In memory of Irving Berlin, born on this day in 1888.
bluebird of bitterness
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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
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 Happinessâ„¢ (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 Bitterâ„¢, the beer they named for Bob
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bluebird of bitterness 
Happy Birthday, Irving! I love his music. 🙂 — Suzanne
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He lived on the Lower East Side and used to work in a saloon or restaurant on Pell St in NYC under the name of Izzy Baline. That was a cool history find when I was reading about my neighborhood 🙂
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I can’t resist.
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That was great. I loved the movie. 😀 — Suzanne
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I saw the stage version a few years ago. It was very good, although not as good as it would have been if the actor who was supposed to play the monster had not suffered a broken ankle at the last minute, and been replaced by a stand-in.
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Here’s a YouTube classic some of y’all might not have seen.
Flash mob in Moscow, Russia 26.02.1
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It’s interesting to see how the lyrics have changed since the original ones!
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Yes, I know some of them were quite racist and street-culture language, and I can’t make out all of them now in this film, but I know we performed the expurgated and updated version a few years back.
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