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- From: rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill)
- Newsgroups: rec.collecting
- Subject: Re: Does it BUG you? If so, why so?
- Message-ID: <1275@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:04:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.214730.15523@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <72027@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle
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- In article <72027@cup.portal.com> EZ-as-pi@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Gilson) writes:
- >Card collecting ...
- >It does, however, _puzzle_ me,
- >because I can't see the sense of
- >collecting something that is just
- >printed to sell to collectors. Now I
- >am a wide-ranging collector of paper
- >items ranging from bus transfers to
- >currency, but everything I collect has
- >the distinction that it has a _primary_
- >use that is not for collecting. So
- >I just can't _understand_ card collectors.
-
- There are many things that one can collect with little or no use or
- intrinsic value.
- These include:
- -figurines (you can't do anything with them except look at them),
- -postcards (yes, you can mail a baseball card too if you wish),
- -commemerative coins (you can't spend 'em),
- -tourist spoons (have you ever seen one used?),
- -various tourist "I was there" paraphenalia (where is Wall Drug?),
- -Avon cologne bottles (see figurines above),
- -Star Trek communicators (no one is there to beam you up),
- -Rocks,
- -Models,
- -Candles (that are too pretty to light),
- -Ted Kennedy campaign pins,
- and so forth.
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