# Why doesn't Mickey Rooney die? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456 "2008-01-29T15:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/21 "2008-01-29T16:30:26Z")
Actually it’s _Andy_ Rooney who makes me wonder. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/22 "2008-01-29T16:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] First, I have not wished death upon him. Second, to say that he is “made of sugar and happiness” displays a rather gaping ignorance of Rooney and his personal history. [/QUOTE] Oh jesus its early. I was assuming you could tell I was being a touch facetious. But we’ve been through this before with your glee at the death of the president of the Mormon Church. What is it with you wanting to mandate who lives or dies. If he’s alive and kicking (and not kicking you) who gives a crap? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/23 "2008-01-29T16:33:43Z")
Otto, are you a … heightist? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/24 "2008-01-29T16:35:09Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] Fatgail, I think you might be thinking of Spongebob Squarepants who is actuall ymade of sugar and happiness and is, in fact, four feet tall. [/QUOTE] First of all, if Spongebob were four feet tall, I’d like you to show me the sea pineapple that could hold him. PROVIDE IT, OR TAKE IT BACK. Secondly, I was joking Third and lastly: if a sponge were filled with sugar, imagine the sticky briny mess it would create upon soaking up sea water. Oh god. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/25 "2008-01-29T16:37:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Actually it’s Andy Rooney who makes me wonder. Why _IS_ that, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/26 "2008-01-29T16:39:25Z")
It makes me uncomfortable that almost EVERY thread I participate in tries to woo me into Opiate detox in the google ads. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/27 "2008-01-29T16:40:00Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Why _IS_ that, anyway? [/QUOTE] His eyebrows are made of kryptonite. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/28 "2008-01-29T16:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] First of all, if Spongebob were four feet tall, I’d like you to show me the sea pineapple that could hold him. PROVIDE IT, OR TAKE IT BACK. Secondly, I was joking Third and lastly: if a sponge were filled with sugar, imagine the sticky briny mess it would create upon soaking up sea water. Oh god. [/QUOTE] I stand by my statement. Especially after that night at the Goofy Goober when he didn’t get the promotion that time. I am sure he was filled with sugar that night! Plus, I’ve never actually seen a sea pineapple so I can’t say for sure how large it is. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/29 "2008-01-29T16:43:01Z")
The title of this thread made me laugh. Out loud, even. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/30 "2008-01-29T16:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] His eyebrows are made of kryptonite. [/QUOTE] Really? I thought they were two horny caterpillars. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/31 "2008-01-29T16:45:55Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] His eyebrows are made of kryptonite. [/QUOTE] I thought they were electrified Brillo Pads, that would force those ensared to tell the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/32 "2008-01-29T16:48:33Z")
Why doesn’t Mickey Rooney die? Chuck Norris told Death that if Death comes for Mickey Rooney, Chuck Norris is coming for Death. Or… I LIKE HIS MOVIES. I dunno, I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/33 "2008-01-29T16:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] [full disclosure]I’m currently awaiting delivery of the 5-disc Mickey-‘n’-Judy [boxed set](http://www.amazon.com/Mickey-Rooney-Garland-Collection-Broadway/dp/B000RT99FG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1201624006&sr=8-1). [/fd] [/QUOTE] See, I love Judy Garland. I am an unabashed full-on Judy Garland _queen_. But I have never seen any of those backyard musicals because I find Mickey Rooney so repulsive that not even the prospect of Judy goodness can induce me to watch. To slightly hijack my own thread, if you’re a Garland fan as well as being a Rooney fan, TCM is showing Garland movies today, including “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry” and “Everybody Sing,” along with a 1971 BBC documentary on her life, the short subject “Every Sunday” with Deanna Durbin and the rarely-seen short “La Fiesta de Santa Barbara” in which she appears with her sisters as the Gumm Sisters. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/34 "2008-01-29T16:56:25Z")
Wow. Judy Garland wasn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows either, you know. I mean, talk about opiate detox. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/35 "2008-01-29T16:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Oh jesus its early. I was assuming you could tell I was being a touch facetious. But we’ve been through this before with your glee at the death of the president of the Mormon Church. What is it with you wanting to mandate who lives or dies. If he’s alive and kicking (and not kicking you) who gives a crap? [/QUOTE] I did not “express glee” at the death of the Mormon guy. I said that his death inspired no sympathy in me. Worlds of difference. And, come on, who _doesn’t_ sometimes want to mandate who lives or dies at least every once in a while? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/36 "2008-01-29T17:03:48Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] - A unique body chemistry that had some bizarre interaction with all the meth he did at MGM; [/QUOTE] They had meth way back then? I’d have thought the drugs of choice back in Old Hollywood were more along the lines of laudanum or unrefined coca leaf. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/37 "2008-01-29T17:07:36Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I did not “express glee” at the death of the Mormon guy. I said that his death inspired no sympathy in me. Worlds of difference. And, come on, who _doesn’t_ sometimes want to mandate who lives or dies at least every once in a while? [/QUOTE] I find it takes a lot of time away from my napping, so I can’t be bothered. It’s not deep seated compassion, it’s laziness really. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/38 "2008-01-29T17:10:09Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Wow. Judy Garland wasn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows either, you know. I mean, talk about opiate detox. [/QUOTE] One of the few things that’s made me LOL recently is a comedian’s description of a hypothetical debate between an Elvis Presley fan and a Judy queen: > [@](#): > > “Elvis had a drinking problem.” > “Judy could drink Elvis under the table.” > “Elvis gained more weight.” > “Judy lost more weight.” > “Elvis was addicted to painkillers.” > “ **No pill could stop Judy’s pain!** ” ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/39 "2008-01-29T17:16:49Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] NO PILL COULD STOP JUDY’S PAIN [/QUOTE] Man. I sort of want to cross stitch that somewhere. I might use it the next time my husband asks me if I’m taking ANOTHER vicodin. ---
**Author:** ![Corporal\_Nobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Corporal\_Nobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporal_Nobbs)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/40 "2008-01-29T17:24:24Z")
He has just done a panto (Very camp festive theatre) In my small Northern UK city, Sunderland! Looked rather spry! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456.md?page=3)