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Originally Posted by RLacey
Yeah. It's a book of postcards that are really boring. Think photographs of shopping centres, the insides of hairdressers and motorway service stations, and you'd be pretty much on the mark. They become hilarious through being bad, though.
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I've read that from the library. You're right, the book is hilarious, though it's hard to say why. It's a very English thing.
One of my favourites is the black-and-white photo of the small car park (can't remember which town). It just gets better the more you think of it. Why take a photo of a car park at all -- and, if so, why such an unattractive shot? Who decided it ought to be published as a postcard? Who saw it, thought "ooh!", and bought it?
