Decades ago, young viewers of "Romper Room" were introduced to characters named Mr. Do-Bee and Mr. Don't-Bee as shoppers were asked to buy Bit-O-Honey candy, Honey Maid grahams and Pine Brothers honey glycerin tablets.
Now he is in the mood to buy bits of other retail companies.
I buy bits and pieces there - good parmesan, a salami, pasta, rice, oils.
That would be likelier if new entrants were encouraged to buy bits of the state-aided banks.
These were to buy bits of other cable companies and to buy Adelphia securities to maintain family control of the company.
Recent days may have bucked the norm: Yasuo Fukuda, a former prime minister, abruptly resigned in September and Japanese banks scrambled to buy bits of distressed American investment banks.
It had long been rumoured that Nokia might buy bits of Alcatel-Lucent, but now it seems it wants the lot.
The firm will also, says Mr Ross, have a completed network, customers and $100m of cash, with which it plans to buy bits of other bust wholesalers on the cheap.
Lundgren also needs to oversee the integration of parts of the recently acquired Air Berlin business, plus there's the hunt to buy bits of Italy's insolvent airline Alitalia, and collapsed rival Monarch Airlines.
"I would really have to save and scrimp to buy bits to make my flat look like a home," she said.
Consumers also had to separately buy bits we now take for granted as part of the basic spec, and every driver had to know how to tinker with the carburettor or change a tyre.
