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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.

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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 February 29, 2020 at 2:59pm

Boring Football (Soccer) Postcard from a match in November 1975 (and bought in Copenhagen, May 2018)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 29, 2020 at 2:57pm

THREE MORE FROM KATERINA (inc 1 via Mim)

1. ' Cactus of Arizona' (or' Cacti of Arizona' or 'Cactuses of Arizona'

2. 'Two if By Sea'

3. 'Alderman Memorial Library', University of Virginia, Charlotttesville, Va (from Mim to Katerina; from Katerina to Val)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 23, 2020 at 6:38pm

FOUR OLD BLACK AND WHITE SORT-OF-BORING FRENCH POSTCARDS I FOUND IN A BOOKSHOP TODAY

1; A game of Boules at Marenens (France) 'The Capital of Oysters'. The ladies in the foreground -- and their dog -- look very bored.

2. The (grain?) Silos from Bram (France). Sometimes you have to wonder why anyone would bother to make a postcard of such a Boring building, and/or why anyone would buy it, and/or who would they send it to?

3. A road -- le Faubourg des Auberges -- in Capestang, France. This Boring Postcard features a pile of stones (pavés?) front left, and an ugly white building. The rest? A few trees and a road sign.

4. A group of schools from Montreal (Montreal, Aude, France, not Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Very boring indeed. Perhaps the Church/Cathedral in the background is more interesting.

Comment by Cody Whitby on February 22, 2020 at 4:32pm

Outgoing Mail

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on February 20, 2020 at 7:45pm
I’ll send you more when I return home from Mexico!
Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2020 at 2:36pm

From MIM, heading your way, Valentine.

(Mim says she has a whole box full!)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 20, 2020 at 1:53pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA

Thanks Mikle, once again

Where do you keep finding all these great Boring Postcards?

1. 'Sledge Dogs (Greenland)' [even the dogs look Bored, methinks]

2. 'Parc national des volcans (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)'

3. 'Chitral Valley (Pakistan)'

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 20, 2020 at 1:43pm

TWO FROM CARIEN VAN HEST

Bedankt, Carien!

1. L'Eglise, Lamastre (Ardeche, France)

2. Adams Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona'

Comment by John Gayer on February 14, 2020 at 4:33pm

Me thinks I don't know what to think!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 14, 2020 at 4:28pm

"FIVE SOMETHINGS FOR THE WEEKEND,SIR?"

Number 1: From Res, "Set Yourself Free" [from what?]

(Sometimes you need the info on the back of the Boring Postcard, and this is one of those times. 'Set Yourself Free' is a promotion for the Caalifornia Rail Pass ($99 for 7 days, $159 for 21 days). "It's your ticket to freedom". But why Amtrak then pictures 2 people pretending to be birds or planes on a beach, and not a train, is not at all clear to me.

Number 2 From Alan Bignall, A Boring Postcard from a Boring Game, "Golf Links. Theydon Bois"

Number 3: From Mikel Untzilla -- featuring Sisyphus and friend -- "Shaking Rock at Mt Seolog, Korea"

Number 4: also from Mikel U, "The junior geyser, Strokkur, starting to spout, South Iceland"

Number 5, yet again from Mikel , "Etruscan Jewerly" (sic)

Thanks Alan, Thanks res, Thanks Mikel.

 

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