Art Buchwald-DEAD [Archive] - RonFez.net Messageboard

Rockvillejoe

01-18-2007, 12:22 PM

The guy had checked himself into a hospice over a year ago, then decided he wasn't ready to die, and checked out of the hospice to  hang on for another year. To be blunt, I never understood what the fuck he was talking about. Never got his humor, but......, goodbye, politcial satirist funnyman (at least to some people). To me he is kind of like the piano playing political satirist, mark russell. not a clue on how they made a living in politics and humor..... then again i enjoy esd's brand of clever politcial banter.

ChrisTheCop

01-18-2007, 12:23 PM

Quite the eulogist, Joe.R.I.P. Art.

Rockvillejoe

01-18-2007, 12:32 PM

ChrisTheCop wrote: Quite the eulogist, Joe.R.I.P. Art. a little harsh from me? yeah, just being brutally honest. the guy did have an awful upbringing and should be commended on how he was able to become so reverred and appreciated. but i  would read this guy every time he had an article in the post, and it just didn't make sense. it was almost like he had the ears of the inside the beltway crowd, and didn't want the rest of us in on the little jokes. color me stupid and an outcast, but it was "cool" in the 70's and 80's to name drop buchwald's name and his articles in dc politcal cirlces. for me, i pumped gas in his car one time on wisconsin avenue across the street from maggies. he paid with an esso card. that's it.

ChrisTheCop

01-18-2007, 12:34 PM

what was his big esso card #? "i aint gonna pump gas across from maggies farm no more..."

Rockvillejoe

01-18-2007, 12:40 PM

ChrisTheCop wrote: what was his big esso card #? "i aint gonna pump gas across from maggies farm no more..." b-e- card  #69, know what im sayin playa, hooooo-uhactually zimmerman was my station manager at the time, recovering from a motorcycle accent. we called him "nasal".

PapaBear

01-18-2007, 01:25 PM

I met Buchwald when I worked for Ritz Camera. He was the kind of person who, as you soon as you saw them, you knew EXACTLY who they were. He was a very nice and funny man.

Rockvillejoe

01-18-2007, 01:45 PM

PapaBear wrote: I met Buchwald when I worked for Ritz Camera. He was the kind of person who, as you soon as you saw them, you knew EXACTLY who they were. He was a very nice and funny man. not for nothin, but what do you base your point that he was a nice man? who knows how these people are behind closed doors? in his own bio, he had battled manetal illness for years, and went on to publicly speak about it. commendable and brave. to me, he gave me his esso card and said thanks, more than many customers did back then, but nice? I certainly dispute his humor quotient, and would love for you to link something from him that was actually amusing or just funny. he's dead, and it is not very nice to speak ill of the dead, but i am not going to just fall lock step into the "emporers new clothes" with this guy. i think because but he was  a public figure, he can be discussed in an objective way-good or bad. that he started in an orphanage, was in france as a marine in ww2, had a very noticeable lisp that he dealt with, and later was read by many is commendable, nice? who really knows, and he wasn't funny in my book.  i'd really appreciate a link to something he wrote that was amusing, really. he definitely was distinguished in his appearance.

PapaBear

01-18-2007, 07:03 PM

Rockvillejoe wrote: PapaBear wrote: I met Buchwald when I worked for Ritz Camera. He was the kind of person who, as you soon as you saw them, you knew EXACTLY who they were. He was a very nice and funny man. not for nothin, but what do you base your point that he was a nice man? who knows how these people are behind closed doors? in his own bio, he had battled manetal illness for years, and went on to publicly speak about it. commendable and brave. to me, he gave me his esso card and said thanks, more than many customers did back then, but nice? I certainly dispute his humor quotient, and would love for you to link something from him that was actually amusing or just funny. he's dead, and it is not very nice to speak ill of the dead, but i am not going to just fall lock step into the "emporers new clothes" with this guy. i think because but he was  a public figure, he can be discussed in an objective way-good or bad. that he started in an orphanage, was in france as a marine in ww2, had a very noticeable lisp that he dealt with, and later was read by many is commendable, nice? who really knows, and he wasn't funny in my book.  i'd really appreciate a link to something he wrote that was amusing, really. he definitely was distinguished in his appearance.I talked to him. He was nice, and he was funny. Sorry I can't provide any links to my memory.

Judge Smails

01-18-2007, 07:07 PM

Rockvillejoe wrote:  i'd really appreciate a link to something he wrote that was amusing, really. Apparently, he wrote this.  (At least that's what the courts say.):<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305310343.01._PE53_.Coming-to-America._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="367" height="522" />

Rockvillejoe

01-19-2007, 11:40 AM

Judge Smails wrote: Rockvillejoe wrote:  i'd really appreciate a link to something he wrote that was amusing, really. Apparently, he wrote this.  (At least that's what the courts say.):<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305310343.01._PE53_.Coming-to-America._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="367" height="522" />once again, I meant something that he wrote that was actually, you know, funny..for got about this lawsuit that was in the courts for years. by the way, just for any buchwald-o-philes, anyone who has seen the classic, " to catch a thief", at the beginning of the movie,they pan to a front page article about the burglar. if you read the "reporters" name on top of the article, it says: by art buchwald