kzsox ([info]kzsox) wrote,
@ 2005-06-30 13:40:00
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A Few Notes on Bob and Dean. I mean Dean and Bob.
This is a continuation of something that came out of the comments section of yesterday's post about IKEA.

I brought it up at work today. Here are some interesting points:

1. One of my coworkers swears that there's been a Bob's Discount Furniture in Stoughton (future home of IKEA) for years. And years.

2. Another coworker told me that Bob and his trophy wife own an entire compound, you know, like Kennedy-size, in Connecticut.

3. We all agree that Bernie and Phyls is the absolute worst. Feel free to share your most hated B & P commercial. I would love to hear about it.



So, there are still a lot of mysteries swirling around Bob and Dean. The more we think we know, the more we realize that there is so very much to learn. I take back my earlier description of Bob. I said, in the comments section of the IKEA post, that Bob looked like one of the Jordan's Furniture guys. Upon further contemplation, I think he's more like the actor who played the dad in Family Ties. An older version of him. Which, come to think of it, could be like him now. So, not older. Ah, you know what I mean.



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(Anonymous)
2005-07-01 02:48 am UTC (link)
I think one thing we can say definitively is that Massachusetts is the Horrible Furniture Advertising Capital of the World. Honestly. Who can match that top three?

-Andrew

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Keaton
(Anonymous)
2005-07-01 05:51 am UTC (link)
But, yet, Bob is a CT-invention, just branched to Mass.

Also, there's an autographed picture of Michael Gross, the actor who played Steven Keaton, on the wall at a pastry place on Wooster Street in New Haven--home of that one Ikea. And while there may be a similar look between he and Bob, I don't think it's fair to compare the man who played the liberal antagonist to Alex P. Keaton's Reaganophile to the evil, annoying Bob. Although he does sell some cheap furniture. But still, he's just so annoying. Why do I care so much about this stuff?

-Anonymous

All right,
-Jere

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Re: Keaton
[info]kzsox
2005-07-01 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps the store in Stoughton was the pilot which lead to the hostile take over. Bob is becoming the Bill Gates of the shitty cheap furniture world.

I don't think their personalities compare well. Actually, I don't know. Michael Gross seems like a nice enough guy, but physically speaking...maybe? Now I have to look this up. And I've got real work to do. Thanks a lot.

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[info]kzsox
2005-07-01 01:27 pm UTC (link)
I am not familiar with the goings-on of the furniture people in the southern states (at least not anymore), but I'd bet you could find some rivals there. Dallas probably has some good ones. Ten gallon hats and stuff. Like that guy on the Simpsons. The one who does the "yippy-i-ay" and shuffles his boots around. What's his name?

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Yee-haw
(Anonymous)
2005-07-01 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Colonel Antoine "Tex" O'Hara?

jere

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