# RIP Dick Clark **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201 "2012-04-18T19:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/1 "2012-04-18T19:54:46Z")
[He’s finally gone to the big bandstand in the sky.](http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Dick-Clark-Death-American-Bandstand-147976045.html) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/2 "2012-04-18T19:55:07Z")
[Breaking news.](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/report-dick-clark-dies-at-age-82/) RIP, sir. You always had a good beat you could dance to. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/3 "2012-04-18T19:55:17Z")
Breaking News on [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) right now that Dick Clark has died at the age of 82. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/4 "2012-04-18T19:56:05Z")
Who’s going to rock my Eve’s now? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/5 "2012-04-18T19:57:31Z")
☹ What a career he had. RIP, Mr. Clark. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/6 "2012-04-18T19:58:03Z")
I don’t believe the 82 age. He never aged beyond 32. World’s oldest teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/7 "2012-04-18T19:59:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Who’s going to rock my Eve’s now? I am open to suggestions . . . ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/8 "2012-04-18T19:59:39Z")
Wow, one of the true icons of the popular culture so many of us grew up with. _Requiescat in pace_. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/9 "2012-04-18T20:01:08Z")
He’s gone to the top of the Pyramid. RIP, sir. You taught me a lot as a kid. Sure to be heard at his funeral: “Oh, he looks so young!” ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/10 "2012-04-18T20:08:03Z")
I just told my mom via chat and she said “how could they tell?” Seriously tho, that dude was on my Celebrity Death Pool list every year I played and he just wouldn’t die. Now that I’ve given up, there he goes. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/11 "2012-04-18T20:09:03Z")
His final countdown. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/12 "2012-04-18T20:09:08Z")
I guess he and Don Cornelius will be duking it out for ratings for the best dance show in Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/13 "2012-04-18T20:09:14Z")
Abe Vigoda, I got my eye on you! Oddly, my picture of Dick Clark now looks like a young man … ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/14 "2012-04-18T20:10:04Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Who’s going to rock my Eve’s now? Your Eve’s what? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/15 "2012-04-18T20:13:17Z")
I join with the rest of the nation in wondering why this couldn’t have happened to the talentless and barely sane Ryan Seacrest or Kathy Griffin instead. Wanna see something weird? Dick Clark’s [Flinstones inspired house in Malibu](http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1203/gallery.Dick-Clark-house/index.html). The interior is more Fred & Wilma than the exterior. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/16 "2012-04-18T20:16:39Z")
Don’t worry. He’ll be back on NYE in hologram form. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/17 "2012-04-18T20:18:11Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Don’t worry. He’ll be back on NYE in hologram form. Mikey, is that you? (Sorry, a Facebook friend just said almost exactly the same thing.) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/18 "2012-04-18T20:19:06Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Don’t worry. He’ll be back on NYE in hologram form. Oddly, I expect this to happen. Why not? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/19 "2012-04-18T20:20:22Z")
Used to watch him after school on American Bandstand. He went to college with my father, though it was never clear how well they knew each other. ---
**Author:** ![SnakeBabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SnakeBabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeBabe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dick-clark/619201/20 "2012-04-18T20:22:19Z")
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