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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 at 11:28 am and is filed under simple pleasures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 at 11:28 am and is filed under simple pleasures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
—Noel Coward
My boss told me to have a good day, so I came home.
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 actually had a Botany 500 sport coat in that era. I was probably 13 years old at the time.
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That undershirt! Those shoes! Those long collars! And (choke) THOSE KNITTED SWEATER VESTS!! It’s funny what passes as fashion …
On the other hand, hats always look good 🙂
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Yeah, I would wear the hats. The rest… not so much.
I rarely go out without my sorta-fedora-cowboy hat. One for wearing in public, one for working in the yard. Although, they’re starting to look alike.
Why Did Men Stop Wearing Hats?
(Narrator’s voice is a bit off-putting)
youtu.be/0vRvv-HUjnU
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Looking at those knitted sweater vests, that’s not a retail ad, that’s a book of knitting patterns! Those weren’t just a quick thoughtless purchase, a man who had one of those had it because it was deliberately inflicted on him, probably by a loved one who put in hours of work to produce the dratted thing.
I don’t have that book, but I do have at least one old book of knitting patterns that is also spectacularly outdated.
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You’re right, of course — it’s not an ad, but the picture was so funny I couldn’t resist including it. I had several knitting pattern books of that vintage as well. Wish I still had them — they’d be good for some laughs!
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A few of these… I am rendered speechless 😮
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You and me both!
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Huh. Some of those are weird.
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Only some?
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Welp, most of them!
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Bought me some Pendleton shirts, these shirts are wonderful.
Still have them after all these decades.
They still work.
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How do those men’s body suits work anyway? I say bring ALL these styles back, we need a lot more levity today!
ELEGANZA you rock! 😃
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I think us men are due a comparative woman escapade of “Advertisements from long, long ago — ultrasexy menswear edition” Don’t you thinks Miss B and B?
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Try this one.
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Or this…
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Or this…
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Miss B&B, I am a man of 63 and a retired nurse, pray tell what are “magic insets?” It was in the second post Femme fatale post in the lingerie ad.
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Use your imagination.
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I also stand corrected…
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Isn’t it funny how ideas and tastes change over time? Many of those things would be considered normal and good-looking at the time. Now we just laugh at them.
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Fashion is definitely a strange business.
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What a great flashback!
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