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Swifter
07/24/09

In reply to 'I Can't Get Over It'
Andy Rooney has done more for this country than all the people at Gawker Media put together.
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britneyspearstears
07/24/09

@Swifter: Don't you mean to, instead of for?
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Swifter
07/24/09

@britneyspearstears: No.
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BxgrlJeri
07/24/09

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Have ya ever noticed that sometimes an entire commenting thread will be in italics because one person forgot to " < / em >"?
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CaptainFantastic
07/24/09

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Andy was likely the first observational-humorist that I ever encountered when watching 60 Minutes each Sunday evening with my father. He's become a cliche, but he earned it.

Also, anyone know why there were two adding machines up on the podium? They could have at least torn the tapes off before the service.
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lobstr
07/24/09

@CaptainFantastic: No, don't tear them! -- They get a refund on the coffin if returned within 14 days with receipt.

Minus re-stocking fees, of course.
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Kayleigh Loves To Dance
07/24/09

@CaptainFantastic: those are silk stoles that help dress the altar and pulpit.
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CaptainFantastic
07/24/09

@Kayleigh Loves To Dance: I wasn't serious.
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TubOfTaft
07/24/09

In reply to 'I Can't Get Over It'
Alessandra Stanley’s piece on Walter Cronkite’s eulogy for Andy Rooney was absolutely heartbreaking.
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Aaron Altman
07/24/09

@TubOfTaft: Brilliant!
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resipsaloquacious
07/24/09

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I can't get over his eyebrows.
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RussianTaco
07/24/09

@resipsaloquacious: Try going around them.
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Novaload
07/24/09

@RussianTaco: Hah, hah, hah! You're going to hell, but you're brilliantly hilarious!
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HouseBunnny
07/24/09

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I cried watching this. Until I realized he was referring to the step in front of the podium.

Still sad though...
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lobstr
07/24/09

In reply to 'I Can't Get Over It'
A few years ago while visiting my wife's grandparents in Minnesota, I was forced to sleep in their basement, where a copy of Andy Rooney's "My War" was all by itself on a shelf. I usually never have time to read, but out of boredom, I started to read it, and I could not put the damn book down. Sure, his TV bits about the frustrations of opening produce bags, or cotton in pill bottles are cliché, but that book really resonated with me.

It's about his time at the Stars & Stripes (as he mentions in the clip), and how he was there at D-Day and covered all of the shitstorm.. How almost daily, he'd notice pilot friends missing from the lunch table as they died on their respective missions.. His whimsical observations, in this context, are actually quite fascinating, as the man saw a lot of shit. If you're ever in the mood for a WWII book, I recommend it. It's the last book I've finished in full and that was 10 years ago :[]
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PandoraSpocks
07/24/09

@lobstr: Thanks for the suggestion.
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Artie Fufkin
07/24/09

@lobstr: I always take my book recommendations from someone who hasn't read another one in 10 years. Thx. "BEST BOOK OF THE PAST 10 YEARS!"
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lobstr
07/24/09

@Artie Fufkin: Well, that tells you some'pin, doesn't it?? If a book over 200 pages was able to captivate an ADD-riddled mind, it must be worth a shit. Plus, if I read all the time, how the hell would there be time for Gawker? C'mon, team player..

Seriously, though, it was a great book :[]
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Mike Byhoff
07/24/09

In reply to 'I Can't Get Over It'
I didn't know Andy Rooney was capable of talking about topics other than the fact that owning too many pairs of shoes pisses him off.
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scroll_lock
07/24/09

In reply to 'I Can't Get Over It'
As much as I loved Walter Cronkite, it's not as if he was snatched from us in the bloom of youth. Andy had several decades to prepare himself for this eventuality. And by the looks of him, he's preparing to throw his own feet in the air any minute.
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CaptainFantastic
07/24/09

@scroll_lock: That last sentence paints a wonderful, if morbid, picture.
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scroll_lock
07/24/09

@CaptainFantastic: He will soon have outlived his own relevance by 80 years.
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Aaron Altman
07/24/09

@scroll_lock: "You know what gets me? Me. I mean, who else but me would know about the contents of my kitchen drawers, and would know to write a whole segment about spatulas? Me, you make you laugh."
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scroll_lock
07/24/09

@Aaron Altman: "Y'ever notice how I can go on and on about nothing and make you think to yourself that you never looked at nothing in quite so much detail?"
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Aaron Altman
07/24/09

@scroll_lock: Awww, I kinda like Andy. After nine-minute segments about how radioactive material is leaking from North Korea into a lake where Gary Hart fished from a boat that killed Princess Diana while she was delivering blood diamonds to help restore democracy in Honduras by putting Sgt. James Crowley on desk duty while the US Attorney's office arrests 44 people in New Jersey for shipping substandard body armor to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, a little self-absorbed nitpicking ain't such a bad thang.
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scroll_lock
07/24/09

@Aaron Altman: I'll bite: "HOW SUBSTANDARD WAS IT???!"
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CaptainFantastic
07/24/09

@Aaron Altman: Especially after watching all of that when I was 9 years old. Andy was like dessert after your mother forced you to finish the over-cooked chicken. See my 10:58 comment above.
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Nice Beaver
07/24/09

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"He was the most wonderful person I've ever known. And I love him deeply! In a way you could never understand!"
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scroll_lock
07/24/09

@Nice Beaver: "Son, sometimes when a newscaster loves another newscaster they want to express it in a very special way."
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unclevanya
06/05/09

In reply to Andy Rooney is a Great-Grandfather!
We look forward to hearing Andy bitch about all of this is a future 60 Minutes segment.

Well that makes one of you. I only come across him when sports causes Amazing Race or Big Brother to start late.

I swear, when he speaks it's like he died five years ago but CBS refuses to turn the camera off. Just pull the plug already.
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lobstr
06/05/09

In reply to Andy Rooney is a Great-Grandfather!
At 35, I am likely his youngest fan by about 40 years. He is fucking hilarious and my wife absolutely hates him. Lately, though, he really does seem to go off on random tangents in the middle of a rant and skew off to some complete non-sequitir -- and more and more I've noticed he likes to brag that he has season tickets to the NY Giants.

He did write an AWESOME book about his experience as a WWII journalist called "My War" and it really is a gripping read.. say what you will about his bitching and moaning about pill bottle cotton and not being able to open produce bags, but the man can tell a story.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/05/09

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Does 60 minutes just blackmail evildoers now? I've checked in from time to time over the last few years, but have yet to see them doing any stings like they used to do in the old days.
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MrInBetween
03/18/09

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When is George going to do his cranky Andy Rooney impression while giving us a video tour of the eight bathrooms in his Lake Como spread?
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lobstr
03/18/09

@MrInBetween: (Rooney voice) Whyyyy can't my Limoncello glass keep frosted while I'm taking a dump in bathroom number six?? Can't they invent a mini-flute-shaped chiller??
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Fishnets and Cigarettes
03/18/09

In reply to George Clooney's Andy Rooney Impersonation
sorry, I'd still fuck him senseless
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
03/18/09

@Fishnets and Cigarettes★: could we share?
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TheMac
03/18/09

@Fishnets and Cigarettes★: I would wreck that.
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