Last week, we considered a few postcards from days gone by which might today be considered dirtier than they were originally intended. This was not meant to be some sort of argument that our ancestors were clueless when it came to sex. How do you think they got to be ancestors, after all? Continue reading “Yeah, They Meant That”
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On the Road Again
Oh, let us pause for another collection of old jokes. If I contribute nothing else to twenty-first century society, I will at least have invented a new reason to dread Mondays. This selection from my brilliant but unpublished book So I Bit Him! Deals with jokes about travel. As ever, the punchline has beenContinue reading “On the Road Again”
They Didn’t Mean It That Way
I hope we have established that our ancestors who sent (or at least bought) postcards were not babes in the woods. We have discussed what they thought about having a bear behind, and looked over those people admitted they had tired donkeys, or suggested you spank their donkeys. We have looked at a fewContinue reading “They Didn’t Mean It That Way”
YOUR Future
It is not often I feel I must perform a public service, and when I feel like that, I generally lie down for a while until the urge goes away. This is why I will never be a star on social media. But this postcard was such a strain to me I thoughtContinue reading “YOUR Future”
Takin’ What They’re Givin’
A number of years ago, in response to no particular demand, I developed a musical lecture on the “I Hate My Job” song, a style of song as basic to the American experience as the hymn. Had I been able to clear all the rights…. But there is a broad literature of peopleContinue reading “Takin’ What They’re Givin’”
Something In It For You
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”
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?”
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