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Friday happy dance

October 10, 2019

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Friday happy dance

October 4, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness

September 25, 2019

(Thanks to my friend mindful webworker for this one.)

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How people communicated in the pre-digital era

September 24, 2019

30 Comments | simple pleasures | Tagged: memory lane | Permalink
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Friday happy dance

September 13, 2019

12 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: dance, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, memory lane | Permalink
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Wednesday weirdness — back to school edition

September 4, 2019

Any mother in the United States who did today what Jim and Margie’s mother did half a century ago would get a visit from Child Protective Services.

23 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: memory lane, school daze | Permalink
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Friday happy dance

August 30, 2019

6 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: Beer Barrel Polka, dance, Lawrence Welk, memory lane | Permalink
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quote of the day

The only difference between a tax
man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
—Mark Twain
thought for the day

If we find life on other planets, what will happen to the Miss Universe pageant?
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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 sister-in-law Sybil
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
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