# What the hell have I gotten myself into?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 4, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932 "2005-01-04T01:33:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/41 "2005-01-05T22:37:04Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
> [@congodwarf](#):
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> . The largest pile is graphic novels. They are mostly my fiancee’s so he’ll have to deal with them. QUOTE]
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> If you have any Ranma 1/2 that he doesn’t want, I’ll gladly take them off your hands. Or any other graphic novels, really.
_whine on_
But I asked fiiiiirst!
_whine off_
Takahashi fan, AND Hitchhiker’s fan? Cool! 😃
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### Author:  [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/42 "2005-01-05T23:35:40Z")
If he happens to have 'Mazing Man, I’d be interested. Put me on your list to e-mail a spreadsheet to.
Then, plan on coming to Minnesota and spending several months as my pampered guest, cataloging my household. Room and board (whatever you love to eat) provided gratis.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/43 "2005-01-05T23:52:59Z")
> [@The Punkyova](#):
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> If he happens to have 'Mazing Man, I’d be interested. Put me on your list to e-mail a spreadsheet to.
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> Then, plan on coming to Minnesota and spending several months as my pampered guest, cataloging my household. Room and board (whatever you love to eat) provided gratis.
Plan on stocking up on rice krispies 😃
Actually, those of you who mentioned Superman, X-Men and stuff like that: I know he has them. The other stuff, I’ve never heard of. I have no clue what kinds of things he actually likes so it’s possible he has them. I’ve known him for 5-1/2 years and I just found out he’s a wicked Trekkie - so anything’s possible.
Ok, I just talked to BIL. When I asked what he wanted to do with the books, he said, “I don’t know. I have to talk to “A” cause they’re his too”. “A” is my fiancee and he doesn’t seem to care about most of them. BIL is going to talk to “A” when they both get a chance to sit and relax (so in about 2 weeks). He also seems to want to keep the What Ifs so I’d say those are out.
He estimates that the boxes of bagged books have about 250 each and the unbagged books about 300 each. He also said there are some valuable ones in there but he didn’t elaborate.
But, I did tell him that I can get rid of a lot of them here and he was ok with it.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/44 "2005-01-06T00:35:21Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> I’d be interested in a list too, especially if you have any of the last few issues of Marvel’s G.I. Joe series from the early '90s. (Around #150-155.)
My fiancee has them actually and he cracked up when I asked if he was keeping them. So, I don’t think he’ll be parting with them any time soon.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/45 "2005-01-06T01:42:02Z")
Trekkie? Did you say Trekkie? Aside from _maybe_ **NoClueBoy** , I’m the hugest Trekkie you’ll find on this board. WANT! I’ll love you forever and ever and ever and will do anything you ask.
And I called dibs on those X comics, damn it! Everyone else, back off!
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/46 "2005-01-06T01:55:37Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#):
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> Got any _Flaming Carrot_?
Yut! Another Carrot fan!
Let us go to nice bar with a goat. I shall tell of you of the time the Vile Brotherhood released Nutrasweet zombies into the sewers of Philly, and I teamed up with the Mysterymen to defeat them.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/47 "2005-01-06T02:16:40Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Trekkie? Did you say Trekkie? Aside from _maybe_ **NoClueBoy** , I’m the hugest Trekkie you’ll find on this board. WANT! I’ll love you forever and ever and ever and will do anything you ask.
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> And I called dibs on those X comics, damn it! Everyone else, back off!
Turns out I know him better than I thought. The Trek ones are my fiancee’s. He said he has some Next Gen and Original from the 80’s. He doesn’t know what condition they’re in right now cause I haven’t found them yet. So, he doesn’t know what he’s going to do with them yet.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/48 "2005-01-06T02:50:30Z")
So he’ll be keeping them? ☹
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/49 "2005-01-06T03:05:36Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> So he’ll be keeping them? ☹
Maybe. Don’t lose hope yet. We haven’t even found them yet. He may decide to simplify things and get rid of them.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/50 "2005-01-06T04:16:22Z")
Any _Star Wars_ comics?
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### Author:  [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/51 "2005-01-06T04:20:21Z")
If you end up selling/giving away some of them, but get stuck with a bunch of random stuff that no one wants, I volunteer to take them off of your hands for a small fee and shipping. (Assuming I don’t already have them, of course.) I like to haunt garage sales and the like looking for cheap runs of old series that I’ve never read before. Give me twenty old _Swamp Thing_s or _Night Force_s or _Psi-Force_s and I’m a happy camper.
Oh, and I’ll take any _Hellblazer_s that you may run across. I’m trying to catch up.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/52 "2005-01-06T04:21:32Z")
I just asked my fiancee. He said not that many and he doesn’t remember who they belong to so he can’t tell me if you can have them or not.
Obviously, this whole thing will go much smoother after the guys talk to each other.
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### Author:  [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/53 "2005-02-01T10:05:07Z")
any new news?
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-have-i-gotten-myself-into/282932/54 "2005-02-01T22:17:12Z")
Actually, I haven’t even seen the brother since the last time I posted but I was just thinking about it today on my drive home. I’m trying to get started on my own packing so he’s going to have to make a decision soon.
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