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07 Feb 2009
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My daughter was going through some of her stamps this evening and decided that she would like to start a new topical collection called "Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps". She asked me to ask you all for suggestions of stamps that should be included in her new collection. Please give her some ideas, preferably with pictures posted on this thread.

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07 Feb 2009
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i thought I'd send some of my personalized stamps, but then the screen cracked

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07 Feb 2009
08:53:20pm
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How old is your daughter, Tim? That might give us an idea of what she considers "old". Did she see someone on a stamp that she considered an "old dude"? If so, what stamp?

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07 Feb 2009
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My daughter Bec, is 24. Here are some examples of "Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps".

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08 Feb 2009
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Hi Tim,
Most of the Personality stamps of India features 'Old Dudes' which are made to look ugly by the stamp designers - she will find a lot of these on Indian stamps.
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13 Aug 2012
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Anything with Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln or Eleanor Roosevelt should do the trick!

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13 Aug 2012
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I was going to point out Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a dude then I looked at her stamp.

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13 Aug 2012
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Sometimes the virtual world doesn't allow for the missing components of body language, facial expression or voice inflection in communication.

Still if you ever read some of Eleanor's love letters to her "friend" you'd probably get where my quip originated!

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14 Aug 2012
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Ügly Öld Düdes ... there are so many .... don´t know where to start, so I grabbed an album without looking which.
These 3 handsome men are not the only I could find in this album of German stamps, but they were the lucky winners Image Not Found


I particularly love the grumpy man on the 3rd stamp




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25 Aug 2012
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I got a good laugh yesterday from my friend's 12 year old son who was helping me sort my stamps. All of a sudden he held up a USSR stamp to me that had an image of a man as well as I guess something he invented & he said "Geez! Look at this ugly guy on here!" Then there was "Tsk, tsk, what a way to ruin a really nice stamp, geez!" while shaking his head.

I suddenly remembered this thread & told him that there has been a discussion in my club about "ugly old dudes on stamps". The poor boy fell off the couch from laughing so hard.

Later in the day when his Mum stopped by he said to her "Ya know, I found this really cool stamp with a (whatever it was) & they went & ruined it by sticking some ugly guy on it & boy was he ugly!". So we all got a great laugh.

Anywho, I had to share this story & give you guys a good laugh too.

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27 Aug 2012
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"I got a good laugh yesterday from my friend's 12 year old son who was helping me sort my stamps. All of a sudden he held up a USSR stamp to me that had an image of a man as well as I guess something he invented & he said "Geez! Look at this ugly guy on here!" "



I think that would be any Lenin stamp I think the Soviet post-office went out of their way to make him as ugly as possible on every stamp he's on.. sort of an "inside joke" that they figured they could get away with.

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28 Aug 2012
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Let us see the stamps Kelly

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These two might not be that old, but they sure are ugly !! Nail Biting


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18 Nov 2014
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As with "old," "ugly" is relative; here is my take on ugly people.

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18 Nov 2014
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Hi Everyone;

I can think of several, but don't know if they were ever on postage stamps.

1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) Sydney Greenstreet
3) Peter Lorre
4) Yoda (was on a US stamp)
5) Emperor Palpatine
6) Lon Chaney, Jr (was on a US stamp)
7) Bela Lugosi (was on a US stamp)
8) Gort ("The Day the Earth Stood Still")
9) Mick Jagger
10) Claude Akins
11) Milburn Stone (Gunsmoke)
12) Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel)
13) Joan Rivers

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18 Nov 2014
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Mick Jagger was so ugly, when he was born, the doctor slapped his mother! Rolling On The Floor Laughing
Mike

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19 Nov 2014
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10 Jul 2020
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Find a series depicting famous people, and you are highly likely to find some not quite so handsome faces among them. The artist of the West German definitive series of 1961, for instance, managed to make the famous Germans look rather grim and grumpy.

Anyway, looking handsome rarely was a prerequisite of being successful in one's chosen occupation as long as one had convincing arguments and/or the proper backing ... There were even - by common standards - b*tt-ugly actors. However, as we say in Germany: "Better marked by life than painted by Picasso!" ;-)

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I could let the King here go cheap !Image Not Found

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10 Jul 2020
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See, there is a good reason not to have one's picture taken.

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27 Jul 2020
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Some dudes from sesame street are ugly too :

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Yes. He certainly qualifies.

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Tim
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07 Feb 2009
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My daughter was going through some of her stamps this evening and decided that she would like to start a new topical collection called "Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps". She asked me to ask you all for suggestions of stamps that should be included in her new collection. Please give her some ideas, preferably with pictures posted on this thread.

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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

How old is your daughter, Tim? That might give us an idea of what she considers "old". Did she see someone on a stamp that she considered an "old dude"? If so, what stamp?

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07 Feb 2009
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

My daughter Bec, is 24. Here are some examples of "Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps".

uod1

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08 Feb 2009
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

Hi Tim,
Most of the Personality stamps of India features 'Old Dudes' which are made to look ugly by the stamp designers - she will find a lot of these on Indian stamps.
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13 Aug 2012
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

Anything with Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln or Eleanor Roosevelt should do the trick!

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13 Aug 2012
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I was going to point out Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a dude then I looked at her stamp.

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13 Aug 2012
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

Sometimes the virtual world doesn't allow for the missing components of body language, facial expression or voice inflection in communication.

Still if you ever read some of Eleanor's love letters to her "friend" you'd probably get where my quip originated!

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14 Aug 2012
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

Ügly Öld Düdes ... there are so many .... don´t know where to start, so I grabbed an album without looking which.
These 3 handsome men are not the only I could find in this album of German stamps, but they were the lucky winners Image Not Found


I particularly love the grumpy man on the 3rd stamp




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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

I got a good laugh yesterday from my friend's 12 year old son who was helping me sort my stamps. All of a sudden he held up a USSR stamp to me that had an image of a man as well as I guess something he invented & he said "Geez! Look at this ugly guy on here!" Then there was "Tsk, tsk, what a way to ruin a really nice stamp, geez!" while shaking his head.

I suddenly remembered this thread & told him that there has been a discussion in my club about "ugly old dudes on stamps". The poor boy fell off the couch from laughing so hard.

Later in the day when his Mum stopped by he said to her "Ya know, I found this really cool stamp with a (whatever it was) & they went & ruined it by sticking some ugly guy on it & boy was he ugly!". So we all got a great laugh.

Anywho, I had to share this story & give you guys a good laugh too.

Kelly

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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

"I got a good laugh yesterday from my friend's 12 year old son who was helping me sort my stamps. All of a sudden he held up a USSR stamp to me that had an image of a man as well as I guess something he invented & he said "Geez! Look at this ugly guy on here!" "



I think that would be any Lenin stamp I think the Soviet post-office went out of their way to make him as ugly as possible on every stamp he's on.. sort of an "inside joke" that they figured they could get away with.

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28 Aug 2012
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Let us see the stamps Kelly

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These two might not be that old, but they sure are ugly !! Nail Biting


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18 Nov 2014
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As with "old," "ugly" is relative; here is my take on ugly people.

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18 Nov 2014
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re: Ugly Old Dudes on Stamps

Hi Everyone;

I can think of several, but don't know if they were ever on postage stamps.

1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) Sydney Greenstreet
3) Peter Lorre
4) Yoda (was on a US stamp)
5) Emperor Palpatine
6) Lon Chaney, Jr (was on a US stamp)
7) Bela Lugosi (was on a US stamp)
8) Gort ("The Day the Earth Stood Still")
9) Mick Jagger
10) Claude Akins
11) Milburn Stone (Gunsmoke)
12) Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel)
13) Joan Rivers

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Find a series depicting famous people, and you are highly likely to find some not quite so handsome faces among them. The artist of the West German definitive series of 1961, for instance, managed to make the famous Germans look rather grim and grumpy.

Anyway, looking handsome rarely was a prerequisite of being successful in one's chosen occupation as long as one had convincing arguments and/or the proper backing ... There were even - by common standards - b*tt-ugly actors. However, as we say in Germany: "Better marked by life than painted by Picasso!" ;-)

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Some dudes from sesame street are ugly too :

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