Floyd Remembers Bob

Floyd Norman remembers a mutual friend of ours, the late and wonderful Bob Ogle. I worked with Bob at Hanna-Barbera and I wish the cartoons had been as funny as he was.

Bob went into every meeting with what looked like a little memo pad but it was actually a pad of resignation letters he'd had printed up. I wish I could find the page from it he gave me. It said at the top, "I quit" and it then had a checklist of reasons like, "Inept management" and "Supervision by someone with no sense of humor." At any point during the meeting, he was likely to pull out the pad, check off the things that pissed him off, sign the bottom, hand it in and storm out of the room.

It was so funny that I think people tried to piss him off just so they could watch his performance and get one of his hundreds of resignation notices. No one ever took them seriously because everyone treasured Bob and his input. Does anyone reading this have one of those letters?