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Say ... WHAT????? -- #2

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Say ... WHAT????? -- #2
Group:What's in your mailbox?
Swap Coordinator:lou (contact)
Swap categories:
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:May 31, 2013
Date items must be sent by:June 15, 2013
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

"Designed with the nosy/bored postal worker in mind"

Send your partner a postcard, senders choice, that has a ridiculous and obvious huge fib (lie, tall tale, whopper) written on it -- make sure it would make the postal carrier read it twice.

Use your sense of humor BUT if you are easily offended, please don't join this swap, as you never know what someone may write.

Please check partners profile so make sure you don't say something that may really offend.

Hope we get lots of members to join -- have fun!

Many thanks to our member @mishap for this great idea and letting our group do international versions of her fun swap!

Discussion

lou 05/ 5/2013 #

Some TRUE info (really) about the USA stamp pictured -- from the Arago/Smithsonian website:

The Post Office Department issued several commemorative stamps in the 1920s and 1930s that recognized the diversity of national origins that comprised the American 'melting pot'. The stamp issue set something of a precedent for honoring immigrant groups.

The three stamps of the Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary Series, issued on May 1, 1924, commemorated the 300th anniversary of settlement in New Netherlands, now the State of New York. In 1624 a group of approximately thirty Belgian families, most of them French-speaking Walloons from the south of Belgium sailed to the New World aboard the vessel 'Nieu Nederland'. Persecuted for their Protestant beliefs, they sought religious freedom.

The series also honors the Huguenots, sixteenth-century French Protestants who, like the Walloons, suffered persecution for their religious beliefs. Under the leadership of Jean Ribaut (c.1520–1565), a group of Huguenots sailed from Dieppe, France, in February 1562, seeking refuge from religious persecution. They landed at the mouth of Florida's St. John's River in May 1562.

lou 06/ 1/2013 #

Thanks for joining, let's get those "tall tales" spinning and have some fun!!

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