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Andy Rooney Dead at 92, One Month After Retiring
Gawker ^ | November 5, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 11/05/2011 11:59:29 AM PDT by lbryce

Andy Rooney Dead at 92, One Month After Retiring Never retire: almost six weeks to the day after delivering his last cranky essay on 60 Minutes, writer and commentator Andy Rooney is dead of complications following minor surgery. He was 92, and had delivered exactly 1,097 of his trademark on-air bitch sessions.

It's hard to think of a television correspondent more American than Rooney: interminably cranky, perpetually confused, stubbornly opinionated, slightly bigoted, usually wrong, and strangely likable. Rooney wrote his first "television essay"—"Essay on Doors," natch—in 1964. (It was delivered by CBS correspondent Harry Reasoner). He joined 60 Minutes in 1977, and by 1979 had established himself at the end of every show with what CBS News describes as "wry, humorous and contentious television essays," more often than not just about whatever was annoying Andy Rooney that particular week. Sometimes, this was a good—even noble—thing:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; andyrooney; curmudgeon; obit; rip
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So I say farewell to Andy Rooney, to say I will not miss him in the least as I don't pay any attention to his show/segment, that is best describes as moribund, boring as all hell, without a single iota of socially redeeming value to make his last days seem legitimate
1 posted on 11/05/2011 11:59:30 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

Goodbye Mr. Rooney...may your eyebrows live on in infamy.


2 posted on 11/05/2011 12:06:33 PM PDT by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: lbryce

Don’t you hate it when one month after you retire you wake up dead? RIP Mr. Rooney.


3 posted on 11/05/2011 12:09:33 PM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: lbryce

Andy, meet Bear.


4 posted on 11/05/2011 12:12:04 PM PDT by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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To: printhead

Ha! Ha! Well, they say, once you retire, you don’t have anything to do and you kinda lose interest in life and just kinda wither away til you pass.


5 posted on 11/05/2011 12:12:06 PM PDT by Krankor
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To: printhead

I suppose that should be a lesson to us all: Give up what you love, and soon you won’t have a reason to keep living. This is not the first time I’ve seen this happen.


6 posted on 11/05/2011 12:12:59 PM PDT by hoagy62 (The United States of America. Great idea...while it lasted.)
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To: printhead

I heard that the statistic is that you live 6 months, on average, after retirement. My great-grandmother’s second husband (so not my great-grandfather), retired and was driving home from his retirement party and felt sick. He decided to stop by the hospital and get checked over on the way home (this was in rural Ohio, and home was some distance from his work), and it turned out he had terminal cancer. He spent a few days, maybe a week or so, in the hospital and died. He never got to have one day of retirement (well, outside the hospital, dying).


7 posted on 11/05/2011 12:17:29 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: Krankor

My dad said this very thing. He worked in construction and had a few friends who tried to never retire. The saw a lot of their friends die quite quickly after retirement, and the theory was that it was due to shear boredom.


8 posted on 11/05/2011 12:18:43 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: lbryce
DUPLICATE POST
9 posted on 11/05/2011 12:19:02 PM PDT by twister881
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To: lbryce

So, ‘slightly bigoted’ makes him American? Huh? I think he was just old and cranky. Probably what David Letterman will look like at that age.


10 posted on 11/05/2011 12:20:50 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: lbryce

I think the last time I wastched 60 Minute was during Clinton’s attack on the Waco encampment. It was one of the few sources available at that time, although eventually I got disgusted with their bias.

I can’t say that I will miss Andy Rooney, although I wish him well in the next life.

As for retirement, there are plenty of things to do around here. Cutting wood, weedwhacking (my current occupation), building sheds, shoveling snow, walking the dogs. Always something.


11 posted on 11/05/2011 12:21:52 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: JDW11235

Well, I’ve done a little searching, and according to this study, the older you retire the shorter you live:

Longevity Vs. Retirement Age
“Dr. Ephrem (Siao Chung) Cheng provided the important results in the
following table from an actuarial study of life span vs. age at
retirement. The study was based on the number of pension checks sent
to retirees of Boeing Aerospace.“

Age at Retirement Average Age at Death
49.9-— 86.0
51.2-— 85.3
52.5-— 84.6
53.8-— 83.9
55.1-— 83.2
56.4-— 82.5
57.2-— 81.4
58.3-— 80.0
59.2-— 78.5
60.1-— 76.8
61.0-— 74.5
62.1-— 71.8
63.1-— 69.3
64.1-— 67.9
65.2-— 66.8

“This indicates that for people retired at the age of 50, their
average life span is 86; whereas for people retired at the age of 65,
their average life span is only 66.8. An important conclusion from
this study is that for every year one works beyond age 55, one loses 2
years of life span on average.”
http://www.seeya-downtheroad.com/InformationPage/WhyRetireYoung.html

So, maybe if you are over 65, the average person DOES die within 6 months...


12 posted on 11/05/2011 12:24:47 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: twister881; lbryce

Since when is a different article, from a different source a “Duplicate Post”...or where you just showing us you can identify only the name, Andy Rooney?


13 posted on 11/05/2011 12:29:23 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: twister881; lbryce

Since when is a different article, from a different source a “Duplicate Post”...or were you just showing us you can identify only the name, Andy Rooney?


14 posted on 11/05/2011 12:29:37 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: lbryce
American media has lost a great...

big commie-lib grouch. Good Riddance.

15 posted on 11/05/2011 12:30:24 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: JDW11235

Who the hell retires at 50??? Btw, I don’t believe that study..


16 posted on 11/05/2011 12:33:28 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: hoagy62

“I suppose that should be a lesson to us all: Give up what you love, and soon you won’t have a reason to keep living. This is not the first time I’ve seen this happen.”

Yep, if only he hadn’t retired, he’d live indefinitely; 92 years is a long time to live on planet Earth.


17 posted on 11/05/2011 12:36:21 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Good Riddance.

Finally someones sentiments whom I agree with.

18 posted on 11/05/2011 12:38:44 PM PDT by Ron H. (Conservatives have the Tea Party. The Liberals have the Pee Party.)
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To: goseminoles

Who retires at 50 today? Probably a lot less people than used to. You may be unaware, but at one time in our nations history, you could buy property, and it was yours. Until the artificial bubble of 1990-2006 in real estate, the price for a home was about half of what it is today (the real estate bubble collapse will bring prices down to affordability again, HOORAY!), and people didn’t buy the newest Ipod and IPhone every 2 months. Factors those in together, work for the same company for 30-35 years (depending on the age you started) and you could easily retire at 50.

My dad retired at 55 and my mom at 44 or so (just before dad). Both of my uncles retired around the age of 50 (younger), though do a little side work from what I understand. I have an aunt who is just over 40 and could have retired 10 years ago if she so chose, but she outspends her ample 6+ figure income. I have another aunt (who married an uncle) who was a multi millionaire by 60. The ability to make money is being taken away which by corporate fascism, or crony capitalism which is the new buzzword today. There are so many loops to jump through, you’re right in your assumption that one can no longer enjoy—or even receive—the fruits of one’s labor, by and large, in today’s world.

Oh, and I don’t care if you believe the study or not, I merely posted it as a point of interest.


19 posted on 11/05/2011 12:47:22 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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Andy Rooney is dead of complications following minor surgery.

When you're 92, there's no such thing as 'minor surgery.'

20 posted on 11/05/2011 12:49:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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