More than one say they came from vending machines. As one comments “These cards were all over the UK in the 80s. As far as I can remember the words at the bottom were standard. The wording across the top, the company name and the persons name were all personalised. They were bought from machines usually found in film developing shops.”
Back when I did a ton of graphic design for business cards and the like, I did dozens of these cards. They’re popular among retired men, and some of them had two or three times as much text on them. A few of the racier ones were “Liquor Bottles Drained” and “Virgins Deflowered”.
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Hell, I just want the job!
But there is no contact info! What if someone urgently needs W.W. Green for some manure or to quell an uprising?
This appears to be the source article, with tons of comments that help identify its source:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/the-best-business-card-ever/
More than one say they came from vending machines. As one comments “These cards were all over the UK in the 80s. As far as I can remember the words at the bottom were standard. The wording across the top, the company name and the persons name were all personalised. They were bought from machines usually found in film developing shops.”
Back when I did a ton of graphic design for business cards and the like, I did dozens of these cards. They’re popular among retired men, and some of them had two or three times as much text on them. A few of the racier ones were “Liquor Bottles Drained” and “Virgins Deflowered”.
I found one of those when I moved into my house in Toronto in 1998: http://www.petebevin.com/images/dave-the-carpenter.jpg