Lest I forget, I better wish a big Happy Birthday to Bob Hope. My generation has never had much use for Bob, his humor seemed dated in our gross-out, loudmouthed, @#!**& age but he meant a hell of a lot to the generations that came before us and as I study more and more of the history of the period I find his stuff funnier and funnier.
And don’t forget, as quintessentially American as Bob Hope was, he was born in England. Isn’t that just perfect? Everyone wants to be an American, apple pies and Christmas trees are German, log cabins are, I think, from Sweden or one of the Scandanavian countries but they can come here, do right by Americans and become as American as baseball.
Or was baseball based on a British invention too?