August 2nd, 2020 at 12:02 AM ^
Some year so far.
August 2nd, 2020 at 12:09 AM ^
Sure oatmeal will keep me healthy. Uh huh. Quaker can kiss my dead ass.
August 2nd, 2020 at 10:16 AM ^
85 years is nothing to sneeze at
There were two threads in my honor Saturday night and if I have to be honest, my response in the other one was funnier but that's the one that got caved. Either way, I'm doing all right for a dead guy.
And in ALL seriousness, I picked Brimley 9.5 years ago because it seems I'm 20+ years older than most people on here and I wanted to accentuate the fact that I am decidedly unhip. The real Brimley was a real character, who would bet on anything, and actually was in fact a curmudgeon. He lived the hell out of the life he chose and while that life is a lot different from what I've chosen, I salute him for it.
August 3rd, 2020 at 10:23 AM ^
I always remember him from the Ewoks movie growing up. I thought he was much older than he actually was. Thought he was 65 not 50 in the movie. Glad to hear he was still around.
August 2nd, 2020 at 12:36 AM ^
First Wilford Brinkley, now Wilford Brimley?
I hope Wilford Brinsley isn't next!
Nah, next is Troy Woolfork
As long as they they don't take Josh Martellus I'll allow it.
I am the walrus. RIP, brother
John Bolton looks like his Brother with the same walrus mustache.
Similar mustaches, yes, but Bolton's looks to me like a Mr. Potato Head accessory, which may pop off at any moment. Makes him look as if he's worried he's about to be surprised.
Brimley's 'stache, by contrast, rounds out his face, making him look grumpy but efficient. "Don't be a jerk. Let's get to work."
I’ll never forget the spoof Family Guy did on him. Actually thought it was pretty funny:
Hello I’m Wilford Brimley and I have diabeetus. It hurts me to pee and causes me to be short with my family. I can’t sleep at night. The other morning I stubbed my toe and took it out on the dog. And then just the other day, we ran out of vanilla ice cream and I struck my wife. Then I find out my wife has been dead for six years. Who the hell did I hit?!?
Absence of Malice , can't win. Great scene with a couple of great actors.
Still hard to believe he was just 50 years old during filming of cocoon.
He’s only two years older than Robert Redford! Never would have guessed that in The Natural. “People don’t start playing ball at your age; they retire!”
Liberty biberty
Enjoyed his work over the years. RIP Wilford
I remember thinking he was around 65 when those diabeetus commercials started... RIP, Wilford.
August 2nd, 2020 at 10:13 AM ^
Happy he finally got over the hump at the Super Bowl last year and won the big one.
Any news on who the Chiefs next coach will be?
August 2nd, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
It had a very brief run, but I loved Our House. He and Deirdre Hall and a young Shannen Doherty. Good show.
His Seinfeld cameo as the Postmaster General was one of those classic TV moments.
And he was a Marine.
Semper Fi, Mr. Brimley.
RIP.
He was fucking shit up as Dr. Blair in The Thing: sabotaged the helicopter, wrecking the radio. Everyone thought he was crazy, but he was the first to figure out what was really going on.
Only one man could portray the Postmaster General in the world of Seinfeld...