Some "quotes" from Bob Hope
ON TURNING 70 "You still chase women, but only downhill".
ON TURNING 80 ?"That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing."
ON TURNING 90 ?"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
ON TURNING 100 ?" I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING ?"I ruined my hands in the ring . the referee kept stepping on them."
ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR?"Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'."
ON GOLF "Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees."
ON PRESIDENTS ??" I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six."
ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER ?" When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, 'Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham'."
ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ???"I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it."
ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY"Four of us slept in the one bed. ?When it got cold, mother threw on another brother."
ON HIS SIX BROTHERS ??"That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom."
ON HIS EARLY FAILURES " I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me."
ON GOING TO HEAVEN ?"I've done benefits for ALL religions. ?I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality." ??????
ON TURNING 80 ?"That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing."
ON TURNING 90 ?"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
ON TURNING 100 ?" I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING ?"I ruined my hands in the ring . the referee kept stepping on them."
ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR?"Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'."
ON GOLF "Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees."
ON PRESIDENTS ??" I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six."
ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER ?" When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, 'Congratulations. You have an eight-pound ham'."
ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ???"I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it."
ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY"Four of us slept in the one bed. ?When it got cold, mother threw on another brother."
ON HIS SIX BROTHERS ??"That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom."
ON HIS EARLY FAILURES " I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me."
ON GOING TO HEAVEN ?"I've done benefits for ALL religions. ?I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality." ??????
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That sort of comedian no longer exists, and the world is poorer for it.
Doug0 -
quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
That sort of comedian no longer exists, and the world is poorer for it.
Doug
+1 on that!0 -
quote:Originally posted by sig232
quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
That sort of comedian no longer exists, and the world is poorer for it.
Doug
+1 on that!
And a +1 on that, too.0 -
By the way, Bob Hope probably.traveled more miles to entertrain troops
in WW 2 and other wars than any President, Senator, or Congressman
did to solicit votes. He was a true G.I.'s friend.0 -
I've seen some of his "road to" movies [now ripped off by family guy], and he was the one that always had to do the dangerous stuff while his buddy sat back and got the girl.
That guy never got a break.0 -
Had the honor of 'meeting' him once at the commencement exercise
at USD, in San Diego. Only a second or two and a handshake but it was
obvious that he was a man of substance and great respect. I was/am
amazed how many folks don't know he was English. He was every bit
as much an AMERICAN as was Marion Robert Morrison!
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Had the honor of 'meeting' him once at the commencement exercise
at USD, in San Diego. Only a second or two and a handshake but it was
obvious that he was a man of substance and great respect. I was/am
amazed how many folks don't know he was English. He was every bit
as much an AMERICAN as was Marion Robert Morrison!
[;)]
And the duke too!!!!!!!!!!![;)]0 -
I never met the man but I saw him perform at Valley Forge (No, not during the Revolutionary War [:D]). He was a great American. He was born in England but chose to be an American. He was an American a long time before I was. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
He was every bit
as much an AMERICAN as was Marion Robert Morrison!
[;)]
Excuse me, would you be refering to Marion Michael Morrison?
Yes, they were both AMERICANS, though you could at least get the Duke's name right!
Big Al (wal, ah tell ya, pilgrim... )0
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