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Class Act

Ah, ‘tis Monday, our weekly Old Joke Day. Fear not: some day I will run out of the jokes from this joke quizbook I wrote in the 1990s, and will have to find something else to do. (And reflect that if some enterprising publisher had actually published this book in the 1990s, you wouldContinue reading “Class Act”

Reality and Mystery

It has been a little while since we considered the charms of the rppc, or Real Photo Postcard. This, in case you missed it the first time around, is a sort of homemade postcard: you could make them in your own darkroom at home or you could ask your drugstore, or whoever processed yourContinue reading “Reality and Mystery”

Nine to Four-Thirty-Seven

Sorry to throw things off by publishing Friday’s blog on Monday, but those people at the hospital adored having me there so much they had to be convinced to let me go. But I refuse to let that brief indisposition cause the world to collapse into tears because of the lack of an OldContinue reading “Nine to Four-Thirty-Seven”

Interpreting Artifacts

It has been a while since we delved into the archaeology of humor as reflected in postcard art of the past (as opposed to our rather shallow digs every Monday.) More postcards come in all the time, and some of the jokes are moderately obscure unless you’re old enough, or are thoroughly obscure despiteContinue reading “Interpreting Artifacts”

Comin’ Atcha

One of the things you might not expect, living in the era of fairly calm, sedate postcards, is the postcard which would come up and confront you, face to face. You need to keep in mind that the postcard to some degree took the place of texting in that bygone golden age of postcardsContinue reading “Comin’ Atcha”

Have Another

It is Old Joke Monday again, and I find that we are back into the chapter on bars and drinking jokes, which gives me an excuse to use up a couple of postcards I found too late to include in one of my postcards blogs a while back. You remember the rules: these areContinue reading “Have Another”

More to Celebrate

I had a wave of good reviews for Wednesday’s blog. (Okay, there was one, but you take what you can get in this business.) My examination of the excitements of the literary world in 1922 apparently found a response and that is naturally all I need to try again with something similar. (One ofContinue reading “More to Celebrate”

A Century? Already?

We are going to step away from postcards for a passing moment, and think back to when I wrote a book blog. In those days, one of the chief services I provided the public around the New Year was to let it know about what anniversaries are coming up to celebrate, if you feelContinue reading “A Century? Already?”

More On Your Plate

Ah, the first Monday of 2022, and our first official old joke day. (For newcomers, old jokes told the rest of the week are a matter of chance. Don’t think yourself safe just because it’s Wednesday.) As mentioned last Monday, we start again at the beginning of my brilliant but somehow unpublished oldContinue reading “More On Your Plate”

Good Advice?

In our last thrilling episode. We considered those postcards of about 110 years ago which offered good advice suitable for use in New Year’s Resolutions. There is,. Of course, a flip side. Some of the advice given is worth exactly what the recipient of the card paid for it. For the moment, IContinue reading “Good Advice?”