Postage Stamp Honoring Reagan Unveiled

[Khephra]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- A twinkly-eyed Ronald Reagan is going on a U.S. postage stamp. Nancy Reagan unveiled a giant replica of the stamp Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

"He considered it an honor of a lifetime to be president," Mrs. Reagan said. "And I know he would say, `Now, don't make such a fuss.'"

It is Postal Service tradition to honor prominent Americans with a stamp no sooner than 10 years after death -- except for U.S. presidents, who may be honored as early as the first birthday following their death.

Reagan, who died June 5, was born on Feb. 6, 1911. The first-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony will take place at the Reagan library Feb. 9.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-reagan-stamp,0,2577114.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Parche]

1. stamp

The only stamp who cant remember who licked it

[arwalden]

2. Fine! That's Lovely! --- Can This Be The End Of It??

No monuments. No mountain carvings. No images on coins or currency. He's got plenty of buildings and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport named after him... enough is enough.

So technically, the airport is named after TWO presidents... right? How stupid is that?

-- Allen

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Washington National Airport

will always remain properly named to this DUer.

[arwalden]

12. I Also Refuse To Call It Anything BUT "Washington National"

Well... sometimes I'll just call it "National" or DCA. I just dispise seeing the new mile-wide signs in the Metro stations or on the roadside driving to the airport. Grrrrr.

-- Allen

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Gee...it'd be fun to

doctor them, wouldn't it? ...like adding "UNF" before the word "airport"? :evilgrin:

[arwalden]

42. How Clever!! And Hysterical!!!!

[fortyfeetunder]

41. Very stupid

There is no effing way I will let the words Reagan Airport pass my lips in the same breath. And I can't wait for the USPS to show that stamp on the web because I got Photoshop warming up to make dem jailbars...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. Great idea!

You have to how it here when you've completed your masterpiece!

[Libby2]

3. Damn, what took them so long?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. I can't wait to

NOT buy one. :puke:

[TahitiNut]

39. I can't wait to

... tell my post office and carrier that I'll refuse delivery of any mail with the Reagan stamp on it.

[pleiku52cab]

6. Can't put Reagan on Mt Rushmore

gotta leave that space for awol

[merh]

27. Sure they can all put Raygun on Mt. Rushmore, they can buy

the stamps, lick 'em and stick 'em to the damned mountain and get arrested for defacing the monument or littering!

Stupid bunch of people, what misguided, ignorant, gullable fools.

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[Weembo]

8. But your letter will forget where it is supposed to go!

[VegasWolf]

9. I'm waiting for the Reagan toilet paper before I buy anything! n/t

[struggle4progress]

10. Now y'all be nice and spit on the right side. eom

[Lindacooks]

11. I want to see those envelopes with the prison bars drawn on them

like they had for Nixon's stamp.

Reagan was a coward, a creep, and a crook.

[Logansquare]

13. Yes, is it illegal to alter a stamp?

Because I have some really interesting ideas for the Gipper.

[Lindacooks]

43. The stamp wasn't altered.

"Tricky Envelopes:

Tom Zajak originated the idea of comic news, using topical cartoons to relay news, with the Santa Cruz Comic News. Now, there are many such papers in cities across the country. So when Zajak got a hold of the Richard Nixon postal stamp, it inspired him to create an envelope depicting a jail cell so when the stamp was attached, Nixon appeared to be in prison (where he belonged?). The next thing he knew, Zajak’s Nixon envelope was being waved around on national TV by Dan Rather. Success with the Nixon envelope lead to his creation of a hemp field envelope with the American Flag stamp flying high, and Washington and Jefferson harvesting hemp utilizing an Iowa stamp. Finally, Zajak used hemp paper to create Hempelopes, and now he has six designs and a display case. What’s next? “Maybe I’ll make matching cards for our envelopes,” says Zajak."

http://www.marikane.com/hwarchiv/issue21/21santa.html

[TXDemGal]

19. That's exactly what I was thinking, Linda

Someone start printing those special envelopes up, now! :evilgrin:

[Bake]

14. Better a stamp than currency!

I have to use currency. I don't have to use his stamp.

Bake

[Laelth]

15. I have only one comment to make:

:puke:

-Laelth

[flordehinojos]

17. i will refuse the reagan stamp whenever and if ever the post office tries

to sell me any. refusing the stamp would be one of the ways in which i can stand up to this onslaught of republican bullshit. it will make a political statement as well and i am prepared to have people react to it at the post office ... from the postal service worker who receives my refusal to accept the stamp to anybody else in line who realizes that i have just refused a ronnie stamp.

no ronnie reagan stamp for me! :thumbsdown:

[Zorra]

23. Me too. Refuse Reagan stamps. n/t

[Ruby Romaine]

18. makes me think of this Soviet era joke-

A new postal stamp was issued with a likeness of Brezhnev. After a while, Brezhnev inquired whether everything was in order with the new stamp.

Post Office employee-Comrade Brezhnev, this stamp is not much in use.
Brezhnev-Why?
PO employee-The people complain it won't stick to the envelope.
Brezhnev-What? Is the glue bad?
PO Employee-No,the glue is good, they just spit on the wrong side.

[CBHagman]

24. LOL!

Thank you, Ruby, for the laugh of the night.

As for the postage stamp conundrum, well, I suggest that you all just stock up on Cesar Chavez and Paul Robeson stamps, with a few Eid and Kwanzaa ones for good measure.

[Lone Pawn]

20. How much crap can they stick that loser's face on?

Oh, well, aside from running up an insane deficit, destabilizing the world, funding Saddam and Osama, cutting off social programs, ruining the political debate, enraging the Mideast, selling weapons to Iran to fund terrorists in South America, and cutting and running from Lebanon, thus "emboldening the terrorists..."

What did he really do wrong, guys?

[xpunkisneatx]

50. You forgot...

Denying the AIDS epidemic. Watch "And the band played on"...I was in kindergarten when Regean was prez, so I never knew any better, but after seeing this movie i realized how absolutely awful that was.

[mitchum]

21. Now all of the freepers will get a chance to lick Reagan's backside

[BiggJawn]

34. And all those Yuppie Stockbrokers, too.

Since they got their start when Ronnie sent out the coded memo that "GREED is GOOD!"

Wonder if they could use shit-flavoured glue, to get the full effect?

[Silverhair]

38. Stamps aren't licked anymore. They are all "peel 'n' stick". NT

[mitchum]

40. You realists are always ruining perfectly good gags!

:)

[PATRICK]

22. Get it over with

It can join the ranks of the ever popular anthrax faced Nixon stamp.

[AlinPA]

25. I'll remember to check stamps that I buy and exchange any Reagan

stamps for those with birds or old cars on them.

[realcountrymusic]

26. if you do use it

be sure to stick it on upside down.

ditto with the american flag stamps.

some of us have been doing that for years.

rcm

[VegasWolf]

29. Hey ,I always do that too!

[realcountrymusic]

35. I think it's pretty widespread

A few years ago it was a modestly publicized movement. Accomplishes nothing, I'm sure, but symbols do matter or Republicans wouldn't get so excited about them.

rcm

[Straight Shooter]

28. I'll use them, and draw an arrow to it and put "I'm with STUPID"

.

[Lexmark]

30. I heard the POST OFFICE recalled that stamp

people didn't know which side to spit on....


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[not fooled]

36. Another 'puke pol with dementia in office

from those stupid enough to like raygun: another senile 'puke, Bunning!! And idiot, *.

don't these people have any standards for mental competency in their candidates??? apparently not.

[leesa]

31. Won't use or buy anything with that mass murderers face on it.

[doreme]

32. There's room

on a postage stamp for a life-sized reproduction of rayguns brain. Or his heart to for that matter.

[Mira]

33. "Postage Stamp Honoring Reagan Unveiled"

His son Ron is his best piece of work. Impressive man, with courage, and he's "ours".

[not fooled]

37. for sure better offspring than *'s

yeah, Ron jr. infinitely superior to the twinz.

raygun: Intelligent, articulate son

*: drunken dissolute (not that there's anything wrong with that EXCEPT the rank hypocrisy) skanks.

[Seabiscuit]

44. Oh, Gawwwwdddd....

If some postal clerk hands me any of those when I order stamps, I'll shove them back and demand some "real" stamps. If he/she tells me they're "real" stamps I'll just say that's impossible - nothing commemorating that man could possibly have anything to do with reality, therefore the MUST be counterfeit. If I have to pay more to buy stamps with birds or something on it to avoid the Reagan stamps, I will.

IOW - BOYCOTT those stupid stamps!!!

[Dr Fate]

45. Fine by me-they put all kinds of shit on stamps- why not this dude.

He's famous-& from the '80s- why not?

[LiberteToujours]

46. No big deal

Certainly better than seeing him on the dime.

[MsUSA]

48. *gag* *choke* *gag*

I won't be buying those anytime soon. Has anyone heard about the reagan dime?? Is that still in the works?

[maveric]

49. He should be on a stamp. A Food stamp!

For all the people he compromised during his reign.

[Comicstripper]

51. I'll be living in Reagan, D.C. pretty soon....I can feel it.