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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: RGMike on November 19, 2007, 10:49:04 AM

Title: RIP "Mr Whipple"
Post by: RGMike on November 19, 2007, 10:49:04 AM

Please don't squeeze the Charmin! (the actor's name was Dick Wilson -- he was 91)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/19/entertainment/e102245S54.DTL&tsp=1&type=business

Title: Re: RIP "Mr Whipple"
Post by: Gazoo on November 19, 2007, 01:14:26 PM

Quote from: "RGMike"

Please don't squeeze the Charmin! (the actor's name was Dick Wilson -- he was 91)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/19/entertainment/e102245S54.DTL&tsp=1&type=business

From CNN's obit:

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Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly housewives from fondling toilet paper. The punch line of most spots was that Whipple himself was a closeted Charmin-squeezer.

I think that'll be my new political affiliation: "closeted Charmin-squeezer."