The most important thing you will do today...

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:14 pm

..is trying to keep "Thanks for the Memories" from being the Bob Hope hed.

JonScribe · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:04 pm

... or any variant of "The world loses Hope"...

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:06 pm

Yeah, Jon, that would be about 16,000 times worse...and SOMEONE will do it.

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:58 pm

Please note that I have ordered a Red Alert. Do whatever is necessary.

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:36 pm

Bless you...just got our hed specs, which I am happy to say will rule out "Thanks for the Memories" or "The World Loses Hope." Won't even have to fight for a change.

Jackie · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:44 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer:
Yeah, Jon, that would be about 16,000 times worse...and SOMEONE will do it.<hr></blockquote>The first thing I saw upon awakening was "Lost Hope," courtesy of CNN. (And the first thing I did, of course, was panic that he died five minutes after I left the paper last night.)

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:22 pm

Lost Hope...yet another "pun" that does not even begin to work both ways.

Hawkeye · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:26 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer:
..is trying to keep "Thanks for the Memories" from being the Bob Hope hed.<hr></blockquote>I tried, but ::sigh:: the rimrats always lose.[ July 28, 2003: Message edited by: Hawkeye ][ July 28, 2003: Message edited by: Hawkeye ]

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2003 10:28 pm

I'm sorry to hear that your slot would actually fight for that hed.

nstockdale · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:00 am

And isn't it singular: "Thanks for the Memory"?[ July 29, 2003: Message edited by: Nicole Stockdale ]

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:27 am

Well, that sure as hell won't stop anyone. As of 1:30 a.m. I note several Web sites already have some variant of the hed.

gullyj · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:08 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Nicole Stockdale:
[QB]And isn't it singular: "Thanks for the Memory"?QB]<hr></blockquote>That's right. Toronto Star got it right but oh so wrong with a front page lead: Thanks for the memory, Bob.
AND, a second-coming headline on the entertainment section: Thanks for the memory.(But that's nothing compared with the over-the-top advance coverage of the Rolling Stones concert in Toronto on Wednesday that will draw more than 450,000. How many times can Mick Jagger's photo appear on a front page? Not enough, based on what's happening here.)

jmcg · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:10 am

Ah, Bumf, your paper (actually, gasp, our paper) ran a hed just as bad: "So long, old friend."

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:46 am

I lobbied for "Goodbye, Old Paint" but was overruled.It's funny. We had only like 15 years to think of a decent hed but were all stammering when it actually happened. Sheesh.NYTimes obit was written by someone who died years ago. That's how long it was in the can.

Bumfketeer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:50 am

: Bob Hope: Thanks for the memories - Arizona Republic - 2 minutes ago
Thanks for the memory - Toronto Star - 10 hours ago
'Thanks for the Memory,' Bob Hope - Miami Herald - Jul 28, 2003

Jackie · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:42 pm

My desk chief looked up a bunch of "memory" heds before, as he said, he ran out of patience:"Fans thank Hope for the memories" -- The Huntington, W.Va., Herald-Dispatch"Thanks for the memories" -- The Birmingham, Ala., News; the Dothan, Ala. Eagle; the Arizona Republic; the Oakland Tribune (which set it in a script typeface -- gag me); Florida Today;"Thanks for the memory" -- the Los Angeles Daily News. Even getting the song title right is no excuse.

"Thanks for the memory, Bob" -- the Norwich, Conn., Bulletin"Bob Hope -- Thanks for the memories" -- The Miami Herald"Lindale man: Thanks for the memories, Bob Hope" -- the Rome, Ga., News-Tribune, apparently a localization."Thanks for the memories, Bob" -- the Chicago Sun-Times"Thanks for the memories" -- the Chicago Tribune; the St. Paul Pioneer-Press; the Mississippi Press; "Thanks for the memories, Mr. Hope" -- the Kane County, Ill., Chronicle."Thanks for the memory" -- the Fayetteville, N.C., Observer"Thanks for the memories" -- the Greensboro, N.C., News & Observer

majorbabs · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:02 pm

Are we sure about that title? I watched the segment of "Big Broadcast of 1938" and it clearly has him singing "Memories," plural. But I defer to TCEs.

Jackie · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2003 6:31 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by majorbabs:
Are we sure about that title? I watched the segment of "Big Broadcast of 1938" and it clearly has him singing "Memories," plural. But I defer to TCEs.<hr></blockquote>It's memory. I saw the part of that "Big Broadcast" segment, and during that portion, he was singing "memory," although he held the last syllable for so long I wonder if that didn't make it sound like "memories"?.....

dmfugitive · **Posted:** Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:02 pm

Jumphed in the local rag's Style section said "Bereft of Hope," which made me laugh so hard I fell off the terlet.

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