Andy Rooney

[RBH]

Andy Rooney is great! I like the old curmudgeon. I want to be just like him someday. Oh, wait, i already am like him.

And, to be frank (you can still call yourselves what you like, but from now on, i'm Frank), frank kurtz

Frank, Im with you. The old dude makes me laugh! Do I always agree with him...
nooo.. but most of the time he's a hoot!
I really got a kick out of his rant last Sunday.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Andy Rooney is great! I like the old curmudgeon. I want to be just like him someday. Oh, wait, i already am like him.

And, to be frank (you can still call yourselves what you like, but from now on, i'm Frank), look through the threads in the Observation Bar now and again. Grumble grumble, everyhthing was better back then . . . grumble grumble, everything now *sucks* . . . grumble grumble grumble. No different from Rooney's ramblings half of the time.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=185

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=15667

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=15647

Any different to the Hat's section whining about the preponderance of baseball hats or beanies? Methinks not.

frank kurtz

lol lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

Andy Rooney is great! I like the old curmudgeon. I want to be just like him someday. Oh, wait, i already am like him.

And, to be frank (you can still call yourselves what you like, but from now on, i'm Frank), look through the threads in the Observation Bar now and again. Grumble grumble, everyhthing was better back then . . . grumble grumble, everything now *sucks* . . . grumble grumble grumble. No different from Rooney's ramblings half of the time.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=185

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=15667

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=15647

Any different to the Hat's section whining about the preponderance of baseball hats or beanies? Methinks not.

frank kurtz

All of those threads you quoted make more sense than anything he has said in the last fifty years. I could quote ten things he has said in the last few years that definitely point to fast approaching senility or right in the middle of it. He has done a good job of offending just about every group you can think of. Try this article: http://www.awsmonline.org/rooney.htm
He blames America itself for September 11th:
"But it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn’t make so many people in the world want to kill us.” :eusa_doh:
Then he writes Our soldiers in Iraq aren't heroes on 4/12/2004.
The guy is long in the tooth and empty in the head. You can't compare what is written in the Observation Bar to his rants. The moderators would not let that kind of mind rot go unchallenged. He never has to defend any of the dreck he writes. You sure have to here.

Regards,

J

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Now let's take it easy

Please don't compare our Loungers with Rooney, whether you like him or not. He puts things down for no reason. He is like Grandpa Simpson, whose observations don't make any sense. I don't like or dislike him, I find him incomprehensible. Most of what our Loungers say makes sense.

 

[Fletch]

I can't believe I actually bought one of his books as a youngster. I bought Paul Harvey's book too!

 

[jamespowers]

He is like Grandpa Simpson, whose observations don't make any sense.

Now why didn't I think of that? :eusa_doh: Now that you mention it, he is a lot like him. lol lol lol

Grandpa: Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three.
P.S. I am not a crackpot.

Grandpa: Well, whenever I'm confused, I just check my underwear. It holds the answer to all the important questions.

Grandpa: Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!

And the quintesential Rooney parallel:
Mr. Burns: so do you have a way to get rid of the protesters?
Grandpa: One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time we went over to shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)


Regards,

J

 

[BegintheBeguine]

A Walking Bird

lol lol lol lol Now I feel better!

 

[Feraud]

What an old curmudgeon---coming from a young one.

Regards,

J

A toast to the young curmedgeons!:cheers1: I know I am one.

Andy Rooney is great! I like the old curmudgeon. I want to be just like him someday. Oh, wait, i already am like him.

And, to be frank (you can still call yourselves what you like, but from now on, i'm Frank), look through the threads in the Observation Bar now and again. Grumble grumble, everyhthing was better back then . . . grumble grumble, everything now *sucks* . . . grumble grumble grumble. No different from Rooney's ramblings half of the time.

The difference between the Loungers and Rooney is the former tend to make sense! Rooney gripes about things that mean nothing.
Rubber bands, tutu's, coconuts, dirty laundry, etc. I do not think he is a real curmudgeon at all.
The man has lost it!

 

[jamespowers]

A toast to the young curmedgeons!:cheers1: I know I am one.


The difference between the Loungers and Rooney is the former tend to make sense! Rooney gripes about things that mean nothing.
Rubber bands, tutu's, coconuts, dirty laundry, etc. I do not think he is a real curmudgeon at all.
The man has lost it!

That's actually not so bad. It's when he starts going into the "interesting junk" and "professional quality kazoo" that I start thinking---straight jacket.

 

[jeboat]

Rooney the Curmudgeon

Andy Rooney used to be a very good reporter and war correspondent. Sadly, his salad days are long over and CBS keeps him around as the resident "Curmudgeon" to stimulate interest in "60 Minutes." I doubt he helps the ratings.

They also kept Dan Rather too long and he became non-relevant and ineffective. His sole purpose in his last years at CBS was to diss G.W. Bush at every turn. He finally got nailed on a false report on G.W.'s service record.

Andy should have left on the same bus as Rather...

jeboat:eusa_doh: :eusa_doh: :eusa_doh:

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Rubber bands, tutu's, coconuts, dirty laundry, etc.

You've been in my house!
The piece about his desk was good, as I recall. When was that? Last century? I rarely look at the show, although I like to hear a good curmudgeonly complaint session now and then.

 

[Fletch]

I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I.......

So, any onion-on-belt aficionados here on the Lounge? Do you wear a holster, sachet, or just slit the onion and run the belt through ("Okie style")? Who make the most authentic onion belts? What do you think of the Japanese reproductions? Are they really worth $400?

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I'm a DIY'er so I use a string of garlic.

 

[Fletch]

Ah...so you're "going California."

 

[Feraud]

In my best Rooney accent - "What is with those fountain pens? They are not really fountains are they? You cannot drink from them. In my day we had fountain drinks. Why can't we get the name changed? Don't get me started on spats..."

 

[John in Covina]

He used an opening question alot. "Did you ever notice how?..."

 

[WEEGEE]

STYLE ICON

ANDY ROONEY...STYLE ICON!!!


I photographed him reading the last few pages at the end of a 24 hour "Moby Dick" reading held at his high school alma mater a few month ago.

I was wearing a fedora perhaps i frightened him.

He did leave with the author William Kennedy who i would think has a foundness for fedoras...Iron Weed and Legs Diamond amoung his works.

http://www.biblio.com/authors/102/William_Kennedy_Biography.html


I guess i'll just have to wonder???

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

In my best Rooney accent - "What is with those fountain pens? They are not really fountains are they? You cannot drink from them. In my day we had fountain drinks. Why can't we get the name changed? Don't get me started on spats..."

HaHaHaHa!lol lol

Well Done Feraud! Well Done!!!!

 

[Russ]

And the quintesential Rooney parallel:
Mr. Burns: so do you have a way to get rid of the protesters?
Grandpa: One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time we went over to shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)


Regards,

J

I just watched this scene for the first time in my life just minutes before I read your post. Spooky! I buy entire season DVD sets to help my kids' English (we live in Tokyo). Now they can say "Ay Caramba!" plus a few other things I wish they hadn't heard

 

[jamespowers]

He used an opening question alot. "Did you ever notice how?..."

Ok, here we go on that note:

Have you ever noticed how people will come up to you and ask if you are moving when you have furniture all over the lawn? I tell them no, I am having a yard sale or that I am taking them for a walk one by one. Furniture needs airing out and a good walk always makes furniture so much fresher. They can see the moving van right out in front of the house. Why ask something so obvious? What's up with that?
Don't even get me started on when a For Sale sign goes up on your property and some idiot neighbor always comes up to you to ask if you are moving. :eusa_doh:

Regards,

Andy