Wallet-Sized George Photos.
Got some mail today! <3
Mail from Snapfish. If you’ve been paying any attention to Dino Drac, you know what this is. And I couldn’t be more excited.
Four bucks and four days later, I have wallet-sized photos of George the Gremlin.
I asked you to choose the better option, but I cheated and ordered photos for both. For what it’s worth, the set on the right, with the weird red paper background, ended up winning the poll.
I just couldn’t bring myself to pick one over the other. I have no kids, but I have so many surrogates.
Course, this was all pretty pointless. My mangled wallet has been without its little plastic photo album thing for years now.
I DON’T CARE. I’ll just shove my Georgies into the pockets, like credit cards. Someday, I’ll be out buying socks, and I’ll accidentally hand one over to the cashier. She’ll laugh. We’ll become fast friends.
The George photos are in good company. My wallet’s starring crew includes:
1. A pile of around 20 MetroCards, which may or may not have any money left on them. No idea how you guys use the buses where you live, but this is how we do it here. MetroCards. Flimsy, expensive MetroCards that aren’t assigned in denominations that equate to any exact number of bus rides. Some of these will have enough for 80% of one ride. Some may have enough for 2.5 rides. I’ll never know, because any opportunity to check their balances would mean getting home from work late, and I’d rather have an extra 15 minutes to watch George Lopez than capitalize on the 200 bucks’ worth of bus fares hiding on these horrible cards.
2. An old Pepsi phone card with Amy from Congo on it.
I mentioned trying to buy socks with a George photo. Well, one time, I tried to dip Amy the Gorilla into my bus’s MetroCard slot. Thank God the driver would’ve preferred drinking tar to acknowledging my presence.
There’s just no good way to explain why I carry a defunct phone card with Amy on it.
I’m almost okay with being pickpocketed, just so I can imagine the asshole’s reaction as he thumbs through a hundred MetroCards, Amy from Congo, and two wallet-sized photos of Gremlins action figures.
This was the highlight of my day. I regret nothing.
Do we ever see George Lenny and Daffy die in Gremlins 2?
i can’t remember. i know we see the big carnage at the end but I don’t recall them 3 being in it. Maybe they were in a different room with the female gremlin.
I have had the same wallet since I was 16. It’s a brown leather Ralph Lauren one my Mom got me when Polo clothes were the shit at my high school. It contains my ID, credit cards, receipt from my most recent haircut (always keep this because I can never remember the girl’s name who does a good job), coin my great grandfather gave me, small drawing of a penguin my sister gave me when I left for college, pumpkin carving idea my brother had when he was about 10, and most importantly a senior picture my wife gave me when we were 17 (over 10 years ago).
Matt that’s great you actually had the pictures made. You know the person at Snapfish that processed and stuffed them in the envelope was like WTF is this! I also have wallet of Metrocards with random amounts that are too little to get a ride. Ever try to ask a MTA booth attendant to consolidate the amounts to one card? They look at you like you just asked them a question on quantum physics.
I just want to say cudos to Matt for posting like a mother f**ker. Gives me plenty of things to do besides work everyday. Keep it up dude.
I’m also impressed at how fast the turnaround at Snapfish on this was.
@Brandon: I was too! Gotta say, Snapfish is a great company. Cheap and fast. I could’ve done this at any pharmacy, but it’s not the same as getting a blue envelope in the mail.
@Andy: Thanks man, having fun so far. Looking forward to the next big unpaid lull so I can do bigger things.
@foleyjo: George, Lenny (and Daffy, I believe) were all at the big “Brain Sings” party. And I think we see them all die, too. They don’t go overboard on their death shots, but I believe they’re in there.
The only “name” Gremlin known to have survived is the Lady Gremlin.
@JohnV: Yes, you know my pain. My bus is 5.50 each way. Normal cards are 10 or 20 bucks. They give you a bonus on top of that, but it’s still not enough for an exact number of rides. (A $10 is almost two rides, but not quite. So on and so forth.) It’s really frustrating. Basically have to scramble for emergency quarters or buy new cards at every opportunity, just to be safe.
I don’t do the monthly passes because they’re expensive and I don’t normally come to the city so often. This month, it might have made sense to, tho.
Kinda random, but anyone seen Goob? Kinda concerned we haven’t seen her since the transition.
I kept a VR Troopers Jeb the Dog pog in my wallet for 10 years. McDonald’s was giving them away in 1994. I had no interest in VR Troopers or pogs, mind you. But I couldn’t throw him away. I still have him (several in fact) somewhere, just not in the wallet.
I still have the same wallet I got when I was 15, it’s got a weird Mossimo signature on the front and is velcro. I keep telling myself I need to get a “grown up” wallet but I just can’t part with this one. A few months ago I cleaned it out and wow there were some old things in there. A video rental card from a business that shut down ten years ago, a bunch of old phone numbers, receipts from 7 years ago and surprisingly enough a couple of percocets (I’m not a druggie, they are prescribed, chronic pain) from years ago.
Matt, a contest for those extra pics sounds awesome, I’ll write an essay if I have to. Loving everything on the site though, it seems like you’re having fun with it again which is great. Your fun is infectious, like a disease I actually want.
I still use the first wallet I ever bought when I was about 14, so for about 16 years now, it’s still holding strong!
Well done sir. Your wallet is like some sort of awesome 90s time capsule.
I used Snapfish once, to redeem about 100+ free Monopoly prints. I still have yet to scrapbook them…. Sooooo behind.
My wallet is pink and has Miss Piggy on it. Notable things in it include a photo of my husband and I on our first date, a laminated card that’s a mini copy of my high school diploma, and 3 AAA cards for some reason.
Did everyone else except me know that the Easter Island heads have bodies?!
If I didn’t clean out my wallet every few years it would totally look like George Costanza’s. My last big clean out I got rid of my Bull Moose Music card (shout out to all you New Englanders, damn I miss that store)
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Apparently they’ve pulled the plug on the Ninja Turtles reboot by Michael Bay. We can all breathe now.
Also, my Wallet is George Costanza’s. It’s fully of crap, and now the leather is stretched so that if I take the crap out, nothing will stay in it.
I would much rather take all the crap out and fill it with money, but that doesn’t seem like it will happen anytime soon!
My wallet is relatively new. I bought it from Fashion Bug last summer when the change purse/wallet I was using got so frayed, change kept falling out. It’s very pretty, with metal trim and a soothing floral pattern. It mainly contains cards for local grocery and drug store chains, my grocery store union card, and money.
The really interesting things are in my purse. Among the items hiding in its depths are a light-up pig key chain holder from my regular bank, a notebook I use to jot down anything I might need on the road, a pen, photos of my siblings and their kids, what remains of my coupon holder (it isn’t much – I really need a new one), Chapstick (cherry), and my lucky piece. (It’s really just a backgammon piece I found on the sidewalk…but who just finds backgammon pieces laying around? I think it has some bearing on the universe somewhere.)
dude….this guy, Nick Vallenda(pronounced wallenda) of the famous Flying Vallenda’s is going to be on ABC tonight LIVE…trying to tight rope walk over Niagra falls from America to Canada.
This guy makes David Blaine look like a birthday magician.
@mandy_Reeves
Yeah that guy is pretty serious. He was here in Baltimore a few weeks ago crossing the inner harbor on a tight rope. I think that was a sort of practice/run up to tonight’s stunt.
I live in Niagara Falls Ont. about 10 minute walk from the falls, my street is friggin packed with cars right now. I didn’t bother going because it’s too damn crowed. It’s fun people watching though.
Weirdest thing ever fond on the sidewalk? A copy of Batman Returns for Sega Game Gear. It might be lying around somewhere, but I never had the chance to test it.
@DJ D: I have that F13 book. It is phenomenal. So many of the stories in there have never been told elsewhere, and they’re all coming straight from the sources. It’s one of my all-time favorite books and any F13 fan who thinks it’s gonna be some overpriced fluff piece needs to know how wrong they are.
I especially loved reading about the behind-the-scenes on Part V.
You are a much braver man than I. I do not think I would be willing to let the world know the bizarre contents of my wallet.
My wallet is a taco with a mustache.
No, seriously.
He’s dang so cute!
I think I still have an old Blockbuster card in my wallet (although incredibly, there are a couple of Blockbusters still open in my area), plus my high school ID card from the 2002-2003 school year. The funny thing about that is that I lost it senior year (2003), but they found it and gave it to my brother who was still attending that school two years later. I’ve held onto it because I got it back out of the blue.
There’s a blockbuster open near me as well. I always feel like i should stop in and mindlessly browse around like everyone used to. I never do though… Soon minless movie store browsing will be extinct.
Most of the Blockbusters here have closed down. Fine by me, I never liked them anyway.
I found an old membership card from Sam Goody a couple of weeks ago. And the y left here years ago.
The thought of Amy, Gremlin George twins, and Mogwai George twins having shadow puppet shows in a cave and camping trips in a North American forest and a Congo rainforest in Matt’s wallet is pretty entertaining.
“Most of the Blockbusters here have closed down. Fine by me, I never liked them anyway.”—Annette
Amen to that. I can’t speak as to how they are elsewhere, but the Blockbuster out here has always sucked, unless you really like the notion of a billion rentals of the latest hollywood hit, but a mediocre selection of everything else. The local mom’n'pop rental store, however, is only about half the size of the Blockbuster, but easily has twice the selection, and is staffed by people that—gasp!—actually know shit about movies. Plus, unlike Blockbuster, they don’t have any issue stocking unrated films.
It’s mind boggling that phone cards ever existed. I remember one Nickelodeon promotion for The Big Help or Snick in Cocoa/Fruity Pebbles that included phone cards.
I still have my Metro card from my trip over a year ago, $20 is far too much for a flimsy and obviously recycled transport card but that’s NYC for you, everything is expensive.
I keep an old senior photo of myself in my wallet. Some people think it’s pretty egotistical, but I have a good reason. It’s so I can, on a whim, show people how sexy I used to look back when I had more hair. It’s pretty effective. Having a Sonic the Hedgehog wallet also helps.
@Matt
My favorite Gremlin is the electric one. Does he have a name? I heard they were going to make him into an action figure.
that’s awesome! I remember when you used to get calling cards for everything! I definitely remember having a MIB one so I could have my mom pick me up from the mall.
Oh and i’m pretty sure that Geico commercial about bob “wehadababyitsaboy” was the most brilliant commercial ever. saved me so much money via CALLATT
I must remember to write geico a letter some day thanking them
Damn the only thing I’ve got in my wallet (besides the usual stuff) is a card from the embassy so in case I ever get pinched by the police I can whip it out and shout DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY (which I don’t have btw, it’s just my plan to shout it to see if it works).
Its always good to have a picture of the kids in your wallet.. And Amy.. Cause she’d a good gorilla.
Strangest thing in my wallet? A single Xanax tablet. I have never had a prescription for this drug- I think that it must have come with the wallet. I have no idea why I don’t just throw it away. Maybe I’m saving it for an “emergency” ? The tablet is no longer readable as i have had it and the wallet for about ten years.