How could you possibly have anything less than a "Wonderful Birthday" when you've just been presented with this? In fact after seeing that even on a regular day (or perhaps even a particularly miserable day) how could the rest of it be anything less than a kitten-fueled loveathon?
Think that's good? Course you do!
Well you ain't seen nothin' yet baby!
Has his birthday ever been celebrated in a more lovely way? No way! Just look at it! When this card arrived on the scene people were totally gay. Which at the time meant happy because everyone was so much more innocent back then... not any more though... now everyone's guilty!
Don't feel too bad though because.....
You just got served....
...with flowers!
You see this is brilliant because a kid dressed like this would turn up on your doorstep with flowers and a card in hand and that card the kid is carrying would be this one! It's like a bloody hall of mirrors!
Later on when the kid had left, the recipient of the flowers could look at this card and reminisce about the happy time when she got some flowers and a card. She would then look forward to tomorrow when she would probably get some more, because back then people sent each other cards and flowers all the time. Not like now when all people send each other is Anthrax, and their only wish for their fiance is to be more attractive. Why are we such scum these days?
Anyway...
You see food back in the day was a bit shit. Basically it was made of glass, gravel and the occasional bit of Spam, so obviously it needed to be cooked for weeks to cut down on the amount of tumors it gave you. That didn't matter though because when it did eventually arrive, the chef would bring it over to you personally in a proper chefs hat and a proper chefs moustache with this card (possibly under his hat) to apologise for his rubbish slowness. He didn't have to do it but he did. He was a great guy!
...and then!
You bet your ass it is!
It doesn't even need words because that would restrict its' appeal to a specific occasion. No. This card was for any time. That's just the way things were. People would just buy cards because they were awesome and anything printed in actual colour was a pretty damn exciting thing to behold.
People didn't even need to have a friend to buy this for, they could simply buy this and put it on their fireplace. This is how people learnt about things like Tigers before documentaries. They simply looked at this beautiful image and thought how great it would be to tickle a Tigers belly, never fearing for a moment that it might not be too impressed and bite their face off.
Good times!
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