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My lovely followers, please follow this blog immediately!
Here are some interesting facts about him, though:
- He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”
- “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”
- According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
- Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.
I really didnt need more reasons to love Mr Rodgers but now I have them.
BA Mr. Rogers
These are all amazing facts about an amazing person, but mostly I’m reblogging it for the gif of him doing the dual bird flip.
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Can we talk about the word queue
How many of those letters are really necessary
I count one
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i wish my bank account looked like my follower count
more like my post count.
definitely my post count
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justin bieber need to fall back and realize he’s twilight popular not harry potter popular you feel me
reblog b/c I laughed so damn hard at that last comment haha
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i’ve always scoffed at those “oh my god europe is tiny”-posts but we just took the wrong exit driving back to our cabin and we literally ended up in norway and decided to just stay for dinner so yeah
this just happened AGAIN jesus fucking christ there isn’t even a sign that says welcome to fucking norway you’re just there all of a sudden
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ok why do we say “an hour” hour doesn’t start with a vowel wowe science
I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS THE OTHER DAY WHY DO WE NOT SAY AN UNICORN THAT STARTS WITH A VOWEL
An unicorn will be here in a hour
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i dont know if people are checking me out or shocked at how ugly i am
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