# RIP Mr.Rogers...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853 "2003-02-27T10:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/1 "2003-02-27T10:37:00Z")
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=492&ncid=762&e=11&u=/ap/20030227/ap\_en\_ce/obit\_rogers](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=492&ncid=762&e=11&u=/ap/20030227/ap_en_ce/obit_rogers) A sad occcurence indeed. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/2 "2003-02-27T11:13:57Z")
Oh shit. This is terrible news. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/3 "2003-02-27T11:22:17Z")
How sad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/4 "2003-02-27T11:38:20Z")
If I had a sweater, I would wear it tomorrow just for this. Man. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/5 "2003-02-27T11:41:24Z")
The first thing I saw when I turned the TV on this morning. He left a great legacy. ---
**Author:** ![Rie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@Rie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rie)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/6 "2003-02-27T11:46:13Z")
I can’t tell you how genuinely sad this news makes me. As far as kids’ programming goes, Mr. Rogers was a beacon of calm intelligence in a sea of inanity. Rest in peace, neighbor.☹ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/7 "2003-02-27T11:46:14Z")
This is so sad. I did my share of mocking the “beautiful day in the neighborhood” when I was an oh-so-cool non-parental unit. But when I watched my daughter watching the show, and then watched it with her, I realized what a treasure it was. Fred Rogers was a gentle man and a gentleman. The world is poorer for his death. ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/8 "2003-02-27T11:55:21Z")
My kids always liked him. RIP ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/9 "2003-02-27T12:16:54Z")
When we were first married, one of my wife’s co-workers related how, when her daughters were young, they were living on a Marine base, and all the contact with men her girls had were big, loud, blustery Marines. She was glad they had someone like Fred Rogers, so they could see that men can also have a quiet, gentle, introspective, childlike side. He will be missed. Thank you, neighbor. We liked you just the way you were. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/10 "2003-02-27T12:25:34Z")
:eek: :mad: ☹ Where the hell is the “bawling like a baby” smilie? Thank you for many happy years and a message that will carry through the ages, Mr. Rogers. ::sniffle:: ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/11 "2003-02-27T12:25:58Z")
Shari Lewis and Mr. Rogers both gone now. My kids loved them both. Another sad day today. Goodbye Mr. Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/12 "2003-02-27T12:39:51Z")
Remember the “When this celebrity dies, I will cry” thread? I dunno if Fred Rogers was mentioned, but in any case, I’m adding him. Brian ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/13 "2003-02-27T13:16:36Z")
☹ I cried too. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/14 "2003-02-27T13:24:59Z")
My mother got addicted to Mr. Rogers neighborhood was she was dying of cancer at the age of 63! I’ll always remember how he gave her some relief in her last months. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/15 "2003-02-27T13:27:26Z")
Aw, that’s sad news. I watched Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood daily as a child, and there was such a soothing gentleness to the show. Admittedly, I felt (even at the tender age of five) that Mr. Rogers and his show were incredibly dorky, but it says something that that didn’t keep me from watching. It may have been goofy (does anyone remember the opera that involved polishing leaves? Man, that was strange), but it was comforting and reassuring, and that’s pretty damn important to kids. May he rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/16 "2003-02-27T13:29:33Z")
The end of an era. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/17 "2003-02-27T13:30:18Z")
I feel badly. I was never a fan even as a kid I waited his show out so I could watch electric company, however, I do see his value and he was such a genuine person who was just good you can’t help but feel sad at his passing. These days you’ll never find another like him with all the TV for kids consisting of winks and smirks to the adults and little of the discovery and wonderment that children see in the everyday, which Fred Rogers recognized. I’ll miss him. Luckily his legacy has been recorded that others may share in his Beautiful days in the neighbourhood. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/18 "2003-02-27T13:33:41Z")
While the images of Lady Elaine Fairchild hacking me to pieces in my childhood dreams continue to haunt me, I’ll still miss him. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/19 "2003-02-27T13:46:53Z")
Damn, that’s depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-mr-rogers/157853/20 "2003-02-27T13:50:29Z")
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