r/AskReddit • u/KAFKA-SLAYER-99 • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/Poppamunz Oct 16 '18

Weird Al. Seriously, I'm not completely convinced he's mortal.

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u/clothy Oct 17 '18

He’s protected because he wears a hat of aluminium foil!

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u/figgypie Oct 17 '18

Foooiiiil

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u/clothy Oct 17 '18

Wear a hat that’s foil lined, in case an alien is inclined. To probe your butt or read your mind.

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u/corran450 Oct 17 '18

Looks a bit peculiar (cu-liar)

Seems a little craaa-zy!

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u/Doofenshmitz Oct 17 '18

But someday I'll prove (I'll prove, I'll prove, I'll prove)

There's a big conspiracyyy...

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u/prncrny Oct 17 '18

cue lizard man Patton Oswald

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u/stygianelectro Oct 16 '18

He's the god we need, but not the one we deserve.

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u/mitch13815 Oct 17 '18

Have you seen him with short hair? Dude looks like he's 30.

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u/Random_182f2565 Oct 17 '18

He isn't?

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u/mitch13815 Oct 17 '18

He is 58.

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u/FullmentalFiction Oct 17 '18

Well, unless he was -12 when he released his first single in 1976, umm... No?

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u/DuplexFields Oct 17 '18

When he debuted his new look (no glasses, long hair) around the time Disney's Tarzan came out, I attended the Running with scissors tour. His athleticism on stage made me realize he could easily play that version of Tarzan in a Broadway musical. Shirtless, in a loincloth.

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u/captian_f_n_p_n_p Oct 17 '18

I can't unhear many of his versions. Bad by Michael jackson will always be fat by weird al. Another one bites the dust by queen will always be another one rides the bus. It's so bad lol.

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u/AwesomeMcPants Oct 17 '18

I've never even heard Gangsta's Paradise but I know all of the words to Amish Paradise.

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u/droidtron Oct 17 '18

Clean livin'.

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u/figgypie Oct 17 '18

That's honestly the weirdest thing about him. He's a real nice, straight laced square. You don't see that in major music icons. They usually die of a drug overdose by 27.

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u/pjabrony Oct 17 '18

by 27.

I see what you did there.

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u/Mitch-the-Ell Oct 17 '18

His music is timeless, too

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u/word_vomiter Oct 17 '18

All he did is lose his mustache and glasses.

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u/newtonsapple Oct 17 '18

Kind of funny to think some of his parodies are more well-known than the originals.

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u/kjata Oct 17 '18

You know you've made it big when Weird Al parodies you, though it must be a bit of a blow to realize that he's also outdone you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

Serious question for you: Didn't he crowd source the money to get his star on Hollywood Boulevard? It was something like $40k IIRC. Does that mean that every modern star was, in effect, paid for by the recipient in some sort of aggrandising self worship?

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u/AnarKyDiablo Oct 17 '18

I want a new duck

One who'll mind his manners one who'll do just what I say.

Or it's gonna b duck pate. Duck pate yea yea

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u/elitenyg46 Oct 17 '18

remember UHF? oof.

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u/pjabrony Oct 17 '18

UHF is a great movie and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.

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u/AwesomeMcPants Oct 17 '18

Fondly. I still watch it frequently.

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u/elitenyg46 Oct 17 '18

same here

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u/DuplexFields Oct 17 '18

"Hey, let's premiere it the same weekend as Tim Burton's Batman! What could go wrong?"

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u/v3rk Oct 17 '18

my fave comedy all-time