Or is it Clack?
Tom Magliozzi dies at 77. My Saturdays under my car will never be as funny.
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Click is gone
by Thumper » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:05 am
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Re: Click is gone
by Cyborg Girl » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:30 am
Ouch. That was part of my childhood there.
(And I still don't understand 90% of how a car works...)
(And I still don't understand 90% of how a car works...)
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Re: Click is gone
by pumpkinpi » Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:45 am
Such a shame. They were a truly unique duo.
It's frightening. It was just two years ago that they retired, and here he is at 77 dying from complications due to Alzheimer's. It's not just a disease that affects the elderly, slowly getting worse over their last decade of life.
It's frightening. It was just two years ago that they retired, and here he is at 77 dying from complications due to Alzheimer's. It's not just a disease that affects the elderly, slowly getting worse over their last decade of life.
Too bad ignorance isn't painful.
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Re: Click is gone
by geonuc » Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:37 am
I heard about Tom's death on NPR yesterday. Very sad. One of the two best MIT-educated car mechanics around! I love that show.
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Re: Click is gone
by Rommie » Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:00 pm
Did anyone not love that show? 
IRC, they themselves always joked that they didn't know who Click and who Clack was. The fact that they had the best kind of brotherly love between them was so obvious listening to the show.
Fun fact: my sister's college ex once called into the show for car advice. They kinda made a little fun of my sister because of course she'd borrowed his car and told the ex first that there was something wrong with it on the show (you know how it is). Though the one where the ISS astronaut called in was still my favorite!
IRC, they themselves always joked that they didn't know who Click and who Clack was. The fact that they had the best kind of brotherly love between them was so obvious listening to the show.
Fun fact: my sister's college ex once called into the show for car advice. They kinda made a little fun of my sister because of course she'd borrowed his car and told the ex first that there was something wrong with it on the show (you know how it is). Though the one where the ISS astronaut called in was still my favorite!
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Re: Click is gone
by Thumper » Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:09 pm
I remember when Astronaut John Grunsfeld called in from the Space Shuttle. "This is John from Houston." I also liked when NPR quizmaster Will Short called in with puzzles and then a car puzzle.
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Re: Click is gone
by pumpkinpi » Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:15 pm
Rommie wrote:Did anyone not love that show?
MrPi. He couldn't stand Click's laugh, so he never would listen.
Too bad ignorance isn't painful.
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Re: Click is gone
by geonuc » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:04 am
pumpkinpi wrote:Rommie wrote:Did anyone not love that show?
MrPi. He couldn't stand Click's laugh, so he never would listen.
By Click, you mean … Tom?
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Re: Click is gone
by SciFi Chick » Wed Nov 05, 2014 3:53 pm
Believe it or not - I just heard this show, for the very first time, this past weekend. It was an episode where they discussed the male habit of nose picking in a car... what a way to be introduced to this show, and then to hear of the passing of one of the hosts just a few days later. Very surreal.
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Re: Click is gone
by cid » Sun Nov 09, 2014 7:05 am
I've been a fan of Car Talk for ages...
Not only were they The Rust-Eze Brothers in Cars, but as Click and Clack they had their own animated show once. I saw it...funny stuff.
Car Talk plays on NPR as reruns for now...
We've lost a unique combination of Americana...RIP, Mr Magliozzi...
Not only were they The Rust-Eze Brothers in Cars, but as Click and Clack they had their own animated show once. I saw it...funny stuff.
Car Talk plays on NPR as reruns for now...
We've lost a unique combination of Americana...RIP, Mr Magliozzi...
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Re: Click is gone
by Thumper » Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:00 pm
Yes...cid wrote:I've been a fan of Car Talk for ages...
Not only were they The Rust-Eze Brothers in Cars, but as Click and Clack they had their own animated show once. I saw it...funny stuff.
Car Talk plays on NPR as reruns for now...
We've lost a unique combination of Americana...RIP, Mr Magliozzi...
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Re: Click is gone
by cid » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:09 am
The reruns get a small touch-up, apparently...on the way home from Toledo today, the end blurb referred to Bill Belichick "...wanting to deflate his radio every time we say 'This is NPR'..."
I thought it was a minor hoot...
I thought it was a minor hoot...
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Re: Click is gone
by Rommie » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:17 am
That's awesome. I guess Clack can't resist- to be fair, I don't know if I could either. 
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