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A humorous and insightful blog about greeting cards (including rude birthday cards and other silly ones).
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Rusty Pencil
Jan 23, 20244 min read
Where to buy funny get well soon cards.
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,...
Rusty Pencil
Oct 18, 20222 min read
Old sexist ads that could be funny cards. Or maybe not.
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...
Rusty Pencil
Aug 16, 20226 min read
Do we lose our sense of humour as we age?
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....
Rusty Pencil
Feb 15, 20224 min read
What do mothers want for Mother's Day? Not to be mother, for a start.
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...
Rusty Pencil
Nov 10, 20214 min read
The origins of dad jokes, and why they'll always be, and should be, crap.
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...
Rusty Pencil
Oct 26, 20215 min read
Funny and rude Christmas cards online - not the usual crap ones.
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...
Rusty Pencil
Sep 10, 20213 min read
Funny birthday cards for Mums. Aye. They're rude more like. Not like them in olden days.
Yes, why are they so rude? Is it because we don't love them? Or is because we can't tell the truth?
Rusty Pencil
Jul 21, 20214 min read
Where do ideas come from?
Where do funny ideas come from? A view from a greeting card publisher of humorous cards of where ideas come from.
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