Andy Rooney passes away at age 92.. RIP
I'm glad I got to see his last broadcast last month, at least he got to say goodbye on air.
He made a lot of interesting observations over his many years.
"I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?" --
"I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got."
"We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare."
"The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday."
"I understand shipping -- you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company -- but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?"
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
"I didn't get old on purpose. It just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones."
"We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it."
"Vegetarian -- that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter.'"
"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper"
And finally from his last broadcast:
"I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life."
He made a lot of interesting observations over his many years.
"I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?" --
"I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got."
"We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare."
"The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday."
"I understand shipping -- you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company -- but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?"
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
"I didn't get old on purpose. It just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones."
"We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it."
"Vegetarian -- that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter.'"
"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper"
And finally from his last broadcast:
"I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life."