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Post by epaul on Dec 12, 2008 14:27:58 GMT -5
I received my 2009 calendar today, the Linda Nelson Stocks folk art calendar by Lang Graphics. The calendar features your basic, folksy, New Englandly scenes with square two-story New Englandly houses, red barns, stone walls, general stores, lots of snow, and some dogs, kids, sleds, horses and wagons.
I got my first Linda Nelson Stocks calendar in 1983. This year marks 26 straight years of getting the same calendar with pretty much the same prints for the same months (lots and lots of wreaths for December, pumpkins and witches for October, flags and picnics for July). 26 years . The same calendar. On the same kitchen wall.
I find the pictures cozy and comfortable (and a nice contrast to the Penthouse calendar I keep in the hall entry) and the calendar has nice open squares so I can write lots of notes to myself about this, that, and the other.
I don't know what the record is for getting the same calender featuring nearly identical prints by the same folksy artist. I wonder if I am close. During the same period, I have also gone through around twenty Far Side appointment calendars, interspersed with some Labrador Retriever and bird calendars.
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Post by theevan on Dec 12, 2008 14:35:09 GMT -5
I lost my connection for Ceba-Geigy calendars years ago. Anybody? A close second might be the Mettler Balance calendar. Both feature beautiful Swiss landscapes with the highest production values on the best paper, etc.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 12, 2008 14:35:12 GMT -5
I received my 2009 calendar today, the Linda Nelson Stocks folk art calendar by Lang Graphics. The calendar features your basic, folksy, New Englandly scenes with square two-story New Englandly houses, red barns, stone walls, general stores, lots of snow, and some dogs, kids, sleds, horses and wagons. I got my first Linda Nelson Stocks calendar in 1983. This year marks 26 straight years of getting the same calendar with pretty much the same prints for the same months (lots and lots of wreaths for December, pumpkins and witches for October, flags and picnics for July). 26 years . The same calendar. On the same kitchen wall. I find the pictures cozy and comfortable (and a nice contrast to the Penthouse calendar I keep in the hall entry) and the calendar has nice open squares so I can write lots of notes to myself about this, that, and the other. I don't know what the record is for getting the same calender featuring nearly identical prints by the same folksy artist. I wonder if I am close. During the same period, I have also gone through around twenty Far Side appointment calendars, interspersed with some Labrador Retriever and bird calendars. I was blessed by Marty last year with this wonderful Thomas Kinkade calendar, part of his wonderful Wet Basement Series.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Dec 12, 2008 14:38:11 GMT -5
Paul, how much do you want for the 2008 calendar?
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Post by knobtwister on Dec 12, 2008 14:38:53 GMT -5
I have judged the economic health of my industry by the number of free calendars I get. So far I've gotten one calendar. Not good. Four or five is the usual quantity.
BTW. the photos are of amplifiers, speakers, switchers etc.
Don
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Post by mccoyblues on Dec 12, 2008 15:21:45 GMT -5
I get the Far Side daily desk calendar every year. I have a "Best Of" section on the wall of my cube where I staple my favorites. Here's a good one.
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Post by epaul on Dec 12, 2008 16:23:48 GMT -5
I never tire of the Far Side. The situations. The drawings. Genius, sheer genius.
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Post by theevan on Dec 12, 2008 16:33:43 GMT -5
I like the panel Larson entitled "Charlie Parker's Private Hell"
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 12, 2008 16:38:18 GMT -5
I try to track down one of these every year-- And I miss this one from many years ago--
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Post by dradtke on Dec 12, 2008 16:45:29 GMT -5
The Ridgid Tool calendar was always a shop staple.
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 12, 2008 16:55:56 GMT -5
Subtle.
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Post by millring on Dec 12, 2008 18:51:12 GMT -5
Our Ariel is Miss June in this one...
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