Rodney Dangerfield dies

[Bluebear]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rodney Dangerfield , the goggle-eyed comic famed for his self-deprecating one-liners and signature phrase "I can't get no respect," died on Tuesday at age 82, his publicist said.

Dangerfield, who became a pop culture sensation with a string of broad film comedies starting with "Caddyshack" in 1980, died at 1:20 p.m. PDT (4:20 p.m. EDT) at the UCLA Medical Center, where he had undergone heart valve replacement surgery in August, spokesman Kevin Sasaki said in a statement.


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A girl phoned me the other day and said: "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.

During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

One day as I came home early from work .... I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy: "Hey buddy, why are you doing that?" He said: "Because you came home early."

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning, put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

I was such an ugly kid... when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I was such an ugly baby...My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

When I was born, the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father: "I'm very sorry... We did everything we could...but he pulled through."

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Once when I was lost...I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him: "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said. "I don't know kid.. There are so many places they can hide."

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.

I went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

[olddem43]

1. A great guy dies and the evil Cheney lives on -

Just proves there ain't a god.

[Bluebear]

2. If only we could have negotiated a trade with Fate

[theorist]

3. You think Cheney will make it to 82? n/t

[951]

4. No.

[Character Assassin]

5. I was an ugly kid, growin' up. I'll tell ya, boy, was I ugly

I was so ugly, my father kept the picture of the kid that came with the wallet.

His book was just very, very favorably reviewed in the New York Times Book Review supplement this Sunday.

Sad to see you go, Rod.

[Bluebear]

6. I always respected him.

[Mandate My Ass]

7. Thanks for the laughs, Rodney

RIP.:(

[TahitiNut]

8. Where he is now, he will surely get the respect he deserves. RIP.

:(