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Botany

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12. Please Rob is on record saying that being called Meathead doesn't bother him.

Reply to Auggie (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 3, 2018, 06:11 PM

Jan 2018

http://www.tvguide.com/news/rob-reiner-forever-37441/

"People still refer to me as 'Meathead,' but there's nothing I can do about it even if it did bother me," Reiner says in a new book, The Directors: Take Two (TV Books), by Robert J. Emery, producer of The Directors series on Encore. "It will follow me for the rest of my life. It won't matter what I do or what I accomplish."

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The Meathead (aka Rob Reiner) nails it. [View all] Botany Jan 2018 OP

fwiw he hates that nickname (Meathead) nt shanny Jan 2018 #1

It will be on his grave stone Botany Jan 2018 #2

If you're really a fan then stop calling him a name he hates Auggie Jan 2018 #5

Please Rob is on record saying that being called Meathead doesn't bother him. Botany Jan 2018 #12

Until he gives back the money, I think he owns it. Orsino Jan 2018 #4

Yes! In the context, coming from Archie treestar Jan 2018 #17

I remember the episode where he and archie are stuck in the basement(?) and archie niyad Jan 2018 #6

Did you ever watch Orphan Black? kag Jan 2018 #8

have never heard of it. niyad Jan 2018 #9

the "shoe-bootie" episode, one of my favorites nt PunkinPi Jan 2018 #14

Meathead is only one term of endearment we can use. BSdetect Jan 2018 #3

Unlike Rush Limbaugh... Archae Jan 2018 #7

Archie Bunker taught me alot when I was growing up benld74 Jan 2018 #10

Quit focusing on his nickname Stainless Jan 2018 #11

Did anyone see Norman Lear on the Kennedy Center honors? stopwastingmymoney Jan 2018 #13

Yes. mnhtnbb Jan 2018 #15

I noticed that too, nt stopwastingmymoney Jan 2018 #16