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Friday, 8 April 2011

London Working Girls - Tart Cards


Come and join me and we'll take another peek into my Working Girl's Tart Book.



Because all tart cards essentially retail the same product, many of the girls had to become inventive and persuasive with their vocabulary in order to sell their wares.



So the girls had to add a little humour and wit and you would frequently find expression in brief lines of poetry from chirpy rhyming couplets:


New number new place
Ring me now for the place!

If you're feeling rather randy
Always keep this number handy!

Or enticing invitations



Often girls would parody the phrase of popular adverts such as this re-working of a Heineken beer ad.



Our simple two liners. I like this one:)



Or the more menacing doggerels




Plain blank verse adaptations

Or just straight to the point





You can view more here.


Have a wonderful weekend.

Ronnie
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15 comments:

  1. Little Butterfly8 April 2011 at 07:00

    So that's where Rihanna got her lyrics! LOL (2nd to last one)

    I love these tart cards! It would be fun to make some as a joke and leave them around for Daddy :)

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  2. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 07:07

    I am so glad that someone else likes these. I think there is something delightful about them.
    Have you read that Victorian review of London tarts?

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  3. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 10:52

    Very interesting collection of London tart cards. You do everything in the UK with so much more style than your cousins across the pond. Cheers.

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  4. Our Bottoms Burn8 April 2011 at 11:13

    I would like too see the reaction Americans would have if they woke up one fine morning and saw tart cards all over town.

    As in most things, the Brit sense of humor and fair play is evident here.

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  5. ronnie8 April 2011 at 15:52

    LB - LOL, could be. I made one myself and posted it and might just have to do another one.

    Poppy - I too think they really are so delightful. No, haven't read that review, do you have a link to it please?

    Joey - Thanks. I'm sure there must have been some sort of advertising by girls around Vegas perhaps, not sure.

    OBB - This Brit has a sense of humour but many people found these cards highly offensive, Don't forget they were mainly displayed in telephone boxes (before people really had mobiles) and the boxes were full of them showing nude girls, bottoms, breasts and more.
    Personally I love them. Working girls, one of the oldest professions and will always be around, one way or another, well I think so.

    Thanks all.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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  6. Hermione8 April 2011 at 15:56

    Oh, the last one's the best! I like "Stockings and garters..." too.

    Hugs,
    Hermione

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  7. ronnie8 April 2011 at 17:25

    Hermione - Me too:)

    Thanks.
    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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  8. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 18:34

    Ronnie, it is a book. I have the book but that is all. I will see if I can find it somewhere.
    And guess what?
    I was just at Dave Wolfe's blog and there is says that girls may be naughty on Fridays with no consequences.
    Good, huh?

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  9. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 22:01

    fun tart cards. Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend..

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  10. Raven Red9 April 2011 at 08:45

    Love the "Come into my parlour" adjustment.
    The same poem's opening lines, were standard quote that my science teacher use to utter, just before we had to sit down for exams! (Make you wonder? - GRIN)

    Hugs

    Raven

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  11. ronnie9 April 2011 at 10:16

    Poppy - Would love the name of the book if you could find it please. I'm loving Dev:) Thanks.

    Red - My pleasure, happy you enjoyed them, have a good weekend yourself.

    Raven - LOL. Think it would have unnerved me before an Exam.

    Thanks all, always appreciate you taking time to stop by.

    Have a wonderful weekend.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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  12. findingsara9 April 2011 at 15:05

    These are great! You have a nice weekend too, Ronnie!

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  13. ronnie9 April 2011 at 15:31

    Thanks Sara, I am so far, weather here is gorgeous.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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  14. Pink10 April 2011 at 05:05

    "My quality is not a promise. It's a guarantee."

    I'll have to remember that for my next propositioning.

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  15. ronnie12 April 2011 at 11:41

    LOL,thanks Pink.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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