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Join Date: 2004-01-30 Member: 25749Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Andy Rooney...</div> I just saw an "episode", and I got to ask... Anyone seen Andy Rooney's little chronicles at the end? Am I the only one who is nearly offended by the sheer stupidity of some of the things he says? Only reason I'm watching is due to some morbid fascination, despite the fact that I can almost feel myself getting dumber by the minute I'm listening to him. I'll admit I haven't seen a lot of 60 Minutes, but so far his stories have, at best, been merely irrelevant to basically everything.
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The piece he did on kitchen gadgets comes to mind .... ... .. .
That was hardly the worst, though. Anyone saw the one where he compared a laptop to an old typewriter and, this would be the nearly offensive part, concluded that the typewriter was better?
I haven't seen that particular one, but it sounds so like him.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm a sucker for any new kitchen tool. Over the years, I've filled our kitchen drawers with gadgets we never use.
This tool seemed like a good idea at the time. It’s for grating Parmesan cheese. Well, I buy cheese already grated.
This is for slicing bread. Never use it, and I can’t believe how many things I don't need one of that I have two of -- like another bread slicer.
I only have one of these, fortunately. It's for pressing the oil out of a can of tuna fish.
I bought this for making ravioli. You lay the dough here, fill it and press it closed. Two of those. I don't use either one. If we want ravioli, we go to an Italian restaurant, and I bet they don't use one of those either.
There are all sorts of nutcrackers in our kitchen drawers. You'd crack a pecan or a walnut with this I guess. If that doesn't work, we have two of these.
I haven't cracked a nut in years but here we have three nutcrackers. This is a nice one, but again I don't know what it does, but again, we have two.
This is an eight-pound cast-iron clunker for making corn sticks.
Some of you probably know what this is. It's for dipping honey out of a jar. Why didn't the bees think of that?
You put a tomato in here if you want to slice it. If I ever want to slice a tomato, I'll be ready.
In the past few years, I've bought three can openers and none of them work. Look at this. I always end up going back to the old manual opener. Or one of these, semi-automatic.
I'm not sure about this. Maybe it's for fishing a boiled egg out of hot water.
Now, here's something I do use. It’s my favorite knife. It looks too big, but I have a theory about knives. It's better to use a big knife even for a small job. This will carve a turkey or cut an olive in half.
I buy anything that says it helps open jars, even if it doesn't.
Two of these for cutting sponge cake. Harry Truman was president the last time I cut a sponge cake.
This is for measuring how much pasta to cook. I guess at it and usually cook too much.
A pickle-picker. Lemon rind scrapper, melon baller, cookie cutter.
This picks the stem off strawberries. I’ll keep that. At least it doesn't take up much room in the drawer.
To tell you the truth, I don't know whether to throw all these tools away or put them back in the kitchen drawers. I mean, you never know when you’re going to need one of these things.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then it begins. First he needs a powercable. Fair enough, he's got a point there (powercable on desk). Then he needs a printer (up on desk). Then he wants a CD-drive so he can check his 12-disc encyclopedia he just bought (external drive and discs on desk). Finally, he wants a modem so he can use the Internet to send mails and do research etc. (modem up). Then he looks at the two piles and concludes that the laptop and things are heavier and takes more space than the typewriter (let's say 50% more on both, and that's pretty generous). Thus, he concludes, he'd rather just take his old typewriter because laptop and accessories are worse and technology in general is evil.
What? Did he just compare a laptop to a typewriter? Taking an encyclopedia in book-form equivalent to a 12-disc one would alone compensate for each and every one of those laptop items he included. And that doesn't even mention the bloody Internet, or the ability to make an infinite amount of copies of his documents, edit them easily and send them instantly to anyone, anywhere in the world. And of course, the fact that it's a bloody computer that can do a million things a typewriter can't. And why would he even need a printer? Anything he could use his documents for would practically require it to be in digital form anyway.
Edit: <a href='http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/17/60minutes/rooney/main509452.shtml' target='_blank'>Here it is</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->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. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Obviously you make ASCII pictures...like old people used to <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
Andy Rooney is still on 60 minutes, because everyone under the age of 50 watches better shows.
That's going in the sig. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Which is why 60 Minutes is America's longest running television newsmagazine, on the air with CBS since 1968, and hailed as "America's Most Popular TV News Show". <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Which is why 60 Minutes is America's longest running television newsmagazine, on the air with CBS since 1968, and hailed as "America's Most Popular TV News Show". <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just because you watch it doesn't mean it's good, OLD MAN! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Which is why 60 Minutes is America's longest running television newsmagazine, on the air with CBS since 1968, and hailed as "America's Most Popular TV News Show". <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just because you watch it doesn't mean it's good, OLD MAN! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Whether it's good or not depends on what type of television entertainment you're interested in. I merely pointed out it's history and popularity. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
True dat. It cracks me up just to see him walking about with his pants pulled up to his chest ...