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07.13.09 ANDY ROONEY IS MYSTIFIED BY HYBRID FRUIT

WOW.  This has to be my new favorite Andy Rooney clip.  Somebody at “60 Minutes” thought it would be a good idea if Rooney used his allotted two minutes to riff about fruit.  And this babbling was supplemented with close-ups of his gnarled, liver-spotted, papery-skinned hands as they spread death on produce at a local grocery store.  It really is rooney-fruitsomething to behold, a disaster of words that ranges from the obvious to the incorrect to the willfully ignorant.  I honestly hope heart failure claims me before I sound like this.

“Which came first, oranges or the word ‘orange’ for color?  What if we called bananas ‘yellows’?  It was hard to get fresh fruit when I was young.  Why do we put limes in so many drinks, but not lemons?  Lemons can do anything!  I don’t want fruit I have to peel.  Asian pear?  Never heard of that one.  I like the taste of peaches, but the fuzzy skin reminds me of fuzzy skin.  When we were kids, we’d sometimes use cherries to play marbles.  Darned things never rolled straight.  Now here’s something I’ve never seen before: a starfruit.  It’s shaped like a star!  I doubt that’s a coincidence.  You just don’t see good rhubarb any more these days.  I see you looking at me, watermelon.”

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There are 13 comments about:
ANDY ROONEY IS MYSTIFIED BY HYBRID FRUIT

July 13th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Vodka says:

He looks exactly like Cupcake Dog in that still frame. And that makes me happy.

July 13th, 2009 at 10:01 am
wehavehair says:

I initially read the headline as ‘Andy Roddick is mystified by hybrid fruit”. And then I got to think about Brooklyn Dekker. So +1, sir. You have touched my uncaffeinated soul.

July 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
JesusChryslerSuperCar says:

“I suppose over the years I’ve wasted more money on melons than anything else I’ve ever bought.”

You and me both, brother.

July 13th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Kid Presentable says:

Andy then tied a pluot to his belt, which is the style of the time.

July 13th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Upstate Underdog says:

I’m waiting for Matt’s review of last night’s “Entourage”

July 13th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Danger Guerrero says:

… Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say.

July 13th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Enrico Pallazzo says:

I call raisins “blacks”.

July 13th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Leapin_Lizards says:

It kinda looks like the cantaloupe with the sticker is turning away from Rooney in that frame.

“Dude, is he still looking at me?”

July 13th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Merk says:

holy fucking shit that was incredible.

July 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Moody says:

I think Hugh Hefner said the same thing about wasting a lot of money on melons.

July 13th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
claude balls says:

Those eyebrows will replace mouth eyes in my nightmares. They actually hang down over his eyes. What the fuck is wrong with his barber?

July 13th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
therealjhc says:

I genuinely can’t tell if you made that quote up, or if he really said those things.

Obviously, I can’t watch the video to find out.

July 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
a says:

@therealjhc I think in one of his segments about the economy he said he cuts his own hair.

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