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Rest in peace, Grumpy . . .
1 posted on 11/05/2011 4:30:32 PM PDT by BluesDuke
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To: BluesDuke
Yeah--classic curmudgeon. I think he overstayed his welcome though. Not much pizzazz the last couple years.
2 posted on 11/05/2011 4:34:25 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: BluesDuke
"And you know, caskets? Have you ever tried to open one from the inside? Why don't put door handles on the inside of them?!"
3 posted on 11/05/2011 4:39:29 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: BluesDuke

His story about going to war as a pacifist and realizing that he was wrong was interesting.

Even then, you could blame a college professor for leading a student astray.


5 posted on 11/05/2011 4:48:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: BluesDuke
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'

You gotta have somethin'

Or you'll be like NBC

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'

You gotta have somethin'

Or you're CBS to me

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'

You gotta have somethin'

Ya can't even flee from ABC

7 posted on 11/05/2011 4:50:12 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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Spotted this in the Los Angeles Times a little while ago . . .
"I hate it. I mean, I'm gonna die," Rooney told Morley Safer, when asked how he liked old age in an interview that accompanied his final 60 Minutes broadcast, "and that doesn't appeal to me at all." He would have gotten a good piece out of his own passing; it's a shame we won't get to see it.
Come to think of it, it would have been interesting to hear Grumpy on his own death . . .
9 posted on 11/05/2011 4:55:04 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: BluesDuke

commie icon.


10 posted on 11/05/2011 4:59:24 PM PDT by ken21
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To: BluesDuke

The funniest thing I remember about him was on a couple of interviews he was asked about General Patton and both times he flew into a rage because he hated him so much.


12 posted on 11/05/2011 5:05:30 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BluesDuke
Ever wonder why so many people in the MSM are committed leftists?

8:}

14 posted on 11/05/2011 5:34:56 PM PDT by AwesomePossum (I have never looked this forward to a November II........)
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To: BluesDuke
Having been raised around grumpy old curmudgeons, there is something very American about older guys who speak their mind whether they are right or not. He made me smile on occasion which was enough to wish him to rest in peace.
15 posted on 11/05/2011 5:35:40 PM PDT by dog breath
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18 posted on 11/05/2011 5:56:11 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: BluesDuke

He wrote a book “Pieces of My Mind” that had one of the funniest essays I ever read about a morning where he set out to accomplish many things, and got thwarted, distracted, etc. and never got anything done.

I wish I still had that book.

He was describing a day where he made a “Things to do list” and the first item was to split some firewood. He got his axe, but the blade felt dull so he decided to sharpen it. However, his sharpening wheel had a wobble, so he needed to disassemble it, dropped a special screw behind his workbench, went to the hardware store to get another screw .... (it went on and on with one simple thing leadding to a thousand more things to do). Very funny the way he wrote it.


19 posted on 11/05/2011 6:23:07 PM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: BluesDuke

Nasty old liberal bites the dust...


20 posted on 11/05/2011 7:42:32 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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I never cared for him nor his opinions. However, I'll be eternally grateful to him for his honorable service in the Army Air Corps during WWII. I believe he flew as a crew member in B-17s. They didn't have a particularly high survival rate.

Mark

21 posted on 11/05/2011 8:38:31 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: BluesDuke
I have a confession to make.

I cheered when I saw the headline.

Ahhhhhh.

Confession is good for the soul.

26 posted on 11/06/2011 1:49:57 AM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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