During my last trip down to Colosse, I found The Cigar Box. TCB was a box of a brand of cigars that my somewhat famous Great Grandfather endorsed. Inside TCB was a bunch of old knick-knacks. I may talk more about the box in the future, but I wanted to share one of the findings, which I referred to once before:
Somewhere in the boxes of my parents house is something I call The Bizarro Letter. She wrote me a letter in marker that was at best vaguely comprehensible. I found it amusing and showed it my friends, none of whom had any idea what message she might have been trying to convey. It had profound passages like “In 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 years I will beeeeeeeeeee (buzz) 21 21 21 21 21″ (21 was written 21 times) and between talking about her cat and her mother burst out with “I SAW THE STRANGEST SHADE OF PURPLE TODAY!”
That was how I remembered it, but it wasn’t quite right. The above might have been from a mock-up that I wrote up once, while the letter was missing. Anyhow, he was the letter that Fever sent me:
Front of the Envelope - Nothing special here, and most of it is blacked out for privacy reasons. I mostly included it because I included…
Back of the Envelope - This was how I knew it was from her before I saw who it was from.
Page One - My name, her name, and a unique name are blacked out.
Page Two - A couple black-outs without explanation. They would require a story that would not be worth the time to write and read, but might be recognizable to the right person.
Back of Page Two - Not much here. Just a little… weirdness.
All the links are to the envelope.
Comment by Kevin — January 30, 2012 @ 10:57 am
Thanks for the heads up. Fixed.
Comment by trumwill — January 30, 2012 @ 10:58 am
I would strongly advise you to black out the barcode in picture A.
I am including a link that will help to convince you. That way, this post won’t show up until you approve it. Obviously I expect you to delete this post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSTNET
Comment by ScarletKnight — January 30, 2012 @ 11:31 pm
Knight, I passed it through so I could ask…
Did you decode it?
Thanks for the heads up.
Comment by trumwill — January 31, 2012 @ 2:18 am
So is Clancy the author of this eloquent epistle? Is that how you two lovebirds met?
Comment by Kevin — January 31, 2012 @ 3:35 am
Haha, no, but I did find a nice little Clancy Item in TCB. Post to come…
Comment by trumwill — January 31, 2012 @ 10:45 am
Did you decode it?
Yes, curiosity got the better of me. Don’t worry though, I won’t blow your cover.
How did I even know about those codes in the first place? Well, one of my friends from HS had a father who was a USPS office employee, and he taught us one day. Nice guy but a tremendous bore, so we would humor him and listen. It helped that he turned a blind eye to us drinking in his home.
I ran into him at a wake recently, and he is still a tremendous bore, except now all he talks about is FNC.
Speaking of politics, I may be voting for Gary Johnson come November. In February 2008 I voted for Bill Richardson, so that will make 2 NM governors.
Comment by ScarletKnight — January 31, 2012 @ 4:26 pm
Well, one of my friends from HS had a father who was a USPS office employee, and he taught us one day. Nice guy but a tremendous bore, so we would humor him and listen. It helped that he turned a blind eye to us drinking in his home.
Once upon a time, I dated a girl whose mother worked for the postal service. I discovered this upon receiving a threatening letter (that I quickly ascertained was from her) that had no postmark. How does a letter arrive without a postmark (it was stamped, but had six numerical digits written over the stamp instead of a PM)? “Didn’t I tell you that my (psycho-)mother works for the post office?”
Speaking of politics, I may be voting for Gary Johnson come November. In February 2008 I voted for Bill Richardson, so that will make 2 NM governors.
At the rate things are going, there’s a good chance I will be voting for Johnson, too. It would be my first third-party presidential vote.
Comment by trumwill — January 31, 2012 @ 8:53 pm
I can’t decide whether that’s adorable or disturbing.
Comment by Brandon Berg — February 1, 2012 @ 5:53 am
That about sums it up, Brandon.
Comment by trumwill — February 1, 2012 @ 6:14 pm