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Women Veterans Historical Collection

tellurian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:01:59 -0800

Jean M. Fasse (Red Cross during WWII, and later the Special Service). Shirley Ann Thacker (WAVE). Just two of the interviews from the extensive collection of material (photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories and posters) at the Women Veterans Historical Collection.

Dunny

Surfin' Bird — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:30:48 -0800

Dunny - an eleven-year-old boy tries to give a love letter to a girl that doesn't like him and winds up at dinner with her suburban family. This is one of those short films that you either love right away from the opening scene or....well, demand you 10 minutes back. If you are not sure, try other works by the same director: Phillip Van.

Shoot It-Real postcard from your iPhone

ColdChef — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:37:05 -0800

Shoot It! Create and mail a real [paper!] postcard from anywhere and to anyone around the world.

Forgotten Bookmarks

milquetoast — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:33:46 -0800

Forgotten Bookmarks. "I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people every day. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. "

"Oh, lord love you, Stephen. How I admire your arrogance and rage and misery. How pure and righteous they are and how passionately storm-drenched was your adolescence."

Artw — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:19:48 -0800

Long before becoming a national treasure and celebrity Twitter addict the 16 year old Stephen Fry sent a letter to his future self, to which he has now responded, in a letter first published in the 25th birthday edition of Gay Times.

Letter from an AIG bonus recipient

Argyle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:09:24 -0800

Letter from an AIG bonus recipient - The resignation letter of an AIG executive explaining his point of view on the bonus furor. The proverbial other side of the story.

10th July 2003

ZachsMind — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:39:16 -0800

To Whom It May Concern: If you are reading this then I can only assume that you have removed the pond under which this note is buried... For those of you who have not yet clicked on the first link, go click on the link. We'll wait here, but don't make us wait all day. I have a tuna casserole in the microwave. ... For those too lazy to click on the link, a young woman named Vero has a friend named Simon. They live in the UK. Simon recently moved to a new place that had a pond. He didn't like the pond, so he emptied it out. At the bottom of the pond was a letter from the previous owner. The makings of a cable movie? Probably not. Still, it made me smile. If it doesn't make you smile, I hope your head falls off. You snivelling pond destroyer. What I found curious was that only five years had transpired but the laminated letter is already difficult to read. Being under the water all that time was causing the ink to run. Like duh. Even laminated, didn't the original author anticipate that? The letter would not have survived more than a couple decades at most, so the original author probably expected the pond to be destroyed relatively soon after she had put it there. Otherwise she would have left a note in such a way as to survive the test of time better. This begs the question: why do it in the first place, if you KNOW someone else will come along and destroy it? Are garden ponds in the UK the new sandcastles? Who was this person? Why did she make the pond? Why did she lose the pond? Why did she know as she was making the pond that she might lose it? If she loved the pond so much, why sell the property? Please discuss, and no you can't have any tuna casserole.

"My Normal Pajamas"

amyms — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:24:30 -0800

The Pajamas Letter. I recently came upon a mysterious, unsigned letter in the deposit-envelope receptacle of a downtown ATM machine requesting that I draw a picture of my "normal pajamas" and send it back in an included self-addressed stamped envelope. Part Two. Slideshow.

Take a flyer

klangklangston — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:31:05 -0800

Letman : Job Wouters is a Dutch designer known for his two-color flyers, which emphasize manic color and hand-lettering. His sketchbooks (White, Gray, and Black) are full of fun letter design.

1898 baseball cursing policy, amply illustrated

LobsterMitten — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800

"In terms of language, it is also the most offensive official Major League baseball document that we have ever seen." An auction house obtains a one page letter sent to baseball players in 1898, outlining the league's new anti-cursing policy. Includes lots of examples of the kind of language that is not allowed. Nervous auctioneers not sure how to exhibit it. Purely of historical interest, naturally. It says at the bottom of the document "may not be mailed - must be delivered by express". I wonder if it couldn't be mailed because of its obscene content?

I HATE YOOOOOOOOOU!

amyms — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:48:55 -0800

"I HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDD"... A dramatic reading of a break-up letter. (Audio may be NSFW, but the text is entertaining even without the audio) Via.

Stop the hate. Love, Saddam.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:41:32 -0800

Saddam's farewell letter.

Pony Express for the Damned

Sfving — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:06:47 -0800

Write letters to your unsaved friends. When the rapture comes, this guy will mail them.

Sullivan Ballou Letter

thisisdrew — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:18:38 -0800

A soldier in War. A letter home. Nobody will ever top Sullivan Ballou's. (Youtube Video) A week before the battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou, a major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield. The actual letter begins @ 2:25 into the video. But it's far from a waste to watch the whole six minutes.

Letter To A Nut

emelenjr — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:14:34 -0800

LET'S DO THIS. Burning the midnight oil typing out a letter best left unsent—who hasn't done that, right? Only, I think Henry Rollins might be the type to go ahead and send this letter anyway. (.swf)

For sometime now I have been thinking

blacklite — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:58:54 -0800

Yesterday, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrote a letter to the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush. Here it is. (Courtesy Le Monde, 8 page PDF, English.) The letter has been "dismissed by its recipients as a rambling philosophical treatise." (Times) Further coverage at NYT and Le Monde (French). The letter ends 27 years of diplomatic silence.

What if you get rejected?

NotMyselfRightNow — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:13:57 -0800

Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, MA, has announced that it will do away with traditional acceptance letters and will instead email accepted students a link to an acceptance podcast on iTunes.

Write a lot of these?

C17H19NO3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:08:38 -0800

The Dysfunctional Family Letter Generator.

A letter to the terrorists from London

Spoon — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:15:12 -0800

A Letter To The Terrorists, From London

Last words

DeepFriedTwinkies — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:49:28 -0800

Dear Mother, Just a wee note. I am “going over the parapet”, and the chances of a “sub” getting back alive are abut nix.

A letter home written by Canadian soldier Hart Leech in 1916.

Letters to the Editor, By Jack O'Neil, Sewickley

filchyboy — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:34:20 -0800

Letters to the Editor, By Jack O'Neil, Sewickley

Inland Review letter

feelinglistless — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:27:53 -0800

Apparently genuine reply to a letter sent to the Inland Revenue. "I must take issue with your description of our last as a "begging letter". It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a "tax demand". This is how we, at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy, traditionally referred to such documents." [via Orbyn, via Cal]

Another Letter I Have Not Written

H. Roark — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:10:43 -0800

Another Letter I Should Have Written

Real or Memorex?

kablam — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:45:53 -0800

A soldier's letter home, or clever propaganda? This "letter" has been making the rounds as an email, supposedly from an officer, stationed in Iraq, named "Mark". He certainly seems to know a lot about what's going on. He loves his job, likes his generals, and admires the Iraqi people, who like him and other Americans; and he hates the press and the foreigners he says are fighting reconstruction. Sounds a little too good to be true.

radio_mookie — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 06:19:04 -0800

A Letter From The Frontlines In Afghanistan - This letter was read on the Sully and Scooter Show on KOGO News Radio in San Diego. Supposedly written by a U.S. Marine. Don't know if it is real or not.