Whilst it's obviously sad whenever someone dies, Bob hope is not going to be missed at all in my little corner of the world. His films have never struck me as being very entertaining, but my dislike for him increased massively when I heard about his actions at the 1970 Miss World content.
Hope was compere at this contest which was held in London. A group of feminists disrupted the evening by throwing flour bombs. Hope's reaction was to inform the audience that "anyone who would disrupt a beautiful occasion like this must be on some kind of dope", thereby insulting two of my favourite types of people - feminists and dopeheads. Hearing about this opened my eyes to just how bigotted, sexist and unfunny Hope is.... er... was.
I won't miss him.
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