Collectors...
And... *pop*

Sorry bout lenght spelling and grammer. Me engrish not so good.

Having worked for a Games retailer and in a music shop in my hometown, for a few years.
I became aware of the seemingly male only phenomena that is collecters, the KINGS of impluse buyers.
None more so than a regular customer called *spanky*.
Over my time spent working in both stores I got to know spanky quite well, I felt sorry for him,
he worked shifts in a factory for a long time and as a result had a huge amount of disposable income.
Spanky lived at home with his mother, no girlfriend, didn't drink or socialise and no rent or expenses to speak of.
He often boasted of his frequent trips to Forbidden Planent and spending close to a €1000 in a single go on comics, action figures etc.
Being a nerd myself I could understand the attraction but I could not bring myself to part with that much cash in one go.
He once showed me a mobile phone video of his room. It wasn't big but was made even samller by the amount of stuff he had accumulated over the years.
The room was quite dark this was because his video and dvd collection was so large that it blocked out sunlight. It must have been 5 feet high in places and in other places it was 2 videos deep, and must have covered at least 2 walls if not more.
Also in the video was 2 book cases full of action figures,
(All boxed and unopened)
A games collection and a massive comics collection.
Tons of stuff he had never watched or read, and im sure they still remain in way even today.
There was literally only a small path from the door to his bed. Spanky made a number of interesting and pointless purchases in the stores I worked in,
1. Each season of charmed as they came out, Then when they brought out the collectors boxed (the one with the wooden box) He had to have it... SHINY BOX!!!
He was obsessed with Alissa Millano he had a T-shirt printed up with his favorite picture of her, and proceeded to buy every movie she was in (even bit parts or cameos) no matter how dire it was.
2. Simpsons soundtrack in the limited edition Doughnut shaped box and case. (He had bought the standard edition cd a week earlier.) Again SHINY BOX!!!

Spanky you nerd enigma, my hat goes off to you.
(JABBAtheHURT I smell wee...., Wed 27 May 2009, 14:19, 5 replies)

IS this SpankyHanky...?
Hmmm... I knew there was something unbelieveable about his stories, now we all find out that he just makes them up, and he is an uber-geek!

The stories about ladies must be false if he collects action figures. No one who collects action figures can have ever had sex. Fact.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 27 May 2009, 14:23, closed)

Another good citizen of the world
blessed with the name Spanky???

Fuck me...

I'll say it again -

Fuck me...

(its not my real name you know... that would be rediculous... my real name's actually Titwank Cum Gobbler Slobbery Cock the Third of Coventry)...
( SpankyHanky, Wed 27 May 2009, 14:34, closed)

Spanky, Spanks, Spankerino, The Spankmeister, The King of Spank.
Titwank Cum Gobbler Slobbery Cock the Third of Coventry)...
Now I'd like to see that on my Tesco club card!!
(JABBAtheHURT I smell wee...., Wed 27 May 2009, 14:41, closed)

Collectors editions
About the only difference I ever see between a regular and collectors edition of insert-typical-movie-or-game is one costs £10 more than the other. For which you get 50p worth of plastic crap and a metal box and the rest goes straight in the manufacturer's pocket. What makes me laugh is "limited editions". They never say how limited and in truth they're probably only limited to the number of dumb bastards they can con into forking out for them.
(MagicMoose, Wed 27 May 2009, 14:26, closed)

collectors eds
Hi know.. between steel cases(look! its even more shiney) Paper slip covers, and the worst offender fucking ART CARDS! tiny, shit, pictures that cost 5p to print. Yet these guys have to have em.
(JABBAtheHURT I smell wee...., Wed 27 May 2009, 14:34, closed)