ugly stamps

From: Armadillo Jo (jes7o@yahoo.com) | Date: 2004-12-01 17:12:23 UTC-08:00

This is one Bipolar list! All right, i'll fess up...it
was I who placed the lithium in the coffee urn....

...and i'm a stamp snob too. I left my sig stamp at
home once and needed a replacement fast. I looked at
the store-bought stamps and just could not bring
myself to do it. I bought an eraser and an x-acto
knife (for a whopping total of two dollars at
Wal*Mart) and carved the most heinous stamp known to
man while my mom drove. The armadillo is missing an
ear and the JO part of the stamp has a deformed O.
There are 8 boxes in NW Ohio that bear the "ugly
armadillo" stamp. That stamp may be ugly, but I made
it and that's the important part. Try carving. It's
not nearly as hard as it seems. Just don't do it while
in a car. You'll totally "van gogh" your armadillo!

--Armadillo Jo

Re: ugly stamps

From: rscarpen (letterboxing@atlasquest.com) | Date: 2004-12-02 01:48:30 UTC

> I bought an eraser and an x-acto knife (for a whopping total of two
> dollars at Wal*Mart) and carved the most heinous stamp known to man

You jest! It is well-known that I, the greenest turtle of them all,
have carved what is known as the world's crappiest stamp!

http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/clue.html?boxId=47

You can only aspire to reach the dreadful lows I have propogated. =)

-- Ryan

Re: ugly stamps

From: dagonell2001 (salley@klaatu.canisius.edu) | Date: 2004-12-02 05:34:27 UTC

--- Armadillo Jo wrote:
> Try carving. It's
> not nearly as hard as it seems. Just don't do it while
> in a car. You'll totally "van gogh" your armadillo!
> --Armadillo Jo

I hooked a 'blog friend of mine on letterboxing when I went to visit
her in Chicago. After the second box, she made me stop at a dollar
store where she bought a cheap set of exactos and a big rubber eraser.
She had a finished stamp with her name spelled out in relief before
we arrived at the third location and while playing native
guide/navigator to boot!!!
-- Dagonell the Pirate

Re: ugly stamps

From: Brenda Tassava (bktassava@sbcglobal.net) | Date: 2004-12-02 23:43:33 UTC

Hey Armadillo Jo,
I find it hard to believe you ever carved an ugly stamp!! One of my
favorite finds is an ugly little stamp carved by an 8-yr old...but
it's really quite awesome because he put it out there for others to
find and enjoy. Yes, I'm also a stamp snob and prefer pitiful
attempts at hand-carving, any day over a store-bought stamp. But
I've also learned that I prefer the store-bought ones to nothing at
all!
Artdog
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Armadillo Jo
wrote:
> This is one Bipolar list! All right, i'll fess up...it
> was I who placed the lithium in the coffee urn....
>
> ...and i'm a stamp snob too. I left my sig stamp at
> home once and needed a replacement fast. I looked at
> the store-bought stamps and just could not bring
> myself to do it. I bought an eraser and an x-acto
> knife (for a whopping total of two dollars at
> Wal*Mart) and carved the most heinous stamp known to
> man while my mom drove. The armadillo is missing an
> ear and the JO part of the stamp has a deformed O.
> There are 8 boxes in NW Ohio that bear the "ugly
> armadillo" stamp. That stamp may be ugly, but I made
> it and that's the important part. Try carving. It's
> not nearly as hard as it seems. Just don't do it while
> in a car. You'll totally "van gogh" your armadillo!
>
> --Armadillo Jo

Re: [LbNA] Re: ugly stamps

From: Mary (RI) (msg@warwickschools.org) | Date: 2004-12-03 00:14:25 UTC-05:00

Eloquently put. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Brenda Tassava
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Re: ugly stamps

I ... prefer pitiful attempts at hand-carving, any day over a store-bought stamp. But I've also learned that I prefer the store-bought ones to nothing at
all!
Artdog

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