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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 at 11:16 am and is filed under simple pleasures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won’t buy, but have you ever tried to buy them without money?
—Ogden Nash
Employment applications always ask whom to call in case of an emergency. I always say ‘an ambulance.’
Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
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 cousin Alphonse
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 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
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
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 Happinessâ„¢ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
Bluebird Bitterâ„¢, the beer they named for Bob
This is the perfect mix of “Genius” and “Waaaaaaaay too much free time” 😛
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And yet it’s projects like this, that involve extensive problem-solving and imaginative thinking, that the experts recommend for warding off Alzheimer’s. I’m not a science person, so I can’t explain why this is so, but it has something to do with creating new neural pathways in the brain.
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Makes a lot of sense… I know that learning new languages is supposed to help to, for the same reason… 🙂 Pretty amazing what some people do with so little!
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I’ve heard that as well, about learning a new language — also learning a musical instrument you’ve never tried before. And it does make sense when you hear an expert explain the reasoning behind it.
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What kind of mind can create things like this. I love it. However I can hardly follow this muchless think it up. Hugs
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You and me both, Scottie. The best I can do is set up dominoes in interesting patterns for my grandson to knock over!
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Cool! A very intricate pinball game
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Something Sheldon and the boys (of Big Bang Theory) would dream up.
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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This is great. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Wow. That’s amazing.
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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While I have seen and admired many Rube Goldberg kinetic sculptures, this one is among the funniest and cleverest, perhaps in part because of the small scale and use of several rolling objects rather than just one at a time.
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Well, one thing is certain. I am not about to watch that as many times as the author filmed it until he got it right.
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