Howdy Doody was the first television show that I watched faithfully. One of the prime reasons was Buffalo Bob. Here's a clip from an interview in 1997.
Whimsy: November 2008 Archives
The other day I was talking to my neighbor about the election.
Her elderly mother is in a nursing home so she obtained an absentee ballot for her.
"She's voted in every election that she could, so I thought I'd just let her pick for herself. I read off the list of nominees and she picked Bob Barr.
"I think she mixed him up with Bob Barker."
That's not a bad reason compared to some that I've heard over the years.
Anyway, Bob Barker and Bob Barr are, of course, very different.
One's an American game show icon who has become a laughing stock in his old age, and the other is Bob Barker.
