Thanks for the memories
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RE: Thanks for the memories
My wife's favorite comedian.
Here's few goodies:
Bob Hope traveled further and entertained more people than anybody. Looking over a list of his activites, Bob said: "If I had my life to live over....I wouldn't have time."
The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.
Bob Hope likes to tell of an incident that occured to him one year at La Quinta and left him speechless - if you can believe it: "Players occasionally have to contend with these gusty desert winds. I hit a ball into the wind one day... but I shouldn't have watched it with my mouth open. I'm the only guy around here with an Adam's Apple marked Spalding Kro-Flite."
Incidentally, the toughest part of the course for me nowdays are the sand traps. It's not hard to get the ball out....the problem is to get me out, at my age!
"I asked my good friend, Arnold Palmer how I could improve my game, he advised me to Cheat!"
Bob said, "I've played some strange rounds of golf in my travels. One course in Alaska was hacked out of the wilderness. My caddy was a moose. Every time I reached for a club he thought I was trying to steal his antlers."
Bob said, "The Scottish caddies are great. One old fellow at St. Andrews told me, "I had a golfer who was so lousy he threw his clubs into the water. Then he dived in himself. I thought he was going to drown, but I remembered he couldn't keep his head down long enough."
Bob has played with all of the Hollywood celebrities, some were pretty fair golfers. For example: "Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital."
One of Bob's favorite golfing partners is Gerald Ford, "the man who made golf a contact sport." "You all know Jerry Ford -- the most dangerous driver since Ben Hur. Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top. Whenever I play with him, I usually try to make it a foursome -- the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer. One of my most prized possession is the Purple Heart I received for all the golf I've played with him. "Whenever I play with Ford these days I carry 13 clubs and a white flag. I try to win only enough from him to pay my extra insurance premiums."
Bob played with former V.P. Spiro Agnew, he said: "I was his partner one day at Palm Springs, although I didn't realize it until my caddy handed me a blindfold and a cigarette."
Hope stated that "I have performed for twelve presidents and entertained six."
As he celebrated another birthday on May 29th, someone asked,. "How does it feel to be almost 100, Bob?
Bob replied: "I don't feel old - I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
"How do you look so good at your age, Bob?"
"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people that restored the Statue of Liberty."
Bob told about going to the New Year celebration in Times Square one year. "Boy, was it crowded! It was so crowded that the pickpockets wouldn't take your watch unless it was gift wrapped.---One of 'em had his hand in my pocket, and I said, "What's the idea?
"He said, don't get excited...I'm just making change."
President George Bush speaking of the bombing of Pearl Harbor mistakenly said it happened on October 7, 1941. Bob noticed the error and kidded George by saying, "George is always prepared, always ready, in fact, he was ready for Pearl Harbor three months before it happened."
Sailors on shore leave spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then they go to chapel on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Bob had a long association with NBC. He said,"I've been with NBC so long. I was here when the peacock was just an egg"
Bob said, "Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it."
Bob said the Admiral was very supportive as he took his show into combat areas. "He promised to keep a supply of my blood type on hand, even if he had to kill the chicken himself"
My wife's favorite comedian.
Here's few goodies:
Bob Hope traveled further and entertained more people than anybody. Looking over a list of his activites, Bob said: "If I had my life to live over....I wouldn't have time."
The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.
Bob Hope likes to tell of an incident that occured to him one year at La Quinta and left him speechless - if you can believe it: "Players occasionally have to contend with these gusty desert winds. I hit a ball into the wind one day... but I shouldn't have watched it with my mouth open. I'm the only guy around here with an Adam's Apple marked Spalding Kro-Flite."
Incidentally, the toughest part of the course for me nowdays are the sand traps. It's not hard to get the ball out....the problem is to get me out, at my age!
"I asked my good friend, Arnold Palmer how I could improve my game, he advised me to Cheat!"
Bob said, "I've played some strange rounds of golf in my travels. One course in Alaska was hacked out of the wilderness. My caddy was a moose. Every time I reached for a club he thought I was trying to steal his antlers."
Bob said, "The Scottish caddies are great. One old fellow at St. Andrews told me, "I had a golfer who was so lousy he threw his clubs into the water. Then he dived in himself. I thought he was going to drown, but I remembered he couldn't keep his head down long enough."
Bob has played with all of the Hollywood celebrities, some were pretty fair golfers. For example: "Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital."
One of Bob's favorite golfing partners is Gerald Ford, "the man who made golf a contact sport." "You all know Jerry Ford -- the most dangerous driver since Ben Hur. Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top. Whenever I play with him, I usually try to make it a foursome -- the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer. One of my most prized possession is the Purple Heart I received for all the golf I've played with him. "Whenever I play with Ford these days I carry 13 clubs and a white flag. I try to win only enough from him to pay my extra insurance premiums."
Bob played with former V.P. Spiro Agnew, he said: "I was his partner one day at Palm Springs, although I didn't realize it until my caddy handed me a blindfold and a cigarette."
Hope stated that "I have performed for twelve presidents and entertained six."
As he celebrated another birthday on May 29th, someone asked,. "How does it feel to be almost 100, Bob?
Bob replied: "I don't feel old - I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
"How do you look so good at your age, Bob?"
"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people that restored the Statue of Liberty."
Bob told about going to the New Year celebration in Times Square one year. "Boy, was it crowded! It was so crowded that the pickpockets wouldn't take your watch unless it was gift wrapped.---One of 'em had his hand in my pocket, and I said, "What's the idea?
"He said, don't get excited...I'm just making change."
President George Bush speaking of the bombing of Pearl Harbor mistakenly said it happened on October 7, 1941. Bob noticed the error and kidded George by saying, "George is always prepared, always ready, in fact, he was ready for Pearl Harbor three months before it happened."
Sailors on shore leave spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then they go to chapel on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Bob had a long association with NBC. He said,"I've been with NBC so long. I was here when the peacock was just an egg"
Bob said, "Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it."
Bob said the Admiral was very supportive as he took his show into combat areas. "He promised to keep a supply of my blood type on hand, even if he had to kill the chicken himself"
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RE: Thanks for the memories
I was one of those thousands of GI’s he entertained over the years. His last performance that I saw was when he was only 87 years old back in last Gulf War. He had to be nearly carried on stage by his assistants and used his signature golf putter more as something to hold him up than a prop but he was still very entertaining. His wife was the only female the Saudi’s let enter the country in his entourage.
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were part of the traveling show but had to wait over in Bahrain until the USO show got there. The Saudi’s didn’t think it would be a good idea to have scantly clad attractive women entertaining the troops in a war zone and neither did my wife but I’ll never know how she convinced the Saudi officials of that.
Johnny Bench, the baseball Hall of Fame catcher formerly of the Cincinnati Reds, was part of the group and his trick was holding up either 7 or 9 baseballs in one hand (I forget which number it was). Bob was loved by the troops with his risqué humor and attractive ladies in his shows. The young and old soldiers alike especially appreciated those lovely ladies. He seemed to know what the troops wanted to hear and told jokes about the politicians and officers which were always a big hit. He liked to make sure the lower ranking GI’s got the best seats and not the ones with rank. Yes, he’ll be missed by all.
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"Good Bye Bob, and thanks for the memories......."
** Bill **
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I was one of those thousands of GI’s he entertained over the years. His last performance that I saw was when he was only 87 years old back in last Gulf War. He had to be nearly carried on stage by his assistants and used his signature golf putter more as something to hold him up than a prop but he was still very entertaining. His wife was the only female the Saudi’s let enter the country in his entourage.
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were part of the traveling show but had to wait over in Bahrain until the USO show got there. The Saudi’s didn’t think it would be a good idea to have scantly clad attractive women entertaining the troops in a war zone and neither did my wife but I’ll never know how she convinced the Saudi officials of that.
Johnny Bench, the baseball Hall of Fame catcher formerly of the Cincinnati Reds, was part of the group and his trick was holding up either 7 or 9 baseballs in one hand (I forget which number it was). Bob was loved by the troops with his risqué humor and attractive ladies in his shows. The young and old soldiers alike especially appreciated those lovely ladies. He seemed to know what the troops wanted to hear and told jokes about the politicians and officers which were always a big hit. He liked to make sure the lower ranking GI’s got the best seats and not the ones with rank. Yes, he’ll be missed by all.
http://web-server.dod.state.hi.us/hiarng/111ab/gif/hope.gif
"Good Bye Bob, and thanks for the memories......."
** Bill **
1995 LSC-R'ed w/Recaro's and Cobra R's
Veteran of Carlisle 2000/01/02/03
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...Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself....
RE: Thanks for the memories
It's really hard to think of any current entertainers anywhere near the caliber of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby...oh yeah - I forgot about Howard Stern...
BTW - Bill - Webshots doesn't allow linking to pictures at their website - all we get here is a red X, (yours is probably cached).
John
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It's really hard to think of any current entertainers anywhere near the caliber of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby...oh yeah - I forgot about Howard Stern...
BTW - Bill - Webshots doesn't allow linking to pictures at their website - all we get here is a red X, (yours is probably cached).
John
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'97 Mark VIII LSC
'96 T-Bird 4.6L
RE: Thanks for the memories
I think we all have the memories...mine was from the Viet Nam era. He came aboard the aircraft carrier I was on (Forget which one...maybe Forrestal, maybe Connie) in December 1968 or 69. He brought Raquel Welch with him...4-5000 sailors and we cheered Bob Hope more than Raquel Welch!! Now, I ain't saying we didn't appreciate Raquel Welch in that purple mini outfit....But Bob was THE MAN. We know WHO brought those good lookin' gals on board. He will be sorely missed...Fair winds and following seas, Bob. We all loved you!
I think we all have the memories...mine was from the Viet Nam era. He came aboard the aircraft carrier I was on (Forget which one...maybe Forrestal, maybe Connie) in December 1968 or 69. He brought Raquel Welch with him...4-5000 sailors and we cheered Bob Hope more than Raquel Welch!! Now, I ain't saying we didn't appreciate Raquel Welch in that purple mini outfit....But Bob was THE MAN. We know WHO brought those good lookin' gals on board. He will be sorely missed...Fair winds and following seas, Bob. We all loved you!
RE: Thanks for the memories
I didnt get to see Mr Hope, but a lot of my friends were
able to take in the show in the winter of either 50 or 51.
HI guess it was 51, because the guys said he joked about the "Truman Year" we all had tacked on us.
In our small area of Korea, he sent a truckload of "Mickey Mouse"
boots to those of us that couldnt leave the front lines.
Damn!! Were these appreciated, as we had no winter equipment
at that time, and warm boots would go for "a left nut" if you could
even find someone dumb enough to trade them off.
I was more important than an M1-Garand. If you were unlucky enough to be issued a "carbine", You might get a "Garand" and a 1911
45, for a couple of carbines, a basket full of military money, and
your Aunt Mary's gold cross if you were lucky.
Hey do any of you remember Korea? I would like to exchange memorys. Best to all, Jack
I didnt get to see Mr Hope, but a lot of my friends were
able to take in the show in the winter of either 50 or 51.
HI guess it was 51, because the guys said he joked about the "Truman Year" we all had tacked on us.
In our small area of Korea, he sent a truckload of "Mickey Mouse"
boots to those of us that couldnt leave the front lines.
Damn!! Were these appreciated, as we had no winter equipment
at that time, and warm boots would go for "a left nut" if you could
even find someone dumb enough to trade them off.
I was more important than an M1-Garand. If you were unlucky enough to be issued a "carbine", You might get a "Garand" and a 1911
45, for a couple of carbines, a basket full of military money, and
your Aunt Mary's gold cross if you were lucky.
Hey do any of you remember Korea? I would like to exchange memorys. Best to all, Jack