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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
bluebird of bitterness 
New Years wishes for only good things in 2022 for you! Keep ’em coming (the jokes, the music, the fun). You do such a great job! 🥳🥂⏲
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Awww, thanks Melanie — you’re so sweet. ♥️
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Happy New Year and thanks for brightening my days with laughter. We all need to do more of that – laughing❤️🎉
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Amen, sister.
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❤️❤️
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Reblogged this on wordrefiner.
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Thanks Mark. 🙂
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I’m tired of ducking. But I agree with the last two comments—we certainly need more laughing. Happy New Year Bluebird!!
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Happy New Year to you, too. ♥️
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Ogden Nash was the best!!
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So true! Remember – “Candy is dandy,
But liquor is quicker.”
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🍾🍷🥂🥳
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i think that “candy is dandy – …” is by Hillaire Belloc or one of the other British wits of the ’20s and ’30s who contributed to the magazine PUNCH
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oops
i were wrong
**SIGH**
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Any idea where it came from originally?
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I have a Collected edition of Ol’ Ogden and worrying that I might be wrong and went to doublecheck. Right in the Introduction, Nash’s friend Archibald Macleish uses this very couplet to illustrate Nash’s ability to manufacture phoenetic rhymes :: liquor to quicker, for example.
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Happy New Year!
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Likewise, John. 🙂
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I love Ogden Nash. Happy New Year.
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The same to you, Herb. 🙂
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My hero 😀
Happy New Year, BoB, and thanks for all the smiles you give us.
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😀 😀 😀
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Thanks for all the laughs! Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year, Tricia. ♥️
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Health & Happiness in 2022!
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Likewise, Cindy. 🙂
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And remember, all, it’s pronounced, “Twenty-twenty too!!”
Yeah yeah, I harshed yer mellow…
;P
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Happy New Year, Bob, to you and all your loved ones.
And a Happy New Year to all your readers, too.
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Happy New Year, Vivienne. ♥️
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Happy New Year! 🎊 🎉
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Likewise, Eugi. 🙂
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You can’t go wrong with an Ogden Nash quote!
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😀
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Love this! Happy New Year all!
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