How cool that would've been. Too bad he was broken though. Maybe he could have been repaired and continued in service. X How big was he? 

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On Aug 2, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I had only one and loaned it to a friend once to use in their Sunday school class.  When I got it back, the plastic trigger inside that you pulled to move his mouth was broken.  He cost me 30 dollars from Sears and that was in about 1977 or 78.  When we were in western Colorado, a pastor in Delta called and asked me to preach in their Sunday morning service.  It was their anniversary and they were shooting for 250 or 300 people to attend.  I was honored until he said, "And we want you to bring your dummy and do your routine."  I said, "You mean for a children's Sunday school class?"  He said, "Nope.  I mean in front of over 200 adult people in the main service before you preach."  I tried to back out but he said, "No dummy; no preaching, and no offering either."  The guy strong armed me into doing it and I had never done it in front of adults before then.  A woman in the church got some baby clothes and made him a nice pair of pants and used some new tennis shoes she bought for his feet.  She had a nice shirt for him, too, and we had a small hand suitcase we put him in so I wouldn't have to use the Hollywood looking case that came with him.  I think she even had a hat for him if I remember right.  He looked cute.  My mom always said, he looked like me, haha.  I did it but I sure was scared and nervous and could hardly make my own mouth work and I got him out in front of all those people.  He told the story of Jonah and the whale, or we did, because I had to ask him questions when we came to words I could not say without moving my mouth.  I used him in nursing home ministry services, too, and those old people, like me now, loved it more than the children in church.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Vicki's hand
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>> Did you ever keep any of those puppets?
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>