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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
—Thomas Sowell
Only in math problems can you buy forty cantaloupes and no one asks what the heck is wrong with you.
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
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[…] English major jocularity — bluebird of bitterness […]
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Thank you for the link. 🙂
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As an English Major, I commiserate with all of the above. 😉
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Yep, me too. 🙂
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good ones….the spider one really made me chuckle.
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That was my favorite. 🙂
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I love English majors. Especially the jocular kind.
joc·u·lar (jŏk′yə-lər)
adj.
1. Characterized by joking.
2. Given to joking.
[Latin ioculāris, droll, from ioculus, diminutive of iocus, joke; see yek- in Indo-European roots.]
joc′u·lar′i·ty (-lăr′ĭ-tē) n.
joc′u·lar·ly adv.
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This is the type of grammar up with which I will not put. ^_^
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Loved every single one of these though I’m guilty of most quite often. 🙂
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All hilarious, but I especially love the grammar police! 😀
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This brings to mind that delightful & hilarious video ‘Word Crimes’ by Weird Al
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Posted that one a while back. 🙂
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Before my time. Remember, I’m a newbie here haha
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🙂
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loved em
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