A humorous and insightful blog about greeting cards (including rude birthday cards and other silly ones).

Rusty Pencil picks the funniest cards of the year.

Give your mum a funny - and maybe rude - 80th birthday card. A quick rundown of what funny 80th birthday cards Rusty Pencil can offer.

Rusty Pencil helps a man who has no sense of humour find a funny 60th birthday card for his best friend.

Post Office to stop common folk buying 1st Class Stamps. It's about time! We must keep up standards.

It's about time that we made a stand against rude cards. I'm all for it, for fuck's sake.

Royal Mail has outdone itself again. This is the true story about a 10-year-old boy receiving his birthday card nine years late from his...

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Judging by the number of people in the waiting room at my local medical centre I visited recently,...

The world of greeting cards is awash with puns. You can’t be considered a true humorous greeting card publisher unless you’ve cut your...

Would you love to make exquisite cheval mats in crochet? There’s a mag for that. Do you know how to plan a picnic with luncheon meat and...

Let's begin with a joke: A penguin walks into a pub. He says to the barman, 'Have you seen my brother?' The barman says, 'I don't know....

Humour is a funny thing. What I find funny you probably find as funny as sucking on a lemon. Thankfully, there are a zillion funny cards...

Ageism is rife in the world. I’m not surprised. There are a lot of us old buggers around. I’m in my mid-60s and our age group is rapidly...

Do some words irritate you? Here's my top 10 list of the annoying words and phrases that get on my nerves.

The kids are whining, the cat’s puked up a hairball on the carpet, there’s a sock in the bathroom sink, a lego brick in the teapot, and...

So. Do you have any idea what you're doing? I certainly don't.

There are a million things a dog can’t do. It can’t jump into your car and take the kids to school. It has no idea how to mow the lawn,...

I admit it. I stole the line from someone else. From a chimp, to be precise. The original joke was: ‘Dad, do you know the piano’s on my...

We Brits don’t do things by halves when it comes to Christmas. When you suffer eleven and a half months of sheer drudgery and the...

You’ve heard of novelists having writer’s block. Now there’s greeting card writer’s block. It's when someone struggles to come up with...

There’s a terrible disease going around at the moment. You’ve seen it in all the tabloids, websites and social media. Chances are it’s...