How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker | STRATFOR. Also, some truffle-searchers and bombmakers are missing THIS. D'oh! Maximum cards from USA.

 Please read: How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker | STRATFOR

In Italy, there were some men with missing fingers.
Were they amateurish bombmakers?
No, they were truffle-searchers, and they have used domestic pigs for that purpose, of sniffing out the underground truffles..

Look at his ears!!!

Ears, fingers...omnivorous diet!

Let's say that the pig's ear to the left of the image way up is a black heart shape, chipped as it is, upside, at an angle.

Yes, it's a stretch, but so is any political decision, pretty much.

"Never wrestle with a pig" is a book title.
Well, wrestling truffles away from a pig's mouth is a risky endeavor, coz they can go...digital.
Eventually, the truffle-searchers smartened up and switched to using dogs. Dogs don't fancy truffles.
Duh...Doh...D'oh...

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CEOs, PIGS... DIY do-it-yourself dorincard kit #1. Not yet a maximum card maxicard maxi card.

- Condition: uncirculated DIY do-it-yourself dorincard kit. Not yet a maximum card, maxicard, maxi card.
- Year: stamp from 2008, postmark from 2008 (if you want me to postmark it) or whenever you postmark it (if you want to have it postmarked later).

This dorincard kit is comprised of:
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Pigs -  commercially available postcard.
- BLANK customized postage, mint, valid for postage.

Optionally, I can do the postmarking on a transparent rectangular mailing address label over the postcard.
This way, you have a clear, sharp postmark that is not smeared on the glossy surface of the postcard or the stamp.

- Condition of the stamp: MNH; large size (more expensive to produce)!  2.5x1.5 inches (63x38 mm)
- Year: 2008
- Catalog value: I ordered only 20 stamps; 3 (at least) I keep, 17 (at most) still available.

Zazzle: customized postage, personalized stamps, personalized stamp, personalised stamps, personalised stamp.

The stamp is valid for postage as such, blank as it is (only one postal use, please).
If you don´t intend to use it as postage, then you can further decorate it any way you want, for your own enjoyment.  Notice the large area, without any border.
You can even write text on it, with fine tip permanent marker.
You can temporarily or permanently attach an image.  Just try not to offend anyone...
Scan several versions of it.  Remember: you cannot and may not use duplicates as valid postage.  Each zazzle stamp has a unique ID code, valid one-time only.

Please visit my delcampe store to see many unusual items!

Halloween costume idea? WTH is this, a scary pig - the swine flu source, host of H1N1 virus? No. It's just a babirusa!

USA declares swine flu 'emergency'.
Just don't blame the babirusa, an innocent wild animal. :)

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/World%20collections/Indonesia/INDONESIA3a.jpg
The two tusks that went thru the roof of the snout are crossed, in the case of the male in this photo. Read the text in the link above. :)

This is a freestyle maximum card (non-FIP), that I made from a cut-out from a book, with a matching Indonesian stamp that has been appropriately courtesy-handcanceled in Indonesia (I have other items from the same shipment where the handcancel / postmark is more visible - that's why sometimes I use transparent or white labels under the postmarks).

If I want to fully postcardize this item, I could apply white adhesive shipping label on the back - I could have even asked to be sent directly thru the mail, as a big postcard, with additional stamps on the address side, all wear, tear and loss risks assumed.

But I didn't do it here, because the back has a rare photo/article about aye-aye. I could eventually make an aye-aye MC -> double-sided maximum card, giving me 2 scanning opportunities.

Maximum card: Year of the Pig, or Year of the Pig Flu?