Personalized stamps - stringent design policies postcard from Zazzle.com

Personalized stamps - stringent design policies postcard from Zazzle.com

So this is a custom postcard that I created at zazzle.com. Not that I expect anybody to buy it; I'm just making a point. A bon entendeur, salut! :)

Maximum card from Belarus: The European Polecat (Mustela putorius), also known as a fitch, foumart, or foulmart

This species is the wild ancestor of the domesticated ferret, that you can see in pet shops.

"It s a member of the Mustelidae family, and is related to the stoats, otters, and minks."

The Romanian word for Polecat is Dihor.

While in high school in Romania, we used to have fun about that.

If something stinks, then "it smells like Christian Dihor" - in joking reference to the famous brand name of fine perfumes Christian Dior.

The pictorial postmark shows not a polecat, but a fox. 

I love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, despite all its imperfections and controversy. You can read and research deeper and deeper, as you like, by clicking on hyperlinks.

WARNING!

If you click on certain hyperlinks below, you'll discover some mind-boggling facts, concepts, expressions and terms, all the way to the Bruce Effect and the Coolidge Effect.

There's a minefield of juicy comments that can be made, but this blog is rated G.

If there is such a thing as the Freedom of Speech, maybe I should create another blog, too.

With no speech restriction, like a stand-up comedian affords to do. :)

"Though polecats are chiefly polygynous, females can be polyandrous.^[5] The sexual conflict of the mating system can change with environmental conditions. Sexual conflict may result in sexually antagonistic co-evolution, in which one sex evolves a "manipulative" character which is countered by a "resistance" trait in the other sex."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat

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Maximum card from Romania: a subspecies of The Marbled Polecat, near Pontus Euxinus/The Black Sea (Vormela peregusna euxina)

I salute the passionate and experienced members of  The Maximaphily Club from Bucharest, who created this interesting maximum card about a rare animal in Romania! Toate cele bune ~ Best wishes! :)

MC with triple concordance, perfectly FIP-compliant.

However, the postcard they used was printed by the Sibiu Polygraphic Enterprise, in cooperation with the Buzau County Museum.

The backside of the postcard says Vormela peregusna cuxina.

But I know better. :)

It should be Vormela peregusna euxina, 'cause it's a subspecies that lives near Pontus Euxinus/The Black Sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_Euxinus

"The marbled polecat (V. peregusna) is a small mammal belonging to the monotypic genus Vormela within the  Mustelinae subfamily. Vormela is from the German word Würmlein^[1], which means "little Worm". The term peregusna comes from pereguznya, which is Ukrainian for polecat.^[2] Marbled polecats are generally found in the dryer areas and grasslands of south-eastern Europe to western China. Like other members of Mustelinae, it can emit a strong smelling secretion from anal sacs under the tail when threatened."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vormela

In an unrelated story: the world economy, including any gold-man (man with a lot of gold), can emit a strong smell of recession from gold-man sacs (under the radar) when threatened.