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royalfan5
4/20/2006, 04:14 PM
just saw one of his diabetes commericials, and he isn't the young spry Wilford I remember from Cocoon, Country, and Quaker Oats.
Jimminy Crimson
4/20/2006, 04:15 PM
It used to be his birthday every day on the Morning Animals. That was good stuff.

If I remember right, they got him on the air.
bigdsooner
4/20/2006, 04:18 PM
he's doin alot better than i thought...i thought he was already dead
DeadSolidPerfect
4/20/2006, 04:30 PM
How good could he look? He's got diabetes and he's 80.
OhU1
4/20/2006, 04:33 PM
Wilfred Brimley has been playing an old man literally since he was 50. He just has that look to him. He has always been pushing some product like prune juice or depends it seems.
lexsooner
4/20/2006, 04:43 PM
Wilfred Brimley has been playing an old man literally since he was 50. He just has that look to him. He has always been pushing some product like prune juice or depends it seems.

Oh, my. I just looked up his info and he was born in Sept. 1934, which makes him only 71 today. He did the movie The Natural which was released in 1984 in which he played Pops Fisher the gruff, old, down on his luck baseball manager of a major league team. Remember? He was only 49, yes, 49, when we saw him in that movie. He looked more like 69. Amazing. He must be the antithesis of Dick Clark.
Mjcpr
4/20/2006, 05:03 PM
In other news, Karen Carpenter is looking really thin.
handcrafted
4/20/2006, 05:09 PM
Oh, my. I just looked up his info and he was born in Sept. 1934, which makes him only 71 today. He did the movie The Natural which was released in 1984 in which he played Pops Fisher the gruff, old, down on his luck baseball manager of a major league team. Remember? He was only 49, yes, 49, when we saw him in that movie. He looked more like 69. Amazing. He must be the antithesis of Dick Clark.

Kinda like Samuel L. Jackson was the antithesis of Bruce Willis in "Unbreakable"...

okay, I got nuthin'
handcrafted
4/20/2006, 05:10 PM
In other news, Karen Carpenter is looking really thin.

Who's Karen Carpenter??????? :confused:
Penguin
4/20/2006, 05:17 PM
He calls it die-a-beat-us. I always chuckle when I hear him say that.
Mjcpr
4/20/2006, 05:18 PM
He calls it die-a-beat-us. I always chuckle when I hear him say that.

I think ALL old people call it that.
BlondeSoonerGirl
4/20/2006, 05:18 PM
Who's 'Dia'?
Viking Kitten
4/20/2006, 05:21 PM
I think ALL old people call it that.

Old people also always say "mature" like "muh-TOOR." That makes me giggle sometimes. Just thought I'd share.
opksooner
4/20/2006, 08:13 PM
........ He has always been pushing some product like prune juice or depends it seems.
What an unseemly combo.
soonerbrat
4/20/2006, 08:15 PM
it shocked me when he was in the movie "the Firm" and i heard him say the F word. a lot.
Jimminy Crimson
4/20/2006, 08:29 PM
it shocked me when he was in the movie "the Firm" and i heard him say the F word. a lot.

USE SPOILER TAGS NEXT TIME!!!111!!!!!!11!!!!!!!1!!!! :mad: :mad:
Okla-homey
4/20/2006, 08:31 PM
He calls it die-a-beat-us. I always chuckle when I hear him say that.

I never heard it referred to as anything but 'sugar die-a-beat-us' until I left Ardmore for college.
jk the sooner fan
4/20/2006, 08:47 PM
Who's 'Dia'?

i think its spanish for "bye week"
AllAboutThe'O'
4/20/2006, 11:21 PM
just saw one of his diabetes commericials, and he isn't the young spry Wilford I remember from Cocoon, Country, and Quaker Oats.
Did he tell us to check our blood sugar and check it often?
He was also in that short-lived TV series, "Our House," that ran on NBC in the mid 1980s. He played the father of Deidre Hall, the woman from "Days of Our Lives."
soonerhubs
4/20/2006, 11:25 PM
Don't forget Where the Red Fern Grows II! Actually I think you'd be better off if you did forget it. :)
batonrougesooner
4/20/2006, 11:39 PM
I think the "I ride a horse and you should buy jewelry on credit so you can build your credit" guy was a complete Brimley rip-off.

Anyone know if that guy is still alive?

Does anyone even know who I'm referring to?
mrssoonerhubler
4/20/2006, 11:58 PM
Wilford Brimley lives up here in Utah I think
mrssoonerhubler
4/21/2006, 12:05 AM
http://www.walnutcreekband.org/images/brimley.jpg
sooneron
4/21/2006, 07:21 AM
He Rocks faces in The Thing! He gets all crazy and ****. rockin good
Mjcpr
4/21/2006, 07:38 AM
He Rocks faces in The Thing! He gets all crazy and ****. rockin good

Ohhh, good call.....I forgot about that one.
sanantoniosooner
4/21/2006, 07:38 AM
I think the "I ride a horse and you should buy jewelry on credit so you can build your credit" guy was a complete Brimley rip-off.

Anyone know if that guy is still alive?

Does anyone even know who I'm referring to?
I remember the guy.

kind of a cross between Wilford Brimley and Brian Dennehy
SoonerProphet
4/21/2006, 08:32 AM
He Rocks faces in The Thing! He gets all crazy and ****. rockin good

I'll kill you!!
OKC Sooner
4/21/2006, 08:38 AM
I think the "I ride a horse and you should buy jewelry on credit so you can build your credit" guy was a complete Brimley rip-off.

Anyone know if that guy is still alive?

Does anyone even know who I'm referring to?

Why do you hate olde phart clones?
OhU1
4/21/2006, 01:53 PM
I think the "I ride a horse and you should buy jewelry on credit so you can build your credit" guy was a complete Brimley rip-off.

Anyone know if that guy is still alive?

Does anyone even know who I'm referring to?

The Credit Jewelry Cowboy guy died in 2000. Heart attack. I never got the humble cowboy - cheap jewelry connection. The store was/is across from Byron's liquor store on 23rd. I never saw cowboys on horseback in that area of town.
TUSooner
4/21/2006, 02:13 PM
I never heard it referred to as anything but 'sugar die-a-beat-us' until I left Ardmore for college.
True!