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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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Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/24/2005 11:07 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/24/2005 11:20 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/24/2005 11:21 PM

You run a concise blog there Matt :) .
later
[feel free to delete this non-post]

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/24/2005 11:37 PM

I play clean up when I can. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/24/2005 11:39 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by eight-bit @ 03/24/2005 11:42 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by whirred @ 03/24/2005 11:54 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 03/24/2005 11:56 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 03/25/2005 12:00 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Molly @ 03/25/2005 12:12 PM

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.

As for pets…um, do gimps count? If so, then three.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 03/25/2005 12:17 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tom @ 03/25/2005 12:27 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 03/25/2005 12:33 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jenna @ 03/25/2005 1:08 AM

I don’t get the Fluroide sticker…what does it mean?

Chestnuts roasted by Alex Mack @ 03/25/2005 1:15 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/25/2005 1:42 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Easter Bunny @ 03/25/2005 1:56 AM

Just in case nobody caught it: I’M HAVING A BOY!!!!

Well, the wife is going to pop him out in July, but I did help!

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).

I used to have fishes, hamsters, horses, but they either got killed or sold.

Man, I really want a sugar glider or a chinchilla…

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 03/25/2005 2:15 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/25/2005 2:15 AM

*looks above his post*

GENDER CONFIRMATION! WOOT!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/25/2005 2:17 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/25/2005 2:39 AM

I dig my cat so much that I just now made him a mini-page with pics and bio!

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

http://www.batsbelfry.com/xepet/cat.htm

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/25/2005 3:42 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by dave @ 03/25/2005 5:19 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Adamantium @ 03/25/2005 6:46 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Ralph @ 03/25/2005 6:51 AM

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