Drink responsibly, watch Tiki, drive home safely
Well, I'm out for 2007.
Enjoy your New Year's Eve TV choice, whether it be some guy jumping the length of a football field in a motorcyle on ESPN (appropriate to ring out the year in which we lost Evel Knievel) or whatever Tiki Barber is doing on NBC or the Honeymooners Christmas episode on Ch. 11 (see post below).
I'll be busy looking forward and planning my 2008.
Feb. 4: Final Mercury Morris TV interview - ever! - on '72 Dolphins
July 15: Ian Kennedy starts All-Star Game for AL squad in Bronx.
Aug. 8: Roger Clemens carries American flag in Opening Ceremonies.
Dec. 31: Tiki tries to leap 30 Rock in a single bound via rocket-powered device.
Happy New Year.
Enjoy Ms. Fitness World '08 from Las Vegas at 4 p.m. Tuesday on FSNY.
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Ok, my friend. Your final post of 2007 and there is a gravestone. Please explain.
Happy New Year Neil,
All the best in the coming year, have a safe one.
Dude,
I knew people under 40 might not get the reference, but I assumed my over-50 friends would. (I assume you're not over 60 yet.)
Ben Grauer for many years hosted the ball-dropping during the Tonight Show on NBC. I believe his last year doing it was 1972 or '73.
Please keep up with the baby boomer references, Glauber. We move fast around here.
Have a nice time in Tampa and Happy New Year.
when is the mr. world fitness 08 going to be televised?
Oh, man, Best, you are off the deep end with your obscure baby boomer references.
There is only one host I will ever remember from New Year's Eve, and that's Dick Clark.
Happy New Year.
Dude,
I am old enough to remember when Dick Clark was the hip, new New Year's Eve host on ABC, with Guy Lombaro on CBS and Ben Grauer on NBC.
And you're older than I am, so . . .
Oh, never mind.
Happy New Year to all and to all a good night.
Dude,
No one at the New Year's party I attended had any idea who Ben Grauer was. The people at the party ranged in age from 11 to 76. Everyone had heard of Dick Clark and even Ryan Seacrest.
Happy and healthy to you and the entire WatchDog family.
The baby boomer reference goes even more obscure. Ben Grauer narrated the English version of Kon-Tiki. Oh, and I know this only because my daughter has a cockatiel named Tiki, and I recently got another cockatiel who is now named Kon. Not because I'm as old as Neil.
I think something I drank last night has really affected my brain.
Glauber: So what if you never heard of Grauer? Now you have. WatchDog is educational.
It had to show up.
Actual Ben Grauer tape [from 12/31/76-1/1/77 .. month before he passed away. The old boiled Canadian himself, Guy Lombardo, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isXccXLYUE
Thanks, DuMont. Maybe now Glauber will believe me that he exists.
Does anyone know if Ben Grauer made any guitars in 1940?
My mom has a guitar with a label reading:
Ben Grauer Guitar
35 Union Square
New York, NY
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