BORING POSTCARDS

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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

Comment by John M. Bennett on January 25, 2020 at 2:09pm

The Reagans - or is that Thatcher? - awful boring people, to say nothing of the card.  ha!  ther language camp card would be more boring if I didn;t know it was a language camp - again, ha! 

thanks for posting, i have been derelict in posting the many movelies of boring cards i have -

Comment by JAC MAIL on January 25, 2020 at 1:46pm

Anyone want to exchange some boring ugly pc's? I have three from a local museum. I don't want to post them and spoil the surprise, but they are hideous and not your typical tourist card.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 25, 2020 at 12:52pm

a language camp in Germany on a boring postcard:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 25, 2020 at 12:51pm

They were boring (by today's comparison?)...so is this postcard:

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on January 18, 2020 at 7:14pm

For boring postcards exhibition, #2-- Scroll right to view entire postcard.

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on January 18, 2020 at 7:12pm

For boring postcards exhibition.

Comment by John Gayer on January 15, 2020 at 6:22am

Boredom is in the eye of the beholder.

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