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Auto Eroticism

Compared to today’s automobiles, you find in the picture above a rather comfortable back seat, with nice padding and plenty of, er, leg room. If you could combine that with a very discreet chauffeur, so you didn’t have to waste any of your attention on actual driving, you created prime romantic real estate. OrContinue reading “Auto Eroticism”

Your Granddad’s Dad Jokes

I hope you did not fear, when this blog took the holiday off last week, that we were out of old jokes. We have not yet reached that catastrophe. We have a few tales of other people’s catastrophes to try out on you first. As always, in case you catastrophically cannot remember the punchlineContinue reading “Your Granddad’s Dad Jokes”

Club Initiation

Have I ever confided in you the deep, dark secret that I have no ambition to write a food blog? I have occasionally considered starting a series where I could discuss some of my personal recipes (I am the originator and only known provider of Crawford Sausage, for example) but every time I thinkContinue reading “Club Initiation”

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days

So the Fourth of July has passed and we are now in full summer. (Not for us old-timers this modern custom of beginning summer with memorial Day weekend. Summer isn’t fully underway until we start seeing watermelon and corn on the cob in the grocery…yeah, I know they’re there all year round now, butContinue reading “Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days”

By Two and Two

No, thank you for asking, we have not quite covered every aspect of alcohol as examined in the postcards of yesteryear. Our relationship with the juice of the barley is complex. The traditions brought by European immigrants were divided along a north-south boundary between southern cultures from warm climates, who drank to loosenContinue reading “By Two and Two”

The Way to Go Home

So far, we have had only a sip from the postcard world of alcohol imbibing. There are many cards, for example, like the one above, which deal with the person who enjoys a simple glass of beer (or two) at the end of a long day. Such cards show no signs of overindulgence, justContinue reading “The Way to Go Home”

The Best Medicine

And here we are at the last Monday in the first half of the year. We can look over the months of January through June and consider the joys of six more months of the joys of….okay, be that way. Maybe I should have waited for the last Tuesday of June. In anyContinue reading “The Best Medicine”

You Didn’t Say When

See, this guy walks out of a bar…. The joke must be as old as the tavern: as long as there have been establishments outside the home where alcohol was served, stories have told of the epic journey to return home with diminished skills of judgement and navigation. When we finally decipher theContinue reading “You Didn’t Say When”

Say When

Some philosophical soul once wrote, “The average American doesn’t want much. Just more than enough.” This thought came to me as I was sorting through the postcards in inventory under the subject heading of “Drinking”. I was expecting to see vast numbers of cards dealing with the struggle of the over-served drinker toContinue reading “Say When”

Miscellaneous Mirth

I have warned you before, and though that exigency is not imminent, I will remind you that we are running out of the old jokes with which I filled my joke quizbook back in the last century. Once we have completed all of that, I will have to think of another way to brightenContinue reading “Miscellaneous Mirth”