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Erda
09/25/09

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My mom always complained, when these were popular, about other women who collected them. She bought them all the time - for my sister and I (my sister was about 3 and I was about 6) - but she didn't get why women her age could be so obsessed with collecting a bunch of stuffed bean bag toys.

Then, when my bio dad re-married, I noticed my new stepmom had a Beanie Baby in my room she had decorated - but when I moved to play with it, she told me "DON'T TOUCH! It's for decoration!" It was a good warning sign for all the ways my stepmom was different from my mom (and all the things I'd fight her tooth-and-nail about until I stopped coming to my dad's house).
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Sunshineyness
09/25/09

@Erda: OMG, seriously? She put something in a KID'S room that was "just for decoration?"
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Kitty
09/25/09

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I loved Beanie Babies as a kid... but I was the kind of child that cut off the annoying tags and actually played with them...

I was a collector's worst nightmare.

Is it wrong though that I'm kind of curious to see the original version of this video clip?
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ampersandparade
09/25/09

@Kitty: Not at all! I bought a VHS similar to this that was like the TY Fan Club Care Kit or some shit, and watched it while stoned with some friends. It was absolutely mesmerizing, and I wish I had more shit like that. Amazing.
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Kitty
09/25/09

@ampersandparade: Hahaha I'm sure that was extremely entertaining.
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first man
09/25/09

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I will never forget the summer of 1997 when I moved to America from England. I was nine. I hadn't heard much about this Beanie Baby craze. One day my family was shopping and stopped for lunch at McDonald's. The drive thru line was ridiculous so we went in. There were still just SCADS of people in there. It was mostly moms, buying about 6 Happy Meals each, throwing away the food and keeping the mini Beanie Babies. It was kind of appalling and very, very surreal to me. I had no idea what was going on.

So we went somewhere else instead, and then my mom took us to a toy store called Zainy Brainy so we could get these awesome toys called Stomp Rockets. Once again, there was a mob scene. Moms grabbing and pushing around this big container of Beanie Babies, trying to get the ones they wanted. The line went to the back of the store. All we wanted were our Stomp Rockets.

It was all very hard for a little kid raised in England to understand and I don't know that anyone will ever fully get it.
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hortense
09/25/09

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Someone is still trying to sell one of these on Ebay for twelve thousand dollars. Still! In 2009!
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Jessica Haas
09/25/09

@hortense: WHICH ONE?!?!
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NellMood
09/25/09

@hortense: But why?? This is totally over my head. $12,000 for a toy?
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hortense
09/25/09

@Jessica Haas: I think it's for an entire collection, but it contains some special blue elephant that is apparently the holy grail of beanie babies. Who knew?
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zombies.like.lattés.too
09/25/09

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I still have a box of these things in my attic.My parents bought me so many for X-mas one year. Couldn't say why - I never cared about the things.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/25/09

@zombies.like.lattés.too: My aunt used to collect them for her children and give them to us for holidays and such.

We were all pretty happy when that stopped.
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Lin-Z [linguist on duty]
09/25/09

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This year, for your convenience, the beanie baby convention and applique vests convention will be held in the same conference center.
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badmutha
09/25/09

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I was an unmarried female during most of the 90's, and am proud to say that I was too into other things to ever buy a beanie baby.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
09/25/09

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I am not sure if we, as a nation, are ready to revisit this dark and painful chapter in out history.
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nozer
09/25/09

@TheUptightMidwesterner: Seriously, too soon you guys. It just makes me really depressed. We keep all of our beanie babies locked up underneath the stairs and have not spoken about them since. I think I would be more comfortable talking about sex with my parents than the insanity of my beanie baby phase.
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NellMood
09/25/09

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I was in a coffee shop the other day and saw these two men in business suits sitting at a counter with about 20 beanie babies spread out in front of them. I had a lot of questions, but I opted not to ask them.
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sassyredhead
09/25/09

@NellMood: How could you stop yourself? I couldn't have kept from saying something. What on earth? I totally want to know what they were up to...
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sallysparrow
09/25/09

@NellMood: that visual and the accompanying scenarios that ran through my mind, just made my afternoon!
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NellMood
09/25/09

@sassyredhead: I know, but how do you start that conversation? "Excuse me, gentlemen, I notice you have quite the collection of toys with you here...."
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NellMood
09/25/09

@sallysparrow: I should have tried taking a surreptitious picture. Lots of weird mysteries in that Midtown Starbucks.
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sallysparrow
09/25/09

@NellMood: "Lovely weather for a tea party! I see you have your small friends with you today"
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NellMood
09/25/09

@sallysparrow: God, that would have been perfect. Except I probably would have laughed, and seemed like a jerk, and gotten flustered.

@kendrajayne: Okay, let me think of some questions. Who is/was spending all that money? Why?
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/25/09

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Fun fact: When I was a preteen (in the 90s, I am a baby!) I was really into drawing political cartoons.

My very first one was about when the Beanie Baby Bubble Burst and invoked the Titanic as a metaphor.

Really, it's amazing I had as many friends as I did.
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joannabobanna
09/25/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I was also a pre-teen in the 90s. How were we not friends?
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/25/09

@joannabobanna: I dunno, man. It was a pretty big decade.
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joannabobanna
09/25/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I also don't know, but it's really a shame.
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lalaland13
01/22/09

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Pish. They're just trying to avoid being sued by the Michelle Not-Obama Doll. Who happens to have a degree in law.
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Raspberry Swirly
01/22/09

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I guess this is a good time to say that I'm making little voodoo dolls. I've named them Tasty Tscheese and Twisted Tart of Darkness. They are not based on anyone on Jez. I just found the names and liked them.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
01/22/09

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight..... (as Cosmo from the Fairly Oddparents would say)
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BeckySharper
01/22/09

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I hope Malia and Sasha's lawyer parents (and the lawyers who work for them) are preparing a hell of a cease-and-desist letter.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
01/22/09

@BeckySharper: But famous people exist solely so we can exploit them! It's, like, totally in Article I Section I of the Constitution!
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morninggloria
01/22/09

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I'm starting a new anal porn production/ sex toy company and calling it "TY."

What? TY is a beautiful name.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
01/22/09

@morninggloria: I just invented a turkey decapitater and I'm naming it Sarah Palin. You don't think she'll take offense, do you?
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sportz.star
01/22/09

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (2009: a space ovumlord): Sadly, no.
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