Dick Van Dyke is 97 and says his 51 year old wife keeps him young . Also asserted she is not a Gold Digger......
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-97-says-having-beautiful-young-wife-half-age-keeps-young
Maebea he kant swim and she keeps 'im afloat, hey?
Good for Dick.
Chitty-Chitty bang bang.
Good for him, but she's probably a gold digger.
My grandma grew up around the block from Dick and his family in Danville. Dick was a bit older than her but Jerry asked her out multiple times in HS unsuccessfully. I remember her saying " Dick was quite handsome back then, we all thought so" when she was HS age and he'd returned to Danville to start his career in radio.
I remember thinking as a kid about the alternate universe where my grandpa was Bert from Mary Poppins
This is a Marquette tie-in.
For some reason, Jr & Sr year my roommates and I would be hanging out at lunchtime between classes watching reruns of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Maybe it was on before Bonanza, the other lunchtime show? Buddy Sorrel and his wife "Pickles". Everytime I pass New Rochelle on I'95 or on the train...............
Quote from: JWags85 on February 24, 2023, 12:30:20 AM
My grandma grew up around the block from Dick and his family in Danville. Dick was a bit older than her but Jerry asked her out multiple times in HS unsuccessfully. I remember her saying " Dick was quite handsome back then, we all thought so" when she was HS age and he'd returned to Danville to start his career in radio.
I remember thinking as a kid about the alternate universe where my grandpa was Bert from Mary Poppins
At least you all made it out of Danville.
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on February 24, 2023, 07:38:52 AM
At least you all made it out of Danville.
You're not lying...
My grandmother left and went to MU. Met my grandfather, got married and moved with him back to Sheboygan.
Her younger brother went to U of I then moved back to Danville. He also married an amazing woman who was a teacher from ISU.
However, my grandma's side had 7 children who are college grads and a whole bunch of grandkids doing the same.
My dad's uncle Ray had 4 kids. 1 went to college, another dropped out, 1 got in legal trouble early on and never got going, and the youngest had a child young which sidetracked her. Among his grandkids, couple teenage pregnancies and one who almost needed to be sent to another state for school due to the crowd he fell in with.
I'm not meaning to seem snobby because that side of the family are INCREDIBLE people I adore and have been close with since I was young despite only seeing them once or twice a year. But Danville has RAPIDLY fell off a cliff over the last few decades and its really emblematic of that and the environment that many of them grew up in. Even with good parents who were involved and were prominent in the community in various ways.
Danville - immortalized in song by the Cryan' Shames.
And Phineas and Ferb.
More random Danville, my Dad's cousins loved to tell their Wisconsin relatives that Robin Yount was born in the hospital there. But even more interesting...
At the same time, Dick Van Dyke was in HS and my Grandma and Jerry were in middle school. There was another boy in the grade above them at the same school...named Gene Hackman.
Quote from: JWags85 on February 24, 2023, 09:56:48 AM
You're not lying...
My grandmother left and went to MU. Met my grandfather, got married and moved with him back to Sheboygan.
Her younger brother went to U of I then moved back to Danville. He also married an amazing woman who was a teacher from ISU.
However, my grandma's side had 7 children who are college grads and a whole bunch of grandkids doing the same.
My dad's uncle Ray had 4 kids. 1 went to college, another dropped out, 1 got in legal trouble early on and never got going, and the youngest had a child young which sidetracked her. Among his grandkids, couple teenage pregnancies and one who almost needed to be sent to another state for school due to the crowd he fell in with.
I'm not meaning to seem snobby because that side of the family are INCREDIBLE people I adore and have been close with since I was young despite only seeing them once or twice a year. But Danville has RAPIDLY fell off a cliff over the last few decades and its really emblematic of that and the environment that many of them grew up in. Even with good parents who were involved and were prominent in the community in various ways.
One of my closest friends moved to Danville when her 3 children were very small, and now they all have graduate degrees. But don't let my anecdote overshadow yours.
Quote from: warriorchick on February 24, 2023, 01:43:07 PM
One of my closest friends moved to Danville when her 3 children were very small, and now they all have graduate degrees. But don't let my anecdote overshadow yours.
I assume she and her husband weren't from there?
Its not Skid Row, not everyone that lives or grows up there will turn out to be burnouts or f ups, but I think there was more to it being endemic to people being there as things changed over the years. Just interesting to have 2 college educated grandparents trickle down to 5 of 6 grandkids not being college educated and remaining in Danville (the 6th interestingly enough has 3 degrees and now lives in the western Chicago burbs) and only 1 even attempting a skilled trade, with no success. With no significant change in family stature or situation.
Quote from: JWags85 on February 24, 2023, 03:22:58 PM
I assume she and her husband weren't from there?
Its not Skid Row, not everyone that lives or grows up there will turn out to be burnouts or f ups, but I think there was more to it being endemic to people being there as things changed over the years. Just interesting to have 2 college educated grandparents trickle down to 5 of 6 grandkids not being college educated and remaining in Danville (the 6th interestingly enough has 3 degrees and now lives in the western Chicago burbs) and only 1 even attempting a skilled trade, with no success. With no significant change in family stature or situation.
Sounds like the family issues are your fault :)
damn he looks great for 97, but i'd tell him to lose the beard...it ages him ;D
Quote from: rocket surgeon on February 24, 2023, 07:24:04 PM
damn he looks great for 97, but i'd tell him to lose the beard...it ages him ;D
Judges went bonkers for him....
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-sara-evans-unmasked-the-masked-singer-leaving-one-judge-tears.amp
Several years ago driving home from southern Indiana we detoured through Danville so I could take a picture of his childhood home.
Danville was pretty depressing.
Quote from: jutaw22mu on February 23, 2023, 09:37:27 PM
Good for him, but she's probably a gold digger.
Dick crashed his car. Where was wifey...
https://pagesix.com/2023/03/22/dick-van-dyke-97-crashes-car-into-gate-suffers-possible-concussion/amp/
Some good photos of flaming car
https://nypost.com/2023/03/28/dick-van-dyke-97-has-his-car-keys-taken-away-by-wife-after-crash-report/amp/
The flaming car photo is from about ten years ago, when his car caught fire on the side of a road, there was no crash involved there. I don't think there was a fire involved in this recent crash.
One of the photos in the article has a caption that says it was taken October, 2023....🤷♀️
Quote from: Warriors4ever on March 28, 2023, 09:01:39 AM
The flaming car photo is from about ten years ago, when his car caught fire on the side of a road, there was no crash involved there. I don't think there was a fire involved in this recent crash.
One of the photos in the article has a caption that says it was taken October, 2023....🤷♀️
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-car-accident-injuries-did-face-plant-steering-wheel
I had an old boss who was a veterinarian in Danville. Retired in Arizona. Getting smaller, I had a former co-worker who lived down the road in Rossville.
My contribution.
I pictured his wife to be less...like someone that Rico would enjoy.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on March 28, 2023, 08:29:09 PM
I pictured his wife to be less...like someone that Rico would enjoy.
Judging women based on looks isn't the way of Jesus. There might even be a commandment about it
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 28, 2023, 08:33:46 PM
Judging women based on looks isn't the way of Jesus. There might even be a commandment about it
Tell me you're an incel without telling me you're an incel.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on March 29, 2023, 07:20:38 AM
Tell me you're an incel without telling me you're an incel.
Ah, yes. Woke, too. Just living that Christian life, I am
Quote from: Warriors4ever on February 25, 2023, 12:11:43 AM
Several years ago driving home from southern Indiana we detoured through Danville so I could take a picture of his childhood home.
Danville was pretty depressing.
My Mom was born in Danville. Her family moved to Whiting, In when she was 3.
She somehow overcame both.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 29, 2023, 07:39:31 AM
Ah, yes. Woke, too. Just living that Christian life, I am
A woke, Christian incel.
Someone get the FBI out to rico's crib for a red flag check.
Gotta blame white, straight, males, aina?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on March 29, 2023, 08:03:09 AM
Gotta blame white, straight, males, aina?
Yup, we don't catch any breaks.
Well, accordin' ta dat genius AOC, hey?
I really want Rico and Ziggy to go on a pot buying excursion together and live stream the drive, a la Seinfeld's comedians in cars getting coffee.
Quote from: tower912 on March 29, 2023, 08:08:31 AM
I really want Rico and Ziggy to go on a pot buying excursion together and live stream the drive, a la Seinfeld's comedians in cars getting coffee.
Only if we can blaze with you in your garage.
Never have, never will. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't find you two doing a combination of Crossfire and Cheech and Chong wildly entertaining.
Dick Van Dyke escapes death again....
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-crawled-to-his-car-to-escape-malibu-fires/
Quote from: Herman Cain on December 12, 2024, 08:22:19 PMDick Van Dyke escapes death again....
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/entertainment/dick-van-dyke-crawled-to-his-car-to-escape-malibu-fires/
Hope he gets laid tonight
I wonder if he will outlive Joe Lieberman.
When I think of Dick I remember seeing him on the deck of Starbucks in Malibu. He was sitting at a table chuckling loudly while feeding coffee cake crumbs to a couple of sparrows. He looked so happy and content.