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Old Salt
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Location: Sacramento/Twain Harte | Subject: ---
A little tribute to a great American. If he were alive and physically able, I know he would be entertaining the troops in Iraq and Afghanistantoday. It hardly seems possible that he left us five years ago.
I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART.
Tribute to a man who DID make a difference:
May29,1903 July27,2003
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.'
GOD BLESS AMERICA
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE... Thank a veteran.
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Old Salt
Posts: 403
Location: Sacramento/Twain Harte | Subject: RE: ---Sorry-----It was BOB HOPE
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: ---Sorry-----It was BOB HOPE
John, you didn't have to give the credit..... I am sure everybody knew.
Our troops never had a better entertainer.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: ---BOB HOPE
What a great American he was. I wish I had the talent that Dex does to describe just how much that man gave to America....as a comic, as a patriot, and as a philanthropist.....and all in good, clean, and wholesome terms....
Dex.....if it isn't too presumptuous of me, would you do your magic dance of endorsement for Bob? Thanks! (this is not a flaming arrow!!!!!)
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