Comments on: Gay Big Bird costume creator Kermit Love dead at 91 http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/2008/06/27/gay-big-bird-costume-creator-kermit-love-dead-at-91/ A Gay Geeks Blog on Comic Books, Action Figures, Gossip, News, Politics, Entertainment and Gay Porn Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:06:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: fanboi http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/2008/06/27/gay-big-bird-costume-creator-kermit-love-dead-at-91/#comment-276 fanboi Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:48:43 +0000 http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/?p=421#comment-276 indeed he does. Although I myself am a bigtime Muppet fan, most of the Muppet mentions go out to the frogboy. indeed he does. Although I myself am a bigtime Muppet fan, most of the Muppet mentions go out to the frogboy.

]]> By: frogboy http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/2008/06/27/gay-big-bird-costume-creator-kermit-love-dead-at-91/#comment-275 frogboy Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:58:49 +0000 http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/?p=421#comment-275 It has always been a point of debate, but Kermit the frog is believed to have been named after Jim Henson's childhood friend Dr. Kermit Scott - who coincidentally died June 16th of this year. Scott, 71, was a Yale professor and a longtime advocate for the poor. He reportedly asked that instead of sending things for his funeral to perform a random act of kindness. Sounds like Kermit to me. Big Bird performer Caroll Spinney reports lovingly about Kermit, "He looked very much like Santa Claus but was a little bit more like the Grinch." In the lean years that Spinney wanted to give up living hand-to-mouth in New York and his role as Big Bird it was Kermit Love who encouraged him to hang on just a little bit longer. The very next Big Bird appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Kermit Love was a very creative man and kind of seemed like a Muppet in his own right. If not for him our childhoods would have been very different! Hope this helped. I'm the uber fan that inspires much of these Muppety mentions. It has always been a point of debate, but Kermit the frog is believed to have been named after Jim Henson’s childhood friend Dr. Kermit Scott - who coincidentally died June 16th of this year. Scott, 71, was a Yale professor and a longtime advocate for the poor. He reportedly asked that instead of sending things for his funeral to perform a random act of kindness. Sounds like Kermit to me.

Big Bird performer Caroll Spinney reports lovingly about Kermit, “He looked very much like Santa Claus but was a little bit more like the Grinch.” In the lean years that Spinney wanted to give up living hand-to-mouth in New York and his role as Big Bird it was Kermit Love who encouraged him to hang on just a little bit longer. The very next Big Bird appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Kermit Love was a very creative man and kind of seemed like a Muppet in his own right. If not for him our childhoods would have been very different!

Hope this helped. I’m the uber fan that inspires much of these Muppety mentions.

]]> By: libhomo http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/2008/06/27/gay-big-bird-costume-creator-kermit-love-dead-at-91/#comment-274 libhomo Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:21:31 +0000 http://heroesnhunks.com/wordpress/?p=421#comment-274 Thanks for that bit of queer history. BTW: was Kermit the Frog named after him? Thanks for that bit of queer history.

BTW: was Kermit the Frog named after him?

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