Comments | mister_punchy: Sticky Fingers

mister_punchy

Sticky Fingers

Oct 05, 2010 09:49

I found one of my childhood sticker albums last night. I forgot how much stickers once consumed my world, even if they were stickers listing your basic cable channel selections that were intended to be stickied to the remote, or metallic Triple-A stickers, or random Easter Seals stamps. Mostly I enjoy this pastiche of things I loved in 1985 (He-Man ( Read more... )

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mister_punchy October 6 2010, 00:19:59 UTC

Red Fraggle is more my type. She's having way more fun.

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mister_punchy October 6 2010, 06:30:34 UTC

I apparently earned more than one of those... Explains a lot.

_wendybird_ October 6 2010, 04:49:18 UTC

Brings back a lot of memories. I have many of the same scratch and sniff stickers. At some point someone told me that the stickers weren't as valuable if taking off the backing so my later album has them all on the sheet. It's much more boring to look at - kind of reminiscent of Steve Carrell's action figures in packaging in The 40 Year Old Virgin.

I left my sticker collection in the backyard one day (perfect setting to achieve archival quality I'm sure) and my brother's friend and local criminal stole my best scratch and sniffs. I'm still bitter.

mister_punchy October 6 2010, 06:38:23 UTC

I loved the whole "Stinky Stickers" series. I asked for sheets of 'em on birthdays and everything. I'm amazed by the freshness of their reek a quarter-century later, even after being squashed together in an album at the bottom of a box for years and years -- definitely a wise investment. Hope your brother's friend didn't squander it.

libertina October 6 2010, 22:34:59 UTC

Jesus, this takes me back. For me, the Holy Grail of stickers were these slightly puffy ones filled with a sparkly or iridescent viscous substance. If you pushed on it, the liquid swirled around inside. Once I got a puffy blue unicorn, which was pretty much the apex of coolness in the fifth grade. Of course, later that year a few of my classmates were going on actual "boy-girl" dates to see Wargames and stuff, so they had better things to fondle than a unicorn sticker.

mister_punchy October 6 2010, 22:37:47 UTC

Oh, those stickers were for girls. They lacked the ruggedness of McGruff and Yoda.

libertina October 6 2010, 22:37:32 UTC

P.S. I love the Lamb of God's stripey rainbow legwarmers.

mister_punchy October 6 2010, 22:44:31 UTC

Those are the devil's colors.