in his mouth. I remember a friend who met him years ago in Malibu saying to me "He would have been a Hollywood leading man, IF he was taller, because he had the looks/physique/personality in spades."

My older sister had such a "crush" on him...

He was in a serious car wreck as I recall and I think partially paralyzed. Not sure he ever fully recovered.

In 2003, he wrecked his car while driving intoxicated:

We watched that faithfully

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One of our favorites. And my mother had a huge crush on Robert Wagner.

I grew up watching many, many shows he starred in.

I forgot all about him and wasn't sure he was still around. I know me and my sisters would turn on "Wild Wild West" every once awhile... He was in a bunch of other stuff too as a "guest star" and character actor.

R.I.P.

Was it Duracell? Energizer? Ever Ready? (I can't remember.)

I was a teen in the late 60's, and was aware that he was "hot" before I even knew what that meant.

I noticed that his trousers always fit so nicely..... He was one manly stud.

It was an episode of the Wild Wild West. I was stunned that his suit was blue, as I'd always assumed it was black.

Man, some of those episodes during the 'Ross Martin as Artie' era, especially the ones with Michael Dunn as 'Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless' were extremely trippy! lol

Actually, they had a lot of extremely weird villains -- kind of like an old-timey, wild west version of Adam West's Batman villains. Some were downright steampunk, well before the genre.

It sparked my interest in all things World War II.

I saw a couple of episodes later as an adult, and it was almost unwatchable. The things I had learned about the real Boyington and the hardships Marine pilots dealt with in the Pacific made "BBBS" seem as real by comparison as the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride was to actual piracy.

I think it's a good time to make a big screen bio of Gregory Boyington. I would cast someone in the mold of Adam Beach. Boyington was at least partly Native American, and graduated from my alma mater, the University of Washington.

...even though the real Greg Boyington was the techical advisor (and became Conrad's drinking buddy). Later, though, even he called it "Hollywood hokum".

I bought flight simulators and flew corsairs in them because of that show!

In "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" as Gregory Boyington, he expressed affection for his men by beating them up. He did those battery commercials in which he dared the viewer to knock the battery off his shoulder. It was probably only an oversight that he was never cast as the 'rough trade' in a gay film.

I even sent away for his 8 x 10 glossies. I think I had 3 b&w pictures of him. I couldn't wait each week to watch the show Good memories!

I brought the dvd set for my husband at Christmas one year. Forgot how good the show was. And how good he looked in those pants!

Him and Lee Majors. He loves the old shows and I often get him videos for birthday/Christmas gifts, he probably has them all by now. He's probably bummed out.

Turned 80 last year.

I've run out of options!

it always happens in 3's. wonder who will be next?

One of my faves growing up and then later on Baa Baa.
A real TV actor.

Loved WWW as a kid. Black Sheep too. My dad LOVED that one