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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Okay, Who Blew Wilford’s Cover?

Okay, Who Blew Wilford’s Cover?

by TaMara|  August 7, 20185:51 pm| 90 Comments

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This just made my day.

Shhhh https://t.co/In1z8dVdgP

— Wilford Brimley (@RealWilfordB) August 7, 2018

He’s on twitter, he has a sense of humor and well…he’s Wilford Brimley.

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  1. 1.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 7, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    His whole feed is full of win.

  2. 2.

    chopper

    August 7, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    win, and oatmeal.

  3. 3.

    Waynski

    August 7, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    If that’s what Just for Men does to your beard, I’ll take the gray.

  4. 4.

    father pusbucket

    August 7, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    witness witless protection

  5. 5.

    Baud

    August 7, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    I guess I hold grudges, but wasn’t he a vocally anti-Obama Republican?

  6. 6.

    Old School

    August 7, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    I saw it pointed out that Tom Cruise is five years older in the current Mission Impossible movie than Wilford Brimley was when he made Cocoon.

  7. 7.

    p.a.

    August 7, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    Ancient history, but he gave a sports station radio interview promo-ing The Natural and was a miserable SOB. Radio host was being professional, no bsing.

  8. 8.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 7, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    @p.a.: I think he’s a well known SOB. Still entertaining.

  9. 9.

    debbie

    August 7, 2018 at 6:06 pm

    He looks like Seb Gorka’s fatter brother.

  10. 10.

    chopper

    August 7, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @debbie:

    but not dumber, strangely enough.

  11. 11.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    August 7, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    @Old School:

    Dude was born old.

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    @debbie: We have a winner! Time to shut down comments on this thread.

  13. 13.

    Mai Naem mobile

    August 7, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    I thought he was dead.

  14. 14.

    MJS

    August 7, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    @Baud: Maybe at one point, but according to his Twitter, tgese days he’d be willing to take a baseball bat to John Bolton.

  15. 15.

    SFAW

    August 7, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    When the hell did Seagal decide to become a rikishi? I don’t recall reading anything about it.

    Then again, I follow news of Seagal about as much as I follow the latest news from Shemya.

  16. 16.

    debbie

    August 7, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    LOL. I’ll leave it to someone else to imagine Seagal and Gorka in matching kilts.

    Did you catch Colbert’s bit last night about Seagal?

  17. 17.

    Ruckus

    August 7, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
    He’s so old, god asked him how to make more humans.
    Look how that turned out.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    August 7, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    Not to be that guy, but we are sure it’s Wilford yes?

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    @debbie:

    Did you catch Colbert’s bit last night about Seagal?

    No, I only watch the 11pm news and UCLA games anymore.

  20. 20.

    Raoul

    August 7, 2018 at 6:22 pm

    Do these types of guys think putting black shoe polish on their hair and beards works? I mean, he can afford a colorist who could actually pull something off. But no, they go to CVS and buy 8.99 garbage and think they look good? Hahahaha.

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @Ruckus: So efg and he were childhood friends?

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @Raoul:

    they go to CVS and buy 8.99 garbage and think they look good?

    I call that big spending, mine’s $3.29 at Target.

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    August 7, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    @Raoul:
    It’s honest advertising in action.
    If you look fake, it’s OK to be fake.

  24. 24.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 7, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @Old School: Even though he looked plenty old on screen on Cocoon, I remember reading that he had to do some persuasion that he could pull it off.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    August 7, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    @Old School:

    Acting! Genius! – Master Thespian.

  26. 26.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 7, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: That presumes efg had a childhood. Pro tip: Don’t bet the mortgage.

  27. 27.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    @Raoul:
    Dude hasn’t aged well. He is 66, but he didn’t look this bad ten years ago from the pictures I’ve seen of him. Perhaps since becoming a Russian citizen, he’s been trying to fit in by looking like warmed-over shit like all Russian men of a certain age.?

  28. 28.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 7, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Also IIRC Brimley wasn’t originally an actor but was a horse wrangler or something.

  29. 29.

    Tokyokie

    August 7, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    Wilfred Brimley is a crotchety old Mormon who has seemingly missed out on the exquisite etiquette other members of his faith display. He’s always been upfront in saying that if non-Mormons don’t like how Utah is run, they can move someplace else. Frankly, I’ve always liked him because he’s a no-B.S. kind of guy with a good sense of humor.

  30. 30.

    geg6

    August 7, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    @Old School:

    I’d take Wilford over Cruise any day. Nothing more repellent to me than a nutzoid enmeshed in a crazy abusive religion who thinks he’s a god and who has had so much plastic surgery and Botox that his skin resembles nothing so much as a Ken doll’s. He’s my age. He isn’t kidding anyone with a brain.

  31. 31.

    Tokyokie

    August 7, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Wilford Brimley got his start in movies working as a farrier on John Ford movies shot in Monument Valley. He spent a lot of his younger years outdoors in the desert, so he always looked older than really he was. Sort of like Walter Brennan in that regard.

  32. 32.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: HA! I don’t have a mortgage.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 7, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve thought that Seagal looks ready to play Gorka every time I’ve seen his picture over the last week or so.

    For his part Gorka think Russell Crowe could play him “if he hit the gym.”

  34. 34.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 7, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: perhaps he’s been trying to fit in by having a gallon of vodka a day.

  35. 35.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    @Tokyokie: Ol’ Walter used to live near the town were I grew up. He’d ride in the local parade every year.

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    August 7, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    Damn has Seagal let himself go. I guess I can see why he wasn’t invited to be in The Expendables.

  37. 37.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    For his part Gorka think Russell Crowe could play him “if he hit the gym.”

    HA! Crowe’s head is too small to play Gorka.

  38. 38.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I’ve thought that Seagal looks ready to play Gorka every time I’ve seen his picture over the last week or so.

    He does! Though I doubt very much Segal would ever agree to play him if the script resembled anything close to reality considering he’s a Putinite now.

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    August 7, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Seagal might be hitting the vodka pretty hard these days. If he ever pisses off Vlad, expect to hear he fell off the roof of his building.

  40. 40.

    Tokyokie

    August 7, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    For his part Gorka think Russell Crowe could play him “if he hit the gym.”

    If you’ve ever seen Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper, you’d know that he already has played Gorka.

  41. 41.

    momus

    August 7, 2018 at 6:59 pm

    This is not fake news

    Seagal is a useful idiot as far as Putin in concerned. Per NYT 8/5 “Steven Seagal Appointed by Russia as Special Envoy to the U.S.”

  42. 42.

    The Dangerman

    August 7, 2018 at 7:01 pm

    Wilfred Brimley’s alive? No shit. Oh, well, I had Abe Vigoda dead a decade or 2 before he passed.

  43. 43.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    If he ever pisses off Vlad, expect to hear he fell off the roof of his building.

    Or broke his own neck by practicing aikido on himself.

  44. 44.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 7, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    @The Dangerman: did you at least remember that Nelson Mandela made it out of prison? Or are you from that other universe.

  45. 45.

    Mike R

    August 7, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @debbie: Love to see the brothers fight over, well anything as long as they really go at it.

  46. 46.

    Ben Cisco

    August 7, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    @Mike in NC: Twice.

  47. 47.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 7, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    had Abe Vigoda dead a decade or 2 before he passed.

    You and literally everybody else.

  48. 48.

    ruemara

    August 7, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    I must say that if one is going to read love poetry, there’s nothing funnier than setting your Kindle reader voice to the primmest English uppercrust male voice. Especially if there’s anything remotely erotic about the selection. I wonder if I should have him read translated Catullus.

  49. 49.

    Mike in NC

    August 7, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    Read today that thousands of manufacturing jobs in South Carolina are in jeopardy due to Trump’s tariffs. Sad!

  50. 50.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:
    Dear god… what if Trump has been telling the truth all along and he’s a slider?

  51. 51.

    Keith P.

    August 7, 2018 at 7:13 pm

    “You’ll never get old, and you’ll never die. You just have to wear yellow-tinted glasses and dress like a Romulan wherever you go.

  52. 52.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 7, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    @ruemara: “I wonder if I should have him read translated Catullus.”

    Oh dear.

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: even in an infinite multiverse, could there be a place so self-contradictory that Trump is always speaking the truth?

  53. 53.

    MomSense

    August 7, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    I’m just surprised to learn Brimley isn’t dead. I really thought he was. Carry on, Wilford.

  54. 54.

    ruemara

    August 7, 2018 at 7:21 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I did use the latin of one canto for a scene. … I hope no one translates it or this scene will get an R rating.

    I shan’t do that in any of the kids’ content I’m writing.

    Perhaps.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 7, 2018 at 7:27 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    If he ever pisses off Vlad, expect to hear he fell off the roof of his building.

    Or, as it’s technically known, “drowning of gunshot wounds.”

  56. 56.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 7:27 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    even in an infinite multiverse, could there be a place so self-contradictory that Trump is always speaking the truth?

    In his own mind? Not what you meant, but I got nothing. There were conspiracy theorists citing the Mandela Effect as evidence that Trump had shifted from an alternate universe where muslims really had danced in the streets on 9/11 in New Jersey.

    And now suddenly I’m thinking of a lost episode of Sliders where Trump was a guest star. He did that a lot in the 80s and 90s. He was in an episode of Fresh Prince and I think in one of the Home Alone sequels.

  57. 57.

    zhena gogolia

    August 7, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    When we saw a man in a La Jolla restaurant with a Hawaiian shirt and a beer belly and a big white mustache and a phone pressed against his ear throughout his entire meal, I said, “What’s Wilford Brimley doing here?” But my witty husband beat me to it with a more obscure and apt reference, saying, “Peabody, you’re disgusting!” (Warren William to Guy Kibbee, Gold Diggers of 1933)

  58. 58.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 7:33 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:
    Note: the episode of Sliders I was talking about was imaginary.

  59. 59.

    grandpa john

    August 7, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    @Mike in NC: Yep, Tariffs projected to cause a 2 billion dollar blow to our economy although you would never know that by reading facebook or the local medias

  60. 60.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 7, 2018 at 7:39 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: are you sure because I remember it vividly

  61. 61.

    SFAW

    August 7, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Read today that thousands of manufacturing jobs in South Carolina are in jeopardy due to Trump’s tariffs. Sad!

    But her e-mails!

  62. 62.

    piratedan

    August 7, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    can we haz an election results thread?

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    August 7, 2018 at 7:50 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    womp womp

    MAGA, Bytches.

  64. 64.

    Kay

    August 7, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Columbus Dispatch Retweeted

    Jim Siegel
    ‏

    @phrontpage
    8m8 minutes ago
    More
    Licking County early vote:
    Balderson 3,315 50%
    O’Connor 3,204 48.5%

    It was 62/33 Trump in ’16 BUT don’t get excited because early vote is better for D’s :)

  65. 65.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    August 7, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    @Mike in NC:
    Jobs boom favors Democratic counties, not Trump strongholds

    The United States is on pace to add about 2.6 million jobs this year under President Donald Trump’s watch. Yet the bulk of the hiring has occurred in bastions of Democratic voters rather than in the Republican counties that put Trump in the White House.

    On average for the year-ended this May, 58.5 percent of the job gains were in counties that backed Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to an Associated Press analysis of monthly government jobs data by county.

    Despite an otherwise robust national economy, the analysis shows that a striking number of Trump counties are losing jobs. The AP found that 35.4 percent of Trump counties have shed jobs in the past year, compared with just 19.2 percent of Clinton counties.

    […]

    Job growth in Trump’s economy is still concentrated in the same general places as it was toward the end of Barack Obama’s presidency — when roughly 58.7 percent of the average annual job gains were in Democratic counties.

    Yet the lack of transformative job growth in Trump areas hasn’t seemed to erode his support among Republicans, while hiring in Democratic areas have done little to improve his standing with those voters. For Trump’s core supporters, cultural issues such as gun rights, immigration and loyalty to the president have become dominant priorities.

    I may be accused of American exceptionalism, but I can’t think of anything more undemocratic and un-American than caring so much about being loyal to the POTUS.

  66. 66.

    rikyrah

    August 7, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    My favorite Wilford Brimley role is the one of the mean, vicious Head of Security in The Firm, cause, it was so against type for him.

  67. 67.

    debbie

    August 7, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    @Kay:

    I’ll stick with Franklin County: O’Connor 80% Balderson 19%

    ;)

  68. 68.

    piratedan

    August 7, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    @rikyrah: I actually thought his best turn was in Absence of Malice but he’s always had a way of oozing credibility….

  69. 69.

    debbie

    August 7, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    @debbie:

    Edit box is whacked. Here’s the link I meant to include above:

    https://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/elections/

  70. 70.

    dmsilev

    August 7, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    @Kay: Any sense as to how long it will take for real results to get counted and reported?

  71. 71.

    Ohio Mom

    August 7, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    @Kay: I like the results on the NYT’s site better: Balderson 35% and O’Connor 63%.

    But that is with less than one percent of the vote tallied, so its meaningless.

  72. 72.

    Kay

    August 7, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    @debbie:

    I love the part of Ohio elections that includes getting 40% in R districts as “the winning formula” for Democrats :)

    It’s true too! He just needs to hold down the crazy in 4 counties and get Franklin and we’re good.

    This is the oart where we somberly remind everyone that R’s vote on election day and D’s vote early. HOWEVER- if the total number of R, D and I #’s on early vote are correct he’s doing fine with the pain in the ass, fickle and indecisive independents, which is good.

  73. 73.

    Kay

    August 7, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I don’t know. They add (paid) poll workers for big races so hopefully they did that.

    Randy Ludlow
    ‏Verified account
    @RandyLudlow
    Follow Follow @RandyLudlow
    More
    To summarize, early vote going the way of @dannyoconnor1 in #OH12. Not unexpected, Ds tend to cast more early ballots than Rs, who show up better on elex day. But, he has to be pleased with some margins.

    Some of these are very R counties and he’s doing okay with ev- ahead or even- that’s what they mean by margins. He won’t win them but that isn’t what D’s try to do- they try to hold down the R vote and pick up in urban counties.

  74. 74.

    dmsilev

    August 7, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    @Kay: Thanks. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see at this point.

  75. 75.

    Lawrence

    August 7, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    Wilford’s still around? The oatmeal must really work.

  76. 76.

    Origuy

    August 7, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    Can we have a thread for today’s primaries? CNN has O’Conner leading Balderson 62.7% to 36.5%

  77. 77.

    Ohio Mom

    August 7, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    One thing I’ll add about the NYT’s site is that if you scroll down, there is a map of the district, colored in varying shades of blue and red to show how each of the seven (!) counties in the district leans.

    The darkest blue is the northern part of the city of Columbus, with a ragged, zig-zagged southern border. It is a very stark illustration of just how gerrymandered Ohio is.

    You can see how Columbus is split to dilute the Democratic vote. And then you can consider how little the northern Columbus area has in common with the far reaches of the district which are three counties over. The gerrymandering is embarrassingly obvious, if the Republicans in statehouse we’re capable of either embarrassment or shame.

  78. 78.

    hitchhiker

    August 7, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    Fun fact: In the early 80s I worked at Young Electric Sign Company — a mormon (“Young,” as in Brigham) outfit that made a ton of $$$ building the monstrously lit strip in Vegas. Wilford Brimley used to show up at the office every now and then b/c he was related to somebody on the exec team.

    At the time, I didn’t care. Still don’t, but it’s weird to me that he’s on twitter!

  79. 79.

    Ohio Mom

    August 7, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    On another note, I see that the “remember me” box for nyms and emails is missing. Well, that’s honest, my info hasn’t been remembered in days and days, no matter how many times I checked that box. Probably
    better this way, no illusions.

  80. 80.

    Origuy

    August 7, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Alain mentioned that in the site update thread. He’s been struggling with FYWP.

  81. 81.

    hueyplong

    August 7, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    @piratedan: You thought that because his “somebody’s ass in my briefcase” scene is in fact his best moment. Love that scene.

  82. 82.

    Roger Moore

    August 7, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    The gerrymandering is embarrassingly obvious, if the Republicans in statehouse we’re capable of either embarrassment or shame.

    While the gerrymandering is embarrassingly obvious now, we need to be careful about defining gerrymandering around such obvious features. It’s possible to draw districts that are heavily gerrymandered while still doing a reasonable job of keeping them compact, following existing political lines, etc.; it just takes more sophistication to make it work. IIRC, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out their districts, the Republicans came back with a new set of districts that avoided the obvious signs of gerrymandering while still greatly skewing the results. I’m worried this is a sign the Republicans have updated their software to make their gerrymandering less obvious. We still need to focus on having independent groups draw the districts or, even better, go to proportional representation.

  83. 83.

    The Moar You Know

    August 7, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    Seagal used to put in a yearly appearance at the NAMM show (National Association of Music Manufacturers). He would cruise around with his eight man posse, drenched in spray tanner, and try to find vintage/rare instruments to buy up for his already immense collection of vintage guitars. Of course, he is seriously the worst fucking guitar player I have ever heard in my life. Zero talent or ability. He tries to bullshit people with some Zen horseshit about “the vibe of the instrument”, but apparently musicians aren’t nearly the suckers that the martial arts crowd is, because the proof is in the playing and that motherfucker cannot play. He’s universally loathed. Nobody likes having to clean spray tan off a guitar and restring it afterward. Espicallly an antique.

    I am stunned at his age. The last NAMM show I went to was in 2004; 19 straight years was enough. I would have guessed back then he was in his sixties. Of course, I saw him up close without Photoshop. He’s also an asshole with no manners, not that this will shock anyone here.

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    August 7, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    @Old School:
    Unmöglich. Tom Cruise has been 25 years old ever since Top Gun, and he’s bound and determined to stay that way.

  85. 85.

    Amir Khalid

    August 7, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    @The Moar You Know:
    From what little I know about NAMM, admission is restricted to trade and media (including YouTube). I didn’t know guitar collectors could get in if they were famous.

  86. 86.

    Ohio Mom

    August 7, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @Roger Moore: All good points.

  87. 87.

    BruceFromOhio

    August 7, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    @ruemara: oh rue. It’s already tropical in here. Then you had to add that to the mix. Le sigh.

  88. 88.

    Brachiator

    August 7, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Old School:

    I saw it pointed out that Tom Cruise is five years older in the current Mission Impossible movie than Wilford Brimley was when he made Cocoon.

    I really liked Brimley in “Risky Business.”

  89. 89.

    The Moar You Know

    August 7, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    From what little I know about NAMM, admission is restricted to trade and media (including YouTube). I didn’t know guitar collectors could get in if they were famous.

    @Amir Khalid: they don’t even have to be famous. They just have to know someone at a store that is a NAMM member. It’s not hard to get in.

    I would say, come to think of it, that the hard way of getting in is being a music store or manufacturing employee.

  90. 90.

    BroD

    August 8, 2018 at 10:11 am

    He used to play the Super Jew in those old martial arts spoof comedies–like Jerry Lewis on steroids, right?

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