One of the nice things about doing a blog for years is the chance to go back to blogs which have appeared hereintofore and revisiting a topic with new information. So postcards with wardrobe mal…no, no, come back. We are ACTUALLY going to discuss one of the most popular of postcard sentiments: “Wen are you going to write to me, you deadbeat?”
It isn’t so much that I have anything new to say, see, but I DO have new postcards in inventory which cover that wildly popular theme. As always, there are basically two “line” jokes in the arsenal of the angry correspondent: one involving fishing….
And the other involving drying your clothes. (THIS, by the way, is British postcard cartoonist D. (for Donald) Tempest doing his version of the round children postcards made bestsellers through Grace “Campell Kids” Drayton and others. D. Tempest became legendary more for the antics of his grown-ups.)
Of course, though the sending of postcards has dropped off considerably as the telephone became more common, the sentiment remains to this day. It would be nice to have some picturesque way of asking “You haven’t answered my e-mail of forty-five seconds ago!” (Beyond just adding another forty exclamation points, I mean.) Or maybe there IS an emoji which communicates the wistfulness of this daydreaming typist.
Or covers the seductive command of THIS young lady. (It may be masquerading as a “my new address” card, but that opening, which was also the way to government opened its draft notice letters at this time, makes matters clear.)
Plenty of cards disguised the sender as the patient dog, loyal to you, you faithless creature who won’t put your pen to that paper to write a letter, or even a simple postcard.
Better make it a letter. LOOK at that face.
Other cards show the matter as more urgent. You may not think a card or letter would be this vital, but MANY people have associated my blogs with laxatives. (I forget their EXACT words, though I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be allowed to use them here.)
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