Comments on: Mister Rogers: Total Awesomeness

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:57:06 +0000

There was only one way I was going to be sure — to put down what I thought was the right spelling, and wait for someone to correct me.

Suddenly — 11 hours later — Mikey!

Strowbridge: How could you have missed this?

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:56:53 +0000

There was only one way I was going to be sure — to put down what I thought was the right spelling, and wait for someon to correct me.

Suddenly — 11 hours later — Mikey!

Strowbridge: How could you have missed this?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:12:33 +0000

Nope, it’s “verklempt.”

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:12:44 +0000

verclept

By: IMU

IMU — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:06:03 +0000

Fred Rogers is the man. God bless his soul. And thanks for the clip. It did make me a little vaclempt (sp?)

By: peachy

peachy — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:08:02 +0000

I met Fred in about 1975. He was exactly the same in person as we was on screen. I brought my then 4-year-old son to the studio to watch a taping (I was a journalism prof at the time). Learning there was a young child in the studio, Fred stopped his work on a puppetry routine and came out to meet him. He immediately crouched down so he could see my son eye to eye, and spoke with him briefly. No one could relate to kids like Fred could. Sesame Street got all the attention, and it certainly deserved a lot, but Fred kept it simple and real.

And he liked us all just the way we were.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:18:42 +0000

Duros: That is truly silly… What would someone like Dobson or Falwell find offensive, that they didn’t find offensive the whole time the show was in?

I was too old for his show. But you all, especially you, Duros, might be surprised to know that “In 1963, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister with a charge to continue his work with children and families through television.”

Surprised you didn’t get turned into Bible thumping robots, eh?

Hehe

By: andy k

andy k — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:40:27 +0000

His speech to congress is so freaking amazing. Brings a tear to my eye every time.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:43:30 +0000

I hate to say it, though, if he tried to get on TV today, he’d have a hard time getting by the Dobsons and Falwells.

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:11:15 +0000

Fred Rogers was one-of-a-kind. The world is a richer place for his having been a part of it.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:28:39 +0000

I’m proud to say that I graduated from the same college as Mr. Rogers, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

By: S. Oelek

S. Oelek — Wed, 30 May 2007 06:44:58 +0000

People can say what they want about Fred Rogers.

I maintain that it was a better world when he was still in it.