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> Come to think of it, maybe i just don't like Dick Van Dike. As a child, i hated musicals (ironic, don't you think, for me to now be a voice major--we just finished a Gilbert & Sullivan show last week); the older me hates a lot of what i liked as a child, shows like the Smurfs.
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As much as I do like Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke was pretty bad. That accent was one of the worst attempts at cockney that I've ever heard. Although he kind of makes up for it with that dance with the penguins, that's cool.

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