Use nine: Try softening brushes that are hardened with old, dried-in paint by boiling them in vinegar and let them stand for one hour. Then heat the vinegar and brushes come to a gentle boil. Simmer for 20 minutes. Rinse well, working the softened paint out of the bristles. For extremely heavy paint encrustations, you may need to repeat the process...or head to the hardware store.

Use ten: A little vinegar and salt added to the water you wash leafy green vegetables will float out bugs and kill germs.

Use eleven: Soak or simmer stuck-on food in 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of vinegar. The food will soften and lift off in a few minutes.

Use twelve: Clean and freshen the garbage disposal by running a tray of ice cubes, with 1/2 cup of vinegar poured over them, through it once a week.

Use thirteen: In a pinch, you can use equal parts of lemon juice and vinegar to clean brass and copper. On difficult areas add a little salt to the mix for some abrasive action.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

146: Gone? Andy Rooney...Gone?




I know it's true, I really do...but Wow, the old Curmudgeon...gone?  The ratings dropped in 1990 when CBS suspended him for three month for making racist remarks in an interview, which he denied.  They brought him back on in three weeks because the ratings were in a slump.  This is the same man who was arrested in the 1940's for refusing to leave a seat among blacks on a bus.  Needless to say his feelings were hurt when they accused him of being racist.  I doubt someone who was racist would sit on a bus with blacks let along among them.  I'd say he was a man who knew where he stood on any given issue and didn't mind telling you about it.

Everyone remembers his 30 years at the end of 60 Minutes but most don't realize he had been at CBS for more that 60 years.  Sixty years!  He was a freelance writer in 1949 when he met CBS radio star Arthur Godfrey in an elevator and with the bluntness that millions would learn about later...told him his show could use better writing.  Godfrey hired him and by 1953, when he moved to TV, Rooney was his only writer.

Rooney left CBS in 1970 when it refused to air his angry essay about the Vietnam War.  He went on TV for the first time, reading the essay on PBS and winning a Writers Guild of America award for it.

Who can forget his essay on whether there was a real Mrs. Smith who made Mrs. Smith's Pies.  As it turned out, there was no Mrs. Smith.  He won one of his four Emmy Awards for that observation!  We were known, on many occasions, to watch only the last 10 minutes of 60 minutes just to see what he had to say about tonight. 

He and his wife, Margurite, were married for 62 years.  I'll bet she got an earfull!  True to his occasional crotchety nature, though, he complained about being famous and bothered by fans...he hated it when people came up to him in public places and never gave autographs.  His last wish from fans:  If you see him in a restaurant, just let him eat his dinner!  

I just hope that Heaven is ready to be "told where the turnips are planted!"  I don't suppose we will ever watch 60 Minutes again.

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