Hope
Aug 14, 2019 17:43:07 #
This is a tribute to a man who DID make a difference.
ON TURNING 70
'I 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 but 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 h**e to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'
ON TURNING 70
'I 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 but 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 h**e to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'
Aug 14, 2019 18:23:39 #
AuntiE wrote:
This is a tribute to a man who DID make a differen... (show quote)
Amen and Amen spot on thanks for that I always enjoyed Bob Hope.
Aug 14, 2019 20:16:10 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen spot on thanks for that I always enjoyed Bob Hope.
As funny as he was, his friends said they were more impressed with what a kind and gentle man he was. Not many like that in show business.
Aug 14, 2019 21:02:13 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
AuntiE wrote:
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I had the distinct pleasure of being flown in to Bob Hope's 1968 Christmas USO show in Danang, VietNam, 1968. The troops, as always, loved him
A great, great man, with a heart as big as Texas. :sm24
Aug 14, 2019 21:11:28 #
AuntiE wrote:
This is a tribute to a man who DID make a differen... (show quote)
Thanks Auntie. A lot of beautiful memories.
Aug 15, 2019 07:40:19 #
AuntiE wrote:
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We are all blessed to have had him here for as long as we did.
Aug 15, 2019 10:50:47 #
AuntiE wrote:
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I actually had the pleasure of meeting Bob Hope when I was 17. I was living in a boy's home called the Bob Hope House and he gave us a visit. Wonderful man; very funny. He said he used his nose to get cigarettes out of the machine and he never drove anything but a Chrysler. To this day Chrysler is my automobile.
Aug 17, 2019 09:17:57 #
rjoeholl wrote:
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Bob Hope when I was 17. I was living in a boy's home called the Bob Hope House and he gave us a visit. Wonderful man; very funny. He said he used his nose to get cigarettes out of the machine and he never drove anything but a Chrysler. To this day Chrysler is my automobile.
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