FIVE: Postal History Boutique Special July Mailing

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bonjour boys and girls!

 

Angie and Snooky told us yesterday that:

"This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years."

I propose that we celebrate it with a Postal History Boutique Special Mailing in July.

 

The theme is FIVE (or vijf, viisi, cinq, funf, cinque, fem, piec, cinco, etc)

 

There are 5 rules to this Mailing:

1. You must mail on Tuesday 5th July

2. On a pentagram shaped card (or on a pentagram superimposed on the front of an envelope)

3. Your piece must have a 5-theme (see below). You have to tell the Mailing List Co-ordinator (Guess who? Yes, me) what your 5-theme) is going to be

4. It must include at least one 5-cent (or local currency equivalent) postage stamp. [If a 5-cent stamp is unavailable, then a 15, 25, 35 etc stamp is acceptable, as long as it has a 5 in it.]

5. Er, I don't have a 5th rule yet...any ideas, gang?

 

Possible 5-themes are:

* Renault 5

* Chanel No 5

* 5 senses

* Take 5

* 5 wounds of Jesus

* 5 Olympic Circles

* The Famous Five

* 5 books of Moses

* High 5

* etc, including of course any other(s) that you care to choose.

 

Please let me know -- with your full mailing address, and the 5-theme you have chosen -- if you would like to participate in this once-in-a -823-year-occasion mailing* .

 

Regards, Val

 

* Regretfully, the Postal History Boutique cannot commit at this moment in time (ie now) to organise another mailing on this theme in 2834

 

[Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn]

No Geraldo Rivera!!!!!

;)

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Why? Why not? Geraldo?

Val

[Jen Staggs]

Because Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault on live TV (after a huge build-up) and it was empty.  Besides, the house deal fell through and we aren't going to buy it anymore.  So no safe for me.  Sad!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bonjour jen! Very sad indeed, but hope you still have a tent to live in and a Mini to sleep in. As we'll never know the '5 Things That Jen Found In Her Safe', can I suggest that your Five contribution is something like 'Five Things That jen Would have Liked to have Found In Her Safe'?

Regards, Val

[Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn]

So sorry about the house deal! :(

Sometimes, they happen that way.

Maybe you'll find a much, much better price at a better location.

[Jen Staggs]

By the way, no new address, house deal fell through. I'm sad and bitter, but my back is happy I don't have to move, so there's that.

[Valentine Mark Herman]

A German Joke follows but first a Health Warning:

"A German joke is no laughing matter".

No, that wasn't the joke. Here it is:

 

Q: What comes between fear and sex?*

A: Five!

 

Ha ha.

 

(If you don't get it straight off, the German for 4 is  'vier' [pronounced 'fear'], for six 'sechs ['sex'], and for 5 'funf')

 

Has anyone got a better 5 joke?

Regards, Val

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

oooooooooooooh, vier , funf...and too early in the morning for sex. er, sechs!

But funny joke, did put smile on face... ;-)

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bonjour! It is now a bit later in the day, so i thought I'd set you another linguistic challenge:

"sov godt for sex, eteter ti kan du hvile"

(It 's on a piece that will be in mly May exhibition°

Regards, Val

 

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Oh, Lisa...that is a yummy theme! I got nostalgic just now for Lifesavrs! Mmmmmm good flavors!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

AND...we are FIVE! (and Snooky makes 6 ...sechs?)

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Funf und ein hund*

 

Val

 

*That might not be correct German, but it sort of rhymes;