Wrap up that Cocoon one last time

[danny burstein]

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/01/wilford-brimley-dead-dies-actor-quaker-oats-diabetes/

alternate lede [a]:

The ultimate China syndrome

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[Jim Ellwanger]

The headline here really needed to be something about dia-BEET-us.

[Steve VanDevender]

Jim Ellwanger writes:
> The headline here really needed to be something about dia-BEET-us.

DIE-a-BEET-us.

[Patrick Murray]

What blows my mind is, he was a year older than I'm now when he played Ben Luckett in Cocoon in 1985

Take Care, 

- Patrick

(makes you feel older than the Beloit College Mindset List https://www.marist.edu/mindset-list)

[danny burstein]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Patrick Murray wrote:

> What blows my mind is, he was a year older than I'm now when he played Ben
> Luckett in Cocoon in 1985
>
> Take Care,

There's been this entire meme based on that. A couple of entries:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-wilford-brimley-meme-that-helps-measure-tom-cruises-agelessness

https://theblemish.com/2019/12/paul-rudd-is-officially-as-old-as-wilford-brimley-was-in-cocoon/

(amazingly there's no wikipedia entry for the Brimley/Cocoon line)

> (makes you feel older than the Beloit College Mindset
> List https://www.marist.edu/mindset-list)

In another decade I expect an entry of the form
"your students have never sat in a classroom...."