What's your favorite brand of bacon?
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I know that one of the Kardashians does reality TV because she couldn't cut it as a local radio DJ. She made it like two weeks in Dallas. Maybe Ozzy couldn't keep up with that musical thing and took the same route.
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The truth is that Ozzy should just stop. But, that doesn't take away what he has done. He is not famous because of "The Osbournes" or "The Kardashians". Those came much later... well into the time when he should have just stopped already.
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@art_of_shred said:
The truth is that Ozzy should just stop. But, that doesn't take away what he has done. He is not famous because of "The Osbournes" or "The Kardashians". Those came much later... well into the time when he should have just stopped already.
Problem is, to the current generation, that's all that he is. It has completely overshadowed his musical history because the gap between them was so big. They probably would have commonly known him for his music had he actually just retired. But since he become so well known as the second tier reality television star, it's hard to think of him as anything else today. I think in ten years he's going to regret that decision - unless he was all out of money and was just desperate. He traded in his legacy for that money.
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What's funny, and really dates me, is that if you don't say his last name with his first one, this is the only thing that pops into my mind...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3o9FUDlJrSw/TSycL71l69I/AAAAAAAAB7g/QZJOFuY7byU/s640/ozzie_and_harriet.jpg
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
The truth is that Ozzy should just stop. But, that doesn't take away what he has done. He is not famous because of "The Osbournes" or "The Kardashians". Those came much later... well into the time when he should have just stopped already.
Problem is, to the current generation, that's all that he is. It has completely overshadowed his musical history because the gap between them was so big. They probably would have commonly known him for his music had he actually just retired. But since he become so well known as the second tier reality television star, it's hard to think of him as anything else today. I think in ten years he's going to regret that decision - unless he was all out of money and was just desperate. He traded in his legacy for that money.
Problems:
- He will surely be dead in 10 years, so I don't see that as a big worry to him.
- I don't consider 15 year old girls' perceptions into my calculations of what is or isn't a big deal.
- Reality TV is about the most worthless thing ever conceived. I am perfectly happy to dismiss that it even exists, and I am sure my life is much better off as a result.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What's funny, and really dates me, is that if you don't say his last name with his first one, this is the only thing that pops into my mind...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3o9FUDlJrSw/TSycL71l69I/AAAAAAAAB7g/QZJOFuY7byU/s640/ozzie_and_harriet.jpg
That's not dating you. The weird fact that you like something that your parents grew up with doesn't "date" you... just makes you weird.
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I knew immediately who that pic must be of, but I couldn't pick them out of a crowd of 3. Never seen a pic of them in my life.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What's funny, and really dates me, is that if you don't say his last name with his first one, this is the only thing that pops into my mind...
I have no idea who that is...
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And hence the reason that vegetarians should avoid threads about bacon. Vegetarians won't understand why that matters, but the rest of us get it.
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@coliver Ozzie & Harriet Nelson
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@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Ozzie & Harriet Nelson
Ah from the 50's that makes sense. I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever heard of this sitcom.
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@coliver Do you remember the band "Nelson" from the early 90's? The 2 twin guys with the long blonde hair? Those are their kids.
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@art_of_shred said:
- Reality TV is about the most worthless thing ever conceived. I am perfectly happy to dismiss that it even exists, and I am sure my life is much better off as a result.
My feeling exactly. Ozzy has removed himself from my consciousness by becoming a reality TV personality.
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@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Ozzie & Harriet Nelson
Ah from the 50's that makes sense. I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever heard of this sitcom.
That's where Ricky Nelson came from!
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@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Do you remember the band "Nelson" from the early 90's? The 2 twin guys with the long blonde hair? Those are their kids.
GRAND kids! Ricky Nelson was their kid. The Nelsons were HIS kids. His daughter was the nun on the "Father Dowling Mysteries".
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My grandmother loved that show. Jeeze @scottalanmiller if people talked to you they would think our age group was a WHOLE lot older than we are!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Do you remember the band "Nelson" from the early 90's? The 2 twin guys with the long blonde hair? Those are their kids.
GRAND kids! Ricky Nelson was their kid. The Nelsons were HIS kids. His daughter was the nun on the "Father Dowling Mysteries".
Correct. Sister Stephanie. See, it matters so little that I forgot that detail.
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Father Dowling was an awesome show. It was a far better take on the Murder She Wrote style shows.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
- Reality TV is about the most worthless thing ever conceived. I am perfectly happy to dismiss that it even exists, and I am sure my life is much better off as a result.
My feeling exactly. Ozzy has removed himself from my consciousness by becoming a reality TV personality.
But if you only see him as that, the fact is that you have removed his actual accomplishments from your consciousness and replaced that with his current status. I would never think of him as a reality TV star. I have actually removed that from my conscious awareness.
