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This entry was posted on Monday, February 14th, 2022 at 2:14 pm 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.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won’t buy, but have you ever tried to buy them without money?
—Ogden Nash
Employment applications always ask whom to call in case of an emergency. I always say ‘an ambulance.’
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
Wow haha!
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I love these
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Me too. I collect them compulsively.
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Wow! I won a box of Schrafft’s chocolate from my local radio station well over a half century ago. I hadn’t thought about that in decades!
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Reblogged this on wordrefiner.
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Thanks Mark. 🙂
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Show your man you care – with a pie crust mix!
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Whatever works. 🙂
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Ahhh, the days of class and grace. I miss those…
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I remember so many of these companies. Thanks for the review!
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I think these are when Coke still had cocaine in it 🙂
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I think you’re right.
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Ah, the good old days!
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Uh huh! 😉
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I really think I prefer the heart box filled with chocolates over the one with peas 😀
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Can’t disagree with you there. 🙂
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These old ads stir a lot of memories.
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Valentine pyjamas 😁😁
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Wow! Where did you find those golden oldies? Fascinating.
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Wow, those go back a long way!
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Did you ever notice that, until the 1960’s, they didn’t use photographs in advertisements, but very realistic drawings? (Did I mention that before?)
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Any idea why that is? Mail order catalogs used to do the same thing.
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My guess is the ever-popular “cost.” Frederick’s of Hollywood’s catalog was like a comic book, and occasionally they’d sneak an actual celebrity in. I remember one had models that looked like Jill St. John, Brooke Shields, and Raquel Welch. I’m surprised they never got Betty and Veronica or Barbie in there…
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