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by mg at 08:04 AM on November 23, 2005
Here is a little known fact about me that seems pretty innocuous at first, but reveals deep seeded emotional problems. Or not.
If I like a song, I can’t just download that song; I have to download the entire album. Even if I absolutely love a single song, I wont download that one song unless there are at least a couple other decent songs on the album to make it worth downloading every song on the album, even if it turns out to be “Revolution #9” like filler.
Why? Because I’m a collector.
Like most adult habits, this started for me when I was very young. But unlike all but the oddest of adult habits, it started for me with the smurfs.
When I was a kid I got sick a lot. For some reason whenever I went into the hospital my family would bring me smurfs. I was in the hospital a lot when I was younger, so I had a lot of smurfs.
If you ever watched the 80’s cartoon, you might think there were maybe a couple dozen different kinds of smurfs. But no, you would oh so be wrong. There are more different kinds of smurfs than George Michael has had random sexual encounters in men’s bathrooms. That is to say, tons of them (or tonnes in George’s case).
So, I got lots of them from my hospital stays, but I also bought smurfs on my own. This is when you could still get gas, cigarettes and toys for cheap, so each smurf was only like $1. I can remember every corner stationary store in New York City having a fish bowl full of different smurfs at the front counter. And I can remember digging through every corner stationary store in New York City’s fish bowl of different smurfs like a homeless person picking up used cigarette butts looking for a tiny hit of sweet nicotine. I’d search everywhere to find that one (Narcoleptic Smurf) that I didn’t already have.
It continued on with G.I. Joes, Transformers, baseball cards, and comic books. I have vast collections of each of those things, and more, that I’m not entirely sure what to do with, since not a single one of those things have as much value to the world now as it did to me then to own as many of them as I could.
Hopefully one of my children will be Obsessive Compulsive and I can pass my collections onto them.
comments (12)
I wish I could say the complete collection of Thomas the Tank Engine trains in my basement belongs to my son. Oh sure, we bought them all for him but he never cared about THE COMPLETE SET.
by anna at November 23, 2005 8:11 AM
can i have your smurf collection? i don't have any other friends.
by eviltom at November 23, 2005 11:41 AM
Never did get my hands on Papa Smurf. :( You got any swaps?
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at November 25, 2005 10:47 PM
In print NCO's comment looks really perverted. But I once had a GF who was obsessed with the Smurfs. What a turnoff that was.
by anna at November 28, 2005 10:04 AM
I used to wack off to Smurfette. (Yesterday)
Have you seen the missing episode?
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/papasmurf.php
NSFW
To get that bad taste out of your mouth:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/peanutbutter.html
by Long Time Lurker at November 28, 2005 9:24 PM
Just remember: don't bring your Smurf collection to Antiques Roadshow, they won't be amused.
Sometimes I look at Jetfire, which I was so proud of when I was a kid, and wonder: what am I going to do with this fully articulated action figure, complete with accessories and weapons? And then I swoop it around a few times and make "whoosh" noises and feel better.
by Adam at November 29, 2005 4:38 AM
Ah, Jetfire was based on the fighters from Robotech, so his appeal is timeless and undeniable.
MG, it never occured to me that you might be such a collector. How interesting! I don't collect but I kind of hoard. I have some original My Little Ponies that I still keep in a tin box. I also still have really tattered copies of books like Bunnicula, Watership Down and The Hero and the Crown. They're the same copies I read 15 or 20 times over in elementary school. I hang on to them.
by jean at November 29, 2005 4:41 PM
Anna: In print NCO's comment looks really perverted.
All my comments are in print!
Mmmm, Papa, why's your hat red?
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at November 30, 2005 10:59 PM
I still keep my transformers in my childhood home... I always think they might have some value for collectors in about 3000 linear years from now...
MG, you should go to Bryant Park with your kid and ice skate and go through the Christmas Village they have up... it's nice at night... they also have mini shops at Columbus circle entering Central park and in Union square
by LOCKHEED at November 30, 2005 11:15 PM
Ha... that's funny that JEAN writes about Jetfire and Lil Ponies... I always thought Jean was not of the 80's hasbro era... thought was older... perhaps had one doll or old toy cooking set as a 9 year old girl in 1970.
by lOCKHEED at November 30, 2005 11:18 PM
Jean is inscrutable and that applies to her age, why she's had such a wide variety of jobs, why she'd leave SoCal for Chicago in winter, that guy who likes her, everything.
by anna at December 1, 2005 7:41 AM
Hahahaha you guys.
Last night I was walking with two classmates and one suddenly said, "Look, it's a penis!" A blob of snow on the sidewalk looked exactly like an erect penis. Thankfully it would not have been a long one. Then that would have been even wierder. You guys who have seen snow, is this normal?
by jean at December 2, 2005 9:27 AM