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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
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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 June 21, 2020 at 4:57am

Hello Katerina,

Thanks for the Pepsi/Coke info -- I hadn't realised the digestion=pepsi link.

As to the cards you sent me 20/25 May, alas, almost one month later, they haven't arrived. (I post here everything that people are kind enough to send me within a day or two of receiving them.) I fear that they might have got lost. If they turn up, I will let you know...and post them here, too.

Bestest, Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 20, 2020 at 5:47pm

HELLO SAILOR! GOODBYE KARL!

1. Hello Sailor!

This is from an exhibition by Albert & Verzone at the Regional Center for Contemporary Art, in Sète (France) in 2012.

I find it not-too-Boring because it's in Polaroid format (although not to Polaroid scalel).

2. Goodbye Karl!

The quote on the memorial comes from 'The Communist Manifesto'  (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (The latter was cremated and his ashes scattered off Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, England).

I've never thought of buying a postcard in a cemetery. In fact I've never seen a cemetery that sold postcards. Or had a Gift Shop. Or had a tea Room. etc.

If you are interested (thought not), the other six 'Magnificent London Cemeteries' are: Abney Park, Brompton, Kensal Green, Nunhead, Tower Hamlets and West Norwood.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 20, 2020 at 11:22am

Bravo! Good to see mail arriving in Sigean from Greece, finally!

Now let's see when these come, sent 20/25 May?...sigh:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 20, 2020 at 11:10am

TWO FROM KATERINA....plus One from Val and a Limerick Challenge

But first.... Thanks yet again Katerina!

1. Los Angeles

"Heart of the City: Spectacular downtown LA at Night"

2. Welcome in Hamburg

Katerina writes: "Boring? I don't know German"

It seems to be about some locally baked bread, which you can buy at Niendorfer Strasse 25, Hamburg, if you are passing that way.

Guten Appetit

And now, on the subject of bread, here's a Postcard from the French bakery chain...

La Banette

Their baguette 'La Banette 1900' is "Without doubt the tastiest in the world"

Although Katerina's German bakery might challenge this claim to boulangerie fame;

Now here's a challenge for you....to write a limerick including these three words (in any order you like):

1. Annette (the lady holding the bread)

2. Baguette (the type of bread she is holding)

3. La Banette (the specific baguette [with or without '1900'])

Over to you, gang...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 19, 2020 at 11:55am

Good to see that some boring postcards have arrived in Sigean, yay!

Pepsi...because it is good for digestion, our pepsi,  with soda bicarbonate added,

and 

"Cola" because it has the cola bean extract (as does Coke)

"The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. The caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages, and is the origin of the term "cola"."

The "coke" in that other drink comes from the coca leaf...which had cocaine  but no longer used in Coke, or so they say :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 15, 2020 at 6:42pm

4 FROM KATERNA

Thanks MomKat!

1. San't Angelo Bridge & Castle, Rome

"A vintage postcard, 1957, from Italy [by Bruno Antonio] to Greece to Sigean", says Katerina.

The ultimate recipient in Sigean once attended a reception in the Castle.

2. New Bern, NC, 1898, the Birthplace of Pepsi Cola

'Pepsi-Cola was born in New Bern, NC, back in the 1890's when Caleb D Bradham, a young pharmacist, entertained his friends at the soda fountain by creating different kinds of soft drinks. One drink he made was so popular that people began to call it "Brad's Drink". It wasn't long before Bradham realised that he had a commercial success on his hands. So on August 28, 1898, he gave his drink a new name -- PEPSI-COLA'."

(Why that name?)

The sign features the 'Original Pepsi Girl' who, I think looks a bit like Katerina.

3. Lewiston, Idaho

This is a Union Oil Company Postcard that was sent by Keith Chambers to Katerina this April who then sent it to Val. The latter cannot read all the description of the card because a stamp partially covers it, but it does say "...the city boasts the largest white pine sawmill...(?)", which is indeed a claim to Boring fame.

Keith wrote on the card, 'Memoria chartam esse odiosis", which as I'm sure all you Latin scholars will immediately know translates as 'Memory map to the boring' (according to Mr Google Translate)

PS to Keith, 'Gratias ago'

4. Les Cornards, Sauxillanges, Auverne (France)

This was sent by Val in October 2018 to Katerina who then returned it to the sender last week. It shows a band at a local festival in France. Val wrote that 'This is a training session at the French Royal Academy of Mail Art'.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 15, 2020 at 6:05pm

3 MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA

Thanks Mikell. Thanks Mikel. Thanks Mikel

1. Aberdeen -- Night Scene with Floating Restaurants

This must be Aberdeen in China (?) and not Aberdeen in Scotland -- unless the Chinese have bought Scotland during the UK lockdown.

2. Pico el Hueva, La Vecilla. Leon. (Spain)

The sign bottom left reads (loose translation) 'No Fishing. No skinny dipping. No taking of boring photographs'.

3. Ponta da Piedale. Lagos. Portugal

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 5, 2020 at 4:06pm

And then you come across something called....

The Tall Hermann Tower (or Pikk Hermann, in Estonian), and as they've named a Tower after me (but spelled my surname with an extra 'n') and put it on a Postcard that is moderately Boring, I thiought I'd share it with you."Tall Hermann is the defensive tower standing at the south-western corner of Toompea Castle in Tallinn. It is thought to have been built in 1371. It obtained its current height (45.6 m) and shape in the late 15th century. 

A narrow stone staircase of 215 steps leads to the top of the tower.

At the top of the tower, 95 metres above sea level, flies the flag that symbolises the ruling power in Estonia. The blue, black and white of the national flag were first seen here on 12 December 1918 and after years of Soviet occupation, again on 24 February 1989.The flag is raised at sunrise and lowered at sunset, except on Victory Day and Midsummer Day on June 23–24."

Voilà!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 5, 2020 at 4:00pm

SOME BORING POSTCARDS FROM VALENTINE MARK HERMAN

Thank you, Valentine Mark Herman!

1. Shadows on the Dunes at Cape Cod

2. "The dove-cot in the mist' at La Tarne (France)

Lots of mist. No doves though

3. Koldby Habrour, Denmark, 1945

Lots of activity. No mist. No doves.

4. Snowdon Mountain Railway and Moel Eilio (Wales)

5 & 6. Hats from the Musée de la Chapellerie ('Unique in Europe'), le Somail (l'Aude France)

The story goes that this man collected so many hats that they took over his house. His wife said, 'Either get rid of them, or open a hat museum.' He opened a hat museum which, until his death a few years ago, was very successful, and had had hats donated to it by all sorts of people  -- including President Mitterand and a Russian Prime Minister. When he died another French hat museum (yes, there's more than one) bought up the whole collection and merged the two somewhere else.

Here are 2 ladies, 3 hats, and a view of the Canal du Midi at le Somail.

7. Deer Camp, Heerlen (the Netherlands)

Even the deer looks Bored

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 5, 2020 at 7:19am

Even more interesting for the "boring" Pepsi postcard is that it traveled from Private World in Arizona, to Thessaloniki,Greece, and then to Sigean, France...what a trip for someone comin' from Nawh Karolinah? :-) It's a small world, dere richard!

 

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