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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Bob Hope has died at 100
Sorry about the OT, but he was ALWAYS a class act!!
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SXKWICI2T3JYOCRBAEOCF EY?type=topNews&storyID=3171627 http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3171272
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07-28-2003, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Lacey, WA. USA
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OMG. I have wondered about this day for many years. Unless I miss my guess, our nation will cry a big tear.
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07-28-2003, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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May he rest in peace..in Arlington. He deserves the honor.
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07-28-2003, 09:07 AM
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I awoke to it this morning. I turn on CNN, and they're talking about the celebrity B.H. match. I think, Okay, either he's dead, or they reskedded the match. Sure enough: RIP.
I just don't have an opinion on the man, and I can't fault myself for that. I imagine I'm simply not old enough. As soon as I became aware of him, he began to fade from the limelight. Almost always, I cycle past his house in Toluca Lake. It's a great place, complete with a golf course. Hope long since moved down to Palm Springs, and gave the house, supposedly, to the church. I guess he was a good guy. Like anyone, he had his skeletons, and that's about all I'd hear about him. I wonder who might take his place when an entertainer goes out to see the troops. They can definitely use some fun in Bagdad.
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07-28-2003, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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Truth in Lending
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That said I guess we come back to image...Most people loved the image Hope projected, but like most people we never got to know the man for better or worse. I know an indivdual in the business whose story casts Hope in less than a favorable light...but that can wait for another day...Today is just one that we all knew was coming...the passing of a Giant in the Business.
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07-28-2003, 01:38 PM
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Hey Lynn, weren't you a Viet Nam vet? Did you ever see any of those Bob Hope/USO shows? 
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Oh yeah, RIP Bob Hope. I'm not sad about his passing, he had a very long and incredibly successful life. I'm sad every day about 20-something year olds dying in Iraq.
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07-28-2003, 02:42 PM
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
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For the past few years everybody was waiting for him to croak....and sing thanks for the memories....
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