What do Nathaniel Wyeth, Luella Gamber, and Frederick J. Baur have in common? No, besides that you’re not interested in them. No, besides that they are probably the answers to trivia questions. And no, not that they have nothing to do with your daily life. Chances are that they DO make a difference toContinue reading “Something In It For You”
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Poor Deluded Girl
In my ongoing quest for elderly humor in the world of postcards, U have run across many examples of what I call the Deluded Lover Gag. This involves someone, usually a young woman, who has not checked to see who has reached out for a personal touch, but simply assumes she knows the personContinue reading “Poor Deluded Girl”
Set ‘Em Up Again
I didn’t plan to do this every Monday, but I felt that, having done this together last week, we needed to get back on before we developed a fear of it. This is the second in a series of excerpts from my unpublished bestseller, So I Bit Him!, a book of really, really old jokesContinue reading “Set ‘Em Up Again”
Wait, What? II
In our last thrilling episode, we took up the question of postcards with slightly surprising content. U grew up being told, don’t you recall, that the nineteenth century was an era of repression and tight-lipped prudery which forbade books by male and female authors to sit on the same shelf (unless they were married.) Continue reading “Wait, What? II”
Wait, What?
When making one’s way through another world’s jokes, something we do here as we examine the comic postcards of a century or half century ago, it us important not to get too judgy. Roger Ebert stated once that it is not a critic’s job to say “That’s not funny.” No one appointed the criticContinue reading “Wait, What?”
Don’t Stop Me: You’ve Heard This
Well, I heard no clamorous outcry when I suggested I might bring out my unsold quiznook of antiquated jokes and try a few of the questions on you, but I heard no pleas for mercy, either. (If you get no comments at all, you can write as you please.) So I will present aContinue reading “Don’t Stop Me: You’ve Heard This”
Love Road
It has been oh, WEEKS since we have checked in with the Dutch Kids, so I thought we might revisit this social phenomenon of the last century. Doe newcomers, and for those with psychogenic amnesia whose brains have blotted out the information in self-defense, there was a craze beginning around 1910 for postcardsContinue reading “Love Road”
Dr. Cupid
Once upon a time, starting in 1879, there lived a cartoonist named Walter Wellman. He was not a cartoonist yet when he was born, in 1879, that is to say. He probably wasn’t allowed access to ink until he was able to crawl around and grab it./ Anyhow, he was one of those cartoonistsContinue reading “Dr. Cupid”
Broad Humor
I wrote a whole book once of jokes singled out for their absolute omnipresence, what a layperson might call “old jokes”, or, if they were people were as old as the jokes, “chestnuts”. The book was presented in the form of a quiz: if the jokes were really all that stale, you would beContinue reading “Broad Humor”
Bygone Wishes II
Now in our last thrilling episode, we covered a forgotten postcard custom, that of sending postcards with pigs on them to wish someone a happy and prosperous new year. I regret that we only scratched the surface of the subject, as those pigs are legion, and could be found engaged in dozens of differentContinue reading “Bygone Wishes II”
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