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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 23, 2017 14:23:06 GMT -5
Beacuse the might have been an actual saint. If you were of my generation or a little after, you probably grew up with this man teaching tolerance and kindness. And apparently from dozens of stories about the man, he and his tv character were one and the same.
His show is currently streaming on Twitch, with proceeds going to PBS. It has currently raised over 20 k.
Mr. Rogers has been gone 14 years, and even IN DEATH is raising tens of thousands for public television.
Wherever ya are Neighbor, you are amazing and missed.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 23, 2017 14:51:31 GMT -5
My favorite story is about him is that one time a thief stole his car. Then the car was returned with a note saying "sorry, we didn't know it was yours."
The Snopes page on the story has it as "undetermined", with the earliest version omitting the bit about the note. I'd like it to be true though.
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Post by The Captain on May 23, 2017 15:08:42 GMT -5
The world could really use more people like Fred Rogers right about now.
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Post by MiLB Fan on May 23, 2017 15:20:13 GMT -5
This is on my iPod and I'm not ashamed to say so.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on May 23, 2017 18:58:37 GMT -5
If they ever made a movie about his life you can bet your bottom dollar this would be one of the most pivotal scenes:
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 23, 2017 19:31:26 GMT -5
So I'll be back when the day is new and I'll have new ideas for you and you'll have things you want to talk about. I will too.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 23, 2017 19:43:18 GMT -5
I've joked for years that the world already went through a rapture, and Rogers was the only one taken. More and more, I kinda hold to that. Dude was everything a human being should be.
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Post by mizerable on May 23, 2017 19:45:58 GMT -5
There wasn't a lot of flair to his show, and I mean that as a positive.
So many shows think you need to be goofy to appeal to young children, however Mr. Rogers never did that. He talked to his audience in a calm manner and was able to hold their attention. I always felt that was the best approach with younger kids.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 23, 2017 22:39:09 GMT -5
I grew up in the Midwest in the 80's around a lot of closet racism, and watching Fred Rogers is legitimately the reason I never cared about the color of other kids. I specifically remember him teaching that everyone was the same, and I always made friends with everyone because of that, because my mom surely didn't give me those values.
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Post by fw91 on May 24, 2017 6:55:27 GMT -5
That dude really enjoyed changing his footwear
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Post by arrogantmodel on May 24, 2017 12:54:32 GMT -5
So proud to be from the Pittsburgh area because of him. One of the few people who could reduce me to a crying blubbering fan if I ever had the opportunity to meet him. Closest I got was Mr. McFeely and Purple Panda.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 24, 2017 13:02:21 GMT -5
There wasn't a lot of flair to his show, and I mean that as a positive. So many shows think you need to be goofy to appeal to young children, however Mr. Rogers never did that. He talked to his audience in a calm manner and was able to hold their attention. I always felt that was the best approach with younger kids. Yep. There's a line from Mrs Doubtfire where Robin Williams' character said something along the lines of "You don't need to talk down to them, you just need to *talk* to them" Rogers understood that more than anyone. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 24, 2017 13:15:33 GMT -5
One of my favorite quotes from him right there.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 24, 2017 14:15:49 GMT -5
Meow meow beautiful meow telephone meow meow meow Mister Rogers...
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Post by Hit Girl on May 24, 2017 14:40:37 GMT -5
He understood that children's programming didn't need to be sensory overload
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Post by bitteroldman on May 25, 2017 0:48:20 GMT -5
BTW, there is a current spin off of his show running on PBS, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
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Post by Psy on May 25, 2017 0:58:39 GMT -5
He was such a good person.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 7:42:17 GMT -5
That dude really enjoyed changing his footwear I'm sure the shoe industry has a lot of its wealth to attribute to that man. There have to be adults out there who just own 1,000 pairs of shoes because of how they grew up seeing someone always changing his. |
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 25, 2017 10:39:52 GMT -5
Meow meow beautiful meow telephone meow meow meow Mister Rogers... Meow meow I was gonna make this joke meow meow meow great minds meow meow meow meow. |
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 25, 2017 10:48:58 GMT -5
He was such a good person. He always wanted to be my neighbor. I would've loved to have him as my neighbor now. |
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