Good heavens! I hope this little girl doesn’t plan to rumble; they’ll go straight for her eyes. More likely this is a case of Engrish; the caption writer’s intent didn’t quite make it through the translation phase. This card was sent to me by Soso in China, who has some interesting designs of her own.

This postcard from Jingyi in Sanming, China is both happy-making and surreal. Issued by the State Postal Bureau and ostensibly a card to celebrate the new year (though sent to me several months late, no doubt to showcase the pretty girl), it has all the hallmarks of an acid trip.

I mean, come on — a pink cow? With horns? Rowing an umbrella through the clouds? And how about that kitty cat? Is it sleeping contentedly, or leaning over the side of the boat waiting to barf? Add in the hearts and clovers and you’re just a couple marshmallows short of a box of Lucky Charms.

Anny in Taichung City, Taiwan found this card in her postcard album and decided I would like it.  She couldn’t be more right!  This postcard is a reproduction of a calendar poster from the Lobowl Medical Company.

According to Anny, the left and right side grids show various medicines, and the efficacy of each.  Each of the bottom corners also contains pictures of medicines, these in their Lobowl packaging: an expectorant on the right, and something called “Hazel-Rimefoam” on the left.  I’m not sure I want to know what that is.  Between those two pictures lies the Chinese calendar for the year 1918.

And yet, surrounded by all these potions, our spokesmodel has decided to make do with some herbal tea.