This BBC report first aired on April 1, 1957.
This BBC report first aired on April 1, 1957.
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
—Woody Allen
My kid accused me of being overdramatic, so I changed the WiFi password. We’ll see who’s overdramatic in about five minutes.
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 Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
Reblogged this on Will S.' Sunny Side Blog and commented:
Still a classic; never stops being funny, especially given how many folks were taken in by it. 🙂
Thanks for sharing, BoB! 🙂
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Thanks Will. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
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Thanks Eliza. 🙂
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You make my day every day.
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Aww, thanks — you’re so sweet. ♥️
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Yum! Real home grown spaghetti. 😀
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Much tastier than the store bought kind. 🙂
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Of course!
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People were less knowledgeable then about ‘foreign food’. Pasta was rarely seen. Certainly not where I lived. Just good old British food. It was easy to con the Brits of the time because they knew nothing of this exotic food.
And it appeared on a serious news program–Panorama no less. Again, there was no fake news in those days, and Panorama was a highly respected programme, so why would they produce something not true?
Simpler times. But it’s got to be the best ever!
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This has withstood the test of time. Prob the most successful spoof of all
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