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Topic: The Real......
Posted By: oldsoldier
Subject: The Real......
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 2:04pm
'Larry the Cable Guy'. I bumped into him once a few years ago in the South Lincoln Walmart. A how ya been conversation and off he went shopping a o'dark thirty. His normal personality and voice is far from the 'Larry the Cable Guy' charactor.

His community efforts in Lincoln are lengendary;
http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_57896bc6-cccb-11df-bad6-001cc4c002e0.html - http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_57896bc6-cccb-11df-bad6-001cc4c002e0.html
is just one. He has a large farm/range south of Lincoln and is just Joe Normal wandering Lincoln unless you take time to take notice.

His real fame is that at every Nebraska football homegame he packs his two skyboxes with kids from local hospitals, and he has flown kids up from the Danny Thomas Childrens Hospital in Memphis, TN.

There needs to be more entertainers like him, not these egocentric nutjobs that fill the tabloids.

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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 2:14pm
Whitney used to be on the radio in Orlando, and crafted the whole "Cable-Guy" persona there.

He was oft considered to be kinda racist and degrading - His act has cleaned up considerably for the "Blue Collar" stuff.

My point being: I think you can be an egotistical nutjob and still support charity. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive.

Case in point - Lebron James.


Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 2:15pm
But he still isn't funny


Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 2:40pm
Originally posted by GroupB GroupB wrote:

But he still isn't funny


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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 01 October 2010 at 3:25pm


It's a persona, very obviously so.


Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 02 October 2010 at 1:12pm
He seems like a stand-up guy.


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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 02 October 2010 at 1:15pm
I'm willing to humor a certain amount of character flaws if the person generally does good things.

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Yup, he actually said that.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 October 2010 at 1:26pm
Originally posted by brihard brihard wrote:

I'm willing to humor a certain amount of character flaws if the person generally does good things.

This. 

Again, Lebron James's "Decision" was one of the most strange, egotistical things ever, but he got ESPN to donate all the advertising money from that hour-long wankfest to the Boys and Girls Club of America. 




Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 1:14pm
Originally posted by brihard brihard wrote:

I'm willing to humor a certain amount of character flaws if the person generally does good things.
Bingo. We're all jerks at times. Not all of us take the time to do our part to be nice. It's good that he does.

And I don't like most of his jokes either.



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