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?”
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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 As mentioned last Monday, we start again at the beginning of my brilliant but somehow unpublished oldContinue reading “More On Your Plate”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?”
Good Advice
Though I think I have made it clear that this blog exists primarily to spotlight and criticize certain postcards I have for sale on other venues,. I do like to think it serves other purposes as well. And with this in mind, I thought my postcards and I might just give you a handContinue reading “Good Advice”
Jest Jumble
This Monday old joke quiz comes from the dainties offered in the Miscellaneous chapter of the original quiz book, which was the LAST chapter. But do not rush to a cliff’s edge, Shortbread Lasagna, I did not use up all the jokes in each of the previous subjects, so we may have whole Mondays devotedContinue reading “Jest Jumble”
Santa Blogs XXXIV
In my previous life as a blogger, I acted as a conduit for two or three letters every year involving another individual. I was a little surprised to be pressed into service again this Christmas Eve by some familiar sounds from the old North Pole letters column. Dear Santa Blogs, You Dufflebag Doofus: Continue reading “Santa Blogs XXXIV”
Those Blessed Ghosts
There are people who think Ebenezer Scrooge is a wimp. They point to his graveside pleading. “Come on,” they tell me. “He had to go through ALL those pages just to realize he was going to die some day? That’s the big payoff?” These are the People Who Do Not get It. Continue reading “Those Blessed Ghosts”
Oops!
Ah, the Monday before Christmas, and what can you expect as a surprise gift from your Uncle Blogsy? Old Jokes? Not much of a surprise. Was it? The selection of gags from the Old Joke Quizbook comes from the section covering mishaps, faux-pas, and straight accidents, the sort of thing life tosses at youContinue reading “Oops!”
Twelve Blessed Days
I was not planning an all-out series on Christmas songs some people have no time for, but just hunker down and we’ll get through this together. In 1780, in a little publication called Mirth Without Mischief, the verse appeared in print for the first time, only slightly different from the way we singContinue reading “Twelve Blessed Days”
That Blessed Drum
All she wanted to do was compose a Christmas song suitable for girls’ choirs, and in 1941, Katherine Kennicott Davis became obsessed with the traditional French carol Pat-a-pan, and wrote her version with pa-rum-pa-um-pum, in place of it. She published it as C.R.W. Robinson, and her Carol of the Drum did reasonably well, beingContinue reading “That Blessed Drum”
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