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Ed Willy		2008-01-31 12:32:42 PM

Isn't it a little early? Shouldn't Primary stats be on the back?

SaintAwesome		2008-01-31 12:32:57 PM

Well, if it's Kucinich they need a card of his wife.

overlord_mike		2008-01-31 12:33:14 PM

Do they include Ms. kucinich?

if not then i dont care

safeinsane		2008-01-31 12:33:23 PM

Cool! I needed something to replace that 89 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr. card that makes that awesome BZZZZZZZ sound when it hits my spokes!

Raging Thespian		2008-01-31 12:33:34 PM

I think I'd rather have a Hamburglar comic book with the jumble already answered.

/Fries

sinistermonk		2008-01-31 12:33:52 PM

Oh shiat, the Amusing tag killed the Stupid tag. RIP reality

toroda		2008-01-31 12:35:15 PM

The gum that came with my Hillary card smells funny.

I_Approve_Of_This_Message		2008-01-31 12:35:20 PM

What's the value multiplier on a Refractor?

probesport		2008-01-31 12:35:27 PM

Upper Deck(er) version?

Udontknowme		2008-01-31 12:35:55 PM

That's actually good. Now I'll have Hillary Clinton targets in my toilet bowl!

clownyclownzomby		2008-01-31 12:36:39 PM

You better take all of my Hillary cards or I'm going to shoot my wife's cats.

toroda		2008-01-31 12:37:55 PM

The gum that came with my Obama Card tastes like ~~Change~~ Chocolate.

overlord_mike		2008-01-31 12:38:02 PM

Udontknowme: That's actually good. Now I'll have Hillary Clinton targets in my toilet bowl!

Win

Mentat		2008-01-31 12:38:42 PM

The value of my 911 Giuliani rookie cards are in the toilet after this week.

willicus		2008-01-31 12:39:36 PM

The gum that came with my Kucinich card tastes like tofu :(

fark_your_mudder		2008-01-31 12:41:06 PM

Presendetial candidates.....Gotta catch 'em all!

toroda		2008-01-31 12:41:18 PM

Why is my McCain card printed in Spanish?

This		2008-01-31 12:41:55 PM

Shaggy_C: Lame...Topps needs to go into porn so we can start trading cards dedicated to Boobies!

Epic win.

TomPetty		2008-01-31 12:42:19 PM

I was hoping for some debate used suit cards.

altinos		2008-01-31 12:42:37 PM

Impasse		2008-01-31 12:44:44 PM

SaintAwesome: Well, if it's Kucinich they need a card of his wife.

I've got a few (but they're all stuck together)

Mongo cut wood		2008-01-31 12:45:17 PM

Do not want. Prefer playing cards with hot babes on them.

Crude		2008-01-31 12:47:14 PM

There would be a problem, as I see it. What if you had Ron Paul cards, and what if they had some value (as unlikely as that might be), wouldn't you have to, ugh, meet with the Ron Paul supporters to trade cards with them? Then you'll be stuck there having to listen to them go on and on about how Ron Paul plays drums better than anyone in the world, and how Ron Paul can make butterflies come out of his eyelids, or how Ron Paul fought at the Alamo and saved America.

Who needs the drama?

Myth Sammich		2008-01-31 12:47:23 PM

SaintAwesome: Well, if it's Kucinich they need a card of his wife.

*NODS*

IndyGemini		2008-01-31 12:48:18 PM

Crude: There would be a problem, as I see it. What if you had Ron Paul cards, and what if they had some value (as unlikely as that might be), wouldn't you have to, ugh, meet with the Ron Paul supporters to trade cards with them?

Who needs the drama?

Actually, you'd be quite fortunate to get a Ron Paul card since they're tied to the price of gold.

Ghastly		2008-01-31 12:50:13 PM

Back in the late 80s when the whole collectible card craze was in full swing, I had thought it would be a really neat thing to send photographers to all the underground live music clubs and take pictures of the bands that nobody ever heard of and release them as collectible cards. You'd have a card for the band as a whole featuring a shot of all of them on stage and on the back a small write up on the band. Then you'd have a close-up shot for each band member as a card with a write up on them. All the bands would have to be obscure indies, nobody signed to a label. The beauty of these cards would be you'd buy a pack and it would be nothing but a random selection of guys you'd never heard of and then you'd look through your collection 5 or 10 years later and see how many of the bands or musicians went on to become really big names. It's like every pack would contain nothing but rookie cards.

I was giving serious thought to actually creating this kind of collectible card set but by the time I got to a place I might have been able to do anything about it the whole collectible card phase had sort of passed and if your cards weren't part of a game you might as well forget it.

choice and consequence		2008-01-31 12:50:14 PM

Anybody notice that the end of Hillary's bat has "fark face" written on it?

toroda		2008-01-31 12:50:29 PM

Impasse: SaintAwesome: Well, if it's Kucinich they need a card of his wife.

I've got a few (but they're all stuck together)

That's funny... My Edwards cards are stuck together too. And I got them from HIM!

Udontknowme		2008-01-31 12:54:40 PM

crude

There would be a problem, as I see it. What if you had Ron Paul cards, and what if they had some value (as unlikely as that might be), wouldn't you have to, ugh, meet with the Ron Paul supporters to trade cards with them? Then you'll be stuck there having to listen to them go on and on about how Ron Paul plays drums better than anyone in the world, and how Ron Paul can make butterflies come out of his eyelids, or how Ron Paul fought at the Alamo and saved America.

Who needs the drama?

Nah...they'll all end up on Ebay eventually. I'm in the process of listing my first edition Obama error card which spelled his name with an S instead of a B.

/Seller rating of 99.5 satisfaction.
// AAAAAAA++ Great transaction!! You'll buy again!!

Hawthorne Wingnut		2008-01-31 12:55:01 PM

Crude IndyGemini

win, win, owe me a new keyboard, etc, etc

/agrees with Ron Paul 50% of the time
//supporters need to get a sense of humor tho

nikilds		2008-01-31 12:55:14 PM

It's all true.

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Ghastly		2008-01-31 12:55:46 PM

Man... I just got a really creepy image of lobbyists standing in a huddle on a playground flipping through their decks saying "Got 'im, got 'im, got 'im, need 'im, need 'im, got 'im, got 'm got 'im, doubles, got 'm, need 'im, OH! NEED HIM!"

sloopjohnb		2008-01-31 12:56:58 PM

This is so Bush league.

choice and consequence		2008-01-31 12:57:44 PM

I was giving serious thought to actually creating this kind of collectible card set but by the time I got to a place I might have been able to do anything about it the whole collectible card phase had sort of passed and if your cards weren't part of a game you might as well forget it.

There was a set of music trading cards you could buy in the early 90's, but it was all established acts. Madonna, Paula Abdul, etc. Bought a case for $1 a couple years afterward just for the hell of it. Here's a link to somebody desperately trying to sell this shiat:
Link (new window)

pandabear		2008-01-31 12:57:46 PM

Shaggy_C: Lame...Topps needs to go into porn so we can start trading cards dedicated to Boobies!

Heh. Filters on filters required.

/Who can design an artificial intelligence that can tell the difference between "initial contribution" and "tits?"

fark_your_mudder		2008-01-31 01:00:03 PM

choice and consequence: I was giving serious thought to actually creating this kind of collectible card set but by the time I got to a place I might have been able to do anything about it the whole collectible card phase had sort of passed and if your cards weren't part of a game you might as well forget it.

There was a set of music trading cards you could buy in the early 90's, but it was all established acts. Madonna, Paula Abdul, etc. Bought a case for $1 a couple years afterward just for the hell of it. Here's a link to somebody desperately trying to sell this shiat:
Link (new window)

I remember those. They had Yo! MTV Raps cards too. MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Run DMC.

Udontknowme		2008-01-31 01:01:29 PM

choice and consequence

Anybody notice that the end of Hillary's bat has "fark face" written on it?

Classic!!

The one I have has her listed as a wide reciever though.

Ghastly		2008-01-31 01:01:56 PM

choice and consequence:
There was a set of music trading cards you could buy in the early 90's, but it was all established acts. Madonna, Paula Abdul, etc. Bought a case for $1 a couple years afterward just for the hell of it. Here's a link to somebody desperately trying to sell this shiat:
Link (new window)

Yeah, there were always sets for established musicians, or entire sets for bands (man, I wish I still had all my KISS trading cards). But I thought it would be much more interesting if the cards were of bands nobody but their local followings had ever heard of. Like imagine if when Nirvana was playing dives in Seattle and they were one of the cards in the set what a Kurt Cobain card would be worth today. It would have to be mint condition of course. I mean, it wouldn't be worth anything if the top was torn off it.

Hank Rearden		2008-01-31 01:04:30 PM

I hear the Ron Paul card is a gold foil hologram.

thistime		2008-01-31 01:09:19 PM

this red head thread does not deliver

DeadZone		2008-01-31 01:11:15 PM

Here's my card set:
Ron Paul: Card is round, with no sharp corners, to protect his supporters.
Kucinich: Made from Pecan Sandies and recycled paper.
Kucinich's Wife: Waterproof. 'nuff said.
Edwards: Card comes with a ketchup-type packet, filled with hair gel.
Joe Biden: Made from Pecan Sandies and recycled paper.
Hillary: One of those holographic tilt-motion cards, so the picture changes to what you want to see.
Gravel: Just fill the card pack with sand from a Zen garden.
McCain: Printed on medieval parchment.
Romney: Printed on a replica of a $50 dollar bill. looks good, but not legal tender.
Huckabee: Printed on a page ripped from a bible. But, one of the bible pages with a joke on it.
Guliani: No actual card, just a note that it'll get there about a month after the rest of the cards are released.
Thompson: Card has a warning label on it about causing drowsiness.
Obama: Card folds out to a poster of Obama at the beach, so all the youngins can unfold it, stick it to their wall, and stare and dream on election day.

/...and lunch is over, back to work.

Woog		2008-01-31 01:12:21 PM

Bah, I'd trade a million of all the other cards for one Kucinich card... this country is farked.

lurksquid		2008-01-31 01:13:27 PM

BFletch651		2008-01-31 01:17:07 PM

DeadZone

Nice. I like that.

dc-kid		2008-01-31 01:18:38 PM

that is so full of awesomeness

twobux		2008-01-31 01:21:25 PM

If you look really closely on John Edwards' lapel pin, it says "fark face."

darksarin		2008-01-31 01:23:16 PM

DeadZone: Here's my card set:
Ron Paul: Card is round, with no sharp corners, to protect his supporters.
Kucinich: Made from Pecan Sandies and recycled paper.
Kucinich's Wife: Waterproof. 'nuff said.
Edwards: Card comes with a ketchup-type packet, filled with hair gel.
Joe Biden: Made from Pecan Sandies and recycled paper.
Hillary: One of those holographic tilt-motion cards, so the picture changes to what you want to see.
Gravel: Just fill the card pack with sand from a Zen garden.
McCain: Printed on medieval parchment.
Romney: Printed on a replica of a $50 dollar bill. looks good, but not legal tender.
Huckabee: Printed on a page ripped from a bible. But, one of the bible pages with a joke on it.
Guliani: No actual card, just a note that it'll get there about a month after the rest of the cards are released.
Thompson: Card has a warning label on it about causing drowsiness.
Obama: Card folds out to a poster of Obama at the beach, so all the youngins can unfold it, stick it to their wall, and stare and dream on election day.

/...and lunch is over, back to work.

If there weren't so many other potential winners...but you made me laugh. I love this game--it's called, try not to laugh loud enough for anyone to hear me laughing at fark..

degreeless		2008-01-31 01:24:14 PM

Craig341		2008-01-31 01:29:16 PM

Crude: There would be a problem, as I see it. What if you had Ron Paul cards, and what if they had some value (as unlikely as that might be), wouldn't you have to, ugh, meet with the Ron Paul supporters to trade cards with them? Then you'll be stuck there having to listen to them go on and on about how Ron Paul plays drums better than anyone in the world, and how Ron Paul can make butterflies come out of his eyelids, or how Ron Paul fought at the Alamo and saved America.

Who needs the drama?

Uhh... eBay them?