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Andy Rooney, 92
« on: November 05, 2011, 10:29:16 AM »
Sad for his family and friends.

Andy Rooney Dead at 92
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 10:50:23 AM »
(must say something nice, must say something nice) rip
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2011, 11:15:58 AM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on November 05, 2011, 10:50:23 AM
(must say something nice, must say something nice) rip

That's about the size of it, Soup.

RIP.
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2011, 11:51:48 AM »
How 'bout this...

May God have mercy on his soul.
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2011, 12:09:24 PM »
I watched one of Rooney's segments on plastic packaging and he displayed a number of tools marketed as the way to gain entry to the actual stuff, with him disgusted with the whole exercise.  One of the few I saw and agreed with.
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2011, 01:22:16 PM »
Rooney's 60 Minutes segments were amusing to watch once..when they were about consumer type frustrations. And by that I really mean once. Because he just wasn't that funny. The joke, repeated, ad nauseum week after week was his only gimmick.

Then, and I don't remember when it exactly happened, he changed from being a grumpy old curmudgeon to an angry (and pathetic) old liberal who was pretty much crabby about anyone and anything that wasn't left wing.

I can't remember him ever portraying himself as happy or joyful about anything in life. Not once.

Heck of a legacy. Heck of an epitaph.

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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2011, 03:14:48 PM »
Did you ever wonder how Andy Rooney typed all of those stories looking through those bushy eyebrows ? It's not like a make-up girl wasn't standing nearby with a pair of scissors . I wonder if Andy had a pair of scissors in his desk but was afraid to use them . Maybe he had a pair of nail clippers in his desk too . Do you suppose Andy trimmed his toenails in his office ? At his age maybe his toenails looked like corn chips . Do you suppose Andy kept a bag of Fritos in his desk ? Or maybe he bit his toenails like my sister did . She had bushy eyebrows too but almost never typed . Did you ever wonder how somebody could go all the way through college and almost never type ? Maybe it's because she was an art major . Art majors almost never type . They don't have to spell very well either . Did you ever wonder who invented "spell check" ?
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2011, 03:30:27 PM »
Quote from: Sectionhand on November 05, 2011, 03:14:48 PM
Did you ever wonder how Andy Rooney typed all of those stories looking through those bushy eyebrows ? It's not like a make-up girl wasn't standing nearby with a pair of scissors . I wonder if Andy had a pair of scissors in his desk but was afraid to use them . Maybe he had a pair of nail clippers in his desk too . Do you suppose Andy trimmed his toenails in his office ? At his age maybe his toenails looked like corn chips . Do you suppose Andy kept a bag of Fritos in his desk ? Or maybe he bit his toenails like my sister did . She had bushy eyebrows too but almost never typed . Did you ever wonder how somebody could go all the way through college and almost never type ? Maybe it's because she was an art major . Art majors almost never type . They don't have to spell very well either . Did you ever wonder who invented "spell check" ?

Post. Of. The. Day.

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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2011, 02:08:39 PM »
RIP Lord only knows.
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2011, 03:27:36 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on November 05, 2011, 11:15:58 AM
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on November 05, 2011, 10:50:23 AM
(must say something nice, must say something nice) rip

That's about the size of it, Soup.

RIP.

Ditto.
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2011, 09:25:36 AM »
Quote from: Sectionhand on November 05, 2011, 03:14:48 PM
Did you ever wonder how Andy Rooney typed all of those stories looking through those bushy eyebrows ? It's not like a make-up girl wasn't standing nearby with a pair of scissors . I wonder if Andy had a pair of scissors in his desk but was afraid to use them . Maybe he had a pair of nail clippers in his desk too . Do you suppose Andy trimmed his toenails in his office ? At his age maybe his toenails looked like corn chips . Do you suppose Andy kept a bag of Fritos in his desk ? Or maybe he bit his toenails like my sister did . She had bushy eyebrows too but almost never typed . Did you ever wonder how somebody could go all the way through college and almost never type ? Maybe it's because she was an art major . Art majors almost never type . They don't have to spell very well either . Did you ever wonder who invented "spell check" ?

That's tombstone material!   ::laughonfloor::
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2011, 11:23:25 AM »
Positively Rooney-esque.  ;)
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2011, 12:03:14 PM »
Yeah, SH got skillz!

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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2011, 05:21:29 AM »
Is that like herpeez ?
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Re: Andy Rooney, 92
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2011, 06:22:32 AM »
Less viralz!

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