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Title: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: narwhale on May 29, 2013, 09:51:23 PM
Post your favorites:

Mike Ilitch, age 83: Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza, owner of Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers

(http://i.imgur.com/8F6tTvq.jpg)
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: daveB from Oakland on May 30, 2013, 12:18:45 AM
Wow. I don't know anything about Mike Ilitch, but he looks like a Martin Short character that needs to happen.

My contribution doesn't really have orange hair, but I'd like to make him a Dishonorary Member of the club. The universally reviled plastic-surgery-disaster Mike Jeffries, from Abercrombie & Fitch:

(http://scarlettlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mike-jeffries-AF-620x358.jpeg)

... Mike J is the male equivalent of that "cat lady" that everyone was picking on for a while. I'm not gonna google the cat lady, because I'm sure she's suffered enough. Mike Jeffries, however, needs to suffer a lot more.
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: daveB from Oakland on May 30, 2013, 12:26:34 AM
Why is it that the head honchos at big pizza companies always turn out to be America's Most Grotesque? Are there any pizza bigwigs who are relatively non-horrible?
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: TrapNeuterReturn on May 31, 2013, 10:06:14 PM
Sumner Redstone:

(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0910/gallery.8_over_80.fortune/images/sumner_redstone.gi.jpg)

Red-Headed Stranger. Still looking good:

(http://www.parade.com/images/-v5/celebrity/2010/0627/spotlight-willie-nelson.jpg)
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 01, 2013, 01:32:16 PM
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/4/13/1239658953740/Phil-Spector-arrives-at-c-002.jpg)
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: RickInSaltLake on June 01, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
Sumner Redstone:

(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/fortune/0910/gallery.8_over_80.fortune/images/sumner_redstone.gi.jpg)

Red-Headed Stranger. Still looking good:

(http://www.parade.com/images/-v5/celebrity/2010/0627/spotlight-willie-nelson.jpg)

That dude seriously needs to give that hair back to Don Trump...
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: buffcoat on June 02, 2013, 12:24:23 AM
Strom Thurmond was the original - looked like he colored his hair with Tang.
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: TrapNeuterReturn on June 02, 2013, 05:33:18 PM
Bob Larson:

(http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/boblarson2.jpg)

In Action:

(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/54319255.jpg)

(http://hereiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Bob_Larson.jpg)
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: methanolcereal on June 04, 2013, 12:12:32 AM
How can a guy who makes terrible pizza own two professional sports teams?
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: fonpr on June 04, 2013, 09:34:28 AM
How can a guy who makes terrible pizza own two professional sports teams?
It's the result one of the major flaws inherent in capitalism.
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: nec13 on June 04, 2013, 01:59:44 PM
How can a guy who makes terrible pizza own two professional sports teams?

That's why they call Comerica Park "The House That Crazy Bread Built"
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: TrapNeuterReturn on June 04, 2013, 05:53:19 PM
Crappy pizza kingpins have brought championship sports to Detroit before:

(http://i43.tower.com/images/mm107848304/pizza-tiger-thomas-monaghan-hardcover-cover-art.jpg)

Hopefully Herman Cain will buy the Lions.
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: BadGuyZero on June 15, 2013, 12:26:47 AM
I have a copy of this Bob Larson LP:
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/6480a8d41ace9730ff0fa4f68b13bb8b/2456995.jpg)

This is one of my favorite Larson moments:
Bob Larson vs. Mayhem's Necrobutcher ! (30min Exorcism Documentary w/Eng Sub !) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJk9Ul1K_V0#ws)
Title: Re: Orange-Haired Elderly Men
Post by: TrapNeuterReturn on June 18, 2013, 08:47:22 PM
I have always felt that Bob Larson was a closet rock n roller. Evidence:

Larson's Book of Rock

(http://files.tyndale.com/thpdata/images--covers/500%20h/978-0-8423-5687-9.jpg)

Hippie, Hindus, and Rock and Roll

(http://cd.pbsstatic.com/l/97/3597/263597.jpg)

Rock: Practical Help For Those Who Listen To Words And Don't Like What They Hear

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ROCK-Practical-Help-For-Those-Who-Listen-To-Words-Dont-Like-What-They-Hear-/00/s/Nzc3WDQ4Ng==/$%28KGrHqV,!hcE8nLvl6t,BPVhuYuT8g~~60_35.JPG)

Debates with Glen Benton:

Glen Benton vs. Bob Larson Phone Calls, part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcgmWrhSg8c#)

Exposes on the likes of Bikini Kill and Nirvana on his Talk Back radio show during the mid 90s.

Case Closed.