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[punkdhiver]

Collected Works
Some little boys collect army figures; others, baseball cards. They, I imagine, would, in their teens, embrace an open interest in guns, or sports. As a kid, I wanted nothing to do with guns, and the only sports I liked were jump-roping and tetherball, “soft-contact” sports that did not require talent or hand-eye coordination

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[twostepper]

At a party tonight I found a penny from 1950 (with the "ONE CENT" back) and asked whether I could have it. Yep. Coin collecting. The hobby of a true winner.

[punkdhiver]

Oh, I like to pick up and save those old pennies too. Not that I ever intend to do anything with them other than save them in a jar and remind myself not to wrap them up in penny rolls... but I feel weird just spending them.

Same thing with those special quarters with the drummer on the back.

[medea1919]

I keep those ones too :) my Gram collects quaters and pennies so it kind of rubbed off on me.

[redesigner]

My grandfather on my mom's side was a postman, and so I was kind of randomly inserted into philatelics too--unfortunately, my "collection" was... well... not so much a collection as it was one of those Kmart photo albums with the sticky pages filled with cancelled 2 cent stamps from god-knows-when.

Nothing really ever diverted my attention from it--I think I just sort of realized on my own that it was retarded.

[punkdhiver]

Yeah, see, I sort of wish I had come to my own realization. Unfortunately nothing so stunning ever struck me. Though I did have a pretty full book of stamps from a good number of places I'll likely never visit.

[redesigner]

The most unusual one that I can remember was shaped like a banana and was from Tonga. I'm pretty sure the only reason that Tonga exists, and the primary means that it has of supporting itself, is the export of wonky stamps.

[punkdhiver]

I have the banana Tonga stamp! That's like, one of my favorites. The hilarity of non-rectangular stamps provided me much enjoyment.

You're probably right. I know of no other national export of Tonga besides banana-shaped stamps. But hey, the guy who made the smiley-face sticker has this gargantuan mansion back in Westlake, and clearly banana stamps would be significantly more popular than those...

... a good PR firm and I imagine anyone would be able to set up a small country in the islands of the South Pacific.

[dan501]

do you get kicked out of the hip gay la crowd if they find out you made a Brewster's Millions reference?

have you considered applying for a writing job at woot.com?

[punkdhiver]

Oh, that stamp is more than a Brewster's Millions reference.. actually, it was in the news recently, I guess some collector bought up as many as he could and a particular stamp sold for some incredulous amount at Sotheby's. I used to know the name of it, too, but I can't remember.

But, I would probably get kicked out of whatever hip crowd I'm in, if I were in a hip crowd. I'd kick me out for that.

What is woot.com?

[dan501]

>What is woot.com?
go read it for 1 minute. if you haven't figured it out, let him ask again.

[punkdhiver]

It is for electronics, but the reviews are comical...?

It seems so counterintuitive that they would have a tongue-in-cheek review of a sub-woofer, but I guess no one can lament that the descriptions, if you will, "read like stereo instructions."

[msanborn]

I collected (and still do) crosses. I wanted to collect crucifixes but my mom wouldn't allow the cross with Jeebus ON it, into the house.

[punkdhiver]

Actually, I think that's kind of a neat collection. Large crosses? Or just the small ones? I can see that a bunch of crucifixes would be disconcerting, though.

"I just don't like there being so many Jesuses around, that's all."
"Aw, mom. Don't mind him, he's just hanging around."

I didn't mention it, but in my teen years I collected "Do Not Disturb" hangtags from hotels, but I guess that was more of an angsty reflection on not wanting to be disturbed than anything else.

[dan501]

on my bedroom door right now is a "I hear you knockin but you can't come in" sign from the hard rock las vegas.

and I have a huge collection of hotel room keys.

[punkdhiver]

Keys? Like, card keys? Don't they charge for their removal?

Haha, that's reason enough to stay there, for that particular door hanger.

[aidensocal]

awe i love the nerd in you!

[punkdhiver]

I'm all nerd. There's nothing inside that's not outside too.

[chris___scott]

"...There's nothing inside that's not outside too..."

Ewww