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This entry was posted on Sunday, August 21st, 2022 at 11:55 am and is filed under circus of life. 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
Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
See these enlarged on Bluebird’s original blog post 😂
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Thanks Chris. 🙂
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Close to home.
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Same.
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love that comic strip too!
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One of my favorite strips!
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It’s sad when you start to resemble these cartoons. 🤓😉🙀
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Reblogged this on wordrefiner.
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Thanks Mark. 🙂
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All of these are totally relatable.
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My new t-shirt says this on the front:
Mom
Grandma
Great-Grandma
I Just Keep Getting Better!
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[…] https://bluebirdofbitterness.com/2022/08/21/happy-senior-citizens-day-4/ […]
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Thank you for the link. ♥️
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That was my mom and dad, now it is me… where did I go wrong?
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You did nothing wrong, as far as I know. The only way to avoid it is to die young.
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Thanks for the chuckles … and a couple of good ideas. 😉
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I loved them all and could relate! I live in an apartment complex with the same name as the street it is on. At the grocery store a friend I hadn’t seen in a while asked where I was living. I couldn’t remember the name of the complex and street, although I could describe how to get there.
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Those are great. I miss the comics and the newspaper.
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that last one – about the car. My husband tells me he did something similar during his first marriage – left the baby in his pram outside the shop.
And I married the senior version…
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Reblogged this on NEW BLOG HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thanks Michael. 🙂
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:-)) Thanks as well, BoB. Enjoy your week!xx Michael
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Lol – Getting older is not easy, neither for humans nor for pets. 😉 Have a nice week. Bob! xx Michael
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Happy senior citizens day. I enjoyed your posts. 🙂
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This senior citizen found these hilarious, BoB!
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So did this one. 🙂
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[…] https://bluebirdofbitterness.com/2022/08/21/happy-senior-citizens-day-4/ […]
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Thank you for the link. ♥️
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