# 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:** 3
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/41 "2008-01-29T17:30:45Z")
[QUOTE=Corporal\_Nobbs] He has just done a panto (Very camp festive theatre) In my small Northern UK city, Sunderland! Looked rather spry! [/QUOTE] wha… GORBACHEV SINGS TRACTORS! TURNIP! BUTTOCKS! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/42 "2008-01-29T17:42:45Z")
So, **Otto** , have you ever conjured up a mental image of Mickey and Ava Gardner in the sack? I rather like MR, but there’s a scenario that makes even me gag. ---
**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, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/43 "2008-01-29T17:48:01Z")
[QUOTE=Corporal\_Nobbs] He has just done a panto (Very camp festive theatre) In my small Northern UK city, Sunderland! Looked rather spry! [/QUOTE] Okay, that’s aggravating. I am close to half his age, also short and by no means “spry”. Where did I go wrong? Not enough womanizing? ---
**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, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/44 "2008-01-29T17:49:53Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Okay, that’s aggravating. I am close to half his age, also short and by no means “spry”. Where did I go wrong? Not enough womanizing? [/QUOTE] Meth abuse and blood replacement, I’m telling you… ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/45 "2008-01-29T17:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Meth abuse and blood replacement, I’m telling you… [/QUOTE] Making him Keith Richards’s (spiritual) father? ---
**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, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/46 "2008-01-29T17:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Meth abuse and blood replacement, I’m telling you… [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, and Satan, too. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/47 "2008-01-29T17:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] … Especially after that night at the \*\*Goofy Goober \*\* when he didn’t get the promotion that time… 🙂 [/QUOTE] Please, please, its the Krusty Krab 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/48 "2008-01-29T17:55:04Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] And, come on, who _doesn’t_ sometimes want to mandate who lives or dies at least every once in a while? [/QUOTE] It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it has it’s perks, but the paperwork’s a real pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/49 "2008-01-29T18:32:54Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Please, please, its the Krusty Krab 🙂 [/QUOTE] No, after he lost the manager position at the Krusty Krab II in the SBSP movie, he and Patrick drowned their sorrows in ice-cream sundaes at the Goofy Goober. But **Caricci** , later in the movie he appears with David Hasselhoff, and there is no freakin’ way that SpongeBob is four feet tall. Maybe four _inches_, if that. ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/50 "2008-01-29T18:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] But **Caricci** , later in the movie he appears with David Hasselhoff, and there is no freakin’ way that SpongeBob is four feet tall. Maybe four _inches_, if that. [/QUOTE] Hasselhoff has the power to grow to be 170 feet tall at will. He just has to chant his magic phrase, “Oogah chaka, oogah chaka, oogah oogah oogah chaka!” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/51 "2008-01-29T18:55:47Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Actually it’s _Andy_ Rooney who makes me wonder. [/QUOTE] He’s not so much dying as he is _melting_. Seriously. Look at the guy’s upper lip, ears and the wattle under his chin. He looks like someone got into Madame Tousaud’s with a flamethrower. [His fate.](http://www.theraider.net/showimage.php?ImageUrl=http://www.theraider.net/films/raiders/gallery/makingof/mo_77.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/52 "2008-01-29T18:58:06Z")
Why hasn’t Mickey **Rourke** died? That’s what I wanna know. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/53 "2008-01-29T19:00:37Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] “Miscarriage Jewelry.” [/QUOTE] I have a new nightmare. Oh Mickey You’re so dead, you’re so dead it hurts my head hey Mickey! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/54 "2008-01-29T19:08:01Z")
OH Mickey You’re so old You’re so old You should be cold Die Mickey! Die Mickey! ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/55 "2008-01-29T20:33:59Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] OH Mickey You’re so old You’re so old You should be cold Die Mickey! Die Mickey! [/QUOTE] Zeeba, you are so dead and going to hell. Not for wishing Mickey dead but for singing that damn song and getting it stuck in my head! ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/56 "2008-01-29T23:41:52Z")
I’m watching that Garland documentary and they’re interviewing Mickey Rooney and he’s not wearing a shirt. I think I’m gonna be sick. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/57 "2008-01-30T00:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] wha… GORBACHEV SINGS TRACTORS! TURNIP! BUTTOCKS! [/QUOTE] For the win… Well played! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/58 "2008-01-30T00:48:55Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m watching that Garland documentary and they’re interviewing Mickey Rooney and he’s not wearing a shirt. [/QUOTE] Well, what do you think caused Judy’s unkillable pain? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/59 "2008-01-30T01:42:20Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m watching that Garland documentary and they’re interviewing Mickey Rooney and he’s not wearing a shirt. I think I’m gonna be sick. [/QUOTE] He was showing off his Ray Bolger-esque physique. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/60 "2008-01-30T01:45:35Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] He was showing off his Ray Bolger-esque physique. [/QUOTE] Ray Bolger may not have been built, but you can’t deny that he was…flexible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456.md?page=4)