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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!



Discussion Thread: 117 comments

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jokir @ 03/25/2005 6:52 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 03/25/2005 7:58 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 03/25/2005 8:14 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowStitch @ 03/25/2005 8:23 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by benaw @ 03/25/2005 8:29 AM

Two words: Mello Smello

Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 03/25/2005 8:48 AM

Stickers!!! Awesome!

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.

They are both named after Grateful Dead songs.

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.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 03/25/2005 9:09 AM

That was seriously a fun read. Specially since I expected nothing TO read. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Yeah! @ 03/25/2005 9:11 AM

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

Viva la Hasselhoff!

Chestnuts roasted by Slacker @ 03/25/2005 9:34 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Q @ 03/25/2005 9:52 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Big Chris @ 03/25/2005 10:24 AM

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

Guess the focus just changed.

Chestnuts roasted by Rod @ 03/25/2005 10:27 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Casspryor @ 03/25/2005 10:30 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Joney @ 03/25/2005 10:32 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Joney @ 03/25/2005 10:32 AM

Aargh, hit the blecking button twice. Sorry.

Chestnuts roasted by joney @ 03/25/2005 10:32 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by TimCo @ 03/25/2005 10:33 AM

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.

Pets: I have a gigantic grey cat named Bear.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 03/25/2005 10:40 AM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 03/25/2005 10:54 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 03/25/2005 10:56 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Starreh @ 03/25/2005 10:59 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Shannon @ 03/25/2005 11:17 AM

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 http://journals.aol.com/penatuka/ComancheRaiderII/">kcilc ereh to bask in her occasional glory. And learn about Little Brother’s obsession with monkeys.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/25/2005 11:56 AM

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)

Chestnuts roasted by Gary Lister @ 03/25/2005 12:31 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by cheryl @ 03/25/2005 12:34 PM

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