# When you care enough to send ... well ... something: The Gallery of Unfortunate Cards

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-care-enough-to-send-well-something-the-gallery-of-unfortunate-cards/229972>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 19, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-care-enough-to-send-well-something-the-gallery-of-unfortunate-cards/229972 "2004-02-19T06:46:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-care-enough-to-send-well-something-the-gallery-of-unfortunate-cards/229972/1 "2004-02-19T06:46:13Z")

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Go to [this site](http://www.capnwacky.com/cards/) and see the greeting cards our grandparents and great-grandparents looked at before picking something better.

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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-care-enough-to-send-well-something-the-gallery-of-unfortunate-cards/229972/2 "2004-02-19T12:32:43Z")

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I have that site bookmarked. Some of those cards are truely horrible, eh?

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**Author:** ![doomraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@doomraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doomraisin)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-care-enough-to-send-well-something-the-gallery-of-unfortunate-cards/229972/3 "2004-02-19T14:37:02Z")

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Bad [Lileks](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/index.html) ripoff.