A little bibliophile humor today in honor of the birthday of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), author of Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.
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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 
Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
Literary chuckles, courtesy of BlueBird 😂
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Thanks Chris. 🙂
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Fun post
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Reblogged this on Cage Dunn – Fibber, Fabricator, Teller-of-Tall-Tales and commented:
Bookish? Looking to buy a gift? … make sure you read every pathway on the last one!
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Thank you for reblogging. 🙂
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Just my bookish cuppa tea. Thank you for making my day.
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These are great! I love the Snooty Bookstore email.
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That one cracked me up. 🙂
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I do appreciate good snark.
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I am going to get the monopoly set!
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I love this.. and also the surprize benefit of older related posts on the same subject that I haven’t seen yet… yay !
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Also the ‘book generator’ one is so spot-on.
My mom would read all the endless books by certain authors like Nora Roberts. I came to think : if I had a mind to, I could do what she does, just to make money at it, it’s a formula.
I don’t doubt some of the romance novel authors have a system like that chart– shall this heroine be : an heiress, a widowed ranch owner, a Countess or Baroness ? etc
1. Introduce your characters and backstory 2. Create conflicts to be resolved. 3. Conflicts resolved… or maybe not, if a sequel or trilogy is in the works. ha
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The last one is about me.
I enjoyed looking at all the linked back birthdays for Roget too!
Thanks as ever BoB
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I love the flow chart!
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That one is brilliant.
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My books-to-be-read stack looks like that one. I read from the top down, so I’ll probably never get to the 90s before I die 🙂
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Same here.
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As we speak this post is being forwarded to my son, our town’s librarian. Knowing him, it will be on the bulletin board within the hour! Let’s hear it for books, book shops, book clubs and libraries; long may they reign ! 📚
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Amen, sister. ♥️
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Another winner BoB! I loved these. I see Herbie has not managed to find a group to help him with his smoking!
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Sometimes I get the impression he’s not trying very hard.
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🙂 🙂
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“Back in five pages?” More like fifty pages… Strike that, say fifty chapters… Why I can’t get out of bookstores. It is like a cosmic vortex, you can check in, but can never leave, wasn’t there a song to that effect?
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My kids would know. I’m an ignoramus when it comes to popular culture.
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“you can check in, but can never leave” A non-verbatim song lyric from the Eagles, Hotel California album.
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Love These!
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Thank you for the link. ♥️
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All brilliant! I especially love the children’s book generator 🙂
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PS: Never once thought about who wrote Roget’s Thesaurus!
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definitely can’t go wrong with a book!
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