In the comments on this article, commenter “Brando” offers a correction:
In regards to “People who are Old”.
George Burns, and Andy Rooney aren’t old. They’re dead.
Andy Rooney dead? This is terrible news! Perhaps someone should alert Andy Rooney’s 90-year-old body so that it can stop moving and talking and otherwise acting in an unacceptably alive manner. Or does commenter “Brando” know something we don’t? Is Rooney really a crickety, crotchety old zombie? A reanimated coot? OR IS THIS A CONFESSION OF MURDER?
I’m not dead yet! I feel happy!
I think I’ll go for a walk!
Did’ya ever notice how when you’re dead, they stick you underneath the ground in a sealed wooden box? Why is that?
Holy shit, that almost verbatim where I was going #3.
It’s a stupid comment anyway, since the point was about references that just SOUND old. When you think “George Burns,” you think, “old,” so it gets the point across fine. Doesn’t matter if he’s alive or dead.
You mean nobody told you that right after lunch he jumped off the Aurora Bridge?
Seriously?
I thought you knew and were just being sarcastic …
When he dies will his eyebrows finally turn into butterflies?
“Dear LiveJournal, I am sooo cunty and fat” is the funniest thing I will read this week.
I’m not dead yet.
I’m feeling fine.
If I were a Slogger, I, too, would be looking for reasons to link to that excellent piece.
Lindy, you’re losin’ it. First you made the a SLOG-hobo controversy into a front pager, now you’re playing Monk!