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03/24/2005: The Ultimate `80s Sticker Collection.

Can’t believe I managed to get this done during the week, but guess what: A new article, during the week! I picked up this insanely odd (but definitely interesting) Sticker Collection a while back, featuring plenty of old favorites, from Gremlins to Garfield to stickers that smell like baby powder if you claw at them. The way the pages are organized is completely genuine — I didn’t just slap a bunch of stickers together for effect. That’s what makes it interesting — the pages you’ll be seeing were some kid’s pride and joy. Regardless, chances are high that you’ve had a few of these babies — though I’m not sure a great many of you enjoyed “Noah’s Ark” stickers. Deprived. Read, enjoy — it won’t be posted on the main page till I get home from work tomorrow (probably with a better logo header, yeah), so consider this an early gift from the sticker form of Zeus. Edit: Okay, it’s up now.

Random Fact: I originally canned the article for lack of star power, and while in the process of converting it into a little blog entry, it grew back into a full feature. Just another chapter in the long line of X-E trivia tidbits. Did you know that I own Pluto?

Weekend Survey: Tell us what pets you have, describe them and virtually love them. We want to know.

Funny, ever since the Charmies article I’ve wondered about the fate of 80s sticker albums. The two just seem to go hand in hand for the third-grade girls of 1986.

The first thing I noticed were those red rectangle sticker "leftovers" on the first page. I know exactly what they are. They framed the red rectangle Peanuts stickers like the Snoopy one in this album. They also served a dual purpose for Rebecca Rivera, my secret santa in first grade. She pinned two used ice-skating figure pins into the "leftover" sticker frames and that was my present. It was so memorable for being so cheap and tacky of a present.

No shame in getting the bronze.
2 cats: Quinby gray and very intelligent. Her sister, Ponette, no tail, black and white, and pretty stupid but very sweet.
Montezuma, the ball python, died last year. Kaiser, the boxer bull mix, had to be given away due to his bad habit of killing everything in sight while living at my in-laws in the country. With Emmie around…it just feels like the right move.

No pets - but there is a fuzzy sandwich at the back of my fridge that I like to call ‘Mr Pickles’.

we have a stupid-ass beagle named Topher, and a stupid-ass cat named Sassy. No, I didn’t name them. My kids did.

do the kids count as pets, too? I know Trajeal would know the answer to that question…

I used to love stickers! I collected them all the time, and I still have so many of them in my room. I would have loved those My Little Pony Stickers, and the pastel birds! :p

Pets! I have two dogs, Molly is a shih-tzu/terrier mix, and Emma is a Chow Chow/something mix. They do not get along, and are both very high maintenence. I also have four fish in my aquarium. I used to have two hermit crabs, but one died so I have one left.

It means you can’t eat or drink stuff or else the flouride’s magic will wear off. If that happens then you die.

This article reminds me of the Recess episode where TJ hoards all the Monstickers.

Hey Matt, will you be putting up any Easter articles? Also, when will the site layout change? After all, it IS almost April…

Pets? Well, before this boy coming, I would have been outnumbered by females 8 to 1 including pets.

I have two salt and pepper schnauzers (Bubba and Brandy) living with my mom back in Texas, Kaitie’s cat (Sasha, named after the University of Houston mascot), Kassidy’s dog (Sandy), not to mention the three guinea pigs my wife has in her classroom (Maggie, Pinky, and Brownie has since died).

Pets, you say? Our house went through several two-cat rotations for nearly a decade. We started with Midnight and Dawn (a black and a grey) and then moved on to Cracker Jack, Suzy-Q, Hershey, Taffy and Snickers. The names are by my parents, not me. The longest any of the cats lived was five years….we could never get them to last longer. Taffy lived a week!

Okay, back….now that I’ve seen all those stickers I can identify the origin of some of them…

All those happy faces should be familiar to any kid that got stuck with a Highlights subscription–and that’s every kid. They gave you a giant sheet of those with 12 months’ worth of the required money from your parents.

The "Cool Stuff" penguin, as well as nearly everything else on that page, belongs to a short-lived Wendy’s kids meal called "Wendy and the Good Stuff Gang." Wendy was made a literal character, just like BK made an actual Burger King around that time. As anyone knows, every group of cartoon characters in the 80’s had to be called a "gang" and meet in a "clubhouse," and also had to be ninety percent animal. These guys are no exception, and they even have the obligatory "one that likes to eat," Overstuff’d. His name really stretched the boundaries of the "stuff" theme.

So if you have ever wondered what Eddie Lightning Frog’s cat is all about click my name or here:

this is brilliant came to it via a pr site called http://www.borkowski.co.uk Their site is cool and so is yours made me laugh like a geek

First thing’s first. No special comment about the puffy stickers? Those were all the rage in the 80’s!! Now all we have to do is dig up our old Wacky Packages stickers and we’re good to go!

Pets! I’ve got my 3 dogs, an old bird I inherited, and 3 cats. Love ‘em all!

I only collected Star Wars stickers myself……especially if there was Darth Vader on them! Speaking of Star Wars, i have a little dog named Chewy! Hes a Silky terrier who is EXACTLY Chewbaccas color! The greatest dog ever!

I dunno why, but I remember sticking the frames in my sticker album as well. I think I thought it added authenticity to the set. Like it showed I actually had at one point the full sheet of coca-cola scratch-n-sniff stickers.

Haven’t read the article yet, sorry, and I haven’t read the comments either sorry x 2, but I have to say, we just got a puppy in my house, a labradoodle. A mix of a labrador and a poodle and the cutest little thing you ever did see. We also have a 15 year old Golden Retriever (these pets both belong to my roommate, by the way, but I get to play with them without the responsibility. Woo-hoo). The retreiver is HUGE, but since I live with him and he’s so friendly with people, I forget until someone comes over and inevitably are TERRIFIED of him. He’s completely harmless, but when you look at him and imagine you’re seeing him for the first time, I can imagine why people would be leery.
Hey Matt, unless it’s in the article, you still owe us one picture of a guy in a shark suit.

OK, I used to collect stickers, I no longer know why, since they don’t go up in value. And I always held on to the "negatives" too. I don’t know why. I bet that Charlie Brown in the green shirt is worth something to someone though. And "Where’s the beef"? Been a looooong time since I saw that. Worth every penny. Oh and the cardinal is the state bird of Virginia.

What’s terrifying is that I HAD/HAVE half of those stickers… Makes me want to go home and dig out my old sticker album.

The Family Circus stickers were, if I remember correctly, included with those containers of fun-size bags of frito-lay chips in the 80’s.. it was either that or ziploc bags or something like that. I’ll have to check my own sticker album, but I swear at least one of them featured a Bil Keane brat stuffing his face with an uncharacteristcally well-rendered licensed snack chip.

yeah, stickers are cool. fuzzyones are best behind scratch and sniff. my pet is a tortoise who likes to cuddle. no joke. though i have to say> poor representation of glitter stickers. poor deprived child. stuck with highlights smileys, my grandmother gave em those, the best was trading though, and the occasional magazine rampage of cutting out cool photos and taping them in the book like real stickers. yes, i grew up in the boonies.

At home, I have 2 cats. One is named Ripple. He is fat and striped and shy but loving. He also recently developed Diabetes, so I have to give him shots every day, but he doesn’t seem to mind. He is 5 years old.

My second cat is named Cassidy. She is a calico girl, with a big splotch of gray on her nose, hence her nickname of "mud-nose." She loves water. She tries to get in the shower with me all the time. She is crazy hyper and if you try to scratch her where her tail meets her back, she bites the shit out of your hand. Her and Ripple are best friends. She is about 3 years old.

At work, I have a blue betta named Sammy (Samson is his full name, another Dead song). He lives in a 3 gallon mansion on my desk. He rocks too.

I have those same puffy Knight Rider stickers. Right next to the sticker of Godzilla and a crazy scratch off fortune cookie sticker…

I think that those Gremlin stickers came from Cheerios. I remember a big cross promotion with 2 stickers in every box. I was in 1st grade and bribed a bully to leave me alone by giving him my cool Gremlins stickers.

I used to have a few of the ones shown…so what if one was the ballerina slippers.

My A-Team hologram stickers were always second best. I preferred the stickers filled with the color changing goo; I can’t remember what they were called.

I thought I had given up on stickers 20 years ago, but then I looked at my monitor. Around the border are:
"Do not refrigerate, shake well"
"May Cause Drowsiness"
One of those stupid little earing stickers(from my baby sister)
A Canada flag
"Made in China"
The washing instructions from a t-shirt

I was SO excited to see that Bubblegum scratch-n-sniff sticker. That very same sticker is still stuck to my mother’s wall in her living room. I put that on there at least 15 years ago. You couldn’t pry it off with a crowbar and I know she tried. Still smeels too. I love stickers.

I totally forgot that I even had a sticker album as a child! I kept all those YES NO MAYBE stickers that came with the offers for magazine subscriptions and sweepstakes entries. Also 911 FOR EMERGENCY and good stuff like that - it was still a sticker!

Let’s see I have one dog, a Chow-Lab, and four kitties. All kitties have short hair, two tabbies, one solid black(for good luck) and one torbie. We also have some hermit crabs in a really big aquarium in the den. I figured it was better than having a big empty aquarium in the den and they are easier than fish.

I had Lazer Blazer holographic Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil stickers. All bow down to my supreme coolness!

Hey, what did the pig scratch and sniff sticker smell like? Kind of a weird to have a scratch and sniff pig, unless it smelled like bacon or something. Oh man, I WISH there was a line of scratch and sniff stickers of animals and what they smell like cooked. Cow stickers smelling like burger or steaks, lobsters, eggs, chickens . . . the possibilities are limitless.

I really liked the smelly stickers. Also a holographic one of Saturn. It was super cool–I stuck it on a table, and pissed my mom off.

As for pets, I have a 2-year-old beagle named Welling. He’s spoiled, I totally turned into one of those "dog people" I used to make fun of. Sad thing is, I’m planning on moving to S.F. after I graduate next year, and I don’t think I’ll be able to take him with me. Terrible!

As soon as he falls asleep…bear will come. Must stay awake. Must keep reading. Must keep parts private.

I’m sorry, I just had to get that out of my system…laughed so hard when I read that! Yeah, who among us didn’t collect stickers when we were younger, eh? I remember I used to have the mirror on my dresser covered in..I can’t remember what they were called, but it was like stickers of well known products, but given like disgusting names. I can’t remember what they were called, just remember that my mirror was covered in em. (does anyone here remember what they were called?) Anyhow, great stuff as always Matt.
Erik: I send out a Woo! to you on findin out it’s gonna be a boy.
Eddie Lightning Frog: I guess it’s good then that I resisted those urges to eat or drink before the half hour was up when I went to the dentist. I must spread the word for those who may be tempted not to wait! :D Going back though, I could go on and on about the kinds of stickers I used to have when I was younger…but I think this entry is long enough for now.

When it comes to stickers I had about four giant albums full of them. The best were/still are the mini fuzzy dinosaurs. They’re just so cute and dinosaur-y.

For pets we have Samantha, a big fat extra-fluffy cat who’s incredibly stupid (but really sweet). Cookie, our male with a stupid name, we got when he was three weeks old free from a pet store cause they didn’t know how to take care of such a young kitten. He likes to fight and he always loses so he’s been at the vet for a lot of his time with us, but we love him. They’re both 11.

And I have two rats, Jabberwocky (female) and Zotz (male). Zotz is extremely expensive. We’ve had him neutered and then he developed a cyst, and then he had an abcess and now he has cancer, and he’s torn most of his back off with his little claws (gross, I know, but he won’t stop scratching. Poor rat.) so the entire bill for this $2.49 rat is now up in the thousands.

Dog - Maltese named Peanut 9 mos. old always hated small dogs. I took this one cause she was a baby and treated bad and I love her to peies.

2 Cats - the Bigger one 1 1/2 years old Harley. Found her at 3 days old abandoned in my back yard

Zoe- 2 mos. old my husband is a cop and in an apartment buiding they were at someone threw away 3 kittens in a plastic bag. We kept one and another guy took the other 2.

3 turtles that have no names. there used to be 4. they were confiscated of some guy selling them on the street corner but one of them dies on us so now theres 3. They used to be the size of a fifty cent peice but now they are bigger than my hand. They are about 2 1/2 yrs old.

I don’t have a pet currently, but Little Brother and his wife have a cat she got from a animal shelter years ago. Poor thing was taken away from an abusive owner and is very paranoid for a now 14-year-old English Blotch Tabby. She wouldn’t come to any normal name they tried to give her, but then they called her "Frybread" and she responded! She’s also known as the Queen of All She Surveys, or, The Goddess of Ill Will and Bad Tidings. Little Brother sometimes posts photos of her on his Blog. Just in case, you can kcilc ereh to bask in her occasional glory. And learn about Little Brother’s obsession with monkeys.

To answer the pets question, I have two wonderful pets. I have a black and white cat named Spunky that I’ve had for 13 years, as well as a Blue Merle Australian Sheperd named Tucker that I’ve had for 4 years. They are both very sweet, lovable, and adorable!

I covered the headboard of my first bed with stickers and when my parents got my sister and me bunk beds I cover that too. I still break down and buy stickers from time to time. They go with my stuff animal collection. I just got a beta fish tonight it’s name is Samuel Taylor Coleridge it’s at my boyfriend’s place because my dorm room is full of junk

Nothing beats stickers. NOTHING. Always a safe bet if there’s a little spare room to fill in the stocking or Easter basket. My brother scored 300 sheets (not kidding) of Madball stickers at a thrift shop last year, and I’ve since tacked them (still sticky!) to damn near every dry, smooth surface in my apartment. I hope the next tenant doesn’t mind tiny pictures of skulls and eyeballs all over the fridge.

Sweet, a Demolition reference. That’s what the site’s lacking (other than updated decor). Matt, more Demolition please! Nothing beats the Curad to the Road Warriors Band-Aids.

That helicopter thing with the brown dots isn’t a Freakies thing, its Chockle the Blob, (1982) was a shape-shifting blob of chocolate chip cookie dough. I remember digging those stickers out of the Capn Cruch Chocolate box: http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-quakeroats.html (halfway down the page)

I never was a pet person and this only became reinforced when the family adopted a puppy 9 years ago. The stupid mutt grew on me and now I love dogs. Patchie is a beagle/something else mix.

I still detest cats, though. My family adopted two and they drive me up the wall when I go home for holidays.

The weirdest thing about this sticker story was the whole time I was reading, I was saying "I had that sticker!" like 483948390284023 times.

I actually still have my sticker collection, as freakish as that sounds, and it definitely dwarfs this one. Scary thought, eh?

I had a sticker collection on my mirror the sadest day was having to get rid of my dresser set with the mirror, I kept the stickers I could, the best part of it was my animal stickers, I had them in this order…monkey, dog, elephant, frog! Man I was cool!
I sorta have a Shelty Dog named Leo, but he doesnt live with me, but I still claim hes mine.
I also have a pet dove named Fifi(I didnt name her) she is pretty cool, she likes to eat eggs, I wonder if thats cannibalisim?

Does anyone else find it strange that this kid had SO MANY dentist stickers? If you only go to the dentist twice a year, this kid held onto this book for a looong time! Unless…maybe the kid had eight brothers and sisters and stole all their stickers. Bastard! How could one be so cruel??

I have 5 adorable cats that I love dearly even though since we brought in cat #5 the rest of them have become so territorial they pee all over the house. We should’ve named the 5th cat "Damien" instead of Toby since I honestly believe he’s possessed and drives the rest of my cats insane. But they’re still cute though. Oh, and a shout out to all of them in pecking order: Tiger, Oreo, Sweetie Pie, Oliver and Toby. Okay I’m off to read your sticker article Matt

Even though it wasn’t mentioned in the article, I laughed hardest at the green home-made face sticker on the 9th sheet (the one with the "Be Cool" penguin). Don’t know why, that just struck me as funny.

Hey, matt are there any pictures of really weird fruits in this sticker book? like they would go over the edge of the pages? I’m horrified to think this is "my" album and somehow can’t shake the thought that it is. Heebee jeebeez man…

I have a brindle colored english bulldaog named Brak (yes, just like on Cartoonnetwork). He about as simple as his namesake and destroys his toys in about a day. Better his toys then my shoes.

Great article Matt, like many of the other readers I had a ton of those same stickers.

I have 3 cats - Liam, a fat ginger tabby with googly eyes and a heart murmur; Noel, a slightly overweight ginger tabby who is special needs and has a heart murmur; and Jarvis, a thin ginger tabby who winks when he’s mad and has a heart murmur. (What are the chances?) The brothers are named after the brothers Gallagher from Oasis, and Jarvis after Jarvis Cocker of Pulp. I love my boys a ton.

I had a sticker book when I was a kid…I did have some dentist stickers in there, as well as scratch-n-sniff ones. Mine were root beer scented, but looked almost exactly like the baby powder ones in the article.

I remember a number of those stickers because I had some of them. I remember the scratch and sniff stickers. We got those from teachers as a reward.

I had a few of my own too. Remember those Peanuts stickers you have? I had some of those too on my notebooks. I think they came with cereal (Cheerios?) and I also had a few video game stickers like Space Ace and Pacman.

Did I ever STOP collecting stickers? Hell no! I have a whole box full of them in this drawer to my left.

Matt, if I recall my hot pink sticker album correctly — that is weak compared to mine. I packed my sheets full!

I must find it! Of course I still have it - I’m a pack rat.

Oh, no pets here … I used to have a cute little doggy named Sam. She looked like a cross between a Rotweiller and a Corgi. I miss her…

i have two boy kitties. one fat orange one named pudding st. claire who thinks he’s a girl ’cause he’s real prissy. he has thumbs!! (polydactyl) he doesn’t meow, but instead makes this high pitched sort of chirping noise. he also has on occasion tried to mount our other, also male, cat. both are neutered so it must be a dominance thing. the other one, pockets monroe, will run over to me right afterwards and get all snuggly, obviously telling pudding that he’s all man. *l* pockets is all black and he loves to play fetch and catch bugs. he likes to head butt people and sit about a foot away from your head when you’re sleeping and just stare. it makes you think he wants to eat your face. there are pictures of them on my moblog, linked to my name.

god…i’m going to be such a crazy cat lady when i grow up. i’m way too nuts for those two.

I have a cat named Yeti (we sometimes call him Fez for some reason), a frog named Frog, an endless rotation of tropical fish, an albino corn snake named Pikachu (don’t ask), and an albino parakeet named Snowball.

So far, Snowball is the only thing that is keeping intact what little sanity is left.

I’m testing out the various functions at OurMedia.org, the new site from the Web Archive people that promises unlimited uploads and unlimited bandwidth for said uploads (my online friend Arxane looked into it and can’t find any strings attached), so I did a test Ourmedia.org blog entry inspired by Matt’s latest article in which I scanned three pages from a couple of sticker albums I have, so you can see Transformers! More dentist stickers! A couple of stamps from the other doomed Royal Wedding from the 1980s! Lesbian fishes! And dated pop-culture references!

I composed the entry in IE and it looks alright, though, when I tried looking at the entry in Firefox, it was FUBAR and all the text was crammed to the right of the screen, though you can still click on the links to the pictures. I think there are still plenty of bugs on the Ourmedia.org site, and I’m not going to abandon my normal blog anytime soon.

The reason that the bear looks demented is because he looks like the weird milk bears from AKIRA.

Great article Matt! My neighbours had the bubblegum machine one that smelled like gum. They had lots of smelly stickers, I use to go over all the time to smell their stickers…hmmm, that sounds kind of wierd. Oh well, anyway good article.

We have a gray 4 year old cat named Gilbert a black 17-21 year old cat (we lost track years ago) named Enstine 2 girbles (i splet that wrong) name amed AC and DC (get it?) 3 frogs named Dennis, big dady and hopper a anole named lenny and a bunch of fish that are just dying

I was a big sticker collector. In 4th grade, everyone started showing up at school with those Gremlin stickers. Turns out they were getting them from packs of toilet paper. I went to the store with my mom and insisted that she buy that toilet paper. She said no and I kept nagging. Finally, she whispered, "Can’t buy that kind, it’s 1-ply and your father’s fingers go through it". Hee hee, I am cracking up now thinking about it.

Luke: Nearly 8 year old golden retriever/husky/miscellaneous mix we picked up after a Montreal Gazette article profiled a man who was dying of cancer and whose golden retriever just had puppies he couldn’t take care of. He’s big but docile and very subservient and very easily intimidated by things. He let the much smaller terrier/poodle/other mutt Sledge Hammer! (who I named after the cop from the TV comedy show) boss him around until Sledgie died in 2002, and he usually lets our younger dog, Sam, has his way with toys and things to chew except for those times which Luke asserts himself in a way I’d rather not describe.

Sam: Black Labrador/miscellaneous mix. He’s a big dog, though not quite as big as Luke. My mother got him from the SPCA in October 2002, though the woman at the animal shelter the first time she went there didn’t care much for the fact that we already had another dog, so my mother had to go back a second time when someone else was there to pick him up (he recognized my mother the second time and got excited). He’s a lot cannier than Luke and usually manages to snatch any toys. Unfortunately for the toys, he’s rather destructive and views any stuffed chewtoys as puzzles where he has to get the squeaky thing and the stuffing out of them as fast as possible, and he’s figured out to do that in minutes. He also has very sharp senses and once sensed a kitten whose owner had left to die by the side of the highway (which we eventually gave to my brother in Toronto). And I did not know dogs could do this, and I never caught either Luke or Sledgie or Sledgie’s mother, Penny (d. 1996) doing this, but Sam can recognize dogs if he sees them on television, and I know it’s not just that he heard dogs barking on the soundtrack because once, it was a news item where there was just a voiceover with no sound effects, meaning all he had to go on were the visuals.

Ember: Our 9 year old cat who is kind of a grey tabby with a few distinct stripes towards the front of her flank but the light and dark grey areas just kind of melt together for most of her body, and she has a white belly with kind of a tortoise-shell pattern of spots on it. She’s more of a huntress than most domestic cats and has killed many a bird and fieldmouse. She’s easily intimidated by people she doesn’t know, and she never was a lap cat, but she does appreciate being stroked and brushed and purrs loudly. One time she did curl up on me was during the great ice storm of 1998, when power was out for most of the Montreal area for a week or so, but that was obviously just for warmth. She’s also a very finnicky eater, and the only canned cat food she likes is Fancy Feast-brand Trout Feast flavour. Like Sam, she does recognize creatures on television, and even once took a swipe at Sonic the Hedgehog in the Dreamcast Sonic Adventure game, I shit you not. We moved to Ottawa three months ago, and kept her inside the house for several weeks just to imprint our new house on her, and then, in January, we started letting her troddle outside and she didn’t stray far, until Tuesday, last week, when she just disappeared, and we spent a lot of time looking for her, until finally, early on Thursday morning, she just showed up at our back door again, almost as if nothing had happened (though she was a bit thinner). We’ll never know what she was up to for over a week, where she went, and how she sheltered from the cold.

"…it’s right here on a couple of filthy pages of some dead kid’s sticker album."

My best sticker ever.
A scratch and sniff that smells like high octane fuel. No joke.

Holy monkey crap…I think I had an album that had almost ALL those stickers…so many memories. Who had all the same stickers as me??? That dancing rainbow bear and everything…

No pets. I’m not allowed to have large pets in my tiny apartment, and I don’t have the money to feed pets of any size…or the patience to take care of them. I’ll stick to my stuffed animals for now.

I remember the sticker fad quite well. We never had one of those sticker books. They always ended up on our notebooks or all over the house, much to my mother’s annoyance when she’d have to scrape them off a reading book or the wall. I’m well-versed in scratch-and-sniff stickers, puffy stickers, and yes, the elusive hologram stickers. Anyone who had one of those on their notebook was immediately cool.

Incidentally, the My Little Ponies are familiar. Not the stickers, but the Ponies themselves. I’ll bet I still remember some of their names.

Great Article. I wish i could still find these cool puffy stickers of aliens I used to see. Though there are DBZ stickers out now I like.

I might have to go on "High-adventure" to find a creepy teddy-bear sticker like that one in the album. That thing was SO COOL!

Anyway, this has DEFINATELY inspired me to come up with a decent line of stickers to go with my indie comics (click my name, and See my website for details).
I’ll let everyone know how it goes.

And, I currently have no pets. But, I used to have a dog and a ton of cats. I miss them all.

Matt, are the little titles before each page description some kind of secret code? APPLES, ORANGES, JACKPALANCES…What it god’s name does it all mean?

I once got a scratch n sniff on my homework that had a motorcycle on it, and smelled like motor oil. Not my favorite sticker.

I just got a new puppy, and named it Piper honoring legendary grappler Roddy Piper.. although I’ve yet to teach him the sleeper hold.

I still collect stickers too. One of the best ones I have is a Smello Mello cherry ice cream scented one. I’m inspired to go look at my old albums.

Matt love the site!
I have 4 cats 4 dogs
Cats:
Tigger striped brown and black
Hoss white black and brown
Maddie white and black
Lily all white
all are just plain old house cats but still really special

Dogs:
Frankie:Tan dapple mini dachshund
Shandi:Black Lab
Daisy:Choc. and tan mini dachshund
Layla:Black and tan dapple mini dachshund
all also very special

You know, this article reminds me of when I was a youngin’ in potty training. Every time I used the potty by myself, I got to put a sticker on this scroll my Mom made. For peeing by myself, I got to put up a yellow sticker, since pee is yellow. For shitting all by myself, I got to put up a sticker of multiple colors, because my poop was multi-colored. Well…OK…so my shit wasn’t multi-colored, but the rest of the story is true.

I have an interesting idea. We could make a puzzle out of it and try to fgiure out which stickers fit inside which borders. But don’t expect me to do it cuz hey, I’m just offering a suggestion to yall.

My wife was a preschool teacher for a while and she tells me I would be amazed how kids would whore themselves for a sticker. My 4 year old always has a sticker on top of each hand lately, and gets stressed if they come off.

We have 2 cockatiels, Gaby & Valentine. They pretty much hate me and will bite any chance they get. I think they are related to Crow from last year’s Advent Calender.

I forgot to say that I think it would be funny if you left the Christmas decorations up all year!

Living in a dorm and all, I personally don’t have any pets for the simple fact that I’m not allowed to. However, my brother owns the cutest cat ever. Instead of telling you what he looks like, I think it’d be better if I just showed you a pic:

But don’t be fooled. He’s very ornery! He likes to play a lot, but don’t you dare try to hold him. He will fight for his life to get out of your grip. Of course, we still do it to him anyway. If you wanna touch him, just pet him on top of his head. He likes that. But just a little.

Was it wrong of me to figure out that the first border sheet probably contained my little pony stickers before I even finished scrolling through the rest of the article and seeing the actual stickers in all of their glory? I mean, I never owned a my little pony, so why am I able to do this? I’m a little bit scared of myself right now…

Hey - totally unrelated, but I have a question that some visitor of this page will absolutely dig on. Anyway, I was had a few converastions yesterday about that doll that was all over the news after eating a kids hair. I say it was a Cabbage Patch, but I’ve heard other arguements, such as it being a Baby Alive. What is the truth?

Cabbage Patch Snackin’ Kids or some varient of that. Had plastic carrot and celery sticks, you just shoved one into the mouth, it would "chew" on the thing, drawing it into the mouth and into an interior compartment for later retreival. Then came the hair incidents! "The doll tried to eat my baby!" cried concerned parents. "Chomp chomp chomp!" answered the dolls. Chucky commented, "Don’t look at me! Those things creep me out!" Lawsuits were threatened, recalls were implemented, and a good time was had by all.

Baby Alive was a basic drink-and-wet, with a motorized mouth action, never actually "eating" anything. Even the food was just dry packs of colored gel you mix with water.

The crazy thing is, I now work for a company that builds laser systems that essentially cut out stickers. So I’m still surrounded! (Plus, there’s the fact that I scrapbook, so I get to use ‘em all the time)

As for pets, currently I have a veiled chameleon named Vito. He’s not terribly friendly, like many chameleons, but fun to watch. We used to have 2–the other was Stampy (a la Simpsons) but he died.

And I am currently watching my parents’ bloodhound named Tater. The breed usually lives 7-10 years, but he’s 11. He’s really sweet, but wow, he’s old. Just a speed bump in the carpet.

why isnt the bear looking at the ice creame hes allegedly eating?
a spy for the KGB mabey?

That is the only way I’ll eat apples! Seriously, without the salt raw apples are kinda nauseating. Oh, and melanie, that story was friggin’ hilarious.
I had a CCD teacher who gave out puffy Simpson’s stickers as prizes for getting questions correct. I distinctly remember him telling us that if we could resist opening the packs and kept the stickers they would be worth a ton someday. Apparently, he was wrong.
We have a chicken named Pollito and a cat known as Sneezy. More often, though, the cat is known by another, similar sounding name, also based on a bodily function.

Wow. Hot shit. I got that demented bear sticker when I took my flu vaccine like a man. A man who would soon lose his nuts in a water fountain accident. Yeah, I took that demented birthday bear sticker and put it right on my notebook, right next to my drawings of a scary Asian girl climbing outta a well.

And on the subject of pets, I have two. Fang, my cat, is of undeterminable breed, black and white, and can move at blinding speeds. He can fucking jump of the wall and cath a fucking bee in mid air. And then there’s Kapn’ Klaw. He’s a big ass lobster. I bought him at the store, and he’s fucking HUGE! I couldn’t eat the guy, so now he’s my pet, and he’s about the size of a very small cat. I keep him an aquarium with a headless fred flintstone (Which was decaptitated by the Kapn’) and a few seamonkies (which are his favorite snack). Yeah, I’m like that crazy french dude with the pet lobster…

Dude when you said and I’ll Quote "The old lady looks straight outta Mad Magazine" That was the old spoke’s woman for Wendy’s Hamburgers. Check the link provided for information

I have 2 dogs, a mut named Casey and a Chihuahua named Chili Pepper. I have 2 parakets named Mia and Nikita. 2 Rats named Grapes and Elton(Who is a hailess dumbo rat with hair?), and 4 Guinea pigs named Julio, Maria, Murrey, and for the love of god, I can’t remember the last ones name!

hey matt, those gremlin stickers on the first page are from rolls of charmin toilet paper. they gave ‘em away 2 per-pack for about a year. i had so many that i covered the side of my desk in my room with the things and my mom grounded me for ruining the nice wood. so thanks a lot for that memory, you misearble bastards.

Baby powder scented stickers. Almost as odd as the one I once got on my homework that SMELLED LIKE HAM. It featured a grinning baked ham and the words "WHAT A HAM!" written on it. I still don’t get what that phrase means in the context of fourth grade creative writing, but why question it? It smelled of ham, and that’s all that matters.

Vera is fat, has anxiety issues (she’s a scaredy cat) and is a calico with grey tones.

Ivy is the cutest, she is a calico with bright colors, nicer looking than Vera. She itches her head a lot, so sometimes we have to put a cone on her head. I know, I feel really bad about it. She gets really bloody sometimes, so it’s for the best. She does look funny though, sometimes she bumps into things because the cone is not clear, and it bumps her whiskers. She has been good for a few months, but I am sure she’ll be itching again soon.

Gizmo/Sophia: A long haired white cat with a grey streak on the middle of her head. This cat was going to be put to sleep by someone for unknown reasons. My g/f’s dad is a vet, so he decided to save it and give it to us. It was originally named Gizmo, but my g/f wanted to rename her Sophia, since we like the GG and Gizmo has white hair like Sophia’s. Except she never understood that Sophia was her name now. So we still call her Gizmo, it’s just on Christmas card that she uses her formal name.

Gizmo has skin problems, apparently because her ears always get crusty on the outside. It’s not mites or infection, but my g/f’s dad can’t figure out what the prob is. It could be allergies, but he doesn’t know. Thank God he’s a vet, cause with three cat’s we would be broke trying to take care of them. She wants to get another cat though, but I think it would be too many. Such a soap opera. Cats of Our Lives.

i gots 2 cats named pearl (all black) and patches (white with brown and black patches). i love them dearly. i also have a parakeet that is blue named sky whom i also dearly love. my brother has a tortoise name pestachio that is the 3rd largest tortoise in the world but rite now is tiny cuz he’s still a baby. laters—

Dunno wether anyone else mentioned it , but I am loving the smooth Royal Rumble/Demolition #1 and #2 reference.

Damn it this makes me want to have my sticker books back..I had like..4 albums of them. I’m pretty sure I had those knight rider ones and on the laser page I had the Heman and A team ones.

Ive been wanting to get a tattoo of a penguin for a year now but havent been able to find the right image of one. I think I may have found it, thanks to your article on the sticker album. Thanks a lot-you do the world a great service!

here we go:
pets: 3 cats (2 cats, 1 newer one), Senya Louise, Serena Marie, and Pumpkin. Pumpkin is a brat and beats up the older 2, who were born in 89, and 90.

Stickers: I had 3 primary sticker albums in 84-86 so like, age 8-10. i don’t believe i was packin’ em around with my books in 87, but i was 11 then, and that’s pushing it. anyways, it was a couple smaller ones, and a big hot pink one, the hot pink one i still got, i’m 28, i’ll be 29 on april 14th. I had one sticker album that i put the shiny ones in, then one for food, cartoons, monster stuff, halloween, etc. I had some little shiny ones from 1983 once that were like bombs, and little ships, i put them on my atari joystick. Whoa! I just remembered, Atari promoted their computers and games at my schools! there were sticker days, and game days, and i got a Pac Man one that was round and it was tilty-motion-animated :) i dunno where it is now, but YESS! that rocked. The teachers and office staff used to pass it out to all of us. In the office /admin/ and nurse’s office hallway, by the central desk, was a mobile hanging from the ceiling, it was for Atari’s Centipede and also, they had a paper atari Pac-Man hanging and power pellets down the hall, it gave an illusion of pac man chasing pellets, above our elemetary school heads, down the hall! damn i had a lot of the ones in that book you showed, matt. Perhaps I’ll wish for stickers and a rad sticker party for my b-day, or atati party!
Matt, would you like that 1976 catalog from xmas? i still got it, i think. also, does anyone else here really enjoy the feel of the Atari 8bit computer version (also C=64, & atari 5200) of Pac Man, with the wide screen?
me n the wife do, a ton.

i mis-spelled Atari, i’m probably gonna explode, forgive me all. that wasn’t cool. damnit.

go check out lisa frank’s page and take a look at "the gang" or "a girl’s guide to following her dreams"- as google calls it "the site that girls love" which would clearly imply that your ‘mystery person x’ is, as lisa states, clearly a girl and no other. On that last page of stickers, it really makes you think about how far hollywood bear has come. no top hat, no coat and tails, no hollywood skyline reflected in his glasses. nothing. i got to know lisa in her full glory just a few short years later…now they’ve changed the line to look much like the BRATZ line of today. their eyes are so multi-colored and glassy. i can’t stop looking at them. so come on down and meet "star," "glamour girl," "rock star," and "genie." …and take a refresher course on what all young girls used to have on their notebooks.
sincerely, hollywood bear, ballerina bunnies, spotty and dotty paws and all the rest of our strangely colored friends.

I just got a dog this past weekend. It’s a black miniature poodle with a white stripe going down from his chin to his chest. His name: Oreo. The wife and kids love him!

I still have my sticker book collection from the 80’s. Would you be interested in me scanning them or sending them via email?

Those windy’s stickter
that I like that cat with earhones in his head that said hot stuff is kind of cute instead those ugly windy’s aimals

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