Pimpernel Smith
Tone Deaf Daddy
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It's not me pretending to be hip with the kids.Unmmm … ok, loser.
that it had to be a well-kept secret
According to the NYP yes. Dick Clark knew but American parents didn't.Was it though?
According to the NYP yes. Dick Clark knew but American parents didn't.
Btw, the video clip there shows a mixed race audience but black dancers came a bit later.
Possibly, yes.I don't know. I think that's one of those willfully ignorant things. Everyone knew a lot of Hollywood people at the time were gay too but pretended they weren't, like Anthony Perkins and such.
I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance.
Same at my all boys school, but aged 14 we had to do either table etiquette or dancing. We all left knowing our teaspoons and soup spoons apart, with two left feet!Aged 11 at school a weekly lesson was ballroom dancing. As it was an all boys school that meant dancing the waltz with another boy.
We had etiquette, too. But it was compulsory as was ballroom dancing.Same at my all boys school, but aged 14 we had to do either table etiquette or dancing. We all left knowing our teaspoons and soup spoons apart, with two left feet!
right? table etiquette? these damn british satrapies creating fancy little lads.Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.
Yes. And trousers had to be properly ironed and creased and shoes had to be shined. I think a Shooman genie must have been somewhere behind the scenes.Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.
For sure. I went to school with Stuart McGill, Heath Ledger and Tim Minchin. I sold drugs to them all.Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.
For sure. I went to school with Stuart McGill, Heath Ledger and Tim Minchin. I sold drugs to them all.
I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance and some day he will value the fact he is surrounded by fit girls. But, of course, he won’t step out of his martial arts and fencing lane.