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Item 127: Bob Hope Dies.

Entered by bru on Mon Jul 28 23:28:07 2003:

Bob Hope Died.

He was hte king of the one liners, and a very great american.
68 responses total.
#1 of 68 by tod on Mon Jul 28 23:29:59 2003:

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#2 of 68 by mynxcat on Tue Jul 29 00:04:34 2003:

Lol

#3 of 68 by oval on Tue Jul 29 00:08:19 2003:

when his family moved to the US, he became a US citizen.

#4 of 68 by other on Tue Jul 29 01:59:42 2003:

So he was a British-American.  Now he's dead.  It happens.

#5 of 68 by jaklumen on Tue Jul 29 02:19:01 2003:

He was a wonderful, wonderful entertainer and a pretty good golfer 
too.  I caught the 100th Birthday Special when it aired on TV.  Good 
stuff.

#6 of 68 by happyboy on Tue Jul 29 02:59:38 2003:

he was a reaganite.

#7 of 68 by bru on Tue Jul 29 03:14:26 2003:

Goodnight Bob, and thanks for the memories.

#8 of 68 by pvn on Tue Jul 29 04:06:13 2003:

Comedian 'till the very end.  WHen asked by his daughter where he wanted
to be buried, Hope quipped "Surprise me."

#9 of 68 by anderyn on Tue Jul 29 12:27:21 2003:



#10 of 68 by twenex on Tue Jul 29 16:44:29 2003:


So long and thanks for all the fish.



#11 of 68 by mynxcat on Tue Jul 29 17:42:32 2003:


That would have been appropriate for Douglas Adams



#12 of 68 by tod on Tue Jul 29 18:59:21 2003:

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#13 of 68 by richard on Tue Jul 29 22:38:49 2003:


Tod, Bob Hope's family moved to America in 1907, when he was four.  
He's been an American citizen Tod since probably before you 
grandparents were born. 

Bob Hope was around for a LONG time.  My grandmother used to talk about 
loving to listen to the Bob Hope show on the radio in the thirties, 
during the Great Depression, when you needed all the laughter you could 
find.

Bob Hope was THE greatest AMERICAN entertainer of the last century, the 
quintessential AMERICAN star.  RIP



#14 of 68 by tod on Tue Jul 29 23:12:49 2003:

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#15 of 68 by edina on Wed Jul 30 15:16:17 2003:


Actually - he says he was English - they were too poor to be British.  ;)



#16 of 68 by richard on Wed Jul 30 21:27:48 2003:


tod, so Bob Hope was born at the turn of the century too, making him as 
old or about as old as your grandparents.  Either way why did you point 
out that he wasn't born an american?  considering how long he has been 
an american, and is in fact the only non-military person ever named an 
honorary american veteran of the armed forces, there was no point to 
your bringing that up.  Hope was as american as you are 



#17 of 68 by tod on Wed Jul 30 21:38:18 2003:

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#18 of 68 by sabre on Wed Jul 30 21:56:14 2003:


Sure tod...Bob Hope had HIGH presidential aspirations. It broke his heart that
he couldn't run.....NOT.



#19 of 68 by tod on Wed Jul 30 22:30:48 2003:

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#20 of 68 by mynxcat on Thu Jul 31 03:24:12 2003:


I don't believe that people are questioning tod bringing up Hope's origin



#21 of 68 by bru on Thu Jul 31 03:59:05 2003:


he probably had more effect on more presidents than any other individual in
this country, adn he never abused it.



#22 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 17:18:34 2003:

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#23 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Jul 31 19:23:27 2003:


He was a racist.



#24 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 19:36:08 2003:

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#25 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Jul 31 19:39:24 2003:


He wrote a book about how he hated Jews.



#26 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 20:29:33 2003:

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#27 of 68 by goose on Thu Jul 31 20:36:51 2003:


Grapefruit.



#28 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Jul 31 20:46:20 2003:


Tod: JEWS



#29 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 21:11:26 2003:

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#30 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Jul 31 21:11:40 2003:


JEWS.



#31 of 68 by richard on Thu Jul 31 21:33:04 2003:


Bob Hope didn't hate jews.  Sammy Davis Jr. was one of his close 
friends, they showed clips of them performing on the news in fact.  
Sammy Davis was jewish.  Don't believe all the propoganda you read.



#32 of 68 by happyboy on Thu Jul 31 21:35:20 2003:


sammy davis jr. was jewish?  how jewish was he?



#33 of 68 by mynxcat on Thu Jul 31 21:45:40 2003:


Walt Disney was a Nazi-sympathiser



#34 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Jul 31 21:49:54 2003:


Richard, I'm talking about Henry Ford.  But Bob Hope, now that you mention
it, is a Jew-hater.



#35 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 21:50:33 2003:

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#36 of 68 by katie on Thu Jul 31 22:57:34 2003:


CLUB FOOT.



#37 of 68 by tod on Thu Jul 31 22:58:47 2003:

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#38 of 68 by happyboy on Fri Aug  1 01:14:05 2003:


"...and also anton lavey who interceeded with satan on my
behalf."


/drops glass eye into richard nixon's martini



#39 of 68 by jaklumen on Fri Aug  1 07:00:49 2003:


resp:33 Sources, please.



#40 of 68 by jmsaul on Fri Aug  1 12:41:57 2003:


Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer, but I hadn't heard it about Disney.



#41 of 68 by bru on Fri Aug  1 13:28:27 2003:


Yeah, please give cites od Disney.  I kn ow a lot of his WWII cartoons were
anti nazi.



#42 of 68 by janc on Fri Aug  1 14:18:44 2003:


The rumor seems to be based on this film:

http://www.teemings.com/shorts/disney/years/1943/derfuehrersface.html

and on some accounts of Disney having attended some American Nazi party
meetings before the war.

I think the claims are very weak and not worth taking seriously.



#43 of 68 by mynxcat on Fri Aug  1 14:19:27 2003:


It was one of those emails that keep flying around you know, "facts 
you never knew". But hey, since we were throwing allegations around, I 
figured, what the heck, here goes ;)

(No, Walt Disney was not a nazi sympathiser to the best of my 
knowledge. I was never able to validate it)



#44 of 68 by tod on Fri Aug  1 18:03:07 2003:

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#45 of 68 by gelinas on Fri Aug  1 20:42:44 2003:


(I found a web site that indicated he was rejected for service during WWI,
being only 16 at the time, so he joined the Red Cross and spent a year
driving an ambulance in France during the war.)



#46 of 68 by jmsaul on Mon Aug  4 15:43:09 2003:


Re #42:  Any idea why I can't find that page?



#47 of 68 by janc on Mon Aug  4 15:53:39 2003:


Because it's been deleted.  Google still points to it, but you can't get
it from cache even.  Obviously part of a conspiracy.

This page tells a bit about the film and hasn't been deleted yet:
http://www.geocities.com/derfuehrerspage/



#48 of 68 by jmsaul on Mon Aug  4 16:01:11 2003:


Ah.  Here I thought the URL was messed up.

Yeah, that's definitely pro-Nazi propaganda.  Hang him!



#49 of 68 by aruba on Mon Aug  4 16:26:34 2003:


Weird.  I went to that link right after Jan posted it, and watched the film.
everything worked fine.



#50 of 68 by aruba on Mon Aug  4 16:29:08 2003:


Ah, I see, the site seems to have moved in the last couple of days.  Here's
the new link:

http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/years/1943/derfuehrersface.html



#51 of 68 by tod on Mon Aug  4 16:50:58 2003:

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#52 of 68 by richard on Mon Aug 11 23:18:14 2003:


#32...happyboy: "how jewish was he?"  What you consider some people to 
be more jewish or more christian or more muslim than others of the same 
faith?  Thats a stupid view.  There is no such thing as "levels" when 
it comes to beliefs. IMO One jewish person is as jewish as another 
person, regardless of whether he's hasidic orthodox or non-practicing.  
Jewish is Jewish.  Sammy Davis Jr. converted to judaism when he was 
younger.  Frank Sinatra sang at his barmitzvah.   



#53 of 68 by tod on Mon Aug 11 23:26:37 2003:

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#54 of 68 by happyboy on Tue Aug 12 06:54:24 2003:


it's all i'm asking.



#55 of 68 by jor on Tue Aug 12 11:41:08 2003:


        so how Jewish am I?



#56 of 68 by polytarp on Tue Aug 12 11:47:38 2003:


Jews are fucking great.



#57 of 68 by novomit on Tue Aug 12 13:36:30 2003:


Fucking Jews is great? Hmmm, I'll have to try it sometime. 



#58 of 68 by happyboy on Tue Aug 12 17:32:27 2003:


re55: on the plesco scale of 1-10?



#59 of 68 by drew on Tue Aug 12 17:36:33 2003:


http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank-zappa/56819.html



#60 of 68 by happyboy on Tue Aug 12 17:38:23 2003:


r55:  a glass eye is an automatic 5 points, btw.



#61 of 68 by tod on Tue Aug 12 23:53:54 2003:

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#62 of 68 by happyboy on Wed Aug 13 06:40:40 2003:


...and 2 more points if you belonged to anton lavey's church



#63 of 68 by tod on Wed Aug 13 17:10:54 2003:

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#64 of 68 by happyboy on Wed Aug 13 19:06:54 2003:


another pt. if you win one for the gipper



#65 of 68 by polytarp on Thu Aug 14 10:09:33 2003:


People often call me pt.



#66 of 68 by happyboy on Sat Aug 16 20:53:19 2003:


half-pt.



#67 of 68 by tod on Sat Aug 16 21:30:58 2003:

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#68 of 68 by happyboy on Sun Aug 17 05:19:35 2003:


manure pt.



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