Comments on: WILFORD BRIMLEY http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/ Lol Celebrities and All That's Famous, Fab and Funny. Your favorite actors and actresses in a funny new light! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Arthur L. Dale http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-243112 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:56 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-243112 Wilfrid Brimley’s pronunciation of diabetes as diabeet-us is the best pronunciation. That is the way it was pronounced by the medical profession and non medical people in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. Los Angeles is pronounced by most people as Los Angel-us, not Los Angel-eze. For diabetes to be pronounced diabeet-eze it would be spelled diabeties. It used to be called sugar diabetes to indicate diabetes mellitus rather than diabetes insipidus. I know because I was there and I am only 74 years old.

]]> By: protection asset http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-108670 Thu, 27 May 2010 18:01:18 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-108670 what a classic actor.

]]> By: bearloads http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-97316 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:24:54 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-97316 You GO Girl!!!!

]]> By: Vila Restal http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-75311 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:12:39 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-75311 He didn’t do much about Taxi Drivers wanting a share of his fortune though :-)

]]> By: Vila Restal http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-66131 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:50:49 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-66131 Actually most Europeans wouldn’t know what this LOL is all about. For most Europeans they’ll know of Mr Diabeetus through this site. (I know I did. I’ve seen him in countless TV programs and films but never knew he did adverts until I saw it here!!) And they say this site isn’t educational :-)

]]> By: Lakiamia http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65890 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:23:22 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65890 Actually, his pronunciation is my preferred pronunciation. (“Dia-beet-ese” just sounds gay to me.) I have a friend who’s an endocrinologist, and he pronounces it the same way.

]]> By: makefunofmyfriends.com http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65716 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:07:55 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65716 If the bastard ate more Quaker Oats and less Hershey bars, he wouldn’t have Diabeetus…

]]> By: Stephen http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65632 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:30:05 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65632 That’s nothing: you should have heard how my dad said tuberculosis.

]]> By: Ms. Valit http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65627 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:47:01 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65627 a bodyguard for Howard Hughes? did he fight off microorganisms?

]]> By: zoe http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65599 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:20 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65599 that commercial cracks me up.
diabeetus

]]> By: lb http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65582 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:43:42 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65582 Not “die a bee tease”?

]]> By: disque dur http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65579 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:05:00 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65579 WILFORD BRIMLEY is a very good natured person, i like some of his movies..
He is such a very nice person.. His Round and Round movie is really a very entertaining..

]]> By: i_@m_#1 http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65565 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:09:53 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65565 and here all along I thought it was “die a beet us”

]]> By: Dana http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65554 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:22:18 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65554 As a long-time low carber, I take a certain sick, ironic amusement at the fact that the man went from shilling Quaker Oats products to shilling diabetes testing supplies. So much for “the right thing to do and the right way to do it.”

]]> By: notolaf http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65553 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:09:42 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65553 dia·betes (dī′ə bēt′ēz′, -is)

???????????

]]> By: Wilford Brimley http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65514 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:28:58 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65514 DIABEEEEEEEETUS!!!

]]> By: rickybobby http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65493 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:22:36 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65493 Wilford Brimley is a badass mo-fo, he can say it any damn way he pleases.

Seriously, he was a bodyguard for Howard Hughes, and defeated Chuck Norris using only his mustache.

]]> By: Me http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65492 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:21:22 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65492 Shouldn’t that be ‘pronunciation’?

]]> By: Worst.Sith.EVER. http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65483 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:25:32 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65483 I reject your well reasoned and well thought argument, and insist on mocking him for his slightly-different-than-what-I’m-accustomed-to pronunciation of Diabetes.

It’s DIE-UH-BEE-TEES, daggnabbit! WHY WON’T HE JUST CONFORM?!?!?!?

]]> By: Lili http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65473 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:38:52 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65473 I think that what’s more important than pedants complaining about his pronounciation, is that he’s able to communicate the message in an effective manner. That everyone knows exactly what this LOL is on about indicates to me that Mr. Brimley’s message has been received :)

]]> By: Bugg http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65472 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:38:17 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65472 DIABEETUS!!! XD

]]> By: Jon http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65465 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:10 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65465 I swear it was “Diabeetus” for the first 40 years of my life. All of a sudden, it’s “diabeetees”.

]]> By: zappafrank http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65450 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:50:47 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65450 I love this. “Diabeetus” was a running joke I had with someone for years.

]]> By: devilwoman http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65446 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:40:46 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65446 …

he’s not pronouncing it wrong.

]]> By: Care Troll http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65445 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:32:30 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65445 Damn him for having a southern drawl?

]]> By: crota http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65441 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:24:25 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65441 Its Emperor Smith!

]]> By: Squiggly http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65438 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:16:39 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65438 {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDCMYYmYU8}

]]> By: lolwannabeee http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65435 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:08:17 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65435 agreed

]]> By: ikr http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65434 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:05:19 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65434 He’s not. This lol is extra stupid.

]]> By: Black-Velvet http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65433 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:59:55 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65433 Public moustache cheese.

]]> By: lolwannabeee http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65430 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:50:42 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65430 So if there are so many ways to pronounce it how can anyone say hes misprononcing it??

]]> By: Vila Restal http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65427 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:32:13 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65427 Diabetes -

DIABEETUS (Walrus Brimley’s favoured pronounciation)
Diabetus
Diabeetees
Diabetis

There’s 4 for you.

]]> By: lolwannabeee http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65425 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:16:48 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65425 I dont get this – what way did he pronounce it that it was wrong? and how many ways can there be to pronounce it??

]]> By: KatieZientek http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65424 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:46:25 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65424 It’s correct to pronounce it either way actually.

]]> By: namerequired http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65423 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:30:33 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65423 publicly mismentioning the moustache

]]> By: chrisp http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65420 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:14:10 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65420 publicly mispronouncing the moustache?

]]> By: Black-Velvet http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/09/celebrity-pictures-wilford-brimley-mispronouncing-diabetes/comment-page-1/#comment-65419 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:10:18 +0000 http://roflrazzi.com/?p=24833#comment-65419 Not to mention the moustache.

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