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Post by homerwannabee on Jan 28, 2009 20:44:36 GMT -5
I one time had my Garbage Pail Kids taken away from my teacher in 6th grade. He never did return them. I felt like doing this to him at the time.  |
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Post by rusVan on Jan 28, 2009 22:14:51 GMT -5
I one time had my Garbage Pail Kids taken away from my teacher in 6th grade. He never did return them. I felt like doing this to him at the time.  In 6th grade, we had about a 20 minute social time in the commons area courtyard every afternoon. That's where the deals would go down! We would stand in a circle like a football huddle to hide the cards from the teacher's eyes. We'd hold them real low too, and you'd never raise a card to examine it real close. You'd think we were dealing drugs. lol We'd do other things like beat box and fight and tweeb ears...I'll probably think of more things later... |
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Post by GRANT_ant on Nov 3, 2009 1:24:05 GMT -5
Wow, reading all these great stories really brings back great childhood memories for me. I'm surprised no one has posted anything to this thread in a while. I have a few GPK drama stories, here is one of them. When I started 3rd grade in September 1985 two kids in my class brought in these 2 stacks off strange cards, Joe was one kid's name - everyone was just so fascinated by them and pretty much everyday after that GPK became the main thing to do and talk about even right through when the teacher was giving a lesson! I remember that it was so hard to find any GPK packs - every store was always sold out it seemed and I only had like 3 OS2 cards from kids who had doubles or triples of one card at first. So one day during class while I was pretending to get something out of my book bag in the "cubby" closet I stole a whole fuggin' stack of gpk out of Joe's book bag, and he had the real good ones too like nasty nick, mean gene and nervous Rex. The rubber band around that stack was about to snap - thats how big that stack was! That poor kid was looking all over in vain for those cards that day and I remember not feeling bad about it at the time because his dad worked down in the city - Brooklyn no less, probably right next to fuggin' Topps - and his dad would bring him home packs upon packs of gpk OS2 and OS1 so he had plenty to spare but he was always an obnoxious little brat about it. The next day at school was like going to a murder trial! Stealing someone's GPK was like stealing someone's car back in those days. First thing after attendance the teacher spoke to the whole class about who stole Joe's cards and asked every kid in the room - practically interrogating each and every one of us. I was so fuggin' nervous and scared and I knew she was going to search everyone's book bag eventually so I went to the ole "cubby" and pretended to get something once again and I just threw the stack at the other end of the cubby. The next day Joe had a fuggin' MOUSE TRAP attached to his stack of GPK! LOL! " I also remember a couple of months later the principal of our elementary school had an "emergency" meeting with all the students in the whole entire school about how GPK was no longer allowed anywhere on school grounds. She gave a whole lecture and stories of kids being made fun of from GPK names for about 40 minutes or so. The ban never really worked but it seemed by the end of the year the GPK mania had died down considerably. When I was in 4th grade in '86 I was the first person in my class to purchase some OS5 packs when they first came out but everyone was kind of like ".....eh...neat..." and just walked away so I remember that being a real letdown. I eventually stopped collecting GPK as a kid after the 7th series when I found my own name on a card - "Grant ant". I still have two OS1 cards from when I was a kid in '85 - the scan is of the two cards - they're pretty beat up but there is so much GPK history tied into them.  |
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Post by Cory on Nov 3, 2009 1:37:49 GMT -5
Wow, reading all these great stories really brings back great childhood memories for me. I'm surprised no one has posted anything to this thread in a while. I have a few GPK drama stories, here is one of them. When I started 3rd grade in September 1985 two kids in my class brought in these 2 stacks off strange cards, Joe was one kid's name - everyone was just so fascinated by them and pretty much everyday after that GPK became the main thing to do and talk about even right through when the teacher was giving a lesson! I remember that it was so hard to find any GPK packs - every store was always sold out it seemed and I only had like 3 OS2 cards from kids who had doubles or triples of one card at first. So one day during class while I was pretending to get something out of my book bag in the "cubby" closet I stole a whole fuggin' stack of gpk out of Joe's book bag, and he had the real good ones too like nasty nick, mean gene and nervous Rex. The rubber band around that stack was about to snap - thats how big that stack was! That poor kid was looking all over in vain for those cards that day and I remember not feeling bad about it at the time because his dad worked down in the city - Brooklyn no less, probably right next to fuggin' Topps - and his dad would bring him home packs upon packs of gpk OS2 and OS1 so he had plenty to spare but he was always an obnoxious little brat about it. The next day at school was like going to a murder trial! Stealing someone's GPK was like stealing someone's car back in those days. First thing after attendance the teacher spoke to the whole class about who stole Joe's cards and asked every kid in the room - practically interrogating each and every one of us. I was so fuggin' nervous and scared and I knew she was going to search everyone's book bag eventually so I went to the ole "cubby" and pretended to get something once again and I just threw the stack at the other end of the cubby. The next day Joe had a fuggin' MOUSE TRAP attached to his stack of GPK! LOL! " I also remember a couple of months later the principal of our elementary school had an "emergency" meeting with all the students in the whole entire school about how GPK was no longer allowed anywhere on school grounds. She gave a whole lecture and stories of kids being made fun of from GPK names for about 40 minutes or so. The ban never really worked but it seemed by the end of the year the GPK mania had died down considerably. When I was in 4th grade in '86 I was the first person in my class to purchase some OS5 packs when they first came out but everyone was kind of like ".....eh...neat..." and just walked away so I remember that being a real letdown. I eventually stopped collecting GPK as a kid after the 7th series when I found my own name on a card - "Grant ant". I still have two OS1 cards from when I was a kid in '85 - the scan is of the two cards - they're pretty beat up but there is so much GPK history tied into them. I love these stories. The things kids would do to get some GPK back then. |
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Post by Nicodemus on Nov 3, 2009 11:29:07 GMT -5
Stack of GPK cards = $5.00
Rubber band to hold them together = $0.04
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Using a mouse-trap to protect them from being stolen = PRICELESS
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Post by mischap123 on Jan 8, 2010 5:32:45 GMT -5
I was reading these stories thinking how awesome they are when I remember one of my own. It was prob 1990-1 and my school went on holidays 2 weeks before anyone else so a group of friends thought we'd go into the city for a movie etc. While waiting for the cinema to open we went to a comic store where they had Garbage Gang packs for sale. We all were into them and bought a few packs and went outside to bust then open. Waiting, waiting waiting... One of the chicks we were with got busted stealing a pack.  The store owner got heavy and thinking that we were jigging school gave the ultimatum - call the cops or the school principal!!! What a choice because our principal was a real hard ass and anything could happen when you bring the name of your private school into disrepute. She chose the principal.  We had only just arrived and already on our way back to school. Would we get a weekend detention, suspension or expulsion? Even though I had done nothing wrong I was now sh#$ting my pants because the school had policies on how hair could or could not be cut, and mine was outrageous. I had a Vanilla Ice - like flat top with a couple of lines across the side of the head and then shaved bits at the back of the head (like Charlie Sheen in some baseball movie I can't remember the name of).  Was I bad ass back then or what? As it turned out I got away without punishment but the chick at the centre of the debarcle, never divulged a word as to hers. All this over a 30c pack of Garbage Gang.  |
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Post by addicted on Jan 9, 2010 3:33:52 GMT -5
I was reading these stories thinking how awesome they are when I remember one of my own. It was prob 1990-1 and my school went on holidays 2 weeks before anyone else so a group of friends thought we'd go into the city for a movie etc. While waiting for the cinema to open we went to a comic store where they had Garbage Gang packs for sale. We all were into them and bought a few packs and went outside to bust then open. Waiting, waiting waiting... One of the chicks we were with got busted stealing a pack. The store owner got heavy and thinking that we were jigging school gave the ultimatum - call the cops or the school principal!!! What a choice because our principal was a real hard ass and anything could happen when you bring the name of your private school into disrepute. She chose the principal. We had only just arrived and already on our way back to school. Would we get a weekend detention, suspension or expulsion? Even though I had done nothing wrong I was now sh#$ting my pants because the school had policies on how hair could or could not be cut, and mine was outrageous. I had a Vanilla Ice - like flat top with a couple of lines across the side of the head and then shaved bits at the back of the head (like Charlie Sheen in some baseball movie I can't remember the name of). Was I bad ass back then or what? As it turned out I got away without punishment but the chick at the centre of the debarcle, never divulged a word as to hers. All this over a 30c pack of Garbage Gang. the charlie sheen movie with the vanilla ice fade was major league |
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Post by mischap123 on Jan 9, 2010 6:19:16 GMT -5
I thought Major League but wasn't sure. Thanks
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Post by Cory on Jan 9, 2010 18:33:01 GMT -5
I thought Major League but wasn't sure. Thanks Major League is one of my top 10 comedies of all time. So good.  |
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Post by records1138 on Feb 16, 2011 16:46:57 GMT -5
I was in fifth grade. A buddy of mine said he could get me packs of GPK's if I gave him the money for them. I did, and he did, and all was well. In fact, I later found out that they were the UK released ones (I.E. the mini cards). Well, long story short, I had a nice brown lunch bag full of cards that were in my desk, and wouldn't you know it, some jerk stole them when we were outside for recess. I never found out who took them, and even though it's been over twenty years, when I do, I'm gonna pound their head in. So, if you're reading this, and you lived in Oregon in the early 80's, and in the fifth grade you stole someone's GPK's, you're @$$ is mine when I find you! |
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Post by UKM on Feb 16, 2011 16:53:19 GMT -5
Ahahah records funny story  |
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Post by Cory on Feb 16, 2011 19:02:49 GMT -5
I was in fifth grade. A buddy of mine said he could get me packs of GPK's if I gave him the money for them. I did, and he did, and all was well. In fact, I later found out that they were the UK released ones (I.E. the mini cards). Well, long story short, I had a nice brown lunch bag full of cards that were in my desk, and wouldn't you know it, some jerk stole them when we were outside for recess. I never found out who took them, and even though it's been over twenty years, when I do, I'm gonna pound their head in. So, if you're reading this, and you lived in Oregon in the early 80's, and in the fifth grade you stole someone's GPK's, you're @$$ is mine when I find you!  GPK turning people into thieves yet again.  |
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Post by Cory on Feb 16, 2011 19:06:46 GMT -5
So toward the end of my GPK collecting spree in the 80's a came across a OS2 Sewer Sue. It was stuck inside of a book at school. I tore Sue out of the book and added just the sticker on a piece of paper into my collection. This was great because I had no OS2 or OS1 GPK. I cherished old Sue like she was the Queen of GPK for a long time. Then one time I forgot to take it out of my pants and I remembered it just as my Mom was doing laundry. I ran into the laundy room and asked my mom if she found it in my pants. She said she hadn't and I threw an angry fit because I was mad at myself. My mom said then said "It's right here" because she was fuggin with me. Then she tore the thing up right in my face for acting like a kid. That was by far the most devastating thing I had ever seen in my life up to that point. She broke my GPK spirit right then and there.  To this day I'm still pissed off about that. UPDATE ON THIS STORY I'm not as pissed off about this as I used to be. Now that I've acquired the final art for this wonderful character I feel that everything has come full circle and been made right again. Weird thing is, that owning that crappy shell of Sewer Sue back in the 80's felt the same as owning the final art here in the 10's. |
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Post by scorpio on Apr 12, 2011 22:11:40 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I had to register to tell my GPK story heh I've never thought of telling anybody about those awesome cards b4. Anyway my first memory of garbage pail kids was when my bus driver had a whole box of blue 2nd series packs. I was in kindergarden (I never did know about the pink first series until 15 years later) . She passed out a free pack to every kid on the bus. The craze was just starting in my school and I remember all the older kids having big ass stacks of 2nd series cards wrapped with a rubber band, trading them on the bus like was usual at that time. Anyhow, when I first opened up that pack I was instantly hooked. I still remember, 5 years old opening that pack up and seeing Rappin' Ron lookin at me. Then I saw leaky lindsay and brainy brian and I dont remember which other two I had but I was SO HOOKED haha. Anyhow, my mom thought they were funny, so she bought me a whole box as a suprise! To my dismay it was a green 3rd series box. I still loved the cards but I wanted all the ones I saw on the checklist I had on the back of one of my 2nd series cards! I guess my mother or father tracked down some 2nd series because I remember putting together the live mike puzzle on the floor in my bedroom but I mainly ended up focusing on completing the 3rd series. A year or more went by I guess and I remember having the entire 3rd and 4th series completed. Then all of a sudden my mom decided she didnt like my fascination with the cards and was trying to claim they were becoming more violent and didnt suit me. She also didnt like the sarcastic "Wanted" posters on the backs of some of the cards. So (ugh) without my permission she took my funkin' card sets and stuck all the stickers in one of those cheap crap sticker albums and threw away all my backs! And she also banned me from collecting the 5th series and up. I was a bit heartbroken almost I dont feel those cards harmed me in any way but you know how parents are! Once the cards were destroyed and were nothing more than stickers in an album anymore, I lost interest and eventually threw out the sticker album and forgot all about GPK's until around 1999 curiosity got to me and I looked them up online. Within 6 months I owned the entire 1-15 series and almost every single variation card except the semi-colin. Within 2 years I owned at least 1 unopened 48pack box of each series including series 1, and bought several unopened single packs of series 1 to open and improve my master set. I hit the jackpot and bought 20packs that turned out to be all glossy backs and in excellent shape, without melted gum or anything. Anyway I am rambling but as an adult I had to get all those cards my mom said I could never have, and to this day my 2nd series Live Mike back set is still my favorite GPK set because they were the first cards I discovered.
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Post by scorpio on Apr 12, 2011 22:18:48 GMT -5
Oh, I said I forgot all about them but actually I noticed those "trash can trolls" they came out when I was in 7th grade I think and I collected the whole set at that time but never thought I'd see GPK's again as I didnt know wtf the internet was yet lol
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Post by jsul77798 on Apr 16, 2011 16:17:11 GMT -5
Aaahh. What fond, fond memories. I'll never forget it. Laurie Grzlack, grade 2. She showed me a GPK os1 Guillo Tina. I was a typical little psycho kid and loved the guillotine part. Then there was Potty Scotty. Loved the colors, and could make fun of my friend Scott! After that one, I was hooked, in love, and had to find more!! I was lucky enough to live in a little town with a real old fashioned town center and a few little stores within walking distance for a youngin. The hunt was on for OS1's!! Right about this time OS2's were coming out and I remember how hard it was to actually find those beautiful little hot pink GPK packs!!! To this day, the sight of them makes me all nostalgic. Been my BIG memory pushing me to finish this OS1 box. Needless to say, it was on. From OS2- OS15 I collected every damn card ond put a set of each series together in them 9 card sleeves. As an year old kid!! I was always one to keep things in hopes of them being my retirement down the line. Wish I had collected more of the better stuff. I traded Jim Leavitt for his full set of OS1, remember the cheap toys sitting on the copunter of the local Mobil gas station, ( shoulda bought them up!!), remember a friend coming back from the mall with a full sheet of OS2, (gotta have been a bootleg). Anyways, a lot of great memories. Fastforward 25 years. I still have my collection of OS1- os15 in 2 folders of sleeves. I brought them from the storage unit to an apartment I was in and showed my cleptomaniac girlfriend of the time who loved that cool weird stuff. A few months later I move and in the process realize that my cards are nowhere to be found. Nowhere. Anyway, I have no proof, but they went somewhere. Had to have been the girlfriend or her sisterr that was my roomate. So that fired me off into my current GPK collecting binge from hell that I am enjoying so much. Still wish I had my originals, but whatcha gonna do. Someone created a monster taking them damn cards and I LOVE IT!!!!!! To anyone who actually read this, god bless you. For me, it was therapy. Lol. peace jim  |
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Post by rusVan on Sept 16, 2011 23:50:58 GMT -5
Awesome Jim! Thanks for sharing shawty! lol
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Post by Atomboy806 on Sept 17, 2011 22:42:54 GMT -5
talk about drahma, i can rember one time when i was in sixth grade i took my gpks to school with me and my first period class was math, i had some time left before it started so i left my backpack there and went back to my locker. as i made my self back to my desk i noticed my backpack was open, so i opened it to find that some one had not stolen my cards but took a pair of scissors and cut them in half :(when i informed the teacher her reply was why did you bring them to school? Are you f'n serious ? wtf, needless to say the sorry mother f'r was never caught. i would of them just stole them instead of destroying them!!!!
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Post by GRANT_ant on Nov 7, 2012 3:33:31 GMT -5
talk about drahma, i can rember one time when i was in sixth grade i took my gpks to school with me and my first period class was math, i had some time left before it started so i left my backpack there and went back to my locker. as i made my self back to my desk i noticed my backpack was open, so i opened it to find that some one had not stolen my cards but took a pair of scissors and cut them in half :(when i informed the teacher her reply was why did you bring them to school? Are you f'n serious ? wtf, needless to say the sorry mother f'r was never caught. i would of them just stole them instead of destroying them!!!! Yeah - nothing like replying to a 14 month old post lol - but anyway, I had to reply to your very SICK, unfortunate and violating incident - that's just......purely FUGGED UP!! I actually felt angry inside as I read your post lol! Why someone would do that......even a little kid!?  ;D |
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Post by Edmasta on Jan 5, 2013 10:53:54 GMT -5
I have a story not great but when I lived with my mum and stepdad my stepdad used to give me money on Saturdays to go his news paper so I used to get on my bike and shoot to the local shop he used to say keep the change without my mum knowing and there would be like £3 I was obsessed with GPK's but my mum didn't like me having them and I used to have to buy ALF stickers as well and blend them in do she didn't see. Then one day I went into the shop to get my regular haul and I had the last 2 packs of what I think would have been series 5 or 6 so I asked the lady if I could have the box I always loved the boxes so she was like sure so I took it jumped on my bike got home and my mum was like what is that I was like its nothing she looked at it and said your not keeping that so I remember saying please I want to use it as a ship for figures she wasn't having any if it chucked it in the bin then banned me from GPK's then also banned my stepdad from buying me them. Then I moved in with my dad a couple of years down the line and he loves collecting so we used to go to crappy antique shows but found one that often had GPK's and my dad loved them used to just buy everything the guy had then I would sit in the car on the way home going insane with excite ment looking at them.
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Post by GRANT_ant on Jan 5, 2013 14:31:01 GMT -5
ha ha, thanks for sharing!! You know what you should do? Send your mother a few GPK in the mail with a little note that says "remember theses?" |
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Post by Edmasta on Apr 2, 2013 10:45:48 GMT -5
ha ha, thanks for sharing!! You know what you should do? Send your mother a few GPK in the mail with a little note that says "remember theses?" Haha she knows I collect them and was like o god why haha |
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Post by greenrhino on Apr 21, 2013 10:19:49 GMT -5
These cards being the way they are made for drama being commonplace.
As I remember it, in elementary school (this must have been fall '85) one day - teachers & faculty decided to confiscate all (1st & 2nd series) GPKs they could scare out of our hands & pockets. We used to bring them to school with us to trade, sometimes only bringing some of our collection on any given day - thus I did not loose my entire collection that day - but it took a massive hit...
By maybe a year after that, I had managed to complete multiple sets of each series (I always had the USA glossy ones) - and ended up selling the extra sets off at a yard sale for something like $5 each (1st, 2nd & 3rd.)
The 3rd series was the last set I completed. Last part to my post...
So I at this point I had one set each of 1st, 2nd & 3rd series but they weren't minty. My final entry to '80's GPK drama is that I decided to upgrade the condition of my cards back then in 1986...A friend of mine who may have had more money than interest in these cards had a few tall stacks of minty 1st-3rd series cards - and I wanted them so he sold them to me for $20 (in 1986)...perhaps it was 'birthday' money or whatever because my parents found out that I squandered a ridiculous amount of $20 on these 'worthless' cards & I had to give them back in an reverse exchange....so ironically, if my folks hadn't prevented that sale by my crafty, manipulative friend in their eyes...I may have upgraded all three sets to near minty all the way back then!...
...instead of now piecing my sets back together at $2-$10+ per card!
so that's my story
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Post by Smetchlock Smomes on May 3, 2013 5:24:05 GMT -5
guilotina was definetely a controversial card in my school growing up. plenty of stories surround the card and girls getting upset about it when the boys in class showed the cards to them. Parents complaining etc. That's how the gpk's got banned in my school.
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Post by gpkf3v3r on May 3, 2013 6:51:02 GMT -5
I only had one friend to trade GPK with as a kid. No drama was ever had and I still have my original collection. Sorry for everyone's traumatic stories.  |
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Post by estherbunny79 on May 12, 2013 13:55:02 GMT -5
I was occasionally let loose with some of my pocket money if I was annoying enough! Then I'd take a walk around the block to the spar shop and root around in the box that smelt of gum and new cello packets, desperately trying to peek through to see if I could find a twin of a card I already had. I remembered getting Dana Druff and Flake Day that way ads well as Sheared Sherwood, I can't remember his twin, but I liked that name - it seemed so American to me at the time as my American second cousin had recently got married and her new surname was Sherwood. Then teachers got stressy about GPKs and we weren't allowed them in school so gpk got lost in time for me - also I,m sure I never saw any of the later UK releases. So am loving rediscovering the slightly illicit thrill of gpk now I'm nearly mid thirties. Just wish tools would get their act together and supply to the UK.
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Post by GRANT_ant on May 23, 2013 21:36:48 GMT -5
Just wish tools would get their act together and supply to the UK. Just buy them on online, no? |
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Post by GRANT_ant on May 23, 2013 21:52:55 GMT -5
guilotina was definetely a controversial card in my school growing up. plenty of stories surround the card and girls getting upset about it when the boys in class showed the cards to them. Parents complaining etc. That's how the gpk's got banned in my school. I remember Hot Scott was very controversial for obvious reasons. Nervous Rex too. |
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Post by gambit420 on Jul 26, 2013 9:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by cMk on Sept 1, 2013 20:05:32 GMT -5
I remember it was like 1st or 2nd grade and my classmate which i still remember his name bullied me for gpk cards.My mom drove down to the school and set his straight.
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To this day I'm still pissed off about that. 
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Really cool box. I wish they had the Nasty Nick box too though