# Back By Popular Demand! The Fall 2015 Postcard Exhange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387 "2015-09-08T22:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/61 "2015-10-02T18:51:47Z")
I received my first postcard today from \*\*Anaglyph \*\*. It’s a fishing boat print that is reminiscent of many fishing trips that I have made. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/62 "2015-10-02T23:45:13Z")
Mine are ready to go but I’ll be taking them to the po tomorrow. If i drop them in the box in front of my house i suspect they’ll be ruined (it’s a little rainy out there tonight) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/63 "2015-10-04T01:31:58Z")
Two postcards today! From needscoffee a lenticular (new word for me!) postcard that is fascinating. I am rotating it during commercials of the Notre Dame - Clemson game, and I’m finding it more interesting than the game. The second, from Teuton, is a picture of one of my favorite places, Buckingham Palace. I’ve never been in it, but I’m sure it’s only because HM has lost my phone number. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/64 "2015-10-04T19:29:03Z")
Got a lovely card from Pai325 yesterday depicting Laurent House in Rockford. I’d never seen it before; love the house. Have you ever toured it? And in reponse to your query: Morton is… PUMPKIN-Y this time of year 😉 How’s Rockford? Thanks for your thoughtfulness! ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/65 "2015-10-04T21:40:37Z")
**ravensthief** , your zip code in the list has only 4 numbers. Can you supply the missing number and tell me where in the sequence to insert it? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/66 "2015-10-04T23:37:59Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > **ravensthief** , your zip code in the list has only 4 numbers. Can you supply the missing number and tell me where in the sequence to insert it? 5…on the end 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/67 "2015-10-04T23:49:41Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Got a lovely card from Pai325 yesterday depicting Laurent House in Rockford. I’d never seen it before; love the house. Have you ever toured it? > > And in reponse to your query: Morton is… PUMPKIN-Y this time of year 😉 How’s Rockford? Thanks for your thoughtfulness! I haven’t been there yet, but I intend to go. Things are cold and gray. It feels like November!!! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/68 "2015-10-05T07:14:12Z")
I got four postcards on friday, three more on Saturday! From **GRRLBRARiAN** a pop-art portrait of Abraham Lincoln with some probably invented trivia about his life.Actually, so far fall is beautiful here - after an unusually hot summer, a refreshing fall with gray mornings, but still plenty of sunshine. Although, when my brother took me to the top of [mount Rigi](http://www.rigi.ch/Home-en) for lunch to celebrate my birthday, we aw none of the usually fabulous view, but were stuck in thick fog. From **Atomic Mama** , I got a picture of a Maine shore lobster dinner, reminding me of the conference dinners at New England Gordon conferences. From\*\* Lsura\*\*, I got a card showing Chicago at night. If you like cities at night, I hope you like my card. From **PW6163** i got what else but Kangaroos! From **SILENUS** I got a glitter-enhanced night image of the Hoover Dam - I saw that one in person in 1981, when I drove around the US in a rented car, together with two friends, before starting on my PhD. From **Elendil’s Heir** , I got a card from the Gettysburg National Military Park. I don’t think I have seen that one, but I frequently visited the Valley Forge Natl. History Park during the time I worked in King of Prussia. And. last but not least, from **Teuton** arrived a second card, showing the Harbor of Minehead. Thank you all for the nice cards and good wishes! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/69 "2015-10-05T17:43:20Z")
I’m home sick from work and what do I get in the mail? Three postcards. Two lovely outdoor scenes from **Teuton** and a picture of the interior of the [Laurent House](http://www.laurenthouse.com/) from Pai325. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/70 "2015-10-05T18:30:03Z")
I put all my postcards in the mail this morning – just under the wire! International ones will arrive with Christmas stamps – not my choice; that’s all on the Post Office. (Although if it takes those postcards 2 months to arrive, it will look like genius.) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/71 "2015-10-05T22:27:47Z")
Another postcard from Teuton! It’s a picture of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. That may be spelled incorrectly, but I don’t have the will to check and correct. I’d love to go to Cornwall. It looks beautiful. My daughter has one free day in London in a couple of months and has also wanted to visit Cornwall, but it’s a bit far for a day trip. Off to Leicester to see the King, or to Newton Heath to visit the grave of her g-g-g grandfather instead, perhaps. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/72 "2015-10-05T23:29:07Z")
Two came today! **Anaglyph** sent me a photo of her ivory tower to mine. As a scientist myself, it was great to see her science campus! **Algher** sent me a pic of his houseboat, a 10,000 person aircraft carrier in Coronado. Having lived in San Deigo myself, that was a treat. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/73 "2015-10-06T00:17:00Z")
All postcards ought to go in the mail by today! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/74 "2015-10-06T00:27:13Z")
Please forgive me, mine will go in tomorrow. It’s been a weird couple of weeks, and it’s my fault that I’ve been a slacker. I got postcards! One is from Einstein’s Heir, pictures of a town near his, Attendorn. Really lovely, I’ve never visited Europe. Got another from Anaglyph, with a recipe on the front for an Alsacian variey of pizza. I’m going to have to try it, but first, what are “lardons” and “colza oil”? And from Australia, from Weedy, comes a postcard with kangaroos. I’ve never seen a kangaroo in real life, I hope to someday. Again, I’m sorry I am late Oh, I also got a card returned to me today, from the previous exchange. I sent two to everybody, so Amarinth, did you get just one from me? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/75 "2015-10-06T01:18:58Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I got postcards! One is from Einstein’s Heir, pictures of a town near his, Attendorn. Really lovely, I’ve never visited Europe. That’s Einstein’s Hund, not Heir. My brain is well and truly fried. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/76 "2015-10-06T01:45:20Z")
LOL, I thought you might have been translating it from the German… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/77 "2015-10-06T01:53:02Z")
Then it would have been _dog_! Sifting through my mail I missed an envelope tucked into a store flyer. Got cards from blondebear. There’s a single card from Marsh’s Free Museum, with Jake the Alligator man, and a shrunken. MMMMM! Sounds like fun! Then there’s a pack of vintage postcards from Ft. Lauderdale. I haven’t been to a beach in thirty years, but these make me want to go. My dad would have loved the old cars, he was into that. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/78 "2015-10-06T02:23:18Z")
Got mine off today! Go me! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/79 "2015-10-06T02:45:06Z")
Mine went out today! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/80 "2015-10-06T06:58:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Got another from Anaglyph, with a recipe on the front for an Alsacian variey of pizza. I’m going to have to try it, but first, what are “lardons” and “colza oil”? [Lardons](https://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1282&bih=1311&q=Lardons&oq=Lardons&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i30l3j0i5i30j0i30l4.1842.3642.0.5041.7.7.0.0.0.0.65.271.7.7.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.7.270.AV_qenF4uog) is bacon cut into small pieces, “[Colza oil](https://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1282&bih=1311&q=Colza+oil&oq=Colza+oil&gs_l=img.3..0i19j0i30i19.75092.80060.1.81219.9.9.0.0.0.0.67.346.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.16.615.1iwE3G6m3D8)” is rapeseed oil (Canola). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387.md?page=5)