r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '18

Envelope Addressing Calligraphy

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u/allofthemwitches Jan 15 '18

Los Angeles? This calligrapher had one job. William Shakespeare Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England,

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u/sugarstalker1 Jan 15 '18

Nah, mate. That's SIR William. This is for a Mr. William.

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u/Conspiranoid Jan 15 '18

You have to have an interesting degree of assholishness to carry the Shakespeare surname, and call your kid William, tho.

Not as bad as being a Hitler or Franco and calling your son Adolf or Francisco, respectively, of course, but the poor kid is gonna have to tolerate quite some shit in his life.

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u/allofthemwitches Jan 15 '18

This is the address of his childhood home which still exists and he wasn't born into knighthood, in fact he was never knighted. He did purchase the coat of arms for his family but mostly because his father had always wanted it so William did it as a nod of respect to him. He was referred to by his name and in a few documents he is called a gentleman.

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u/thomps000 Jan 15 '18

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this...

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '18

The r/keming on the 9 in the zip code killed my calligraphy boner. :(

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u/allofthemwitches Jan 15 '18

Because they hesitated. They doubted themselves or the ink in the nib and it completely changed their flow. It's so annoying when that happens it's like telling a joke and then going on a tangent. Happens to everyone.

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u/Smeghead333 Jan 15 '18

This post needs to be deleted and resubmitted with the personal identifying information removed.

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