LOS ANGELES — In his test lawful attendance on the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Andy Rooney spoken gratitude for a "lucky" chronicle and thanked his fans, but not without adding a contact of the gruff mutter that has embellish a mode surroundings of his TV essays.

"I've finished a aggregation of querulous here," the 92 year-old Rooney said, "but of every the things I've complained about, I can't kvetch most my life."

Sunday night's broadcast of "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" capped a 33-year separate for the end-of-show portion in which Rooney famously commented on everything from unimportant items -- ofttimes displaying collections of home possessions, desired and discarded -- to societal issues.

During his oratory segment, Rooney thanked conference for their beatific wishes, patch admitting that he's not easy with adulation. "I wasn't ever refined most it," he said. "I don't feature this often, but impart you. Although if you do wager me in a restaurant, please, meet permit me take my dinner."

His "60 Minutes" term wasn't without controversy. He was suspended without clear in 1990 over on-air remarks that were thoughtful opprobrious to homosexuals, but apace reinstated after the CBS exhibit old a large dip in conference share. Four eld after he apologized to conference for comments most performer Kurt Cobain's slayer that were deemed insensitive.

Rooney, who connected the meshwork in 1949 as a illustrator for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," said on Sun it was his fuck of the cursive articulate that led him to oppose a occupation in broadcasting.

"I don't conceive of myself as a broadcasting personality," Rooney said. "I'm a illustrator who reads what he's written."

He began his 70-year journalism occupation on the U.S. Army's "Stars and Stripes" newspaper, and his "60 Minutes" essays ofttimes included references to his expeditionary eld and tributes to the men with whom he served during World War II.

"This is a time I hit dreaded," Rooney said of Sunday's going telecast. "I desire I could do this forever. ... But I'm not retiring. Writers don't retire, and I'll ever be a writer."

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