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Friday happy dance
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home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
Bob's brother Otto
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's sister-in-law Sybil
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Bob's nephew Virgil, who loves sports
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's nephew Baxter
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitterā¢, the beer they named for Bob
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Reblogged this on saywhatumean2say and commented:
THANX for the Friday “pick me up” Bob. GROUCHO is my FAVORITE! ~~dru~~
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Yep… they sure don’t make ’em like they used to. (Thanks for the re-blog!)
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Reblogged this on sherriemiranda1 and commented:
Yes, yes, yes! Happy Friday to ALL!
Peace, love & more Fridays to all,
Sherrie
Sherrie Mirandaās historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel āSecrets & Lies in El Salvadorā is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:
https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com
Or you can see it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc š ā¤ š
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Thank you for reblogging. š
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More Groucho!
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I love the Marx Brothers. My brothers and I used to watch them on TV when we were kids and we’d laugh until the tears ran down our faces.
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Me too
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Me too! I always loved the joyful scamps as they frolicked and caused general chaos wherever they went.
The last time I remember seeing “At the Circus” was in the ’80s when I was dating a girl called Lydia and I needed a refresher from a master on what to expect.
Wikipedia says the movie I watched was from 1939 but the first thing I noticed tonight was how young Groucho looked. Do you have any idea what film this came from because I have memories befogged by time and thought that song was unique to “At the Circus”. Groucho appears to be late20s-early 30s but he was in his late 40s by 1939. I was surprised to see the young Groucho– I always thought he was a middle age snarky lunatic when he was born.
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As far as I know, “At the Circus” is the only movie where Groucho sang “Lydia.”
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Well, please forgive my anal search for the origin of that clip. I went this afternoon and found “At The Circus” on Amazon for $2.99. I started it and must have fallen asleep right away because “Lydia …” showed up less than 1/2 hour from the beginning and I woke up with 8 minutes left. I scrolled back and found the song, which WAS the version in your blogs video.
Groucho was born in 1890 which would make him 48-49yo in 1939. He looked like a young adult in your clip. AND, his mustache seemed to be painted on in both clip and movie which I do not remember from those many years ago.
Also, your video viewer and clip version was very good quality– very much better than Youtube which always seems bad for me and even better than the Amazon full version.
I hope you get a curiosity bump from this instead of an annoyed eye roll and an “OK, let it go.” flash of annoyed wonderment.
Wait, one more thing I did not remember! Eve Arden was the bad guy’s girlfriend and she was a knockout. Remember her from the TV show “Our Miss Brooks” in the early ’50s where she played a school teacher? She had a very distinctive voice.
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It’s been a while since I’ve watched the movies (I have them all on DVD, and when my kids were little we used to watch them frequently), but I do recall that in some of them Groucho had his natural mustache and in others he had that very exaggerated almost-rectangular greasepaint mustache. And yes, he does look very young for a man his age in “At the Circus” — I’d never have guessed he was almost fifty!
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A classic. š — Suzanne
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