A Little This and That. Postcards and puns.

Looking through some archived material, I found a card from a lady named Cathy that I beat in a Postcard Contest back in 1999.  She was the prior year's winner and did not like losing to me.   The rules said that the prior winner was to provide a trophy to the new winner.  She refused to do so.

Anyway, to make up for it, maybe, she sent me some jokes about dieting:

"You're so fat: when you step on the scale it says 'to be continued.'

"You have more chins than Chinatown."

"When you take the subway, the train gets stuck in the tunnel."

"You have to go outside to put on deodorant."

"They use your underwear for bungee-jumping."

These were printed on a Boomerang Freecard: Amsterdam "You're so fat": Nr. 1 uit een serie van 4 Hate-kaarten.

I used to spend a lot of time communicating with my Postcard Pals.  I sent and received hundreds each month.  The group was called the 1Ksig  ...  a Special Interest Group.. and the 1K just reminds people of when postcards cost just 1K (one cent equivalent) in the British Isles.

Like other fun things.. this group got smaller and smaller... especially when computer assisted communication made the world too small for the postcard sender.  But... I still like to send them when I get a chance. 

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Pre-Halloween words from Richard Lederer:

The latest issue of the Mensa Bulletin had a "punny" article by Richard.  All puns related to the upcoming Halloween season.   I especially liked these:

Re: Dracula "it seems that the sun never sets on the brutish vampire."

Dr. Frankenstein "voted for Al Franken and Jill Stern on the Franken-Stein ticket."

"When the monster rose from the table and spat on the ground, the proud doctor (Frankenstein) exclaimed:  "It's saliva!  It's saliva!"

All right, all right,.... yell at Richard and not me.

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