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 
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Cocaine for toothache? No wonder we have so much drug addiction.
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Love the craziness of these
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That DDT ad. I can’t even.
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Cocaine is a toothache cure? Who would have guessed?
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[…] Advertisements from long, long ago — For the Children™ edition — bluebird of bitterness […]
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Powder the baby in ddt and put it in the car hammock. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ah yes! “lull-a-baby” hammock! Wonder why we don’t use these anymore😐🤔
😂😂
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‘Chubettes.’ Hundreds of little girls must have been lining up for THAT designer label.
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Ah yes, I was one of them! 🙄
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I was a skinny little kid. I didn’t start wearing chubby sizes until I was an adult. 🙂
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😆
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“Acme”? 🤦 lol Boots for buckaroos, and/or green saddle shoes.. who could’ve guessed we’d ever top these?!
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No wonder I was so fidgety in school. We had harsh toilet paper!
I remember some of these ads. How did my generation live to grow up?
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One of life’s unsolved mysteries…
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A Boomer mystery 😉
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Those were quite the eye opener!
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I think most of these (except for the cocaine) are right out of my childhood. Food in the 60s was so bad. I remember that Franco spaghetti being one of the better options. Wouldn’t touch the stuff today. 😀
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I hear you.
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$6.95 for a back-of-the-cabin hammock? Highway robbery!!
;P
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Cocaine and DDT!
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