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BORING POSTCARDS

This Group celebtrates Boring, ordinary, dull, commercial Postcards that feature aspects of our everyday life – such as streets, roads, houses -- and are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so uninteresting. Join in and share your Postcards of our Boring world.

Location: Sigean, France
Members: 38
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INTERESTING POSTCARDS!! 41 Replies

From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 17, 2022.

DULL AND/OR BORING? 15 Replies

DULL OR BORING?I am a member of the British-based Dull Men's Club (DMC) – which also includes women, and, indeed, claims to…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Nov 27, 2021.

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 28, 2020 at 7:22pm

LES TROIS PUCELLES DE GRENOBLE,

Boring Postcard with a dozen or so people not looking at the Pucelles

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 28, 2020 at 7:17pm

EVEN THE CHICKENS LOOK BORED

This one was sent in 1904 to Miss Fannie Packham in Faversham, England, from May, who wrote:

"Dear Fannie, I hope you like this card. Please let me know what you would like next."

Perhaps she replied, "Dear May, I am well and hope you are. What would I like next? Another Boring Chicken Postcard."

(I have about 5 others of the same ilk, so if May gets in touch with me....)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 28, 2020 at 7:08pm

Welcoe Bonniediva/Bienvenue Bonniediva!

YAY! Me/Moi.

Send me something, or rather lots of somethings, for the Exhibition below.

Do you know Tom Phillips 'Humument' project. It might appeal to your inner-collage-and-rescue-old-books soul.

Val

BORING POSTCARDS EXHIBITIONS



WHAT? Boring Postcards are exactly what they say they are, namely Boring Postcards showing Boring photographs of Boring places, presumably for Boring people to buy and send to their Boring friends. They include Boring images of motorways, roundabouts, roads, hotels, bus stations, factories, housing estates, airports, camping sites, swimming pools, convalescent homes and shopping centres. They are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so un-interesting



FORMAT: Original commercial postcards (ie not home made ones) only, and, hopefully, with the original address and message on the back). Only original postcards will be displayed.



WHERE? Two exhibitions are planned in the spring and summer of 2020 – one in Sigean in the South of France, the other in Wolvega in the North of Holland. Details of the exact sites will be posted later.



WHEN? In the spring and summer of 2020. The exact dates will be posted later.



DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: August 10, 2020

Comment by Bonniediva on January 28, 2020 at 4:48pm
Je pense que ce groupe est une FABULEUSE IDÉE !!! 
Vous savez que cela fait appel à mon sens de l'humour Bonniediva!
J'ai toujours secrètement chéri mais détesté les cartes postales
ennuyeuses, et je suis tellement heureux qu'il y ait un groupe pour moi!
Comment by Bonniediva on January 28, 2020 at 4:45pm

I think this group is a FABULOUS IDEA!!! You know it appeals to my Bonniediva sense of humor! I have always secretly cherished yet loathed Boring Postcards, and I'm so happy there is a group for me!

Anyone who would like to exchange these PLEASE LET ME KNOW! YAY!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 28, 2020 at 3:59pm

BORING POSTCARD WITH TWO MATCHING BORING STAMPS

This is a Boring Postcard of the former European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, where I spent many happy hours and days when I was a lobbyist.

The intersting (sic) thing about this is that it comes with two Boring Stamps of the Parliament.

(I have collected -- and exhibited, with comments -- Silly [but not necessarily Boring] Stamps for a while. For details go to www.val-herman-art.eu, then 'Stamp Art', then 'Silly Stamps')

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 28, 2020 at 3:50pm

From Paul Simon's Kodachrome:

"When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall"

Here are two Boring Postcards of Queen Elizabeth 1 Grammar School Darlington (now Queen Elizabeth 6th Form College) where I went to school from 1958 to 1965. Same building, but the park has changed in the 2nd Postcard.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 26, 2020 at 3:37pm

you say "colour" 'n I say "color"...

('liking the penny plain :-)

And here is a "boring" postcard from Carmen Kennedy (is it or is it not boring, that is the question?)

It recently arrived in Greece, but is already on its way to Sigean:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 26, 2020 at 11:27am

PENNY PLAIN, TWOPENNCY COLOURED

this old English saying means you can get the basics cheaply but can expect to be charged more for a more luxurious version. It probably originated from market traders, but it came into general use following an essay of that name by Robert Louis Stevenson.
In the 19th Century, a popular children's toy was a model theatre. The characters, props and scenery were sold as seperate printed sheets which you cut out and mounted on bits of wood. The sheets cost one penny* if they were just printed in black outline ('Penny Plain') so that the user could colour** them in, or tuppence ('Twopenny Colured) if ready coloured.


(* from theBritish pre-decimal monetary system of pounds, shillings and pence (£/s/d), where 12 pence made one shilling, and twenty shillings made one pound
**note, 'colour' with a 'u'.

And now....
Here is a Boring Penny Plain Postcard of a stormy sea at the French Cote Vermeille.

And here is a Boring Twopenny Coloured Postcard of the same stormy sea at the French Cote Vermeille

With the addition of a submarine or two, or a fisherperson or two, or a lighthouse, etc, it might be less Boring.

Comment by Sam VanderWiel on January 26, 2020 at 2:38am

Rochester MN has so little going on that one of the postcards the Mayo Clinic have be giving out postcards of a sign

 

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