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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 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?

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 03/25/2005 12:38 PM

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??

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 03/25/2005 12:58 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 03/25/2005 1:13 PM

I think i had like 80% of those stikers… freaky flashbacks..

this sticker albumn is god like.

Chestnuts roasted by Terry @ 03/25/2005 2:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by a piece of milk @ 03/25/2005 2:17 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by John S. @ 03/25/2005 2:31 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by primusboy @ 03/25/2005 2:34 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Alison @ 03/25/2005 2:41 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 03/25/2005 3:39 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 03/25/2005 3:40 PM

Yeesh, I didn’t even know there were so many varieties of Capn Crunch.

Anyway we can have a Freakies or weird Capn Crunch flavor cereal articles soon?

That demented bear looks like the bear from the Demonic Toys movies.

Smelly stickers are the best.

I got 3 dogs, a cat, and a beta fish.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/25/2005 3:57 PM

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! :D 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…

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 03/25/2005 4:17 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by annie_bea @ 03/25/2005 4:49 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 03/25/2005 5:05 PM

I’m testing out the various functions at http://ourmedia.org/">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 http://arxane.blogspot.com/2005/03/ourmediaorg-trial-by-fire.html">can’t find any strings attached), so I did a test Ourmedia.org blog entry inspired by Matt‘s latest article in which http://ourmedia.org/node/1945">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.

Oh yeah, I didn’t scan it, but I kept the borders too from my sticker sheets.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/25/2005 5:33 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Rand @ 03/25/2005 6:39 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Well @ 03/25/2005 6:46 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Elias @ 03/25/2005 6:49 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by melanie @ 03/25/2005 7:03 PM

MY PETS

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 http://kiyone.blogspot.com/2003_10_26_kiyone_archive.html#106733203059089290">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 http://kiyone.blogspot.com/2005_03_13_kiyone_archive.html#111101843348562639">disappeared, and we spent a lot of time http://kiyone.blogspot.com/2005_03_13_kiyone_archive.html#111111969284338236">looking for her, until finally, early on Thursday morning, she just http://kiyone.blogspot.com/2005_03_20_kiyone_archive.html#111169442025505662">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.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/25/2005 7:28 PM

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

That line killed me! Good stuff Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Scott P @ 03/25/2005 7:57 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Linda @ 03/25/2005 8:21 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 03/25/2005 8:42 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/25/2005 9:22 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 03/25/2005 11:08 PM

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