# Is it just me, or are 99% of greeting cards sickeningly sappy or totally tasteless?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 9, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-99-of-greeting-cards-sickeningly-sappy-or-totally-tasteless/513229 "2009-10-09T19:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-99-of-greeting-cards-sickeningly-sappy-or-totally-tasteless/513229/41 "2009-10-12T17:41:57Z")

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I’d be curious to see sales figures for all the fart-joke cards. They’ve become so pervasive in the “humorous” card section that I’ve got to think that a fair number of people are buying them, even though I don’t know ANYONE who likes them. Who are the buyers of these cards? Is it the same people who are keeping the spam for penis-enlargement products profitable?

On the plus side, it’s now possible to sometimes- SOMETIMES- browse for cards without encountering the inevitable card that says SEX in big letters on the front, followed inside by “Now that I have your attention, happy [insert occasion here]!” It’s possible that the industry is realizing that the joke lost whatever humor it had about 25 years and 19,000 identical cards ago.

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-99-of-greeting-cards-sickeningly-sappy-or-totally-tasteless/513229/42 "2009-10-12T20:07:00Z")

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Sometimes when I’m bored after classes, I go to the local Duane Reade and spend half an hour reading the humorous greeting cards. They’re a lot funnier when you know you won’t actually have to give them to anyone.

I did once buy my brother a card from there. It wasn’t even his birthday for another six months or so, but the card captured the love-hate sentiment of civil rivalry so well that I had no choice but to give it to him.

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