Egyptian mongoose goes down to defeat

Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at 6:18 am, by Alethea Oglethorpe.

Archelaus regrets to announce that at the 22nd annual International Greeting Card Awards (or “LOUIEs”) on Monday night our beloved Egyptian mongoose, a finalist in the category “Special Occasion – Everyday, $3.50 & Below,” failed to take the gold. Our anonymous spokesperson took the setback philosophically: “Are we disappointed? Well, more disappointed than surprised. Indeed, arguably this defeat restores the natural order of things, which had been badly overturned by the selection of an Archelaus card as a finalist in the first place.”

Archelaus would like to congratulate Nick Wroblewski of Artists to Watch, as designer of the winning card.

“While not our cup of tea perhaps,” our spokesperson conceded, “the winning card features very handsome artwork and a quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, so losing to it does not represent the perplexing humiliation that defeat by a less appealing card would have.”

In more cheerful news, Archelaus’s poster for the LOUIE awards dinner was one of five (out of seventeen) selected for display at the event itself, where reportedly it was the subject of favorable comment.