"We've Lost One of Our People" (the "Bob-isms")

(From Al and Emily Cantrell. All these expressions of Bob's we stole shamelessly from Bob and we use one or another almost daily.)

Bob-isms:

"Beyond beyond" - (always pronounced "B-E-Y-A W-N-D  B-E-Y-A-A-A-W-N-D!!")

"Jeezel Peets" -we thought this might be a common expression in Ohio, but Bob remains the only person we've ever heard say it.

"Order out" -as buying something mail order, but it was never "order it",  always "order it out." 

"Good news for modern man" -about anything he heard that he liked.

"Lay it on me" and "Turn me on deadman" -these last two being interchangeable, when you start to tell him something and he wants to hear more. We believe "deadman" is a reference to Paul McCartney from the "Paul is Dead" period.

"We've lost one of our people" -this in response to some bluegrass musician like Jimmy Martin, or '50s tv star, or country legend like Conway Twitty. When anyone like that passed away, really anyone from our mutual childhood who had entertained us in one way or another, that inspired a phone call either from Bob or to Bob starting without any opener, just the phrase "We've lost one of our people".