DULL AND/OR BORING? - International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-28T19:41:12Zhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/forum/topics/dull-and-or-boring?groupUrl=boring-postcards&commentId=2496677%3AComment%3A2446168&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAnyway, "they paved paradise…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2021-11-27:2496677:Comment:26312652021-11-27T00:16:35.238ZGerald Jatzekhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/GeraldJatzek
<p>Anyway, "<span>they paved paradise a</span><span>nd put up a parking lot".<br/> <iframe width="475" height="267" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWwUJH70ubM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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Στην Ελλάδα είναι;
<p>Anyway, "<span>they paved paradise a</span><span>nd put up a parking lot".<br/> <iframe width="475" height="267" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWwUJH70ubM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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Στην Ελλάδα είναι; Παρακαλώtag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-25:2496677:Comment:24461682020-09-25T06:07:18.850ZBradfordhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Bradford
<pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta" id="tw-target-text" style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Παρακαλώ</span></pre>
<pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta" id="tw-target-text" style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span lang="el" xml:lang="el">Παρακαλώ</span></pre> Thank you, gentlemen, thank y…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-25:2496677:Comment:24460762020-09-25T06:04:23.878ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<p>Thank you, gentlemen, thank you,</p>
<p>I thank you,</p>
<p><span>Coriolanus thanks you:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7967869271?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7967869271?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="500" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span>Shakespeare thanks you, </span></p>
<p><span>Dickens thanks you,</span></p>
<p><span>and Homer says ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ!</span></p>
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<p>Thank you, gentlemen, thank you,</p>
<p>I thank you,</p>
<p><span>Coriolanus thanks you:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7967869271?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7967869271?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="500" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span>Shakespeare thanks you, </span></p>
<p><span>Dickens thanks you,</span></p>
<p><span>and Homer says ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ!</span></p>
<p></p> with Honors.
tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-25:2496677:Comment:24460712020-09-25T05:46:02.503ZBradfordhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Bradford
<p>with Honors.</p>
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<p>with Honors.</p>
<p></p> Fantastic Katerina!
You pass.…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-25:2496677:Comment:24460592020-09-25T02:57:40.224ZValentine Mark Hermanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ValentineMarkHerman
<p>Fantastic Katerina!</p>
<p>You pass.</p>
<p>With an A+ !</p>
<p>Fantastic Katerina!</p>
<p>You pass.</p>
<p>With an A+ !</p> Thanks Katerina,
I read the D…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-25:2496677:Comment:24459432020-09-25T02:56:52.624ZValentine Mark Hermanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ValentineMarkHerman
<p>Thanks Katerina,</p>
<p>I read the Dull Men Book last night, and 3 +1 things about the Dull Mens' wives struck me:</p>
<p>i) the wives actively support their husbands in their dullness</p>
<p>ii) the wives put up with their husbands' eccentricities</p>
<p>iii) they get divorced.</p>
<p>The +1 is that some of the Dull Men don't have wives or partners which, when you come to think about it, is not all that suprising.</p>
<p>Thanks Katerina,</p>
<p>I read the Dull Men Book last night, and 3 +1 things about the Dull Mens' wives struck me:</p>
<p>i) the wives actively support their husbands in their dullness</p>
<p>ii) the wives put up with their husbands' eccentricities</p>
<p>iii) they get divorced.</p>
<p>The +1 is that some of the Dull Men don't have wives or partners which, when you come to think about it, is not all that suprising.</p> Perhaps this is not a 500 wor…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-24:2496677:Comment:24459202020-09-24T19:33:47.882ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<div dir="ltr">Perhaps this is not a 500 word essay,</div>
<div dir="ltr">unless there are 250 words and you read it twice?</div>
<div dir="ltr">But to answer some of those dull questions:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699275?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699275?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="330"></img></a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Homer, writes in the "Odyssey":</div>
<div dir="ltr">(or as a bard he may be chanting...)…</div>
<div dir="ltr">Perhaps this is not a 500 word essay,</div>
<div dir="ltr">unless there are 250 words and you read it twice?</div>
<div dir="ltr">But to answer some of those dull questions:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699275?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699275?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="330" class="align-full"/></a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Homer, writes in the "Odyssey":</div>
<div dir="ltr">(or as a bard he may be chanting...)</div>
<div dir="ltr">"Sing to me, Muse, and through me tell the story</div>
<div dir="ltr">of that man skilled in all ways of contending,"</div>
<div dir="ltr">(what is a car park and what is a parking lot)</div>
<div dir="ltr">"The wanderer, harried years on end"</div>
<div dir="ltr">(not knowing that a postman is also a mailman...</div>
<div dir="ltr">and they are surely post person and mail person as well)</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699878?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966699878?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="280" class="align-full"/></a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Charles Dickens, "Tale of Two Cities" states that:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, "</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>(for boots in raining weather, and boots for the automobiles...)</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>"it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,"</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>(a foolish trunk to pack your travel attire in and a trunk for the spare tire,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>and a trunk for the elephant, too) </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>"it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,"</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>(time to wear a bonnet , or a jumper with a hood?)</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span> it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>(dark especially if the hood was wearing a hood and was </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>walking in the hood, when someone picked up the hood of his car)</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>we had car parks and we had parking lots,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span>we had postmen and we had mailmen..."</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966700465?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7966700465?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="280" class="align-full"/></a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Shakespeare, the other Bard sang:</div>
<div dir="ltr">(via Cole Porter from "Kiss me Kate")</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpd83a027dyiv9690152022ydpb96c54e6yiv1732274285ydpafa68e80yiv7140502173ydpf95e84fdyiv9050382465ydpbc901165yiv9719184100ydp8ca8e429ujudUb">"Brush up your Shakespeare," MomKat,Kate,<br/>Start quoting him now,<br/>Brush up your Shakespeare, Val,<br/>And the women you will wow...</div>
<div class="ydpd83a027dyiv9690152022ydpb96c54e6yiv1732274285ydpafa68e80yiv7140502173ydpf95e84fdyiv9050382465ydpbc901165yiv9719184100ydp8ca8e429ujudUb"></div>
<div class="ydpd83a027dyiv9690152022ydpb96c54e6yiv1732274285ydpafa68e80yiv7140502173ydpf95e84fdyiv9050382465ydpbc901165yiv9719184100ydp8ca8e429ujudUb">"...If she says your behavior is heinous </div>
<div class="ydpd83a027dyiv9690152022ydpb96c54e6yiv1732274285ydpafa68e80yiv7140502173ydpf95e84fdyiv9050382465ydpbc901165yiv9719184100ydp8ca8e429ujudUb">Kick her right in the Coriolanus"</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="ydpd83a027dyiv9690152022ydpb96c54e6yiv1732274285ydpafa68e80yiv7140502173ydpf95e84fdyiv9050382465ydpbc901165yiv9719184100ydp8ca8e429ujudUb"><span>Brush up your Shakespeare</span><br/><span>And they'll all kow-tow...ya think?"</span></div>
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</div> Seems to me that the Dull Men…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-24:2496677:Comment:24459192020-09-24T19:08:29.967ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<p>Seems to me that the Dull Men's Club gives certificates only to dull MEN...</p>
<p>as women are never dull :-)</p>
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<p>Seems to me that the Dull Men's Club gives certificates only to dull MEN...</p>
<p>as women are never dull :-)</p>
<p></p> Bonjour!
About the Dull Men's…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-24:2496677:Comment:24459692020-09-24T14:38:16.379ZValentine Mark Hermanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ValentineMarkHerman
<p>Bonjour!</p>
<p>About the Dull Men's Club, I've got the Book and I've got the Certificate of Membership.</p>
<p>I haven't got the Mug and I haven't got the T-Shirt (only sold from their UK Shop).</p>
<p>And we've got some Boring/Dull and Interesting Postcards.…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965847080?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965847080?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
<p>Bonjour!</p>
<p>About the Dull Men's Club, I've got the Book and I've got the Certificate of Membership.</p>
<p>I haven't got the Mug and I haven't got the T-Shirt (only sold from their UK Shop).</p>
<p>And we've got some Boring/Dull and Interesting Postcards.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965847080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965847080?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965862682?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7965862682?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p></p> Dear Ms Nikoltsou,
This book…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2020-09-24:2496677:Comment:24458392020-09-24T09:20:31.814ZValentine Mark Hermanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ValentineMarkHerman
<p>Dear Ms Nikoltsou,</p>
<p>This book may help you for your 'Car parks/Parking lots project:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964380469?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964380469?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> And these two are reference works you should look at for your next-but-two project…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964430077?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964430077?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
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<p>Dear Ms Nikoltsou,</p>
<p>This book may help you for your 'Car parks/Parking lots project:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964380469?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964380469?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a>And these two are reference works you should look at for your next-but-two project</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964430077?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964430077?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964400087?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7964400087?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>Good luck! Val & Kevin</p>