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...when New Years Eve comes around and you have no interest in going out or drinking and you don't even bother turning on Dick Clark to watch him drop the ball in Time Square. I can't believe he is still alive.
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And the butcher usually gave the little kid standing next to his mom a free hotdog, consumed raw and on the spot.
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01-01-2022, 12:32 PM | #4009 |
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I know he's dead, but that doesn't stop ABC from calling the show "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve".
The old people (like me) are thinking, "why is his name still on the show, he's been dead for years". The younger generation is saying, "Who the hell is Dick Clark". |
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I think I'm going to go take a bath in Epsom salts…
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The whole "New Year's Rockin' Eve" show is really like a yearly family reunion atmosphere for the people working behind the cameras, and Dick welcomed the people working the broadcast year after year to bring their families as VIP guests. (I used to TiVo the show every year just to watch the credits, to see who had moved/passed on. A few times, they even included memorial info in the ending credits for production crew who passed away the previous year.) One of my favorite broadcasts was the year when KISS was playing a NYE concert across the river in NJ at The Meadowlands, and they played "Rock and Roll All Night" live from the concert for the broadcast via microwave link. FYI, an interesting Dick Clark tidbit is that he was rather short. Many of the sets he used over the years had stepped platforms or sitting stools, so that he appeared normal height next to co-stars like Ed McMahon. There was even a joke about the "Bandstand" having a milk crate behind the podium as a platform, although it was probably not true. Back to the topic, you know you're old when you remember Dick Clark replacing Guy Lombardo on the TV at your family's NYE celebrations.....
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This is how you found your friends
Or, this is how your parents knew where you were.
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You watch that movie when it came out...
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...when falling down for any reason becomes a legitimate concern.
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His dad (Jack) had asked Shirley Jones to come over for a drink, she declined, and he fell asleep on the couch with a lit cigarette. |
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This hits close to home. My maternal grandfather died at age 56 due to alcoholism - liver failure. I was 12 years old at the time and didn't understand why grandpa was gone.
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