# Postcards are arriving!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2000, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947 "2000-07-08T12:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/1 "2000-07-08T12:32:51Z")
**kelli-belli** ’s writing initiative has born fruit. I received a pleasant card from **Sue Duhnym** today. A very pleasant card, **except for the 21 fuckin’ smilies on the front of the blasted thing!** The inscription: Smiles. They’re for everyone. Her post script: Except you! I guess I’ll forgive her… Thanks, Sue! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/2 "2000-07-10T17:25:53Z")
A couple more dribbled in today! First, **Arnold Winkleried** sent me a nude postcard of Julie Andrews (you just have to pretend she isn’t wearing her Mary Poppins duds)! Second, from **MaryAnneQ** a Wisconsin postcard with the word “Boobs” in quotation marks on the reverse. _Very_ provocative! Thanks guys! But I’m not in trouble yet. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/3 "2000-07-10T19:19:21Z")
I’ll send you one! ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/4 "2000-07-10T20:46:08Z")
**Chief** , what’s the lowdown on this postcard thing? Give me a link or your address and I’d be glad to send you a postcard from Mile High country! Or is this one of those UL’s where the dying kid is trying to get in to the Guiness Book of World Records for getting the most business cards? [inteded smilie witheld] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/5 "2000-07-10T21:12:41Z")
Well, Chief. Of course, I’d be overjoyed to send you a postcard, too. But you try and find one of the damned things in Toledo. Ya see, postcards are usually bought by _tourists_, and we ain’t had one of _those_ in Toodleydoo for over twenty years, and he only stopped 'cuz he thought Toledo was the _Grass_ Capital of the World. You’ll just have to accept the wish for the act. I’m sure you’ll get over your great disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/6 "2000-07-11T12:54:29Z")
**Chief** , did the one I sent from Pakistan ever show up? Sorry, I don’t think it included any references to breasts, but then it didn’t have smilies either. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/7 "2000-07-12T08:35:12Z")
Naw, I’m not begging for cards, guys. Kells tried to get some dopers to try to embarrass me by sending smilie adorned cards to the ship. I was just letting her know it was paying off. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/8 "2000-07-13T07:09:38Z")
Got one today from **SmoothOperator**! Curiously, it has a photo of “The Carolina moon rising over the coast of some of the most tranquil and artistic scenery n the world.” Yet the card was “Made in Italy!” ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/9 "2000-07-13T08:01:40Z")
My card is on its way. I hope I got that long address down ocrrectly. No smilies, either. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/10 "2000-07-13T08:42:40Z")
> [@](#): > > ocrrectly Yeah… right. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/11 "2000-07-13T09:26:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChiefScott \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > ocrrectly > > Yeah… right. \*\* Sheesh…talk about an ingrate! (pretend there’s a smiley here) ---
**Author:** ![SmoothOperator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcards-are-arriving/24947/12 "2000-07-13T10:29:51Z")
What can I say, we have to import our sunsets! snort Glad you received the postcard.