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Anyone celebrating Fred Rogers' birthday?

jccjcc
edited March 2008 in Everything Else
Just curious.

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  • JasonJason
    The man is a fucking saint. He's way up there in the pantheon of fictional father figures with Picard and Dr. Suess.
  • AprecheApreche
    The man is a fucking saint. He's way up there in the pantheon of fictional father figures with Picard and Dr. Suess.
    Picard is the only one of those three who is fictional.
  • JasonJason
    I claim as my defense a 12-hour work day and the stress of selling my house.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    The man is a fucking saint. He's way up there in the pantheon of fictional father figures with Picard and Dr. Suess.
    Picard is the only one of those three who is fictional.
    Well, I think Jason was talking about the public personas of Fred Rogers and Dr. Suess being fictional. Those personas where at least somewhat divorced from Fred Rogers and Theodor Geisel who, to the best of my belief, were both hard-drinking, drug-addicted, whoremongering gamblers in real life.
  • AprecheApreche
    Fred Rogers and Theodor Geisel who, to the best of my belief, were both hard-drinking, drug-addicted, whoremongering gamblers in real life.
    I can't wait to read your expose.
  • NeitoNeito
    Didn't Mr. Rogers have a tattoo from the Marines?
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited March 2008
    Didn't Mr. Rogers have a tattoo from the Marines?
    Yeah, Mr. Rogers could kick your ass. He often kicked people's asses in real life when he was whorin' in the bars down by the docks.
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  • NeitoNeito
    Also, I remember hearing a story on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me's "Not My Job" segment where someone stole Mr. Rogers' car, and returned it the next day with a note that basically said "Sorry, we didn't know you were Mister Rogers". Kinda irrelevant, but funny.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Also, I remember hearing a story on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me's "Not My Job" segment where someone stole Mr. Rogers' car, and returned it the next day with a note that basically said "Sorry, we didn't know you were Mister Rogers". Kinda irrelevant, but funny.
    It's not irrelevant. They gave it back because they knew he would track them down and kick their asses. They didn't give it back because they liked him. Thay gave it back because they were afraid of him.
  • ThaedThaed
    I am a big fan of the late great Mr. Rogers.
  • TechparadoxTechparadox
    Didn't Mr. Rogers have a tattoo from the Marines?
    That would be a big "no." I give you the Snopes urban legend page dedicated to this myth.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    That page is all lies manufactured by people afraid that Rogers may still come back to life just to kick their asses.
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