RIP Bob Boykin -- voice of Big Tex

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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Bob-Boykin-the-voice-behind-Big-Tex-dead-at-73-15047446.php?cmpid=hpctp

Welcome to the State Fair of Texas . . . .

Heard that many many times.  Some sober even.

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Where did they get that he was anonymous? All the local TV stations did stories about it when they replaced the previous announcer.

[Stella Link 534]

The article didn't mention this, but I understand Big Tex's voice is going to be replaced with the voice of Charles Nelson Reilly....

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45 minutes ago, Stella Link said:

The article didn't mention this, but I understand Big Tex's voice is going to be replaced with the voice of Charles Nelson Reilly....

I thought it was going to be Rip Taylor and shoot confetti out of his hat.

[TexasEd 8077]

Minister of Culture

[UTexasFight 9547]

I’m just still a bit in awe that he managed to survive this and go on to live another ~8 years

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: well that joke fell flat.. just read the obit and I got Boykin mixed up with Bragg.

Bragg was canned the same year as the fire

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

The reason for the Bragg firing is still unclear to me. The 3/27/13 article linked in the article above said he always cleared appearance requests with State Fair officials, but somehow the American Cancer Society event pissed them (or the Sue Gooding bitch) off. If it’s an event he didn’t get cleared, I missed that particular detail. 

Edited February 13, 2020 by ImissWallyPryor