# The Great Summer 2014 Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312 "2014-07-16T22:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/141 "2014-08-10T01:15:14Z")
I got some postcards! **silenus** sent three, #1 arrived last Thursday and #2 & #3 on Friday. I also got **Elendil’s Heir** ’s card on Thursday. I also got a postcard from a friend who went to Norway… completely unrelated to this, but kinda cool, too. It’s so nice to get hand addressed mail, just for me. My cards went out in the mail on Friday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/142 "2014-08-10T03:23:27Z")
> [@brainstall](#): > > I got some postcards! **silenus** sent three, #1 arrived last Thursday and #2 & #3 on Friday. I also got **Elendil’s Heir** ’s card on Thursday. I also got a postcard from a friend who went to Norway… completely unrelated to this, but kinda cool, too. It’s so nice to get hand addressed mail, just for me. > > My cards went out in the mail on Friday morning. brainstall, I neglected to put my username on the cards I sent you. You did get a manila envelope from Kansas, right? With eight cards? That was from me. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/143 "2014-08-10T04:24:02Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > …If you liked the ship you really should read this Wikipedia article about the glassblower Mitsugi Ohno, who created it. Read the section about the Klein bottle, my sister is lucky enough to own one. I also own a very small piece he created, two cranes. [Mitsugi Ohno - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsugi_Ohno) Thanks! Never heard of the guy, or Klein bottles, for that matter. Ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/144 "2014-08-10T18:21:03Z")
**Baker** , nothing yet, but will eagerly check the mailbox on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/145 "2014-08-11T17:39:30Z")
Wahoo! My first card arrived from Finland! Historical poster reprint of cruising the Baltics on a steamship from **Arrogance Ex Machina**. My cards are all out in the care of the USPS. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/146 "2014-08-11T17:47:56Z")
I put my “extra credit” postcard in the mail this morning (it’s a long story…). ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/147 "2014-08-11T23:20:17Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > I have got a postcard from Oregon! With a map of Oregon on! Me too, from **jayrey**! I also just got one from Atomic Mama - yummy Maine blueberries. Now I want pie. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/148 "2014-08-11T23:23:24Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > Wow! The cards are flying fast and furious! Great work, everyone. > > I know that \*\*Teuton \*\*got the card that I mailed “across the pond,” but I’m wondering if \*\*Labtrash \*\*and \*\*Atomic Mama \*\* have received theirs from me. I mailed them all on the same day and can’t believe that one would get overseas before the ones were delivered State-side. My three recepients will each be getting two cards from me, mailed a week apart, unless my first ones have gone astray, which means the second ones could, too . . . . Dagnabbitt! Jayrey, I got yours about Thursday-ish last week. It was stuck in a magazine and I didn’t see it until this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/149 "2014-08-11T23:58:51Z")
Thanks, **Labtrash**. I feel better now knowing that they haven’t gone too far afield. According to The Spreadsheet, no one has received all of their cards yet, but several folks – **blondebear, Brainstall, Elendil’s Heir, silenus, faithfool, Grrlbrarian, Baker, Lsura, Karen Lingel** , and \*\*Labtrash \*\*-- have received a postcard from at least two of their three compatriots. **Fluffy Picklesniffer, Teuton, phouka, Algher** , and \*\*Cheez\_Whia \*\*have each received one. We have yet to hear from **Purplehorseshoe** or \*\*minionkat \*\*. Are you guys still alive and kickin’? Remember that the deadline to mail your postcards is Friday, August 15. Don’t make me give your address to **Skald**. It wouldn’t be pretty, I promise you. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/150 "2014-08-12T01:41:19Z")
It is apparently Seafood Postcard Day! Today, I got one from **Labtrash** , of shrimp boats in a lovely sunset, and one from **Atomic Mama** , of a rather ferocious looking Maine lobster (excuse me, correct pronunciation is “lobstaahh”). Now if I could only figure out why I’m suddenly so hungry . . . 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/151 "2014-08-12T01:42:39Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I put my “extra credit” postcard in the mail this morning (it’s a long story…). But a good one. I really liked the ending. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/152 "2014-08-12T11:49:38Z")
I’ve just got home and in the post I’ve found a card from Cheez-Whia (sorry, I don’t know how to do underscores on my phone). Thanks muchly. The postman left it sticking out of my box and we’ve had heavy rain today, so alas - quite a bit of the card got rather pulpy. I can still see some of the sculptures though. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/153 "2014-08-12T14:09:57Z")
Oh, that’s too bad! Would you like me to send another card? ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/154 "2014-08-12T15:23:52Z")
My postcards have been sent today! 🙂 Hope they will make it soon to their recipients. Sorry for the delay, but I was out of home until now. So… To my three recipients: You should be getting postcards soon 🙂 So far I got postcards already, from “Fluffy Picklesniffer” 🙂 Thanks for the lowely backside of a cow! 😉 ---
**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:** [August 12, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/155 "2014-08-12T21:56:20Z")
Just got my final card, from **brainstall** , and it shows the Flying Bedstead. Thanks! How’d you know I like offbeat aircraft? [![](https://www.bahg.org.uk/images/AeroFlt/Bedstead.jpg) ](https://www.bahg.org.uk/images/AeroFlt/Bedstead.jpg) > **[Image of rolls-royce thrust measuring rig (tmr) xj314 at farnborough, july...](https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10437314&wwwflag=&imagepos=1)** > > Image of rolls-royce thrust measuring rig (tmr) xj314 at farnborough, july 1955. by Science & Society Picture Library View and buy rights managed stock photos at Science & Society Picture Library. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/156 "2014-08-12T21:59:01Z")
I got two cards in the mail today! **Karen Lingel** sent one with the UC Berkeley Campanile Tower, and I got the extra from **williambaskerville** with a picture of the O’Connell Bridge in Dublin! Thanks very much, both of you! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/157 "2014-08-12T22:16:44Z")
> [@Cheez\_Whia](#): > > Oh, that’s too bad! Would you like me to send another card? No no, that’s fine. Now that the card has dried it’s a bit easier to read and I can pretty much make out all of the pictures. Is “Art on the Corner” a permanent exhibition? ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/158 "2014-08-12T23:06:56Z")
I came home from work today to discover two postcards in my box from Grrlbrarian! 🙂 One is an absolutely stunning night view of Peoria Illinois and the other is a no less beautiful view of Cincinnati Ohio with sparkly pretty lights over the water. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/159 "2014-08-13T01:34:22Z")
Excellent. Three days to get your cards in the mail if you haven’t already sent them, sportsfans. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312/160 "2014-08-13T03:25:09Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > No no, that’s fine. Now that the card has dried it’s a bit easier to read and I can pretty much make out all of the pictures. > > Is “Art on the Corner” a permanent exhibition? Yes, it is. Some of the pieces are permanent and some aren’t. One of my favorites is a sculpture of [Dalton Trumbo](http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCZAP_James_Dalton_Trumbo_Grand_Junction_CO) writing in the bathtub! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2014-postcard-exchange/693312.md?page=9)