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 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 Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
bluebird of bitterness 
Boy, how the world has changed. 🙂
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No kidding…
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I actually recognized Arthur Godfrey without checking the name. Does that mean I’m old?
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Probably, but never mind, I’m old, too. It comes to us all, we hope.
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But what about James Arness? Did you recognize him without peeking? 🙂
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The face was familiar, but the name escaped, the name of the actor, that is, not the character. LOL
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Well, doctors, dentists, celebrities and babies endorse them. Maybe we’re just too picky.
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You may be right.
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Back when smoking was “cool”. I tried smoking twice and didn’t like it, but my twin smokes like a chimney. I have several friends who do too. My husband quit a few years ago, but still craves them.
I was playing a video game set in an alternate timeline where they’d invented a nanotechnology introduced in the food that cured cancer, so smoking never became socially unacceptable like it is in our world today because there were no health hazards attached to it. I wonder if it would catch on again should such a “cure” be found in our world?
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I tried it once when I was in high school. Many people my age were starting to smoke, and I was curious to know what the attraction was. One night I was babysitting for some neighbors, the kids were asleep, the house was quiet, and a pack of cigarettes lay on the table… so why not? I took one, lit up, and attempted to smoke the thing — “attempt” being the operative word. It was one of my more ignominious failures, and the only consolation was that there was no one around to witness it.
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Old song chorus:
“Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
Puff puff puff
And if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette”
(full song lyrics at http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/smokesmokesmokethatcigarettelyricschords.html )
I remember a lot of these ads and how suave and sophisticated it LOOKED to effortlessly suck on one of those things. I ‘smoked’ for about a week once, but my primary addiction, food, soon put that down…you can’t TASTE after you’ve been smoking a while. Give me the filet mignon and creme brulee thanks..
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I remember that song, even if I don’t remember the adverts.
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These are classic… and I do smoke, though mostly cigars and pipes, cigarettes only on occasion. Thanks for posting!
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In another 30 years, we’ll be looking at medication ads in the same way we look at cigarette ads. Many women started smoking in the 1930’s – 1960’s because doctors thought it was good for their health. I remember walking into restaurants before there was a smoking section. You knew going in that it was going to be that way. I had to leave a restaurant more than once because some Fat A— lit up a cigar. By the 1980’s, if you smoked you were pariah.
I never smoked and never liked it — just commenting on the changes in what is socially acceptable. If corsets start coming back in style, it’s time for me to die. 🙂
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If corsets come back, the end will be near anyway.
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Smoking hangover, oversmoking, unpleasant after-taste… I wonder why people bothered starting to smoke. Oh yes — the “cool” factor. I’m glad I never went there!
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I’ve never smoked and neither did my husband. My son tried it but didn’t like it and my daughter doesn’t smoke. I am so glad. —- Suzanne
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Chesterfield may have much milder adverse effects, but the significance of this claim depends on how severe the effects of the other brands were. Either way, there are adverse effects. I wouldn’t take my chances.
You don’t see ads like this anymore…
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Nope, not in many many years. (I can still remember all the jingles, though.)
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Unbelievable…..my ! have times changed 🤷♀️🤦♀️
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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Thanks Viv. 🙂
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I can’t like this post, the lies that sucked me in for years.
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