How do I tell a friend...

[Asithappens 974]

That their extensive Nat Geo collection is worthless? 

As in, no, 1/2 books don't want them. Neither do libraries. Neither do schools.

 

[tucker 238]

Send them an evite for a book burning?

[Prepuce of Doom 21,079]

Make a giant collage out of all the African titties. 

[Gil Bang 25,975]

I know a woman who's crazy mother has been saving Vanity Fair magazines for decades.   Takes up half the fucking garage.

[Pato del Muerto 52,524]

Don’t bother?

[DaysOff 7,951]

That their extensive Nat Geo collection is worthless? 
As in, no, 1/2 books don't want them. Neither do libraries. Neither do schools.
 

You'd like to prove that wouldn't you. Get your name in the National Geographic.

[SHOOTER12 8,810]

3 hours ago, Asithappens said:

That their extensive Nat Geo collection is worthless? 

As in, no, 1/2 books don't want them. Neither do libraries. Neither do schools.

 

You need new, different friends....you have chosen POORLY.

[Guest]

What about my Dave Campbell's Texas Football since '96?

I'm sure  lotsa folks have more early ones.

I still get many comments by family and friends who love sports and start coveting my shit before they leave the house.  LOL.

[South Austin 52,519]

I still have a few Hustler magazines from the 80s, but you can’t open them anymore.

[RPM 26,322]

Can I interest you in an extensive Texas Monthly collection?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,515]

Some people chose to collect unopened stars wars action figures, other decades of magazines. The magazine route doesn’t seem to have paid off. A quick glance on eBay shows me that you can buy century old nat geo magazines for extremely low prices.no one must want them.

[6th Street 6,413]

As worthless as those wallets full of CDs we all bought back in the 90s

[Guest]

3 hours ago, South Austin said:

I still have a few Hustler magazines from the 80s, but you can’t open them anymore.

Yeah, my 2008 and 2009 copies of DCTF are in the same shape. #memoriesofleach

Edited March 26, 2019 by slorch

[phdhorn 6,224]

I went to the prom with/dated the daughter of the principal photographer for years from Nat Geo.  She was pretty cute.  Yes I have a pic.

Other than that, I got nuthin'.

[Armybrat 40,851]

Some art teachers like to use them for students to cut up to make collages. That’s how we got rid of 25 years worth of NG when we moved in 1995. Other than that, just recycle them

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

I have thirty John Smoltz Topps rookie cards I'll sell you

[Underdog 28,711]

10 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I went to the prom with/dated the daughter of the principal photographer for years from Nat Geo.  She was pretty cute.  Yes I have a pic.

Other than that, I got nuthin'.

Did you try chloroform?  Oh wait... you meant something else...  nevermind. 

 

[52-80 19,162]

wait, why would a popular magazine with a monthly circulation of 10 million pieces not be rare and valuable?

[Kennythetiger 9,389]

10 million people still subscribe to National Geographic?  That's pretty cool, I guess.

[Zepol87 9,188]

9 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I know a woman who's crazy mother has been saving Vanity Fair magazines for decades.   Takes up half the fucking garage.

You know my aunt? 

[CHIEF 5,093]

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Can I interest you in an extensive Texas Monthly collection?

Same here, I have the last 15 years worth.

 

CHIEF

[Underdog 28,711]

18 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

You know my aunt? 

We ALL do. 

[TrashMaster G 17,563]

3 hours ago, phdhorn said:

Other than that, I got nuthin'.

Just like prom night, eh?

[demos 3,004]

Some people chose to collect unopened stars wars action figures, other decades of magazines. The magazine route doesn’t seem to have paid off. A quick glance on eBay shows me that you can buy century old nat geo magazines for extremely low prices.no one must want them.

Yeah but can you fap to star wars action figures?

Nevermind, don’t answer that.

[El Diablo 4,232]

It's all about marketing. Your friend needs to find the serious aborigine pron collector. There's where the money is.

[tokamak 6,431]

My parents had 40 or 50 years of NatGeos. I grew up thinking that people saved them for some special reason. They all went straight into the recycling bin when my mom downsized her house.

Collecting anything, in general, seems like a baby boomer fad that's dying out. How many people do you know that collect stamps, coins, or baseball cards anymore? Only thing I can think of that's still going strong is the very rich buying art, etc as a store of wealth, but that's a different thing entirely.

[phdhorn 6,224]

4 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Just like prom night, eh?

Bing bang BOOM!  No, I got a little... (that's a description of a result, not one of my body parts)...

[52-80 19,162]

3 minutes ago, tokamak said:

My parents had 40 or 50 years of NatGeos. I grew up thinking that people saved them for some special reason. They all went straight into the recycling bin when my mom downsized her house.

Collecting anything, in general, seems like a baby boomer fad that's dying out. How many people do you know that collect stamps, coins, or baseball cards anymore? Only thing I can think of that's still going strong is the very rich buying art, etc as a store of wealth, but that's a different thing entirely.

you dont need to be very rich to be a thomas kinkadeionaire

[phdhorn 6,224]

I actually had a stack of 'em.  Not because they're valuable but they're so damn pretty and the paper is like royal quality.  Stack must've been 5 feet high.
But I weeded them out except for about 10 of 'em covering big events or that were just too beautiful to trash.

[ztejas 43,475]

I collect starburst wrappers and crochet them into neat things like handbags and key bowls.

[BearSchlong 8,098]

wait, are we doing movie dialogue?  I give up, which film?

Friend of mine's wife collected decades upon decades of not only Nat Geos, but Southern Living, coastal living, and a few others.  And had really nice built ins integrated into the living room, hallway, family room, office, even the entrance foyer of their house in which to store them.

Then hurricane Harvey put 9 feet of water into their house for 3 days.  My buddy was at MD Anderson, so my job was to gut his house.  10 foot pile of soggy magazines on the front lawn.

[Guest Lobo]

Tell him his wife has more issues than National Geographic.  And by that you mean many people have seen her saggy tits, she’s a decent cook, and her enlogated neck is freaking people out.  

[Neonmoon 38,129]

My grandfather collected these. My crazy mother thinks they are worth something. They will eventually be thrown away 

[Beau Vine 54,254]

My inlaws have 50 years worth of NGs on the bookshelves in their living room.  What's worse is that those bookshelves also have encyclopedias.  

[Doze 1,322]

19 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

You need new, different friends....you have chosen POORLY.

[Trey3216 15,347]

We got a genuine Indian guru

 that’s teaching us a better way

We got all the friends that money can buy

so we’ll never have to be alone

and we keep gettin richer but we can’t get our picture on the cover of the NatGeo 

 

[shakahorn 1,645]

10 million people still subscribe to National Geographic?  That's pretty cool, I guess.

10 million kids have that weird relative who got them a natgeo sub instead of something cool for their bday or Xmas.

[Pato del Muerto 52,524]

If everybody’s parents or grandparents collect these things, that doesn’t leave much of a market for buyers now does it. 

 

Some years ago ago I was dragged into an antiques store that had a ton of Life magazines. I looked for the Whitman shooting cover but they didn’t have that issue. With the bullet hole in the jewelry store and tower out of focus in the background. 

[Mr.Hovis 70]

I wish I still had all of my old National Lampoon mags from the 70's. In a way it's like they prepared me for Surly. Still miss  my monthly reading of Bernie X, My Meter Is Running.

 

[ABSR 5,315]

On 3/26/2019 at 4:48 AM, South Austin said:

I still have a few Hustler magazines from the 80s, but you can’t open them anymore.

I have a couple of computer monitors from the 90’s that are stuck together.

[Rimbo 25,976]

On 3/26/2019 at 2:48 AM, South Austin said:

I still have a few Hustler magazines from the 80s, but you can’t open them anymore.

[futureman 22,485]

yeah, but they’ll stop printing the mags and go to full online and then 10-20 years will pass and boom, those natgeos will be like gold and I’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Longboard Horn 40,333]

Don’t get me started. My uncle has motor sports and boat magazines stacked up on shelves. I’ve secretly been discarding a few at a time every time I go see him. So far he suspects nothing.

[Armybrat 40,851]

On 3/27/2019 at 2:34 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

If everybody’s parents or grandparents collect these things, that doesn’t leave much of a market for buyers now does it. 

 

Some years ago ago I was dragged into an antiques store that had a ton of Life magazines. I looked for the Whitman shooting cover but they didn’t have that issue. With the bullet hole in the jewelry store and tower out of focus in the background. 

I have that one.

[Wally Fairway 5,559]

On ‎3‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 9:22 AM, SwanderedTalent said:

I have thirty John Smoltz Topps rookie cards I'll sell you

$1

 

On ‎3‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 2:42 AM, shakahorn said:

10 million kids have that weird relative who got them a natgeo sub instead of something cool for their bday or Xmas.

Does that include on-line subscriptions or print only?

Edited March 28, 2019 by Wally Fairway
to include a reply to shaka

[CycleTex87 2,972]

CSB: My mother in law has given me NatGeo for Christmas since my wife and I have been married (26 years).  Of course we have all the issues.  My UT freshman daughter (no pix) started reading those cover to cover in about 4th grade, and now is a Journalism major with NatGeo as her ultimate career goal. /CSB

[Bat Guano 359]

Serious answer: Think back to whether you have ever, and I mean EVER, gone back and read a single one of the old issues.

Er, that is, ask you friend if he's ever read a single one of the old issues.

If the answer is no, then maybe your "friend" will start to think about why he's keeping them.

Edited March 28, 2019 by Bat Guano

[Lone Star Horn 2,018]

On 3/26/2019 at 9:09 PM, Trey3216 said:

We got a genuine Indian guru

 that’s teaching us a better way

We got all the friends that money can buy

so we’ll never have to be alone

and we keep gettin richer but we can’t get our picture on the cover of the NatGeo 

 

damn, that brings back memories.

 

+rep for Dr.Hook

[mdmost 43,004]

Goose-stepping Surly members should try reading magazines instead of burning them!

[Trey3216 15,347]

13 minutes ago, Lone Star Horn said:

damn, that brings back memories.

 

+rep for Dr.Hook

Was trying to roll a Careless Whisper version, but it was gonna take a lot of changes.  This one was super easy