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  To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
  —W. Somerset Maugham

• thought for the day

  Whenever it seems that the whole world is against you, stop and consider what a feat it is to tick off billions of total strangers.

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• bluebird’s greatest hits

  • Bar jokes for English majors
  • Mother's Day classic: Why birth order matters
  • Letter from a farm kid
  • Caturday funnies
  • Caturday funnies
  • Sunday funnies
  • It's a dog's life
  • Someone left the irony on
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  • The pun also rises -- fun with food edition
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  Home sweet home

• birdhouse visitors

  • 700,097 visits
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  Bob's sister Hannah

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  Bob's sister Ada

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  Bob's brother Otto

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  Bob's sister Eve

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  Bob's sister Nan

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  A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)

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  Bob's childhood home

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  Bob's mom and dad

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  Bob in his youth

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  Bob's cousin Alphonse

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  Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna

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  Bob's cousin Archibald

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  Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)

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  Bob's cousin Chester

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  Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis

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  Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)

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  Bob's sister-in-law Sybil

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  Bob's cousin Thorndike

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  Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie

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  Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers

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  Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks

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  Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy

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  Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena

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  Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)

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  Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan

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  Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness

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  Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher

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  Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports

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  Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice

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  Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn

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  Bob's nephew Baxter

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  Bob's cousin Darrell

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  Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand

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  Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter

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  Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)

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  The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)

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  A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)

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  A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)

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  Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob

• bluebird’s file cabinet

  Advent Alice Parker Anglophilia Atlanta Master Chorale autumn Babylon Bee barkaloungers bears beer bibliophilia birds biting social commentary bluebird's birthday Boxing Day California reaming Canada cats Chanticleer Charles Wesley Christmas chuckles commercials Concordia College Choir cops cows dance Dan Forrest daylight saving time Dick Van Dyke Disney dogs double takes Duffel Blog Easter Eleanor Powell English majors Epiphany Eric Whitacre faces Father's Day flash mob Fred Astaire geek humor George Frideric Handel Groundhog Day Halloween Hanukkah happy homemakers harp heaven Henri heroes hide & seek horses Independence Day Jean Redpath Johann Sebastian Bach John Philip Sousa John Rutter King's College Choir M. C. Escher Mack Wilberg Mark O'Connor marriage Mars & Venus Mary Tyler Moore math Memorial Day memory lane mice monkeys Mormon Tabernacle Choir Mother's Day National Library Week National Taiwan University Chorus New Year Nicholas Brothers Ola Gjeilo on wisconsin! pandas Passover Peter Anglea Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Guys pigs poetry Portland Choir & Orchestra puzzles rabbits school daze Scotland senior moments Shawn Kirchner signs Simon's Cat snowmen spring squirrels summer Sunday funnies Talk Like a Pirate Day tax day Thanksgiving The King's Singers The Onion Tim Hawkins University of Utah Singers USC-Thornton Choral Artists UWEC Concert Choir UWEC Singing Statesmen Valentine's Day Veterans Day vintage ads weight watchers Weird Al Yankovic Wheaton College Concert Choir William Billings winter Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart words at play
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