Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 30, 2011

Don’t ever change, Boopsie (BD first said that to her on October 6, 1971).

My wife still has some of her stuffed animals. She’s 40. It’s all good.

 Boopsie = Boobsie.

“Women throw out baseball card collections that are now worth millions.” I threw mine out (Mickey Mantle, etc.). Does that render me female?

DTpi: Yes, as a matter of fact, it does.

Doesn’t BD remember the Barbies in her Playboy pictures?

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. " — Benjamin Franklin.

Wasn’t Boopsie filming “Porky’s IX” when she was 23?

So, let me get this straight. If I throw away my old junk, I’ll turn into a female? Now thats a phobia!

Huh. Well, after all these years with that Y chromosome, that would be a change of pace for me. :J

DylanThomas3.14159:

Your so sensitive about artybee’s comments “just like a girl” you big lefty.

The only reason those baseball card collections are now worth millions is that nearly all of them have been thrown out. Had women not thrown them out, we’d be awash in Mickey Mantle cards that wouldn’t be worth the paper they’re printed on. Women: true wealth creators!!

she does not want to grow up

I thnkk every guy has a cigar box or something like it full of useless junk that goes abll over the world with him .

“Better would be if it had never been removed from the container in the first place.”

Toys which are never played with develop psychoses. Didn’t you see “Toy Story 2”? For that matter, have you never seen “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”?

I managed to get mom to keep my stash of comic books. But as well worn as they are (re-read many, many times), not worth much. But darn it! She did get to the baseball cards! sigh. Its not the women that do the tossing – its the parents! Usually the moms.

I’d vote for her as president of Mars. . . as long as there is a residency requirement.

Hey, Henry Spencer, Isn’t your avatar Eraserhead? I didn’t see the movie, but I’ve read about it a number of times.

From whom?

I seldom comment on this forum, but I gotta say — I’m female (gee, big surprise) and I chide myself for NOT throwing things out.

I used to be (maybe still am) a collectibles dealer — and I’ve got dolls, stuffed animals, old toys, knickknacks, vintage costume jewelry and even parts of dead computers.

For obvious reasons, I kinda prefer a man who likes clutter too.

And it was career military father, not my mother, who threw everything away when I was a kid, including my stuff.

BTW @DTpi — his avatar is not only from Eraserhead, it’s Henry Spencer himself.

Not a film one can forget — and I believe David Lynch’s first.

Why throw away stuff that makes you happy because of what someone else thinks? If you have room & can afford it, keep it as long as you darned well please! If not, you’ll just drive yourself nuts (not to mention broke!) trying to get it all back later.

Eraserhead – Great Movie That I Hope Never To See Again In My Entire Life

Chicken … actually me too. :)

Dylan, Henry, No. 6 et al —

I love Eraserhead! Saw it in San Francisco about 4 times when it first came out.In fact somewhere I still have (I hope! ) a button given out at the theater that says “I survived Eraserhead.”

It’s not a “horror film,” unless you consider Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, or the film “A Clockwork Orange” to be “horror.”

Like those, it’s surreal and deeply disturbing, but defies genre.

It’s gloomy, dark and rather repulsive, a commentary on the bleakness of modern culture, but has moments of humor, music and hope.

In my eyes it’s a masterpiece — but one I only want to see every dozen years or so, when my skin has finished crawling from the last time.

Yeah, it’s creepy…. but never terrifying, meant to give you the shivers, not a scream.See it!

Baseball card collections wouldn’t be worth millions if most of them hadn’t been thrown out.-Cougar :{)

Re David Keith Lynch (& Eraserhead) from Wikipedia. Note the labels “cult classic”, “midnight movie” and “surrealist horror” given by Wikipedia to the movie. (I personally have no dog in this “disagreement”): Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, [Lynch] moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was highly critically acclaimed.

I gave up on David Lynch after “Twin Peaks.”

From Wikipedia re “A Boy and His Dog”: “A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives and films including or stemming from works of science fiction author Harlan Ellison. “Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version [which I read and loved] was published in Ellison’s story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World the same year. … ¶ Ellison’s expanded novella was the basis of a film adaptation in 1974, the post-apocalyptic science fiction film [which I saw and loved] of the same name, directed by L. Q. Jones.” Apparently David Lynch was not involved.