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MisterBadIdea 
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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 Posted - 04/20/2008 : 22:32:45
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| are covered in posters! Every square inch! Where the hell do they get the money for all those posters?? I didn't cover my room with posters when I was a kid, because I didn't have the money, and even if I did, I wouldn't have spent on freaking posters! |
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 01:27:50
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I did.
I had Farrah (you know the one), "Beer Busts are Better," Zeppelin, Ziggy, Dallas Cowboys (they were free at McDonalds, back when Staubach was taking them to Super Bowls, of course I lived in Dallas)
But I couldn't waste my money on MP3s back then, and it was only three bucks to see a first run movie, gas hadn't hit a dollar a gallon yet, and I think pot was a lot cheaper (haven't checked lately to know for sure)  |
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MguyXXVI 
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 02:01:36
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
are covered in posters! Every square inch! Where the hell do they get the money for all those posters?? I didn't cover my room with posters when I was a kid, because I didn't have the money, and even if I did, I wouldn't have spent on freaking posters!
Like most red-blooded American kids, I stole every poster I could get my hands on, including various construction and traffic signs (including my pride and joy "Railroad Crossing," which took me a long time to unscrew from a pretty high pole). I also drew up some of my own, and I cut pictures out of magazines (that I stole -- and i stole a LOT of em!).
I covered every square inch of at least one wall (over time), as I shared a room with siblings.
Unlike me, you must have had parentall supervision.  |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 13:32:38
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I didn't steal but I did have a few:
Justification for a Higher Education" with a garage filled with sports cars. I also had Belinda Carlisle from her first solo effort, and a Michael Jordan poster. So not plastered, but a few here and there. |
Edited by - turrell on 04/21/2008 16:45:59 |
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 16:16:54
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Originally posted by MguyX
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
are covered in posters! Every square inch! Where the hell do they get the money for all those posters?? I didn't cover my room with posters when I was a kid, because I didn't have the money, and even if I did, I wouldn't have spent on freaking posters!
Like most red-blooded American kids, I stole every poster I could get my hands on, including various construction and traffic signs (including my pride and joy "Railroad Crossing," which took me a long time to unscrew from a pretty high pole). I also drew up some of my own, and I cut pictures out of magazines (that I stole -- and i stole a LOT of em!).
I covered every square inch of at least one wall (over time), as I shared a room with siblings.
Unlike me, you must have had parentall supervision.
Yeah my room was pretty much the same, although I admit that I finally stopped stealing road signs when I found out that the special reflective ones cost something like $1200. I went to a lot of punk and hardcore shows so I just grabbed the posters and fliers stapled to the venue walls. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 17:14:04
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Boys! Really.
As a kid I wasn't allowed to put posters up on the wall. Didn't have much wall space anyway. But we did each get our own cork bulletin boards. Mine I filled mostly with pictures of (okay, so I was a very unusual kid) the original star of "Dark Shadows"...
Jonathan Frid
as well as (like many, many girls my age)...
Davey Jones!
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 17:23:13
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| I cannot really remember having many posters as a non-adult teenager: as a child I had animal ones all over, and as a student I had all the typical films and pre-Raphaelite prints. I didn't get much pocket money, compared to what they get now, and was always slightly in the red to my parents, so I suppose poster-buying wasn't much of a priority for spending not-yet-due money on. |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 18:03:28
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| In my day, it was commonplace for full size posters to be included with major album releases. We're talking early 70's and I particularly remember Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper & Wings all including one or even two posters per album. |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 18:23:48
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I attempted to cover inch of my room in Beatles posters, as I was such a Fab Fournatic (now I've converted to Film Review Fournaticism). I still have the posters, but haven't got a room where I can get away with putting them up.
As I recall they pretty much ran me $5 or $6 bucks apiece, so yes, I blew a fair amount of cash on the effort. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/21/2008 : 18:33:01
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My dream is (or was) to have a room covered with maps. I am always buying maps. However, this was duplicated by a not wholly sympathetic character in We Need to Talk About Kevin, so it has been somewhat sullied.  |
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 23:11:10
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| I had this one on the wall. I remember my Grandfather seeing it for the first time, and watching his eyes light up. So I bought him a copy. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/23/2008 : 07:58:55
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| I bet your grandmother loved it! |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 04/23/2008 : 17:12:46
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Okay, just to further our trip down memory lane, here's what my Farrah poster looked like.
Wearing her T-shirt would get you suspended from my school. They were afraid of us sliding (further) into moral depravity.
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/23/2008 : 17:21:56
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Originally posted by Chris C
I had this one on the wall. I remember my Grandfather seeing it for the first time, and watching his eyes light up. So I bought him a copy.
Talking of iconic 1980s posters, I wonder whether it worked out better for her than for him. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/23/2008 : 19:19:49
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Originally posted by Salopian
Talking of iconic 1980s posters, I wonder whether it worked out better for her than for him.
That reminds me of this one.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 04/23/2008 : 19:30:32
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Even I'm offended by that grammar, so Salopian is probably having a fit!
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Teenagers' rooms in movies
