Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 15, 2024

The 14th was yesterday. What could JJ be going for today?

Oui, madame.

Buy them by the sheet, and use a paper cutter…..

French postcards? The saucy ones?!

Uh oh, Janis doesn’t realize what she’s suggesting. Arlo’s apparent joy should be a clue.

French postcards involve sexy undies.

Arlo, the term is “French letter” NOT “French postcard”. I suppose you COULD get them in the mail ….. Amazon has everything

French letter is slang for a condom, maybe French postcards are for quickies …… or use by small men. ha ha

I don’t think people will be sending letters, postcards, Christmas cards, etc. much anymore as the cost just went up to 73 cents per stamp. I think they were 5 cents when I was a baby.

I remember when “French Post Cards” were considered obscene and confiscated by the US Postal Service.

I thought Bastille Day was yesterday because I heard them announce during Tour de France. I am learning so much from the comments here.

A Bastille Day French Postcard – Marie Antoinette standing on the gallows with the crowd shouting “Off with her clothes”

(Before anyone mentions it, I know Bastille Day was in 1789 and she wasn’t executed until 1792)

No comments about what makes a “French postcard” a “French postcard”?

Since neither Janis nor Arlo know any French, how would they know the cards are buying are in French?

OOOH LA LA!

“To the barricades, revolutionaries’! Viva la France!”

Is Janis volunteering to pose for the postcards?

“Start The Revolution Without Me”

I said this yesterday! Whamond made yesterday’s Day by Dave about something completely inane! It could have been Bastille Day – or the Fête nationale française.

“French Postcards” were famous for images of naked ladies and sometimes sexual situations.

Arlo in the first panel: “Rats! Nobody sent ME a Bastille Day card!”

Wives usually look askance at French post cards…

Arlo is basically a follower………

Pretty sure there’s an E-card for that.

So, Janis doesn’t know what French Postcards are? Heck, I knew that before I was 12!

Arlo, you couldn’t find somebody with an IQ over 50? Poor guy.

Already a day late — or maybe 364 days early.

20% off French Toast breakfast.

Maybe a French postcard from Pepe Le Pew?

The only thing I ever got in the mail from France was a photo speeding ticket from my trip there last year.

To slightly change the subject from French postcards, I’m going to ask the question I’ve asked a few times before. Why do French Canadians celebrate Bastille Day? Quebec hadn’t been a French possession for over 25 years when the French Revolution began. That’s like if the US celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday! Okay, back to the French postcards… that’s more interesting anyway, and I still say it’s “French envelopes”, not “French letters”!

Or from Mt Vernon—where the key is displayed.

I don’t think that they really know what “French Postcards” really are. Otherwise Arlo wouldn’t want to receive them and Janis wouldn’t want to send them. Well, being a guy, Arlo might want to get one.

Am I the ONLY person who knows what a French postcard IS??? Janis would not approve—and would have to pose!

Just a blank sheet today. Maybe I’ll see them tomorrow…

Another “insider” gag, I guess.

My dad used to love to joke about things. In particular he loved to tell jokes which went over the head of his oldest girl child until he explained them.

One of them was that the Bastille was made out of the bast steel money could buy.

Okay- everyone can groan at the joke now, but to a 5 year old or such girl this is how I first learned about the Bastille as he explained it to me.