Andy Rooney's a flashaholic!

[PhotonBoy]

Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Rooney: An Illuminating Thought:

http://wcco.com/water/watercooler_story_110200651.html

"I'm a sucker for clever flashlights... I'll bet I've bought a hundred flashlights in my life."

 

[FalconFX]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Somebody needs to tell him about CPF, then!

 

[PieThatCorner]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Hahaaa... he might already be a CPF'er!

 

[FalconFX]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Quite possible... Who knows how many celebrities can actually be flashaholics or closet CPFers...

 

[DavidW]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

A while back Craig outed some NASA personnel as CPF lurkers. Possibly astronauts themselves. I think that's pretty close to celebrity.

 

[FalconFX]

Any CPFers = Professors/Teachers?

That gets me wondering:

With the intelligent talk here all the time, how many CPFers are teachers or professors?

I'm willing to bet more than a handful are...

 

[DieselDave]

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What if several CPF'ers were celebrities. Would they appreciate an inexpensive mod? Would they place more value on a flashlights looks than on what's inside? Would they try to ban other flashlights that weren't like the ones they liked? Would the environmentalist celebrities use their bully pulpit to try and shut down CPF because we use polluting batteries? Would we pay more attention to their post even though they are for the most part less educated and less experienced than we are?

If the following three beautiful female celebs joined CPF which one would you most likely want to meet in person and spend time with discussing flashlights?

1. Has a high school diploma and spent 3 days filming at a Duracell plant
2. Has a bachelors degree in liberal arts
3. Owns 5 flashlights, all of them cheapies.

I know my choice. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Blikbok]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

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DavidW said:
A while back Craig outed some NASA personnel as CPF lurkers. Possibly astronauts themselves. I think that's pretty close to celebrity.

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There are more than a few browsing from NASA's network. But most of the people at NASA are contractors, not employees, and even then there are plenty of employees who aren't astronauts.
But there are plenty of reasons to have a flashlight at NASA....

 

[Rothrandir]

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ok guys...you caught me...

i'm christopher tolkien /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
don't believe me? take a shot /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

this is an interesting concept indeed...i have often though of smurfing under a celeb name /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[keithhr]

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Andy couldn't be a flashaholic, if you noticed what he had on his desk, they were pretty generic, nothing that really seemed out of the ordinary or clever, but then again I may not be the best judge.

 

[radellaf]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Perhaps he's not in the elite of flashlight collectors, but he had enough on display to be verging on flashaholism.

So is it how many you have /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif, what kind you have /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif, or how long you can go without buying another one? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[PhotonBoy]

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... or as Andy put it: "the bigger the better!"

 

[Charles Bradshaw]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

"Never have one when I need one." Looks like he would be a good candidate for an Arc AAA or Infinity Ultra. Then he would really have something to talk about on 60 Minutes. An LS light may be too cutting edge for him, considering his age.

 

[Saaby]

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He he--I was up in Sun Valley at my grandma's house for the weekend and saw that. Everyone razed me..."He speaks your language Ryan" they said...


Yup, he does speak english!

 

[FalconFX]

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DD, it won't change much if a flashaholic is a celebrity or not, except if they get more of their friends to join or at least read up on CPF whenever they buy flashlights. Then the more CPF can "help" someone decide on a light, the better...
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[DieselDave]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Falcon FX, You are correct sir.

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

I saw that 60 Minutes segment and, like keithhr, was struck by the appearance of the flashlights as all being generic; as if they had a gofer run and buy a bunch of flashlights for the shot, and all incandescent too..hard to believe Andy hasn't discovered LED yet in his flashaholic journey..then again, maybe not..

 

[Saaby]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

You're sure that headlamp wasn't LED? I mean I wasn't paying THAT close attention but it looked awfully LEDish...

 

[INRETECH]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

But, at the end of the review - didn't he finally settle on a normal candle ?

 

[FalconFX]

Re: Andy Rooney\'s a flashaholic!

Who knows. I'd send him a note tellin' him of CPF if I knew his e-mail addie...