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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 at 11:28 am and is filed under circus of life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
If you build a better mousetrap, the world might beat a path to your door, or a rival mousetrap maker may beat you to a pulp. ―Gavin McInnes
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times just to be sure.
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
I look forward to your quotes and your funnies every day.
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Me too!
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And, of course, Bob and his extended family – delightful!
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Awww, thanks. ♥️
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My pleasure!
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Perfect!
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Ah, b.o.b., been following you for quite some time, have never commented, but today I’ve got to say in the spirit of the season, “You make my heart sing! Oh, and laugh.” Thank you.
BTW, I’m still trying to get the gnu and tiler story. I’m Canadian… does that make a difference? ; – B.
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There’s no reason why anyone outside the U.S. would get that play on words, unless he/she had studied U.S. history rather extensively. “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” is a campaign song from the 1840 U.S. presidential election. “Tippecanoe” was William Henry Harrison (you can look up “Battle of Tippecanoe” if you’re curious about how he got that nickname), and Tyler was his running mate, John Tyler. In 1840, Alexander Coffman Ross wrote a campaign song praising Harrison and Tyler and denigrating the incumbent president, Martin Van Buren. The song is all but forgotten today, but the title became a famous campaign slogan that all schoolchildren in the United States used to learn about back in the old days. (Yes, I’m definitely showing my age here.) Thanks for asking. 🙂
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Thank you! At last I can put away my “Bob’s cousin, Alphonse” look! B.
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😀
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These are great. Happy Holidays! 😀 — Suzanne
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Likewise, Suzanne. 🙂
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I love the turf war one–what timing!
it’s the time of year for it. What’s funny is one day I had a fed ex truck show up in my driveway, and not 10 minutes later the UPS truck. Man, if only the UPS guy was there a few minutes earlier. I always like to imagine they give each other hairy eyeballs and a wide berth when they pass each other into a business or residence.
Get DHL and the USPS drivers in there and it might be a small scale version of the Anchorman rumble scene.
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