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Watch out gents, it's a leap year! Rare collection of Donald McGill postcards that warned men
UK Daily Mail ^
| February 28, 2012
| Amy Oliver
Posted on 02/29/2012 6:15:42 AM PST by C19fan
Tomorrow brings the last day of February in a leap year which means only one thing - women can propose to men. Any gents feeling anxious about this once-every-four-years phenomenon may like to take advice from a collection of 'leap year' postcards by Donald McGill. The postcards, which date from the early 1900s when it was deemed improper for women to propose, all feature warnings to men about getting trapped by undesirable women on the only day they could traditionally pop the question. They have now gone on display at the Donald McGill museum in Ryde, Isle of Wight, for the first time in 90 years - just in time for tomorrow's big day.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: leap
Single male freepers you have been warned.
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:15:53 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Are you not allowed to say “no” today to a marriage proposal?
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:30:55 AM PST
by
dartuser
("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
To: C19fan
Sadie Hawkins day,,,’lil Abner,,, Al Capp
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:37:43 AM PST
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: piroque
Moonbeam McSwine!
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:40:42 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
To: piroque
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:41:32 AM PST
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:45:59 AM PST
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: C19fan
I like the “Leap before You Look!” advice.
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:48:40 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Improving" on truth is contempt for truth: hubris and denial--the stuff of tragedy.)
To: piroque
Remember the Sadie Hawkins' Day forewarning:
"Ef a gal ketches yew, then yew're hern!"
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:52:31 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Improving" on truth is contempt for truth: hubris and denial--the stuff of tragedy.)
To: piroque
Remember the Sadie Hawkins' Day forewarning:
"Ef a gal ketches yew, then yew're hern!"
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posted on
02/29/2012 6:52:31 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Improving" on truth is contempt for truth: hubris and denial--the stuff of tragedy.)
To: Savage Beast
Time to watch the movie! Haven’t seen it in many years.
To: C19fan
George Orwell wrote a great essay on McGill.
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posted on
02/29/2012 7:46:10 AM PST
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
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