# The Great Summer 2021 Doper Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355 "2021-06-30T19:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/121 "2021-08-02T16:53:28Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Hopefully the last recipient will get theirs soon. Your wish is my command! I was in the office today, so just got the mail. Post card from the other Las Vegas (didn’t know there was one in New Mexico) and the better known Carlsbad Caverns. Of the two, I would prefer to visit the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. I have read Blind Descent by Nevada Barr, which is set in Lechuguilla Cave, and I am quite happy to let others do the caving. Thanks for the cards! In other news, it seems that Swiss mail is slower than German mail. How embarrassing for the Swiss Post. ---
**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 2, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/122 "2021-08-02T16:56:24Z")
Please specify the sender(s) of your postcards, **D\_C**. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/123 "2021-08-02T17:02:02Z")
The sender of the postcards I received are from @blondebear. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/124 "2021-08-03T18:16:28Z")
Bonus cards!!! 😃 JaneDoe42 sent me two (!) bonus cards! One with a view of the Grand Canyon and a H.P. Lovecraft one. I admit I have never read Lovecraft, he’s still on my list and really an absolute must read! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/125 "2021-08-04T00:33:26Z")
Oh ho! A card from **@BippityBoppityBoo** showed up today. It’s a card from the University print maker’s studios that may or may not be a depiction of pomegranate seeds in parade formation(with glitter!). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/126 "2021-08-04T01:21:30Z")
Hurray, all of the cards I mailed have been delivered. The post office did a much better job than they did for the Secret Santa last year. I was so stressed out by the time my person finally got her package. @The_Butterfly_s_Ghost HP Lovecraft is hard reading, like most archaic books and stories, but well worth it. Once you have slogged through them, you will start seeing his influence in many horror books and movies. Many very influential authors have written at least one HPL tribute story and its fun to recognize one as you come across it. Not wanting to spoiler it, I will finish by saying you won’t be reading shock and slash horror. My favorite movie adaption of The Colour Out Of Space is (I believe) Finnish and is both black and white and silent. Not that I’m a cultist or anything. ---
**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 4, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/127 "2021-08-04T19:02:44Z")
Got all my cards! Thank you @silenus , @romansperson and @MissTake — they are all delightful!! I hope mine make it relatively soon over there ^.^ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/128 "2021-08-05T01:43:08Z")
Received my last two postcards in the mail today! The first, from BippityBoppityBoo, is orange, sparkly and not “Pomegranates On Parade”. 😄 The second one, from EinsteinsHund, is a cartoon by Loviot (aka Vicco von Bülow), featuring a bunch of people, and a pug, staring into a box. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/129 "2021-08-05T10:36:46Z")
Wowsers! I’m off my duck with a postcard on Olympic preparation and some metrological observations about the US summer. Thank you from downunda @dbygawdcapn 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/130 "2021-08-05T12:54:55Z")
I received a cool Swiss train card today from @Die_Capacitrix . Thanks for the nice card. The three part stamp was a special nice touch! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/131 "2021-08-05T13:41:47Z")
We are on a roll! Underneath a stack of the usual mail stuff is another postcard. This one from @Elendil_s_Heir featuring a Guardian of the Traffic from the Hope Memorial Bridge. A perspective on Cleveland which was totally new to 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 5, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/132 "2021-08-05T18:47:10Z")
For more about those, **penultima** : [Hope Memorial Bridge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Memorial_Bridge) ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/133 "2021-08-06T05:07:29Z")
> [@dbygawdcapn](#): > > The three part stamp was a special nice touch! Glad you liked it. But it was the second one I sent, so I wonder what happened to the first one? Hopefully it’ll turn up as well. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/134 "2021-08-07T04:57:02Z")
I received a postcard today from @ToadBuddy all the way from Ontario, showing pictures of all four seasons, a Mountie, and an enormous inukshuk. Well, it looks enormous, but it is silhouetted against the sunset/rise and so it could be a close-up from a low angle of a small inukshuk. I like thinking it is enormous. Maybe 2 stories! Thanks, **ToadBuddy**! ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/135 "2021-08-07T13:17:41Z")
Received the “A” card today from @Die_Capacitrix, an old bridge over what I’m guessing is Lake Luzern? It must have crossed paths somewhere with the second card mailed. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/136 "2021-08-07T15:37:21Z")
I got a beautiful card with an adorable Siamese cat in mid-jump from @BippityBoppityBoo today. With this, all my cards have arrived. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/137 "2021-08-07T16:01:58Z")
And the cards just keep on coming! Got a couple from **@Die_Capacitrix** in the mail yesterday, featuring St. Mortiz and Chillon Castle. Cheers! ---
**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:** [August 7, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/138 "2021-08-07T18:51:50Z")
@JaneDoe42 - I received my copy of “At the mountains of madness” yesterday and bumped it up to first place on my to-read pile. @EinsteinsHund loves Lovecraft and has tried to get me to read him a couple of times already, so he is excited I’m finally getting started! (Me, I’m a Pratchett fangirl through and through and have EinsteinsHund started on him, so it’s about time I started reading one of his faves as well. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/139 "2021-08-07T19:18:44Z")
> [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](#): > > I received my copy of “At the mountains of madness” yesterday and bumped it up to first place on my to-read pile. Excellent choice for your first “exposure”. I would suggest the Call of Cluthlu next. This is my favorite [song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA), but the HPLHS’s Christmas Carols are also really fun. Waves @EinsteinsHund. It looks like the stars are finally right for @The_Butterfly_s_Ghost 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 7, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/140 "2021-08-07T19:23:49Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Waves @EinsteinsHund. It looks like the stars are finally right for @The_Butterfly_s_Ghost 🙂 _Iä!_ _Iä!_ _Cthulhu fhtagn!_ _Ph’nglui mglw’nfah Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!_ 😁 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=8)