I think you should resurrect him with different or replacement Johan.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Vicki's mmmmmm Hand puppets
> He was probably 3 feet tall and maybe the overall size of a 2 year old. I
> named him Jonah because the first routine I practiced over and over again
> was, as I said, Jonah and the whale.
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> Phil.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Vicki's mmmmmm Hand puppets
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> 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?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 2, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> Phil.
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 5:21 PM
>> 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"
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