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	<title>Comments on: Yipes. Just yipes.</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:05:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Yipes. Just yipes.</title>
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		<description>&quot;Behold, I am the Collector! ...And I have come to add you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/my-collections.htm&quot;&gt;my collection!&quot;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:58:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keswick</dc:creator>		<category>scary</category>		<category>collector</category>		<category>collection</category>
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		<title>By: sudasana</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863908</link>	
		<description>My hat comes off for the bottle collection. Although they appear to be decorative bottles and not the kind I buy in the paper bag and end up throwing at brick walls.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:05:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Faint of Butt</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863909</link>	
		<description>He collects collections. How compellingly meta.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faint of Butt</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: nj_subgenius</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863910</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=6&quot;&gt;obsessive-compulsive&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:07:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: batgrlHG</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863914</link>	
		<description>I just keep wondering how many rooms this covers - or if it&apos;s all crammed into one...and what if someone bumped one of the shelves...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:08:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: marxchivist</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863918</link>	
		<description>Holy Shit.

I bet I still have a better ceramic ashtrays-shaped-liked-states than he does.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:10:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: AlexReynolds</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863919</link>	
		<description>So where are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/51526837.html&quot;&gt;Nazi dolls&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:10:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: jonmc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863920</link>	
		<description>Oooh, Mr. Men!

*claps hands in delight*</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:11:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: marxchivist</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863923</link>	
		<description>duh... that&apos;s a better ceramic ashtrays-shaped-liked-states &lt;em&gt;collection&lt;/em&gt; than he does</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:13:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Songdog</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863925</link>	
		<description>Wow.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:13:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: defcom1</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863933</link>	
		<description>Umm... I&apos;m afriad.

Sounds like a bad movie tile:
THE COLLECTOR
Many enter.  None leave.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:20:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ChrisTN</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863936</link>	
		<description>Must be a bitch to dust.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:20:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Wolfdog</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863937</link>	
		<description>Collection collector, meet &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spikemagazine.com/0997coll.htm&quot;&gt;collector collector&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:21:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: edgeways</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863947</link>	
		<description>medication</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:27:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Coda</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863949</link>	
		<description>*prays for an earthquake*</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:29:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: nicwolff</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863959</link>	
		<description>defcom1, &lt;a href=&quot;http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059043/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0aXRsZT1JTURifHNnPTF8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT10aGUgY29sbGVjdG9yfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHx0eXBlPUFsbHxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=2;ft=24;fm=1&quot;&gt;The Collector&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent movie, but the tagline was &quot;You won&apos;t dare open your mouth, but you&apos;ll be screaming for her to escape!&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:34:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: kindall</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863965</link>	
		<description>Har. He only has one of himself!</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:37:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: jeremias</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863968</link>	
		<description>The collector needs an interior decorator something fierce.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:42:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: FormlessOne</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863970</link>	
		<description>I always wondered why we produced so much societal debris.  Now I know.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:42:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: bshort</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863974</link>	
		<description>Does he have any walls in his house that aren&apos;t covered in crap?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Spacelegoman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863975</link>	
		<description>I wonder what is the decision-making process behind what gets made into a collection... does he explain himself on a different page somewhere, or is that the only info we have?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:47:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: jonmc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863979</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt; Does he have any walls in his house that aren&apos;t covered in crap?&lt;/em&gt;

One man&apos;s crap is another man&apos;s treasure. It&apos;s not like he&apos;s collecting indigineous baby skeletons.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:49:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: keswick</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863982</link>	
		<description>ordinarily, i&apos;d agree with you jon... but this is just a bunch of crap.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:51:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keswick</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: jonson</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863983</link>	
		<description>wow, most of you mock this guy, but damn that was impressive.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:52:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: foozleface</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863986</link>	
		<description>He is SO GLAD he doesn&apos;t live in earthquake country...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:54:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: jscott</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863987</link>	
		<description>I bow to him.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:55:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: davejay</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#863989</link>	
		<description>By the time I got to the last picture of him at the bottom, I was disappointed that it wasn&apos;t a picture of his wall with thirty pictures of himself in frames.

You can bet this guy doesn&apos;t live anywhere there are earthquakes...

Hmm. I -do- live in an earthquake-ridden area. Perhaps I should start collecting dominoes, stand them on edge on shelves that ring my living room, then curse the gods every time a tremor starts a chain reaction.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sugarfish</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864000</link>	
		<description>You can tell this guy doesn&apos;t have a collection of cats.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:02:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Sparx</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864006</link>	
		<description>He keeps a model Angel next to his Angel novels collection.  Loser.

Though I do notice his &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/data/for-trade/annuals1.htm&quot;&gt;wanted to trade&lt;/a&gt;&quot; page has the Wombles 1999 Annual - which appeared days before the ebola outbreak in Wimbledon Common - could be worth a few bob...

And where&apos;s his girlfriend collection? {kersnort}.

I&apos;m now off to get drunk and feel sad and alone.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:06:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: stevil</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864008</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m pretty impressed with how he&apos;s set all the stuff up, having this much &quot;crap&quot; doesn&apos;t seem that unusual, but his organizing and displaying are nifty!</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:07:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: c13</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864013</link>	
		<description>That is one very disturbed guy...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:11:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: killdevil</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864014</link>	
		<description>Ye Gods - breathtaking.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:12:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Arch Stanton</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864018</link>	
		<description>Morgan Freeman from Kiss the Girls &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brettsky.com/collector.wav&quot;&gt;sums it up&lt;/a&gt; best.  I hope he doesn&apos;t have a collection of young, talented women in his basement.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:19:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arch Stanton</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Sangre Azul</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864019</link>	
		<description>This reminds me of my Uncle Eddie. Though instead of neatly using shelves and nails, he just glue-gunned things at random on the walls.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:23:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: j.p. Hung</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864026</link>	
		<description>&lt;b /&gt;Meta-Compulsive!! &lt;/b&gt;

Yeesh, that&apos;s unbelievable man. Just looking at it made me exhausted. The kick in the ass is that this is probably his &quot;hobby&quot;. For a good 8-10 hours a day, this guy probably has a semi-normal job.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:34:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: yhbc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864029</link>	
		<description>That&apos;s amazing. The wife and I have already decided we&apos;re leaving all our mismatched kinder egg toys, Pez dispensers and assorted bric-a-brac to this guy in our wills, just on general principle.

I mean, sure, it&apos;s all crap, but you want it taken good care of, don&apos;t you?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:35:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: wfrgms</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864031</link>	
		<description>Wow.  That guys house + a few bong hits... I mean... wow.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:37:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Space Coyote</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864033</link>	
		<description>Mr. Men McDonald&apos;s toys?? I thought those were almost educatoinal.. somehow.. and mcdonald&apos;s was selling them? Doesn&apos;t seem to fit.  Will the sell Bearenstein Bears toys next?

oh well, Mr. Tickle was da bomb.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:40:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Space Coyote</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: PissOnYourParade</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864034</link>	
		<description>Man, poo on you people...

We are all crazy, a little bit (or more than a little bit) broken, in our own way.

The way I see it, if your functional, happy, and not hurting yourself or anybody else,  then there is no dysfunction.

I revel in the weirdos of the world. (I guess I&apos;d have to, I count myself among them)

You go dude... Whatever gets you through the night.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:41:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: MLIS</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864036</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156002531/104-2818343-0823906&quot;&gt;Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives
by Werner Muensterberger.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:46:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: papakwanz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864045</link>	
		<description>I liked the keychains. They looked nice. 

Let&apos;s hope he never has to move.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:57:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: snarkywench</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864050</link>	
		<description>The world&apos;s most organised packrat.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:04:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: naxosaxur</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864052</link>	
		<description>He forgot to take a picture of his Real Doll collection that he keeps in his closet.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:07:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: picea</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864055</link>	
		<description>While I&apos;m not really moved either way by gigantic collections like this, I must say that his presentation is pretty good. Some nice shelves there. It&apos;s organised clutter.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:09:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ScaryShrink</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864056</link>	
		<description>He&apos;s single. I&apos;m sure of it.

Also, not obsessive-compulsive disorder; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe10.html&quot;&gt;obsessive-compulsive personality disorder&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:10:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: shmegegge</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864061</link>	
		<description>I absolutely adore this man.  I mean, he seems to have specifically collected &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; utter crap, eschewing anything with taste or monetary value at all costs.  I mean, how many of those keychains, do you think, say something like &quot;Niagara Falls...  It&apos;s all &lt;em&gt;downhill&lt;/em&gt; from here!&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:12:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: keswick</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864062</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;He&apos;s single. I&apos;m sure of it.&lt;/em&gt;

Gee, ya think?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:12:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cedar</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864064</link>	
		<description>Holy fuck.

Not only does he collect collections, he collects walls and shelves.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:15:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mcsweetie</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864067</link>	
		<description>you know, I bet a lot of people are gonna slam this guy but I think he&apos;s totally cool and I can only hope that for a moment in my life I&apos;m as tenth as cool as this fellow (for serious)!</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:20:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: KevinSkomsvold</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864068</link>	
		<description>I thought my MST3K tape collection was a little idiosyncratic.

Woah. Still impressive though.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:23:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: paladin</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864073</link>	
		<description>Did you notice that he says that these are pictures of &quot;&lt;b&gt;some&lt;/b&gt; of my collections&quot;?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:33:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: jcruelty</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864078</link>	
		<description>From an interview with Will Wright, the brilliant and eccentric creator of &lt;i&gt;Simcity&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Sims&lt;/i&gt;:

Wright: Take one. 

GameSpy: Russian pins?

    Wright: I&apos;m uncollecting. I buy collections on eBay, and I disperse them out to people again. I have to be like an entropic force to collectors, otherwise all of this stuff will get sorted. It&apos;s like the opposing force, uncollectors.

    All of these things are collections of weird stuff. I go to estate sales and pick up collections from people who got tired of collecting. 

GameSpy: Are you trying to start a movement?

    Wright: No, it&apos;s just a hobby. It&apos;s fun. 

GameSpy: How much stuff have you uncollected so far?

    Wright: A lot. 

GameSpy: What are some of the things you have uncollected so far?

    Wright: Oh, lets see ... little dolls--souvenir dolls from cities, dice, fossils, a lot of stuff. 

GameSpy: How much are you willing to spend on an uncollection?

    Wright: I don&apos;t spend much on it. It&apos;s always really cheap stuff. I&apos;ve been spending my real money on Russian space hardware. 

GameSpy: Russian space hardware?

    Wright: Control panels, controllers, joysticks... 

GameSpy: From Sputnik?

    Wright: Soyuz, Mir...</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:36:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ludwig_van</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864079</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;So where are the Nazi dolls?&lt;/em&gt;

Thanks Alex, that was funny.

I feel like that looks sarcastic, but I don&apos;t mean it to be. I thought that link was hilarious.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:36:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mikey-San</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864080</link>	
		<description>Am I the only one who really wants to break every fucking thing in this guy&apos;s house, just to see what would happen to him?

/Allowed to make the joke, diagnosed OC, not able to end this sentence without a period. And capitalization. Bothered by the illegal grammar in the last two sentences, and this one as well. Goddammit.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:37:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Oriole Adams</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864082</link>	
		<description>I don&apos;t understand the negative/derisive comments.  He collects things, it&apos;s his hobby.  Some people join the Masons, some people do ceramics (and foist their creations on unsuspecting friends/acquaintances), some people scrapbook, others knit or crochet.  Bottom line, everyone has *something* that occupies their spare time.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:39:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Arch Stanton</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864083</link>	
		<description>I wonder if he bought the Matrx if he&apos;d still feel compelled to buy the other two Matrix movies.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:40:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: armoured-ant</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864085</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Har. He only has one of himself!&lt;/em&gt;

That just means he&apos;s got the whole set, man.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:42:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: leftcoastbob</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864092</link>	
		<description>He must love collecting.  You spend your time on what you love and just think of all the time he lovingly puts into it--the purchasing (which must involve a whole lot of driving here and there perusing,) the shelf-building, deciding what key chain goes where...  And the dusting--sweet Jesus! The dusting!

I&apos;ll bet the little nephews and nieces aren&apos;t invited over until after they have reached the age of 25.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:57:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: tomplus2</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864112</link>	
		<description>Ha ha,  look at the crazy guy. 

...but seriously, I&apos;m always suprised at how many people have *huge* collections of the (seemingly) silliest things.  It keeps them happy, busy, and gives them something to spend their money on. 

Now, his train collection.  Pha! It&apos;s like he found a couple trains and put them on display and called them a &quot;collection&quot;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:17:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: nixerman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864118</link>	
		<description>The thing is: when and where and how did collecting as a hobby start? Where was it popularized?

Collecting is one of those really interesting border cases. There&apos;s probably a natural pack-rat instinct buried deep inside our genes but collecting for the sake of collecting? Why do people do this?

Anyways, this is good.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:41:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: scarabic</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864137</link>	
		<description>Holy Hell. This man has a lot of wall.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:12:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: scarabic</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864139</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;I don&apos;t understand the negative/derisive comments. ...  it&apos;s his hobby. ... others knit or crochet.&lt;/em&gt;

I think it&apos;s a matter of the degree of his practice of this hobby. A person whose house was filled up to knee-level with hand-knit scarved would probably draw a few grimaces as well. But his stuff seems well-organized, clean, lovingly presented, and I actually don&apos;t find anything unhealthy about that. I hate to imagine how much work it must take to keep ALL THAT together.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:15:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Civil_Disobedient</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864166</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;I revel in the weirdos of the world.&lt;/i&gt;

Sure, it&apos;s theoretically uber-cool, but come on.  If you were a girl that just met this guy at a bar and then went back home with him, are you telling me you wouldn&apos;t be &lt;i&gt;seriously&lt;/i&gt; creeped out?  Like, in a head-to-the-hills kind of way?

On a related side-note: I have a friend-of-a-friend who&apos;s family is phenomenally rich, and each member of his family uses their deep trenches of money to build up their own personal (eccentric) collections.  His dad collected turn-of-the-century condom tins (&lt;i&gt;strictly&lt;/i&gt; unused, which are hard to find).  His mother had a &lt;b&gt;vast&lt;/b&gt; collection of New York City memorabilia: hundreds of tacky Statues of Liberty, Empire State Buildings, etc.  The kid had rather pedestrian tastes in that he collected baseball cards, but he only bought entire uncut sheets to mount in giant frames on his walls.  One was a giant (like, 3&apos; x 5&apos;) sheet of uncut 1953 Topps.  Yes, it had the Mickey Mantle 2nd card in it (~ $100,000 alone).</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:34:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Groomz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864195</link>	
		<description>Thanks alot...

amazing..........</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:03:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: pookzilla</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864203</link>	
		<description>Impressive.  I can&apos;t help but wonder how long it takes him to dust them all.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:24:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: taz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864226</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;If you were a girl that just met this guy at a bar and then went back home with him, are you telling me you wouldn&apos;t be seriously creeped out? Like, in a head-to-the-hills kind of way?&lt;/em&gt;

Well, that&apos;s just looking at it wrong... He can meet likeminded girls (or guys) at swap meets, collectors conventions, etc.

Personally,viewing it all makes me feel claustrophobic, and if I were he, I would feel completely trapped by my possessions (and, like pookzilla, I wondered &quot;&lt;em&gt;who dusts all this stuff!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), but of course the great thing about life is that we are all different. So much the better to entertain each other with all our relative strangeness &lt;small&gt;(like this whole internet-voyeurism thing we have going on here)&lt;/small&gt;.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:11:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: chrid</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864244</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Holy Hell. This man has a lot of wall.&lt;/i&gt;

That&apos;s part of his extensive wall collection.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:31:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: CunningLinguist</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864249</link>	
		<description>Amazing. At first, it was horrifying, then I was impressed at how neatly everything was displayed, then I was super-impressed by the keychain display, then I lusted after his brass collection, then I was back to being horrified again. This guy needs a girl. Or a life. Or to go volunteer in Calcutta or something.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:40:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: papercake</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864261</link>	
		<description>This guy weirds me out.

Collecting something that you, for some reason, find interesting or allows you to hang on to childhood memories is one thing. But the number of collections this guy has reeks of compulsion to me. Can he stop? How does he start a collection? Does he suddenly realize that he&apos;s got three &lt;i&gt;somethings&lt;/i&gt; and then he &lt;b&gt;must. have. them. all&lt;/b&gt;?

That said, I wish I had half the energy this guy obviously has.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Cassford</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864266</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m into obsessive simplicity myself,  but that&apos;s just the other side of the same coin. I wonder if people would post their petty pop psychological diagnoses of me if I posted pictures of my home&apos;s nearly-bare walls and minimal ornamentation? 

jonmc, someday you&apos;ll thank those indigenous baby &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0713_040713_skeletoncancer.html&quot;&gt;skeleton collectors&lt;/a&gt;. ;-)</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:07:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Civil_Disobedient</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864288</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;That&apos;s part of his extensive wall collection.&lt;/i&gt;

Simply excellent.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:41:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Bear</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864293</link>	
		<description>That&apos;s awesome!  It&apos;d be fascinating to sit down and talk with him.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:48:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: gingembre</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864297</link>	
		<description>That keychain display is beautiful.  The stuff may be crap, but this guy has an eye for design.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:51:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: stp123</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864311</link>	
		<description>Where are the stamp &amp;amp; coin collections? Some collector...</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:21:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: languagehat</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864313</link>	
		<description>Anybody else notice that his &quot;library&quot; consists exclusively of videos?  Not that there&apos;s anything wrong with that.

Sure, the guy&apos;s weird.  But we&apos;re all weird in our own ways; this guy just happens to be able to photograph his weirdness and present it for our delectation.  I think it&apos;s great.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:23:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: PinkStainlessTail</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864320</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Anybody else notice that his &quot;library&quot; consists exclusively of videos?&lt;/em&gt;

Actually, I think those are mostly &quot;novels&quot; based on TV shows.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:30:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: WaterSprite</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864324</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;That&apos;s awesome! It&apos;d be fascinating to sit down and talk with him&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.

Um.... not.   I&apos;m sure he doesn&apos;t have much to say.  I mean, think about it...

As for the dusting, I&apos;ll bet he has a team of dusting women who come in three times a week with fine brushes so as not to disturb these disturbing collections.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:35:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: The Bellman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864358</link>	
		<description>The motley crew of Kinder Egg figures sitting on my monitor is shamed. They turn their heads from me as if to say &quot;Where are all our friends? Get on e-bay you bastard, you don&apos;t have to actually eat the chocolate eggs.&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:09:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mic stand</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864380</link>	
		<description>I have the first set (15) of halloween simpson&apos;s figurines from Burger King.  In a box in my basement, hidden from my 4 year old son because some day the title of ultimate collector will be mine.  muhaha. 

&lt;small&gt; I had to clean off my booger collection under my old desk because my wife thought it was the grossest thing ever. &lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:28:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ceiriog</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864401</link>	
		<description>He doesn&apos;t just collect the plastic crap, he collects the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/items-fortrade.htm&quot;&gt;boxes&lt;/a&gt; the crap comes in. And trades his swapsies. Is there a large trading community for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/data/for-trade/packaging.htm&quot;&gt;Kinder Surprise packaging&lt;/a&gt;?

A bit scary, a bit cool, completely fascinating.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:49:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kafkaesque</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864447</link>	
		<description>1. I have fifty Red Rose tea animals with your name on them, collector guy!

2. I&apos;m just glad the image for &lt;b&gt;My Skin, Teeth, and Hair Collection&lt;/b&gt; was broken.

3. It&apos;s all fun and games until 8,000 tiny Kinder Secret Agent Mole figurines come to life and start chasing you around the garden.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:32:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: lobstah</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864448</link>	
		<description>I bet that shit collects a lot of dust !</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:35:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Sangermaine</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864478</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;That&apos;s awesome! It&apos;d be fascinating to sit down and talk with him.

Um.... not. I&apos;m sure he doesn&apos;t have much to say. I mean, think about it...&lt;/em&gt;

&quot;So, I see you like collecting collections.&quot;
&quot;Yes.&quot;
&quot;Is it fun?&quot;
&quot;Yes.&quot;
::akward silence::
&quot;So...how about this weather?&quot;</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:07:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: tkchrist</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864479</link>	
		<description>Why? I don&apos;t get it. I just don&apos;t get it.

I suppose it saves us from overflowing landfills.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:08:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: safetyfork</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864534</link>	
		<description>Just reading the comments collected here, I like the keychain display too.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:03:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: aine42</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864540</link>	
		<description>I was beginning to think my collections were getting out of hand because I had five or six silly things I collect voraciously. I suddenly feel so much better about them. And I&apos;m passing this link along to my mother so she&apos;ll stop tch-ing me when she sees them. Heh.

I can&apos;t help but think that my cats would love 1/2 hour alone in this guy&apos;s place. There&apos;s so much to knock over. They&apos;d be in kitty heaven.

Kaf -- I miss my little Red Rose animals. I only had 15 or so, but they were kind of quirky and I miss having them. They got lost in a move and the store around here that sold Red Rose went out of business. Foo.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:06:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: hellbient</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864546</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m so fucking meta.  I&apos;m starting a collection of links of people with collection collections.  My desktop is a mess, but I finally know what to do with my life...see ya later suckers!  &lt;small&gt;(when i die, just make sure someone looks at my &quot;collection collections&quot; folder before deleting everything, to ensure my posthumorus fame).&lt;/small&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.viceland.com/issues/v11n11/htdocs/pile.php&quot;&gt;Another.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:12:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Down10</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864559</link>	
		<description>I&apos;ll bet there&apos;s one thing that guy doesn&apos;t have a collection of: &lt;b&gt;friends&lt;/b&gt;! ...Ha!

Okay, I&apos;m done.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:21:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Down10</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864578</link>	
		<description>Anyway, as cleanly displayed as his collections are, for the most part, they&apos;re boring and uncreative (McDonald&apos;s toys? come on, dude). The collections that I find more interesting are the ones that are all related to one theme or one product.

A few months back, there was a art exhibit here in SF (&quot;Geek-tique 3&quot;) about quirky collections, which included:
- Candy
- Toy robots
- Snow Globes
- Dryer lint
- Chewing gum wrappers
- Plastic &quot;Thank You&quot; shopping bags

At least, I&apos;ve never seen collections of that stuff.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:48:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: steelbuddha</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864598</link>	
		<description>He must have gotten the idea from ill-fated Marvel supervillain &quot;The Collector&quot; who is now so arcane that even google cannot produce information or images thereof.

As I recall, though, The Collector was more along the lines of that sci-fi clich&#233; of collecting &quot;unique specimens&quot; from different races from throughout the galaxy.  This guy...he doesn&apos;t have that.  But it&apos;s a start.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:10:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: BigLankyBastard</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864675</link>	
		<description>I can&apos;t believe we&apos;ve gotten this far without anyone bringing up the Simpsons episode featuring Comic Shop Guy as a super-villian named &quot;The Collector&quot; who attempts, among other things, to collect &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005128/&quot;&gt;Lucy Lawless &lt;/a&gt;and seal her in a plastic bag...</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: elwoodwiles</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864701</link>	
		<description>BigLankyBastard, read the post again.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:48:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: MiltonRandKalman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864720</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m collecting dust waiting for this page to load.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:59:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: notreally</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864725</link>	
		<description>My wife collects dust bunnies under our bed.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:02:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ROU_Xenophobe</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#864947</link>	
		<description>Well then, take her out from under there!  Geez.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:25:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mediareport</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#865091</link>	
		<description>Aw, dammit:

&lt;i&gt;My Collections Page...

...has been withdrawn since being flooded with unkind and rude emails as a result of the link and unfounded, un-called for comments at B3TA. I have put a lot of effort into my site for the benefit of everyone and don&apos;t expect to receive abuse in exchange. For the time being I am not prepared to share my collections.

For the record, having a butterfly collection does not automatically make one a butterfly killer and I am most certainly not obsessed. I have many hobbies and I have other pursuits in life, which obviously some people do not. At least I can say, I am never ever bored.&lt;/i&gt;

Here&apos;s BT3A&apos;s write-up:

&lt;i&gt;There&apos;s nothing *wrong* with obsession, it gives
  a little purpose to our otherwise pointless
  lives. However, to be obsessed with everything
  is a little sinister. And this butterfly killer
  seems to have started collecting anything he&apos;s
  ever come across. The only surprise is that in
  the picture of himself, he&apos;s not stood with 182
  lookalikes. (Not that we&apos;re not a little jealous
  of his multi-ethnic Daleks.)&lt;/i&gt;

Damn, I fucking hate how quick some folks are to dis someone for being freaky. Wish I&apos;d seen the page. Anyway, links other than the &quot;My Collections&quot; page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/homepage-nolayers.htm&quot;&gt;still work&lt;/a&gt;, though.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:10:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: taz</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#865260</link>	
		<description>That&apos;s sad. Sometimes the internet seems like a big, ugly playground stomped on by sweatslick, foulbreathed, brainless bullies, doesn&apos;t it? But the good news is that it looks like he&apos;s reconsidered, and is reposting the site, with new images. Good for you, Tony!</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:51:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: yhbc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#865571</link>	
		<description>He put it back up, with additional commentary, after being heartened by hundreds of more encouraging and sympathetic emails from less judgmental types than those that read B3TA.

Well, that reaffirms my faith in humanity!</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:17:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: mediareport</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/39926/Yipes-Just-yipes#866455</link>	
		<description>Ah, nice. The keyrings collection alone makes my heart swell with pride at belonging to the same species as this guy.

Bullies - fuck &apos;em.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:45:34 -0800</pubDate>
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