There are plenty of online reference sources which indicate when a word or phrase is found for the first time in printed sources. If a word has more than one meaning, a good source will give a date for each usage. What I need, in my vending of bygone postcard humor, is one which tellsContinue reading “Repurposed Slang”
Tag Archives: Postcards
A Beachful of Dollars
The weather has been so ridiculously warm for November in my part of the world (A lot of the trees are still green. In MY day, they would have gone to orange to red to brown to rustling underfoot by now. I say it’s the fault of AI, or Autumn Interference. If the sinister scientistsContinue reading “A Beachful of Dollars”
Hollow Holiday
If you failed to get the memo when the pumpkin spice beverages popped up around the end of August, we are well into the Holiday Season, a chunk of calendar filled with ancient sanctities, modern marketing, and our own personal traditions, things we do because we have always done them at a certain time ofContinue reading “Hollow Holiday”
Following the Bunny
We can read about the allure of postcards, and how they and their messages can lead us to faraway places with strange-sounding names. The ones I deal with do take me on certain journeys, which most people call rabbit holes. Take these kids, reminiscent of a certain school of popular art in the 1950s andContinue reading “Following the Bunny”
Dog Wear: Necks Installment
If you have been following along, you have watched as we considered postcards which showed animals in suits, and animals who wore primarily hats. We then discussed animals (mainly cats and dogs) with bows. Today we shall conclude this train of thought at Collars. (I hope. I know I have already discussed spectacles worn byContinue reading “Dog Wear: Necks Installment”
BOW JEST
Here is one of the widely popular postcard cartoons, produced by various cartoonists over several decades. Its success is a result of leaving the punchline up to the viewer’s ability to say “OH! Got it!” But we are not here to discuss that but to continue our discussion from our previous thrilling installment, whichContinue reading “BOW JEST”
Toppers
Now, in last Friday’s thrilling episode, we were considering postcards which showed animals wearing human clothing. We did not exhaust the subject (the number of teddy bear postcards alone would have produced a massive bit of bloggery). But we did neglect the world of postcard critters who limited themselves mainly to headgear. OneContinue reading “Toppers”
Duds for Doggies
To those of us who grew up with the open collar suburban outfit of Mickey Mouse, and who now live in a world in which Hello Kitty hand sanitizer and Hello Kitty Polaroid cameras are being marketed to us every day (saw each of those this week; look it up if you don’t believeContinue reading “Duds for Doggies”
Hazards of the She-Driver
As you may recall from our last thrilling episode, we were discussing the Women Driver Joke. I was noting that there are mighty few traces of that sort of traditional male humor among my inventory of comic postcards. In fact, in THAT column, I showed how many early cards I have which show perfectlyContinue reading “Hazards of the She-Driver”
The Woman at the Wheel
After the wave of popular applause for the column posted hereintofore on the history of the Mother-in-law Joke (did I say “wave”? I meant “trickle”. Okay, maybe a comment from one drip.) I thought we might consider the postcard history of a younger old joke. We are going to consider Women Drivers. ThisContinue reading “The Woman at the Wheel”
