Thursday 17 May 2012

M.I.L.T.F.


I had to show you the birthday card chosen for me by H.I.  It is from a series of greetings cards taken from 'Punch' magazine, and I have to say that 'Punch' is not normally renowned for it's humorous cartoons, so this one is a bit of a rarity.  I like everything about it - especially the nicely observed bears, of both varieties.  I wonder how Pooh ended up in North America.

My other favourite card of this year (I always save a couple) was given to me by my 18 year-old grand daughter, and is a photograph of two cute kittens, both saying,  "We're not paying!".  Beneath it is the caption,  TIGHT PUSSIES.  (Just in case you don't know, 'tight' here in the UK means miserly with money.)


When my girl showed this to a friend and told her who it was destined for, the other looked horrified and said,  "Are you SURE that would be appropriate?!"  She just answered,  "Oh yes, very appropriate.  You don't know him".

When I asked her mother why it was that all but H.I.'s (her mother) card were of a sexually suggestive nature - for they were - she said,  "That's because you're a dirty old man".

Why is that it is always me who gets the blame?


12 comments:

  1. It's the rich what gets the pleasure, and the poor what gets the blame.

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  2. Like the antelopes in the savanna, the girls can obviously smell a predator at 5 miles on a slight breeze...

    Just bought a punch print from the 1920's (HM Bateman) for the wall. Not funny, just nice to look at.

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    1. Which one? I rather like Bateman.

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    2. It's a 3 up print of some chickens by the roadside that jump out in front of a car.
      "Dolce far niente".
      Going to look nice in the hall.

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    3. Bateman was rather famous for his drawing of the buffer who ordered a whiskey and soda in the Pump Rooms in Bath too. The cheese on the breeze...

      Just the other way around, I would say, Cro.

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  3. I'm to become a G.I.L.T.F. this year - and still getting the blame for being a lech. So don't freak out, Tom dear. It's not consigned to gender or age, just disposition!

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    1. Oh... ok, I'll delete the comment if you don't find it funny. If you don't, then nobody else will!

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    2. There. I hope you're satisfied with your Methody self.

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  5. WTF? At first I thought that the blog heading said M.I.L.F., which didn't suprise me at all, come to think of it. Subconsciously, I also must have you pegged as a 'dirty old man'. Still love you, though.

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    1. I need help (or kelp) now. Will you still love me tomorrow? P.S. Donna Summer's died...

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