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Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob"

1990, Guy C. Deuel, Kenneth Huey, Onan Canobite, Sternodox Keckhaver, John Shirley, Larry Sulkis, Janor Hypercleats, Chris Gross, Harry S. Robins, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, G. Gordon Gordon, David N. Meyer II, Brooks Caruthers, Mark Mothersbaugh, Puzzling Evidence, Ahmed Fishmonger, Waves Forest, Lewis Shiner, Paul Mavrides, K. DeVries, Michael Peppe

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J. R. "Bob" Dobbs is the figurehead of the parody religion The Church of the SubGenius. His image is derived from a piece of 1950s clip art. According to SubGenius dogma, "Bob" was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of the god JHVH-1 on a television set he had built. The vision inspired him to write the "PreScriptures" (as described in the Book of the SubGenius) and found the Church. The theology holds that "Bob" is the greatest salesman who ever lived, and has cheated death a number of times. He is also revered for his great follies and believed to be a savior of "Slack". He was assassinated in San Francisco in 1984, though the Church claims that he has come back from the dead several times since then.

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