Category: The postcards

Comic postcard; mistakes lady's butt for beach ball
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Beach Ball Bingo

So many things wrong with this. Everybody is wearing hideous clothing, even for beachwear- And this lady is walking(?) on the sand in HIGH HEELS….

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Cartoon fancy postcard
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Deluxe accomodations

Check out this fancy outhouse… I couldn’t resist trying it out, despite the ten minute limit. But when I came out I said, “Wow, that…

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Honda Keyfob cost more than a Chrysler

So glad I found my lost keys to my 2014 Honda Civic. It would have cost $100 or more to get this taken care of…

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Cowbow in the outhouse
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Rural Poopification Administration

I sure hope this fellow Elmer stuck around long enough to see the government ensure people have indoor plumbing AND Charmin.

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Your mother in law, per San Francisco's wax museum
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Young men, this is a must for happy marriage

your Mother-In-Law has a bond with your wife, and you need be polite and friendly even if you don’t feel i

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It’s boring to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

Most of the text on the back of this postcard, presumably written from the New Bedford, MA. YMCA in February of 1913, reads; “Did you…

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Ice cream man changes your oil
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Service Your Scooter!

Wow, you were supposed to go in every month? Even with that business, this poor guy had to moonlight at the malt shop! I hope…

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a pet rattlesnake
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Mother nature she is not.

I could see my wife doing this. Furthermore, I could see the rattlesnake becoming her pet, at least until she finds out it eats mice.

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Surprised gendarme (old French postcard)
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French Fries, French bread, French toast, French WOW

I don’t speak a lot of French, but looking at this old postcard, I think I know what “instant gendarme” means!

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A soldier with a split amidship
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A draft, aft.

When I was a young un, and I was being kind of a brat, at some point my mother would comment, “John’s just showing his butt today!”

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