Talk:J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

message: Shocking discovery in interview with Bob Dobbs: "I said yes and pointed out how the J.R. "Bob" Dobbs logo was based on a picture of my father." 
Spuddiwinks 02:18, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends what your looking for. If you need a drill bit, he's a drillbit salesman. If you need a vacuum cleaner, he'll probably still sell you a drillbit and let you believe its a vacuum cleaner. Thats why he's actually both the greatest drill bit salesman AND vacuum cleaner salesman of ALL TIME 121.45.252.191 (talk) 09:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

text: Yes.  First, a time machine must be invented/perfected.  Then, "Bob's" face must be inserted into Pamphlet #1 before its release.  --Myles Long 00:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Time control, after all, is the secret to slack 121.45.252.191 (talk) 09:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellany

message: Has the name of "Bob" any connection with Báb, the prophet? I mean, could it be a parody? bogdan 15:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Báb 

message: About "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" : let's not forget the double meaning of "pipe" in french; which could mean either a pipe, or... a blowjob !
193.253.176.160 08:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Let's not forget: Any word could mean either the word or... a blowjob! Austinmayor (talk) 00:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magritte 

message: Whats the connection with the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the See Also section? Why would "Bob" want to be connected to such a sham passing itself as a religion? It is here as well as on Church of the SubGenius Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 03:26, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess the connection is that they are both in the game of mocking those they appear to imitate. --IMBJR 15:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Flying Spaghetti Monster is quite clearly heretical. Austinmayor (talk) 00:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

text: The flying spaghetti monster was actually Bob's personal pasta chef. Though "Bob" was more fond of beer than food. 121.45.252.191 (talk) 09:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I dont get it ... 

message: I believe this section qualifies for deletion per WP:TRIVIA, especially considering that an interwiki link to the J. R. "Bob" Dobbs Wikiquote page already exists. Otherwise, it will qualify for deletion under WP:Verifiability, unless reliable sources are provided showing that these quotes are:
#Attributed to "Bob"
#Famous
I'll remove the section soon, if there are no objections. Much of the rest of the page will need reliable sources as well, to prevent further deletions.--JKeene (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that - but on the grounds that they aren't really quotes from "Bob", who was famously reticent; and none of them are quotes about "Bob", either. They are slogans of a kind found throughout Revelation X : The "Bob" Apocryphon, the 1994 book put out by the Church of the Subgenius. The quotes don't really work outside the context of a full-on sensory assault. "Don't just eat a hamburger" and "too much is always better than not enough" are from the church's 1992 film Arise (the IMDB even lists the former here), spoken by the narrator and a man in a suit respectively; the second quote is described as the second rule of the Church of the Subgenius. Perhaps some of the other quotes are in Arise as well, but I can only watch the film in short bursts, because it hurts. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 21:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous "Bob" quotes

message: For instance, note the similarities with this picture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/davies/media/Bing_Crosby_130.jpg
:Nope.  Note that "Bob's" hair is far fuller than that of Der Bingle. 75.246.104.214 (talk) 03:59, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, it is quite possible that Cosby consciously patterned himself after "Bob", in an early (pre-Internet) example of a "meme"; after all, the "Road" pictures are consciously metafiction. 75.246.104.214 (talk) 04:02, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't this just a picture of Bing Crosby? 

message: Prisoner Michael Peterson, who adopted the name Charles Bronson, is entitled to his own page.  I move that the deleted Canadian Bob Dobbs page be restored as a disambiguation from the JR Bob Dobbs page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.130.228.100 (talk) 01:39, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Charles Bronson': a new precedent in allowing Bob Dobbs, derisively known as Bob 'Dean' to have his own wiki article 

message: File:Precursor to official J.R. "Bob" Dobbs image.jpg
File:Precursor to official J.R. "Bob" Dobbs image with ad.jpg
I am not sure what should be done with these. I put the precursor Dobbshead in the article. These are public domain.
Tracing the history, these came from some place called Edward's Drug Store in Leesburg, Virginia. Either Edward's Drug Store commissioned the art or the art came from elsewhere. The ad has no assertion of copyright. A local history page says that this drug store was founded in 1835. In 1968 it was purchased by Carl Emswiller Jr, who has some fame but not yet a Wikipedia article.
It is intriguing to think about the possibility of tracing the origin of early photos of Dobbs and perhaps finding other unknown photos archived, or even meeting someone who in living memory actually met "Bob" before his ascension.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:17, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precursor images