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# wierdly,
i did make some 'isthisyou' stamps once. but then i was worried that i'd end up in the Tower if i tried to use them.

(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 11:49, archived)
# once the radio times printed
pictures of the woman from keeping up appearances on mock up stamps, which I cut out, stuck on postcards and sent - they were stamped by the post office as if real.

As a control, I tried it again with a picture of David Bowie, and they asked for postage upon delivery of that one.

that is true.
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 11:54, archived)
# that's great.
i love things like that.

apparently you can buy a special 'perfing wheel' (like a pizza cutter) to get the edges right...
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 11:56, archived)
# it'd be a great Mail Art project,
seeing which faces pass as stamps and which don't
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 11:59, archived)
# maybe you should have tried pics of David
from his Space Oddity bubble cut years - quite queeny looking there.
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 11:57, archived)
# You calling Bowie
a puff?
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 12:00, archived)
# he's a dame
.
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 12:02, archived)
# well
by his own admission in the past he's been Betty bothways..
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 12:04, archived)
# I thought he recanted and said it was
all a publicity stunt, though that may have been to keep Mrs Bowie happy
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 12:27, archived)
# but I thought he was married
to "a man"

(pun on iman)
(, Tue 17 Jun 2003, 12:33, archived)