Vintage Christmas Images: Meat in a Dead Heat

This is a Christmas card found in an English scrapbook preserving the years 1870-1880. The text around whatever it is riding the black porker reads “A Dead Heat for the Plate.” So, as far as I can tell, you have two hogs racing for my oven, one carrying a turkey on its back and one carrying what looks like nothing I’ve ever seen.

You thought they didn’t do humourous cards back then, didn’t you? 

Don’t ask me to explain the joke to you. The best I can do is point out that it’s British humour, which might be all the explanation there is.

But surely there must be more. What’s your explanation?

Sick As a Dog

That was me all day yesterday. Just like the picture, except there’s no way I would have had any soup and crackers near me.

 

I’m glad to be a little better today, but I’ve got a whole lot of work to catch up on.

Light (8)

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John 3:19-21 ESV