# Online Greeting Cards **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2000, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332 "2000-05-12T12:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/1 "2000-05-12T12:34:19Z")
My mother-in-law is a great person. However, she has this compulsion with going to Blue Mountain and sending greeting cards to people. Birthdays, holidays, graduations, etc and person can bet the farm they will get a card in their email. I don’t need to get a card with banjo playing frogs telling me to have a happy leap year. I don’t need a card with a cow mooing me the birthday song. And I certainly don’t need to get a card with background music a 2 year old could create by hitting the bossa nova button on musical keyboard. Oh sure, I am now to the point where I delete all cards before looking at them, but I still know that site lurks out there, somewhere, waiting to terrorize another unsuspecting soul who will open the link and get a card with a turtle kissing Shamu and saying “Get whale soon.” Thus endeth my rant. Dang, it’s good to be back on the boards after a week long absence. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/2 "2000-05-12T12:50:35Z")
Gee, **Mully,** IM **H** O you should get down on your knees and thank God that she only sends you VIRTUAL cards. Imagine receiving actual paper cards, that have to be DEALT WITH. Or am I the only one that feels a crippling guilt whenever I throw a $2.50 greeting card into the wastebasket? Remember, dear, it’s the thought that counts… :rolleyes: So what is she thinking? P.S. You know you shouldn’t delete them without looking at them–there might be money inside. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/3 "2000-05-12T13:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh sure, I am now to the point where I delete all cards before looking at them, but I still know that site lurks out there, somewhere, waiting to terrorize another unsuspecting soul who will open the link and get a card with a turtle kissing Shamu and saying “Get whale soon.” Mull, I have to tell you- I laughed so hard at the “get whale soon” like that I had to go fix my mascara. I, too am a victim of the Blue Mountain Arts card site. My aunt (who I adore) sends me cards constantly- even for their “made up” holidays. It is the thought that counts, though. Zette ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/4 "2000-05-12T18:14:50Z")
You too, huh? I love my grandmother very much, but ever since she got AOL, she’s had this compulsion to send me diabetes-inducing “inspirational stories” and animated greeting cards with dancing animals. (I suppose there’s also music, but the first thing I did when I got this computer was disconnect the speakers. Inanimate objects should not be allowed to talk.) Unfortunately, I can’t think of any polite way to tell her how I really feel about those things. Barf. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/5 "2000-05-12T18:20:49Z")
“Get whale soon”? I’m with Zette, laughing my butt off. I think it’s totally fair that you be inconvenienced by on-line dreck in the name of the greater good of amusing us Dopers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/6 "2000-05-12T18:26:17Z")
I am virtuously resisting sending you an e-card with a koala holding a flower on the front and inside the message “Life without you would be unBEARable!” That ought to get me into Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/7 "2000-05-12T18:35:05Z")
I guess I’ve got fonder memories of the BlueMountain cards as my (ex)girlfriend used to send me them- really cute drawings of animals, sappy midi playing in the background, and XXX rated content about what she was going to do to me that night. I’m kind of embarrased now when I get one from my grandma. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/8 "2000-05-12T19:01:14Z")
I’ve heard that everyone who gets or sends one of those e-mail greetings also has their name and e-mail address sold to numerous spammers. I haven’t sent one since I heard that. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/9 "2000-05-12T19:08:38Z")
And Jodi has now pointed out the mistake I have made in posting my dislike of these things while mindlessly giving the whole world my email address. I really should have considered the sneaky underhanded ways of the Doper a little more before I posted this. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/10 "2000-05-12T20:54:42Z")
Mully, you deleted the steamy card I sent without opening it??? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-greeting-cards/19332/11 "2000-05-13T20:40:01Z")
Mull, I see by your sig that you enjoyed my card…MUUUUUHHHAAAA!!! Is that song infectious or what??? Zette