Rush lost his sense of humor big time after he lost his hearing, was my observation. He just stopped doing some of his funniest stuff!
I loved the “caller-abortions” sound-effect when he got rid of fake callers (”Rush, I’m a Republican, and I think we should have a minimum wage and free health care and abolish the death penalty,” etc. etc., all fake), and the animal wacko update music and sound-effects (Born Free, with gunfire, as I recall).
One of my fav parodies was about Clinton’s taxes:
“Count Taxula, and his eeeeeee-vil henchman.....EGore” (again, as I recall).
My fav story, which I haven’t been able to find online, was the cow rescue story, where other cows “looked on with (fear and hope)” as the one cow stuck in a (mudhole) was rescued (by helicopter). (I put things in parentheses which are the details I can’t recall, especially the two nouns used in the story about the watching cows.) Rush laughed and laughed at the idea that other cows were watching and thinking “that could be me,” as if they had any thoughts other than food, sex, poop, repeat.
And I loved his take on wearing “awareness ribbons” to show that the wearers care more than others (early virtue signaling). He encouraged people to fold up a dollar bill into one of those ribbons and wear it as a “Deficit Spending Awareness” ribbon. And I did, and when people asked about it, and I told them what it was, I was amazed at how so very very under- or un-informed people were about congressional spending and the Federal Deficit and Debt.
What a tremendous loss it is that Rush is gone.
