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How people had fun in the pre-digital era

April 16, 2019

For bonus points, see if you can spot the celebrities.

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Friday happy dance

April 5, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness

March 27, 2019

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Friday happy dance

March 1, 2019

5 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: Bunny Hop, dance, Lawrence Welk, memory lane | Permalink
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Friday happy dance

February 15, 2019

3 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: dance, memory lane, Temptations | Permalink
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Advertisements from long, long ago — M’m! M’m! Good! edition

February 11, 2019

15 Comments | simple pleasures | Tagged: memory lane, vintage ads | Permalink
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Friday happy dance

February 8, 2019

9 Comments | circus of life | Tagged: dance, dogs, Eleanor Powell, memory lane | Permalink
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
—C. S. Lewis
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The best things in life aren’t things.
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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 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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