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Advertisements from long, long ago — femme fatale edition

May 1, 2020

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Advertisements from long, long ago — ultrasexy menswear edition

January 28, 2020

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Advertisements from long, long ago — holiday edition

December 4, 2019

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Advertisements from long, long ago — Father’s Day edition

June 16, 2019

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Advertisements from long, long ago — M’m! M’m! Good! edition

February 11, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness

December 19, 2018

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Advertisements from long, long ago — holiday edition

December 10, 2018

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Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. —Julia Ward Howe
thought for the day

Anytime you feel bad about procrastinating, recall that Mozart composed the overture to Don Giovanni the morning of the day the opera premiered.
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Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
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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)
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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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