‘I Can’t Get Over It’

@Mikey-B:
HA, HA!

(Nelson voice)

ModernMindOfM

@CaptainFantastic:OR maybe you were.......?

@scroll_lock: Not to get all overly serious, but advanced age still doesn't diminish the grief and sense of sadness at losing an elderly loved one or friend.

Preparing yourself for someone's death is one thing. It's a whole 'nuther ball of wax when they actually go.

OrneryBabe

@Swifter: Ditto.

Oldgold

I think he really excused himself because he had to go potty.

El_Gato

@scroll_lock: True, but after the whole Michael Jackson shitstorm its nice to recognize a truely great man for his competent, drama free accomplishemnts.

choinski

@RussianTaco: Hah, hah, hah! You're going to hell, but you're brilliantly hilarious!

@Kayleigh Loves To Dance: I wasn't serious.

@britneyspearstears: No.

@Swifter: Don't you mean to, instead of for?

@CaptainFantastic: those are silk stoles that help dress the altar and pulpit.

Kayleigh Loves To Dance

Andy Rooney has done more for this country than all the people at Gawker Media put together.

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

You know, Andy Rooney used to annoy the crap out of me, but I've cut him some slack ever since what I heard him say on the first episode of 60 Minutes after 9/11.

I paraphrase, "I was on the beaches at Normandy, and I never saw anything in those days as awful I saw on 9/11."

That one killed me.

Ricki-Oh

"What I liked about Walter is that he always opened pickle jars for me. Those pickle jars, so damn hard to open."

@resipsaloquacious: Try going around them.

RussianTaco

@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.

@Aaron Altman: I'll bite: "HOW SUBSTANDARD WAS IT???!"

@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.

@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 :[]

My dad, who would have been 90 this year, was a WWII vet and told similar stories. It was a time that many of us can probably barely comprehend. I'm no big fan of the cranky Mr. Rooney, but I wish he could have finished the eulogy.

Big_Noise_From_Winnetka

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.

@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.

@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!"

@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?"

@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."

@TubOfTaft: Brilliant!

Alessandra Stanley’s piece on Walter Cronkite’s eulogy for Andy Rooney was absolutely heartbreaking.

TubOfTaft

I can't get over his eyebrows.

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

Still sad though...

@lobstr: Thanks for the suggestion.

PandoraSpocks

@CaptainFantastic: He will soon have outlived his own relevance by 80 years.

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 :[]

@scroll_lock: That last sentence paints a wonderful, if morbid, picture.

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.

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.

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

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