The Most Of Andy Rooney

Description for THE MOST OF ANDY ROONEY: A FEW MINUTES WITH ANDY ROONEY/ AND MOE BY ANDY ROONEY/PIECES OF MY MIND by Andrew A Rooney:

A FEW MINUTES WITH ANDY ROONEY:

WE NEED a television set that turns off automatically when a show gets bad enough. If they can make fire alarms that smell, smoke, I don't see why a device can't be made that would detect a bad television show.

IT'S A FUNNY THING that even though most of us don't like the idea of wearing glasses because we don't think we look good with them on, we don't think anyone else looks any worse wearing them. As a matter of fact, we all have friends who'd look strange if they didn't have their glasses on.

AND MORE BY ANDY ROONEY:

WRITERS DON'T often say anything that readers don't already know, unless it's a new story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

THERE ARE ALL SORTS of things wrong with tipping. It puts both tipper and tippee in a bad position. Why should anyone have to depend on what I choose to give them for their services? Who am I to leave a dollar grandly under my plate for the waiter as if I was doing him a big favor? I hate tipping. Why shouldn't an employer have to pay an employee a decent wage?

PIECES OF MY MIND:

I HOPE motion pictures prosper as an art form because of the best of them are wonderfully good art. There's no reason not to rank motion pictures along with opera, literature, the stage, music or sculpture and painting as legitimate art. The fact that most movies are junk doesn't enter into it. Most art in any form is junk.

THE GOVERNMENT goes about trying to get us to pay our taxes the wrong way. They need the review system and I suppose they have to scare some people with the threat of a jail sentence, but the IRS has never appealed much to our sense of national pride. Americans would be proud to pay their income tax if they thought their money was not being wasted in Washington.