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”
Tag Archives: Postcards
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!”
Easy as A B…um
Why, what do you know? It’s Monday again! Let joy be unconfined at the return of the week as well as another Old Joke Quiz! (Look, get some of that leftover egg nog from the weekend and put it in your morning coffee. Maybe that will help unconfine your joy.) This set of jokesContinue reading “Easy as A B…um”
Heaping Helping
In our last thrilling episode, we continued out discussion of Round People by considering Round People in Love. Because we are avoiding the whole catchphrase “Nobody loves a Fat Man” and its descendants, this quickly turned into a discussion of the Round Woman and Love. We saw a number of postcards which suggested thatContinue reading “Heaping Helping”
Round and Round
About an eon and a half ago, there was a one woman show in Chicago in which a plumpish wallflower mused on a romantic misadventure with a man who was leading her on just to make her look ridiculous. I am afraid I have forgotten the name of the actress AND the play, asContinue reading “Round and Round”
Round Roast
The whole history of Round People in culture is beyond the scope of this blog. Fashion has been fashion and social life has been social life for eons. For centuries, the poor were thin and the rich were fat, and once over-the-counter medicine became big business, some of the most popular nostrums sold wereContinue reading “Round Roast”
Beach View
It may still weigh on your mind what a huge territory we chose to cover in Friday’s blog, dedicated to postcards which told how a vacation might tend to broaden one’s knowledge, one’s experience, and, especially, one’s waistline. It is such a large field for study that we skipped all the postcards that usedContinue reading “Beach View”
Vacation Coming Round
We have addressed some of the themes which were huge hits in the days when we sent postcards instead of texts: fishing, outhouses, clotheslines, and street sweepers, but we have been ignoring the eight hundred pound….let’s try that over. We have not indicated the fun our ancestors found in Round People, or Fat Folk.Continue reading “Vacation Coming Round”
Streets and San
It was never one of the top ten wishes of my life, but as a boy I kind of wondered whether I wouldn’t like to drive the street sweeper. This was a tanklike one-person vehicle with a spinning brush underneath, which went along the street sweeping the dust so that…well, I don’t know what,Continue reading “Streets and San”
Promoting Your Lunch Special
Now, as we have had occasion to mention, this is NOT a food blog. This is a blog wherein I discuss cultural matters, usually involving some of the postcards I have for sale (which none of you have rushed to buy yet. I know I have not yet optimized your blog-reading experience by makingContinue reading “Promoting Your Lunch Special”
Blogsy Babbles 