iCollect
isn’t that a clever title? you know it is.
i’ve been frazzled punkers. just two days to my bahamian vacay and work is in superthrottledeluxe mode so i haven’t had much time to get my social media on. including writing a post. but i did take a picture for y’all. i’m like the motherfucking giving tree, aren’t i?
people collect shit like stamps, coins, trading cards, star wars action figures, silly bandz, hummels, bunnykins, comics, precious moments, pez dispensers, lunchboxes, tea sets, christmas villages, music boxes, snow globes, ww2 memorabilia, clocks, watches, key chains, advertisements, magazines and salt and pepper shakers.
but i’m a punk so i needed to collect something unconventional. i collect rubber ducks. awesomeness, right? today i’ve brought them out of their natural habitat (the jacuzzi tub in the master bath) and arranged them ever so orderly for your viewing pleasure. does it get anymore benevolent?
click to enlarge. you need to see these BAMFs in their full splendor.
okay so one is a rubber buddha. but how could i resist adding a rubber buddha with coffee and a cellphone to my collection? besides he fits. he’s a budda for christ sake. he fits everywhere cuz he’s all peaceable and pacifisty. poetic license. shutup.
so some i really cherish. like the soccer ball duck (back row left) my daughter, my angel bought for me. she’s a stud goalie so i thought that was tres cute. or the easter egg/bunny/lamb ones (scattered) that i had to hunt for, or the cleopatra one (front row right) that i just got during a trip to the franklin institute in philly to see the cleopatra exhibit, or the chelsea soccer duck (back row center) that mr. punker got me because it’s his favorite team.
what, you think being sappy over rubber ducks is foolish? well, it’s not. it’s cool. and not at all creepy like this:
is it a boy? a girl? a goy? what's with the scary sad eyes?
what do you collect?
I collect tea sets too, along with roosters………… also Buddhas…………. must have the rubber Buddha.
LOVE the collection. Have fun on your vacay!
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:11 am
i have a friend who collects roosters, then she opened a bar in philly called the happy rooster and filled the shelves with roosters. it’s frequented by lawyers. any connection?
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I collect magnets with fun sayings like: ‘Gotta Go. The Kids Chewed Through Their Straps.’ And my new favourite: ‘Salad Queen By Day, Junk Food Slut By Night’. They have pictures of 50s women on them. I love them. I like your Ducks too. They are so totally BAMFs.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:12 am
awesome sauce. i want one that says “uptown girl by day, downtime girl by night.”
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The only things I collect anymore are empty wine bottles.
However, there is a drawer someplace in upstate NY that houses a very extensive UNICORN stable.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 am
i see your wine bottles and raise you franzia boxes.
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A Vapid Blonde Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:14 am
Heh. Touche Miss Punker. Yet you avoid the unicorn conundrum. I will gather my army of one horned glitter pooping magical beasts and meet you in a field….*throws down gaunlet after slapping self in the face with a white glove*
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I don’t really collect anything, at least not intentionally- I have a growing collection of clothes and shoe that don’t fit right.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:14 am
i have a growing collection of cosmetics that don’t do shit.
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Ernie says rubber duckie makes bath time lots of fun. I think anyone who makes bath time lots of fun is collectible.
I don’t know why I can remember the rubber duckie song but I can’t remember what day it is.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:15 am
exactly! and the rubber duckie song is epic, btw.
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Damnit! I just saw an Elvis duck. Had I only known….
Also? You need one of these: http://www.pajamasandcoffee.com/?p=1471
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:15 am
hellz yeah i do!
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I don’t collect anything. I am sad to realize I don’t own a single buddha. That just is not right. I don’t know any lepidopterists and don’t own any buddhas. These are just two things wrong with the universe.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:16 am
that’s it i’m finding you a buddha on this vacay. and you collect wisdom, whereas i keep losing it.
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That could be my kids collection. When I found out that I was pregnant with my first I bought a duck of every color, then I kept getting them for gifts. My favorite would be the “so big my 4 year old can ride it” duck my friend sent me.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:17 am
woot! i must have a duck i can ride. wait i’m not a 4 yo. only in maturity years.
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i collect belgian beer glasses because one can never have enough of those since a glass is bound to get broken after having too many belgian beers. i dig the rubber duckies – very cool variety of styles. the devil ones seem right up your alley and the mummy cracks me up
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:19 am
thank you skullboy! and too funny (and true) about the belgian beer glasses. i’m that way with wine and martini glasses.
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Toys! Like Mighty Muggs and anything I can find a good deal on as long as it’s from something I love that’s nerdy. But seriously, I wouldn’t pass up a rubber duck Buddha. That shit’s awesome.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:21 am
yay toys! toys for the tub! this tells me there are true god-geniuses that walk on earth.
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I collect nothing but dust.
Comes with age.
And not doing a damn thing unless I absolutely have to.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:22 am
i’ve been collecting a few aging skin cells so i gets it.
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I collect addictions, afflictions and adipose cells. And possibly therapists.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
fucking adipose cells. can’t we just a way to blast them.
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Every winter when the rain starts a little part o my yard ponds and while I’m sitting on the porch all I see are those ducks, a buddah would be fun.
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patty punker Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
and buddha’s don’t need water.
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That is so cool that you collect rubber ducks! They are very cute!
I’m not a huge collector, but I do enjoy unusual/funny/cute fridge magnets. Other than that, it would be hats and books.
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shhhh, don’t tell: i collect miniature books as well.
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Happy travels, PPnkr!!!!
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What the fuck is a bunnykin? Am I missing out?
Love the ducks! I collect fingernail clippings.
Okay, I’m kidding. Sort of.
Hope you have a super vacation. Jealous…
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The ducks are awesome. I have two that sit in my bathroom.
I love collecting all kinds of small things, mostly from the “geek” column: stamps, coins, little glass bottles, little decorative boxes, pretty stones. I had a beach glass collection but I gave it away. Kinda wish I hadn’t.
Yes, my house is a bit full of little things. So?
Have a lovely time in the Bahamas!!!
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It’s a lot better than collecting boy toys in the basement closet.
Have a great vacation!
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I fucking love those ducks, girlfriend! I don’t collect anything. Now I feel lame. I am a non-collector. Le’sigh
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I would NEVER have had you down as a duck collecter!! Do you have an extra big bath? If so can I come a play pwetty please?!!! I collect erm, I collect…. nothing – My, my I’m boring!
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I collect various different kinds of teddy bears and other stuffed animals, but it’s only because my husband keeps getting them for me for birthdays, valentine’s etc. and I don’t have the heart to tell him to stop (for the love of god stop!!! It was cute when I was 23 notsomuch at 36)
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Ducks? Okay. I see. One needs to retreat to something comfortable in these trying times, like… ducks.
Regarding that scary clown… I think you found the one precious moments item that my mom didn’t have. She had bookcases full of them. Crazy.
I just collect hubcaps. Well, I used to. Yes, very stereotypical for a dude. Thanks
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I can’t believe I’m the first asshole to warn you off of that second picture that contains a pseudo-clown precious moment figurine.
My best friends mom collected every precious moment statue that ever exsisted and they came alive at night, crawled out of the glass case and repeated their slogans in your ear until you were screaming and crying.
Make sure one doesn’t crawl into your suitcase and stow away to Atlantis because people will die.
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@One of The Guys
Umm, what’s wrong with collecting boy toys? Not that I have any. At the moment. But if I did, would that be so wrong? I mean, I’ll feed them and all.
(Applications being accepted.)
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Rubber duckys! (Duckies?) Awesome!
I collect fairy stuff. Especially Amy Brown.
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I collect more and more wisdom every day and than foolishly give it away to everyone else like a cheap whore. Ain’t that just awesome!
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I used to collect pin badges and keyrings when I was an adolescent… and that wasn’t yesterday… some of them are still lurking around in a box though.
Then I started collecting dragon figurines.. but they’re really expensive, and since I’m now a SAHM with 2 kids to drain my finances, I don’t really collect anything. I did manage to get one dragon for free though, when I married my OH.. the old dragon came as part of the deal.. Gotta love the outlaws.
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Thank you for the devil duckies you gave me!!!! I will take baths with them and send you pictures! LOL. JK. I do know that I know what to get your for your birthdays now.
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