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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Fri. 12/03/04 05:30:14 PM
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Christmas Postage Stamp Pornography Well, not exactly. A personal experience by Mike Thompson, at HEO, Nov. 30: .... Something, however, was missing. "Where," I asked the attending postal clerk, "are the traditional Madonna & Child stamps?" (Postal authorities for years have issued both nonreligious and religious commemorative stamps for this holiday season, to satisfy equally those citizens who groove exclusively on office-partying and those who quaintly still revere the birth of Christ.) "Those stamps," said the clerk with an odd, ecumenical smile, are here in this drawer, "under the counter." She slowly pulled open the discreet trove and withdrew samples of the Virgin Mary and her Baby Jesus for my fascination, as if they were products of an eccentric artist with copious red body hair who works at night, alone in the P.O. attic. "Wait a minute," I demanded. "Why are the only Christmas stamps that actually depict the meaning of Christmas being hidden from your customers and treated like pornography, stashed under the counter?" .... Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 12/03/04 05:30:14 PM |
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