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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 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
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Fond memories of Ernie’s show!
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I’m always happy to find another fan. 🙂
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Funny memory!!!!! I remember that skit but I was very young at the time. Another one is the Red Rose Tea Chimps commercial…..another oldie is the Operatic Rice Crispies ad. Somehow with the vanillization of our society we have lost a lot of our sense of humor.
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Ernie Kovacs was brilliant – I remember the show well.
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I first discovered him when I was a teenager, and he made me laugh until the tears ran down my face.
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Devo, first incarnation.
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After the video, among the YouTube suggestions, were more Kovacs, plus Spike Jones clips. I can easily see chasing down those great old vids and losing an afternoon – again.
I think I have this story about 85% right:
Kovacs was brilliant, experimental, and a little expensive. One day he lit his cigar and threw the still-lit match straight at the camera lens. I understand it was a great-looking special effect for the viewers. It also blew out the studio camera, which IIRC was about twenty-five to thirty thousand of those-days dollars! Whoopsie.
Wikipedia: Ernie Kovacs – nice pic of him… leaning on just such a studio camera! : )
The music for the Nairobi Trio skits was Robert Maxwell’s “Solfeggio”. So Wikipedia says. So, there y’go.
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Thank you so much for this 🙂
I, too, love researching things, including the effects of inflation:
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, $25,000 in June, 1962, is the equivalent of $212,242.55 today.
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