Funny Birthday Card for Friend

Friend's Birthday Coming Up? Thinking of Sending a Funny Birthday Card a Friend Will Be Cheered By? Or at Least a Card to Inspire a Chuckle?

As I am writing this greeting card page on Wizzley, the Canadian Postal Workers Union has declared a rotating strike. This strike started today in Winnepeg, the east-west geographic center of the country. The strike will shift from city to city across the country until the union's concerns are resolved.

All day the Canadian air waves have been filled with radio hosts chatting about the situation. It got me thinking . . .Will the post office eventually become a thing of the past, like milkmen and ice deliveries?

Now that online banking and online bill payment, as well as e-mails and social networking, are commonplace, are junk mail and grocery store flyers the only thing people use the mailbox for anymore?

How does this question relate to the theme of this Wizz? It may seem irrelevant, but here's the rub: Will anyone still send funny cards to a friend anymore?

Maybe we'd better revive sending cards in a big way in order to halt the abandonment of an institution as iconic as the Post Office. What will the world's Philatelic Societies do if there are no stamps to collect?

Imagine if the only possibility of receiving a birthday card on your big day was from a person you see every day. Most of your daily acquaintances would probably think a simple verbal "happy birthday" would do and wouldn't even bother with a card. 

Imagine -- and I was just starting to get good at making pop-ups, not to mention making cards on Zazzle. 

What do you think? Am I being melodramatic? 

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Send Greetings You Have Created Yourself 

Even if you have decided that you'd rather not purchase a new card, you can still let your friend know you care by making your own funny birthday card. If you have a few basic paper ingredients, or even some cloth scraps, you can let your imagination go wild. Let it take you to new heights (or depths) of zaniness. Do you have a private joke you share? Can you think of a way to illustrate it? 

One of these books below may help inspire you. Imagine the range of goofiness that you could make pop out of a card!

With a little direction, you could make some balloons, a cake with more candles than the birthday boy or girl would care to count, or even a helicopter pop out of the center of a folded piece of construction paper. 

Err, you're right, construction paper can be a little flimsy for a pop up card. A good card stock would be better. Some glitter and a bit of glue comes in handy, too. What about that little mesh bag your onions came in? Would make a dandy net for a picture of a fisherman. And don't worry about a little stinging onion juice. Your friend is already in tears because you put the accurate number of candles on the pop out cake.

Speaking of fishermen, it's a good idea to think of something special your friend likes to do when you make that birthday card. If your friend is very young, he would appreciate the ball or the hockey stick or the ballet shoes you so carefully drew on old gift wrap and cut out and pasted on the card you made. An older friend would appreciate your work, too.

But don't forget, to make a funny birthday card you need jokes. Some people find jokes that make fun of a person for getting old funny. Some people don't. For the people who don't like to be made fun of, you may want to take a different approach. Animals doing funny things are usually a big hit.