# The Great SDMB Spring 2014 Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739 "2014-04-23T03:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/181 "2014-06-01T20:25:03Z")
I even sent PMs to the two people who haven’t said they’ve received mine yet and I’ve not heard anything back. :’( I hope they haven’t been eaten by aliens or anything. Also, still nothing on the third one being sent to me either. I think I’ll sit out the next round. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/182 "2014-06-01T21:31:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > We’ve done it seasonally so far. Several of us - including me - still haven’t received all three of our cards this round. I’m happy to send more cards if needed - feel free to send me additional names. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/183 "2014-06-02T13:31:53Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > I’m happy to send more cards if needed - feel free to send me additional names. Thanks. By my count: No response, either as to cards sent or received: **Atomic Mama Algher** Still owed three cards: **phouka** Still owed two cards: **Northern Piper** Still owed one card: **raventhief Lady Grey Elendil’s Heir Grrlbrarian Clare de Loone Nayna faithfool Anaglyph jayrey Cunctator Labtrash** Corrections and updates welcomed. ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/184 "2014-06-02T14:39:08Z")
Phouka, Algher: if you did not receive my card yet, let me know and I will send another one. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/185 "2014-06-02T21:16:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Thanks. By my count: > > No response, either as to cards sent or received: > > **Atomic Mama > Algher** > > Still owed three cards: > > **phouka** > > Still owed two cards: > > **Northern Piper** > > Still owed one card: > > **raventhief > Lady Grey > Elendil’s Heir > Grrlbrarian > Clare de Loone > Nayna > faithfool > Anaglyph > jayrey > Cunctator > Labtrash** > > Corrections and updates welcomed. Nope. I’ve gotten all three of mine and all three of mine have been received. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/186 "2014-06-02T21:29:38Z")
I sent three cards to each of my three people. So, **jayrey** , another two should still arrive and **Lsura** , one more for your. The others went down under and I haven’t heard from there yet, but they should arrive sometime. I know one I got from there must have been shunted aside for a while at the post office. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/187 "2014-06-03T16:20:39Z")
I received the second of the three cards that **Baker** sent to me: A lovely picture of brilliant yellow sunflowers – it just screams HAPPY! Thanks, **Baker**! Hey, my kitchen is painted yellow, too, but my theme is chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/188 "2014-06-03T22:03:31Z")
I just got **Pai325** ’s AWESOME postcard of a painting of the Old Blue Boar Inn from Leicester, England! I’m a medieval Anglophile, so I am enjoying it immensely! The stamps have QE !! on them and they are red. Thanks **Pai325**! :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/189 "2014-06-03T23:19:27Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > I just got **Pai325** ’s AWESOME postcard of a painting of the Old Blue Boar Inn from Leicester, England! I’m a medieval Anglophile, so I am enjoying it immensely! The stamps have QE !! on them and they are red. Thanks **Pai325**! :):)🙂 I’m happy you enjoyed it! I spent some time at Leicester Cathedral that day seeing where Richard would be buried and learning about their plans. His story has fascinated me since I was about 12, and I still feel (well, hope) that he didn’t kill his nephews. I bought the postcard at the Guildhall where I went through their Ricardian exhibit. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/190 "2014-06-04T12:16:45Z")
I received a postcard today from **Baker**. It shows various emblems of Kansas, including the state bird, the western meadowlark, which also appears on one of the stamps. Very pretty. I’ve been looking at the map of Kansas on the card. What’s the reason for the missing bit in the north-eastern corner from what would otherwise be a rectangle? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/191 "2014-06-04T13:36:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I sent three cards to each of my three people. So, **jayrey** , another two should still arrive and **Lsura** , one > more for your. The others went down under and I haven’t heard from there yet, but they should arrive sometime. I know one I got from there must have been shunted aside for a while at the post office. This morning I checked yesterday’s mail and there was card #3 from **Baker**. This one’s got some lovely buffalo on it - I bet the buffalo you can buy there is local, as opposed to what I can buy in the stores here! > [@](#): > > I’ve been looking at the map of Kansas on the card. What’s the reason for the missing bit in the north-eastern corner from what would otherwise be a rectangle? The [Missouri River](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_River#mediaviewer/File:Missouririvermap.jpg), which makes up of the border of KS/MO ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/192 "2014-06-04T16:33:19Z")
I was going to say it was the mice. They nibble away at everything! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/193 "2014-06-04T16:35:56Z")
Yesterday, I received the third of three cards from **Baker** , this one showing, along with the meadowlark and the buffalo, a lovely Kansas wheatfield blowing in the breeze. I had a friend from Kansas, who had moved to Oregon. She said that what she missed most were the wide, wide open fields. If Kansas looks like this postcard, I’d be tempted to move. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/194 "2014-06-04T18:09:10Z")
Still haven’t received my third card! Just updating, not complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/195 "2014-06-04T18:39:09Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I received a postcard today from **Baker**. It shows various emblems of Kansas, including the state bird, the western meadowlark, which also appears on one of the stamps. Very pretty. > > I’ve been looking at the map of Kansas on the card. What’s the reason for the missing bit in the north-eastern corner from what would otherwise be a rectangle? As Lsura has said, that nibbled looking bit is the Missouri river. The border there is kind of strange. In the Kansas City area there are places where the river is the divide, and sometimes it’s the invisible border. What a lot of people don’t know is that there are two cities named Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. It’s all one big lump, along with several other townships. Sometime you can walk across the street and you are in the other city and state. When my sister was a pharmacy intern at KC Med Center, and Kansas was still dry, all you had to do to get a drink was walk to the bar across the street in Missour. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/196 "2014-06-04T19:28:55Z")
I have heard that **phouka** has relieved my card. I’ve asked for them to post in the thread to confirm. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/197 "2014-06-04T22:18:10Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > What a lot of people don’t know is that there are two cities named Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. It’s all one big lump, along with several other townships. Sometime you can walk across the street and you are in the other city and state. When my sister was a pharmacy intern at KC Med Center, and Kansas was still dry, all you had to do to get a drink was walk to the bar across the street in Missour. We have some of those border anomalies here too, but probably not as many as you’d have in the US. We have fewer states for a start, and the bulk of most states’ borders run through unpopulated areas. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/198 "2014-06-05T20:46:43Z")
Sorry I’m late posting. I moved over the weekend, and I don’t have internet at home. I’ve gotten two of my cares - one from faithfool and the other from Anaglyph. Both are awesome. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/199 "2014-06-06T01:28:28Z")
**Atomic Mama** emailed me to say that her life has been crazy lately and she expects to mail her postcards soon. ---
**Author:** ![Clare\_de\_Loone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/clare_de_loone/32/3407_2.png) [@Clare\_de\_Loone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clare_de_Loone)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/200 "2014-06-06T02:12:03Z")
Thank you, **Iggy** , for the two turtle postcards! Exchanges complete! This was fun! Thanks,\*\* Elendil’s Heir\*\*, for organizing it all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739.md?page=11)