Bob and Ray did much to foster my youthful appreciation of incongruity and silliness. When I see an ad for prune shakes or read about tie slimming, I think of Bob and Ray.
A photograph of Bob and Ray’s stationery in David Pollock’s Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons (Milwaukee: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2013) shows a company motto:
PUISSANCE WITHOUT HAUTEURWords to live by!
Here is a photograph of a Bob and Ray letter to a young Keith Olbermann. Motto top left.
Related reading
All OCA Bob and Ray posts (Pinboard)
[Of course, using the word puissance might be the very essence of hauteur.]
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