# The Great Late-Summer 2019 Doper Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054 "2019-08-22T14:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/81 "2019-09-17T01:02:54Z")
> [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](#): > > Yay! A second card from **romansperson**! A stunning black and white picture of Yosemite National Park. Very very beautiful! šŸ™‚ Glad you enjoyed it - Ansel Adams is considered to be one of the great American nature photographers and did some stunning work in the 1930s-1950s in the western national parks. Lesser known is the work he did at the [Manzanar War Relocation Center,](https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-this-collection/) a Japanese internment camp that the government built during WWII. Itā€™s a significant departure from the rest of his work, and a very important record of that time in our history that we need never to forget. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/82 "2019-09-17T05:00:47Z")
I got a second postcard from Romansperson of a zebra from the North Carolina Zoo, a place Iā€™d love to visit. And it has an Andrew Wyeth postage stamp of a cow painting to complete the theme. Thank you! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/83 "2019-09-17T05:36:45Z")
I got a second card from **Helena330** : a picture of the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington state. I had no idea there were rain forests in Washington! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/84 "2019-09-17T15:22:02Z")
And I got a card from **needscoffee** - a sea lion complete with crazy curly hand-drawn hairdo! Too funny! (And Iā€™m also jealous because we donā€™t have sea lions, or seals, on this coast). Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/85 "2019-09-17T15:45:56Z")
I got two cards today. A surprising bonus card from \*\*Karen Lingel \*\*with a lighthouse in Santa Cruz thatā€™s now a surfing museum, and a ā€œregularā€ card from \*\*Allecher \*\*with an old steamboat on the Arkansas River, telling the ā€œlegend of toad suckā€, a place where an (in)famous tavern used to be where the patrons ā€œsucked on the bottle til they swelled up like toadsā€, hence the name. Thank you both! ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/86 "2019-09-17T16:51:07Z")
Got some cards today! One surprise extra from **Karen Lingel** , showing the lighthouse in Santa Cruz that EinsteinsHund mentioned above. Also, two excellent cards from **Biotop** , one showing CementLand, USA and another from the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans museum, which actually has a vinyl record stuck to it - I shall have to get my record player out! ((I havenā€™t sent my cards yet, because I am a terrible person)) ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/87 "2019-09-17T16:55:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > My cards are on the way. From my experience of former postcard exchanges, they will take about one week to cross the pond. Yep, it arrived in exactly a week. Such a fun card - I donā€™t want to spoil the description for our teammates who are getting one (almost) as cool as mine! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/88 "2019-09-17T20:08:03Z")
Today I got a card from **needscoffee** with a picture of Pike Place Market. Looks like a geat place to visit! šŸ™‚ Thank you very much!! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/89 "2019-09-17T20:19:04Z")
See Rule 5. All still-unsent postcards should go in the mail in the next two days. 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:** [September 18, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/90 "2019-09-18T02:49:00Z")
Just got a very nice Kansas sunsets card from **Railer13**. Thanks! My wifeā€™s family has deep Kansas roots, so it was much appreciated here. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/91 "2019-09-18T03:41:17Z")
I just saw this. I know itā€™s late but Iā€™ll participate if possible. Several years ago I participated in a gift exchange that went rather well. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/92 "2019-09-18T13:44:01Z")
Yes, the signup deadline was awhile ago. If anyone would like to exchange postcards with **Enright3** , please PM him with your real name and address. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/93 "2019-09-18T15:24:31Z")
I have received a nice card from **Nayna** with the Pittsburgh skyline. Thanks very much! That means that I have now received all my cards. They all were nice as ever. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/94 "2019-09-19T03:47:36Z")
I got a postcard today touting the ā€œStroll and Rollā€ through Niles Canyon from, uh, the **Alameda County Board of Supervisors**. Itā€™s addressed to ā€œCurrent Residentā€. Never mind. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/95 "2019-09-21T03:37:53Z")
More postcards! A postcard from **Bear Nenno** , showing various grand and quaint buildings in Zagreb, Croatia, a place apparently so primitive they havenā€™t quite perfected ā€œpaperā€. Although I canā€™t quite determine what material the postcard is ā€“ perhaps instead Zagrebā€™s postcard technology is years ahead of its time. Bearā€™s message also includes a lovely Feynman diagram! Thanks, **Bear Nenno**! And a bonus postcard from **Elendilā€™s Heir** showing a Kusama installation called ā€œAll the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkinsā€ (great name) and is apparently a mirrored room filled with abstract, possibly lighted, pumpkin sculptures. I have a feeling it is much cooler than can be depicted on a 2D postcard. Thanks, **Elendilā€™s Heir** , and thanks for organizing the exchange! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/96 "2019-09-21T03:42:14Z")
I got a very funny bonus retro postcard from Silenus! Thank you! I had to Google your message, somehow never having seen that before in all my many, many decades. Learned something new! ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/97 "2019-09-21T09:08:47Z")
First of all, I got my cards away on Thursday, and they are now crossing the pond so will probably arrive next week. But I also got a set of great postcards from **Maus Magill** , from Tennessee and North Carolina, including a very cute bat from Linville Caverns. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/98 "2019-09-21T14:40:45Z")
Got two yesterday. **Baker** sent me one of an old stone bridge in Kansas, while **needscoffee** sent me a shot of her last blind date! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/99 "2019-09-22T08:07:20Z")
Um, **romansperson**? Just checking if you got the rules right. Itā€™s ā€œthree people, one card eachā€ not ā€œone person, three cardsā€. šŸ˜‰ In addition to the cute Guglhupf card and the stunning b/w national park cardā€¦ I now got a beautiful elephant from the North Carolina National Zoo. šŸ™‚ Thank you very much! All of your cards have been thoughtful and funny and I so loved the suprise of getting bonus cards! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054/100 "2019-09-22T14:53:16Z")
> [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](#): > > Um, **romansperson**? Just checking if you got the rules right. Itā€™s ā€œthree people, one card eachā€ not ā€œone person, three cardsā€. šŸ˜‰ The bonus cards are where the fun is! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054.md?page=6)