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And he's been dead for years to boot. Now THAT'S what I call relaxed.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 14, 2008 6:19 PM
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too soon!

Posted by skye | March 14, 2008 6:45 PM
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I used to watch him with my grandma when i was little. She found him soothing too, she'd often be snoring within minutes and i'd be left to discover how he paints the detail on pine trees.

Posted by ali | March 14, 2008 6:49 PM
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I learned how to paint sharks from this guy. He was brilliant . . . and so zen.

Posted by Pete | March 14, 2008 7:00 PM
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This guy has been parodied more often than Mister Rogers. But I still enjoy him on the PBS reruns.

Posted by RainMan | March 14, 2008 7:49 PM
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not even motel art

I hear he was a dead fuck

Posted by Paul Lafrance | March 14, 2008 7:49 PM
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Bob rocks...even in the hereafter.

Posted by kenkelly | March 14, 2008 8:23 PM
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Watch the BBC comedy series, Peep Show, wherein BR is a God who is consulted like an oracle. Brilliantly funny.

Posted by Marko Constans | March 14, 2008 8:46 PM
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bob ross is my anti-drug

also the world's number 1 suicide prevention plan.

Posted by angelfish | March 14, 2008 9:28 PM
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Did anyone ever paint along with the show though, really? I remember watching it as a child but I certainly never pulled out my (non-existent) palette and dabbed any strokes of my own.

RIP Bob.

Posted by dependableplum | March 14, 2008 9:29 PM
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he was too mellow to be american...right? tell me he was canadian. maybe not, but he sure gave off that "no rage has ever touched me" vibe you only ever get off canadians.

Posted by ellarosa | March 14, 2008 10:09 PM
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He died lonely and destitute in an unheated and ramshackle farmhouse in Wyoming with a really striking white barked birch tree in the front yard framing some impressive snow capped teton mts.

Posted by Bob | March 14, 2008 11:45 PM
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Ms. Exelizabeth, I don't know if you saw my comment in your video game thread, but if you want relaxing then play some Endless Ocean on the Wii. I even know some cats who like to watch the fish on the screen.

Posted by stinkbug | March 15, 2008 12:21 AM
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What an awesome idea! thanks :-) I will check out my public library's collection to see if they happen to have any.

Posted by akgrl | March 15, 2008 12:27 AM
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sooooooothing.... he is soooooothing.... or was.

Posted by M | March 15, 2008 12:27 AM
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My lamented late partner (yeah, the artist) used to watch him and laugh. He got quite good at imitating Bob, to great comic effect.

Posted by Wolf | March 15, 2008 7:26 AM
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Bob Ross cured my hangover once!

Posted by Thumpy McThumperson | March 15, 2008 9:38 AM
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Hey Exelizabeth, you were the best! Thanks for referencing that Deborah Cameron article in your post about the Sutherland book. I read Cameron's Feminist Critique of Language a few years ago, but it's time to get caught up on her. She's gooood!

Seriously, I wish you were a regular poster on Slog. Best of luck with grad school and teaching!

Posted by Irena | March 15, 2008 1:02 PM
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The local comedian Pat Cashman did a
very funny "send-up" of him on the
"Almost Live" show. Sometimes on very
early sunday mornings you can catch it
in re-run.

Posted by badbob | March 16, 2008 7:00 PM
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I remember watching him (and often falling asleep to him) on Saturday afternoons just before This Old House and The Victory Garden...

Posted by non sequitur | March 16, 2008 11:38 PM

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