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    RIP Wilford Brimley

    Burn in hell 2020.

    RIP. Wilford. I’ll never say diabeetus the same way again. Loved you in The Firm and The Natural.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Rip. I ate dinner with him once on an Amtrak from Chicago to Denver.

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    Wilford and Quaker Oats were a match made in heaven.

    Hollywood is going to need some new character actors pretty soon.
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
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    That’s amazing. Amazing he lived to 85.

    Rip


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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
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    Well, it looks like my generation is handling aging better than yours

    RIP Wilford

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    85 with the diabeetus is a good run. RIP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by japanada View Post
    Rip. I ate dinner with him once on an Amtrak from Chicago to Denver.

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    I’d like to hear more about this.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
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    it's just amazing(not that cruz is 56 and still looks good) but WB was 50 in cocoon I really thought he was 65 then. the weight aged him early imo(and the mustach) but still pretty good carrying that weight to 85 most get serious problems carrying weight after 65 or so. my uncle is 74 about WB's size and can barely walk.
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    Almost forget that WB was in the seminal John Carpenter's The Thing cuz he was sans stache...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dookey67 View Post
    Almost forget that WB was in the seminal John Carpenter's The Thing cuz he was sans stache...

    I’m not sure you understand what seminal means, that movie was an adaptation of the 1950s movie “The Thing from Another World”. That’s a seminal movie based off a novella.


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    Let's just say it was an "early" John Carpenter movie.

    13 years into his career, but almost 40 since then.

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    Wilford must have been born at age 30 then.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
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    That’s amazing. WB had a line in Cocoon that’s always stuck with me. The guys are running somewhere and one of them says “you got a boner?” Brimley replied “Blue steel, a cat couldn’t scratch it.” That cracked me up. I’ve stolen that line about a cat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn View Post
    I’m not sure you understand what seminal means, that movie was an adaptation of the 1950s movie “The Thing from Another World”. That’s a seminal movie based off a novella.


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    Yeah. A remake is like the opposite of seminal. Although the remake could be argued easily to be better than the original. But tough call. Howard Hawks made awesome movies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper View Post
    he guys are running somewhere and one of them says “you got a boner?” Brimley replied “Blue steel, a cat couldn’t scratch it.”
    One might say that swimming in that seminal fluid pool did wonders for him. Wait... did I use it right?

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    Not sure what I am missing seeing as a seminal film (i.e a pivotal or landmark film) is one that is influential and important, which John Carpenter's The Thing was (and still is), at least in terms of the horror genre...

    Perhaps I might have phrased my post thusly: "Who can forget Brimley's mustacheless turn in the seminal horror film John Carpenter's The Thing" in order to have avoided the semantical quibbling...

    Anyway, howzabout getting back to celebrating the man and his work?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Carl_Mega View Post
    One might say that swimming in that seminal fluid pool did wonders for him. Wait... did I use it right?
    It works that way too.




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    Quote Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy View Post
    My personal favorite:

    Ha! Thanks Willy for clueing in thousands and thousands of mormon parents to the fact there was meth labs in their kids bedrooms. Little Jared wasn't quietly studying scripture alone after all.

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    I thought he was pretty badass in the final scenes Absence of Malice. Thought he was totally mis-cast in the firm. die-A beat us?. spot on.,
    "Can't you see..."

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    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muted View Post
    Ha! Thanks Willy for clueing in thousands and thousands of mormon parents to the fact there was meth labs in their kids bedrooms. Little Jared wasn't quietly studying scripture alone after all.
    You know, your house isn't a democracy. You don't need a search warrant to go in your kids bedroom and find out if he's making dope!

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    Now that he's dead and can't defend himself, Wildford Brimley was a cantankerous asshole. College GF made a cake for a wedding she delivered to his utah ranch and he was terrible to her and ultimately refused to pay and yelled at her for being late and made her cry (an hour before the ceremony). She also saw him hit a horse with a shovel.

    When my neighbor told me her dog had the diabeetus and had to take insulin daily, I asked "did she bite Wilford Brimley" and neighbor said "who?". Total waste of a great joke.

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    This is my favorite (from 2018):
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    RIP Mr. Brimley.
    It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.

    I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.

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