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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.

Posted by Matt on 03/24/2005. E-mail me!



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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.

Chestnuts roasted by Molly Kate @ 03/28/2005 2:24 PM

I waited too long, but someone will see it.

I have 3 cats, all female, all fixed, just like Bob Barker says we should do.

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 03/28/2005 7:43 PM

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—

Chestnuts roasted by JeSSi @ 03/28/2005 8:44 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Poopants the scrunge @ 03/29/2005 8:25 AM

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.

the demolition refrence was excellent

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 03/29/2005 8:59 AM

I still collect stickers… at age 25

we need an underground society for sticker collectors

Chestnuts roasted by Meeeeeeeeee @ 03/29/2005 5:58 PM

Damn sure the old woman’s Queen Elizabeth II, gotta be

Chestnuts roasted by Bastonate @ 03/30/2005 8:39 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by gimpyo @ 03/30/2005 2:21 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by obelisk @ 03/31/2005 2:28 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by obelisk @ 03/31/2005 2:31 AM

i hope i didn’t kill this thread. :(

Chestnuts roasted by obelisk @ 04/02/2005 7:30 PM

Long Live UniDog!

Chestnuts roasted by Missy @ 04/04/2005 12:16 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Hollywood Bear @ 04/08/2005 12:19 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 04/08/2005 3:57 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Fik @ 08/23/2006 6:31 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by FLIPPYFAN @ 11/24/2006 11:18 PM

I was stressy due to potential health issues, I needed to calm myself before going to my final class (yes, I’m the prof — teacher evaluation forms day is still not fun), so I poked around and found this sticker review page. It made me feel so much better.

I’m happy you’ll keep this site up as an archive so I can cheer up here, even if more of your attention is focused on the new one.

Chestnuts roasted by April @ 05/10/2012 12:53 PM

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