Didn’t see this one in here, but it’s a great name.

Loblaws is a big supermarket chain in Canada. It was founded by Bob Loblaw

Imagine an Employee meeting (Say this out loud): “Please put your hands together for our CEO, BOB LOBLAW”

Transfrmr - 16 August 2007 08:38 AM

Didn’t see this one in here, but it’s a great name.

Loblaws is a big supermarket chain in Canada. It was founded by Bob Loblaw

Imagine an Employee meeting (Say this out loud): “Please put your hands together for our CEO, BOB LOBLAW”

That is a name used on the show arrested development, for a lawyer.

N E O - 16 August 2007 08:41 AM

Transfrmr - 16 August 2007 08:38 AM

Didn’t see this one in here, but it’s a great name.

Loblaws is a big supermarket chain in Canada. It was founded by Bob Loblaw

Imagine an Employee meeting (Say this out loud): “Please put your hands together for our CEO, BOB LOBLAW”

That is a name used on the show arrested development, for a lawyer.

Holy crow. It’s a hoax, lol. It is so well known and I’v eheard it for so long that I’ve never doubted it.

Apparently is was founded by T.P. Loblaw.

I’m not sure if their is a son named Bob or Robert presently affiliated, looking now, but it doesn’t look like it..

Jeez, all these years, lol

Back in school my pal and I managed to convince this guy called Pete that there’s a firm of solicitors in Cambuslang called “Dunn and Dussted Solicitors”

Hook line and sinker.

Wow. This is really frustrating.

So the Founder of Loblaws Grocery stores was T.P. Loblaw, not Bob Loblaw. He didn’t have any children of his own, but apparently adopted three. He also was heavily involved in Boys and Girls clubs and other children-oriented . He passed away at the age of 60. The first Loblaws stores were opened in Toronto.

There is no Bob Loblaw reference on the Loblaws website, nor do there currently seem to be any Loblaw-named people associated with the chain. I do find suspicious, however that I can’t actually find the names of the three children he adopted anywhere. I’m goign to keep looking, but it really doesn’t seem to be common information. There is discussion in the Snopes forum about this in a couple of threads, and while they point out that the name of the founder is T.P. Loblaw, Snopes hasn’t actually listed this as a UL/Hoax, and those discussing it don’t seem to know/mention the children’s names either.

So the story about the founder and present owner is indeed a hoax, and apparently one that isn’t so well documented. I suspect that he may have had a child named Robert, however. To me it is suspicious that nobody seems to list who he is survived by. If he adopted a child, they might have already been named Robert, and just taken on the Loblaw surname, therefore it wasn’t done on purpose, just a coincidence.

Hmm. now that I’m curious I’m going to dig more. I at least want to find out the names of his three adopted children…

Transfrmr - 16 August 2007 10:01 AM

To me it is suspicious that nobody seems to list who he is survived by.

Have you tried looking up an obituary?  They usually list the survivors.  Even close family who have passed before them.

berdache

Yeah, I looked for obituaries, but he died in 1933 dso they’re a little hard to find. I’ve got to keep looking, I’m sure I’ll find it eventually…. Thanks though Tah

I’m not sure about peoples names but there are a couple of placenames that I chuckle about every time I’m down in Kentucky. 

Big Bone Lick State Park.  Now up here that has a totally different meaning.
Licking River.  Once again, my mind had a totally different thought on that one. 

and who can forget that classic midwest game - cornhole.    I don’t think I have to explain that one although not a lot of people outside of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio area would have a good idea of what it is.

I quite like Licking River.

Make of that what you will.

There’s a town up near Aberdeen called “Lost” but as far as I remember they were wanting to change it to something else because people kept nicking the direction signs that said “LOST >“

gray - 17 August 2007 04:28 PM

and who can forget that classic midwest game - cornhole.    I don’t think I have to explain that one although not a lot of people outside of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio area would have a good idea of what it is.

Oh, I don’t know.  Anyone who has seen Beavis and Butthead probably knows who the ‘Great Cornholio’ is and what it means.

(But then I grew up in Michigan and knew the phrase from before that.)