Three Short

 Here we are - end of the 2001 Silly CDs box, and what do we have?

- A completed 33 card base set

- 9 of 11 sticker inserts

- 35 pf 36 puzzle insert cards

Not sure how Barney has any friends when he is throwing up all over them, but here he is in sticker form. At least we had no dupes in the stickers, so just ended a couple short. As for the puzzles, all done except...

One last missing piece.

I checked out TCDB and may be able to get one of the three cards at least, but the two stickers seem to be not so easy to find for cheap and given the box as a whole was $10, I don't feel like spending $10 on the two missing stickers, so we will see if/when I get them.

Where does this leave me on 2024 new product openings this year?

No surprise it is 3rd out of three, and likely to dip down further. All good though, I did get a complete set so could have been worse!

Base Set - Check!

 Second to last day of cards from this box, and we get the base set completed.

Michael Jackson and the knock off of the Bad cover is the last card from the 33 card base set I needed. The puzzle cards finish off another one of the puzzle insert sets as well...

Nice. At least the song choices have a theme to them.

It took my until today in going through these cards to realize - CDs aren't really a thing anymore. I mean, it was a "yeah, okay, CDs" moment in seeing the cards, but kids now don't have CDs which is still foreign to me. I don't play them really either but I am sitting with about 100 CDs beside me - the collections from my wife and I with nothing newer than 25 years ago in the bunch, but we still have them!

I guess for those reasons alo0ne, we wouldn't see something like this again...for better or worse.

Another Two Bite The Dust

 A few more packs of 2011 Silly CDS today, and just the keepers as the dupes start running a bit rampant.

Okay, they did a good job on the Mariah card, I'll give them credit, even if again, we go right to the toilet humour. Dr. Dre, definitely worthy of a card, and we get the sticker version of Ozzy along with a few puzzle pieces, which are nice enough to complete a couple puzzles. Actually, on the base set, we are down to one more card now which is the Michael Jackson knockoff, so I guess we end with the king of pop...assuming we do get it in this box.

J-Lo, large and in charge version and...

Same for Suntana. Just a couple left to get!

Just A Few Left

 Not a surp[rise that the base set for this is rounding out fairly nicely. I think the puzzle inserts are going to be done or close to it as well. The stickers - unless something picks up, I may be one or two short which is annoying. I don't want to have to collect this set, but I am going to feel the need to complete a master set if I am just a card or two short...but time will tell.

The potty humour is big with this Bruce Stinkyjeans indeed. I don't mind 498 degrees, and it is another sticker off the checklist. At least there hasn't been any dupes on the sticker front.

Not a surprise the keep rate is dropping, so may bump up the number of packs to share each day from the three I have been doing to maybe six to keep there being some news cards.\

I am thinking I may be near complete on a second base set and a bit on the puzzles, if anyone is interested in a started set!

We're All Stars Now...

 Another solid day of pick ups for the 2001 Silly CDs set...

Well....I don't even know what to say about some of these. I mean, BLT....okay I guess, just shows what goes for humour even not so long ago in the early 2000s, which I think would probably have issue taken with now. Careless Suntana, I mean, I did really like the collab from Santana and Matchbox 20 front man Rob Thomas.

These provide the final pieces for another insert puzzle which we will get to, but first the few dupes...

As for the completed puzzle...

The Dope Show was, an interesting song and even more interesting music video at the time. Marilyn knew how to draw attention, good or bad.

If you are still here, a quick PWE trade with TCDB member BLWinbord 40:

It leaves me just 2 short on my Jays base set with Vladdy and Bo outstanding from this 2021 set. One of the better Gypsy Queen designs in my opinion. Appreciate the trade!

The Chicks

 We continue our way through the box of 2001 Silly CD cards and finally get one of the puzzle inserts completed, as well as getting a few more missing base cards.

No Doubt was probably one of the first real music bad/acts that I got into after Barenaked Ladies, who being a band out of my home town (a couple of the guys actually went to the same high school as I did, just a few years before me). I was slower to really get into music as a teen. I remember consciously recognizing the popularity in music and the interest that other peers had, and "not getting it", and staying away from it in grades 7-8, but turning that around in grade 9 with the start of high school.

I started watching MuchMusic (Canada's MTV), and specifically the weekly countdown, and it went from there. Music then became a big part of those high school years. Most of the music I really like now is from those years, with a bit into university, but essentially 1994 - 1999 for highschool and into about 2003 for the university period as well.

I kept pretty eclectic with tastes, and everything from the songs I "suffered" through listing to as a kid in the card with my mom and grandparents, through everything MuchMusic ended up having to offer from metal to rap to Electric Circus's show and dance music, to pop and alternative - I have songs I enjoy in most every genre.

A bit disappointing that the insert puzzles are just larger versions of base cards. I mean, having them be a few new ones even, would have been a much better choice.

To be honest, I enjoyed the Dixie Chicks while they were still the Dixie Chicks, and in showing that being "woke" isn't something all that new, the connotation around the word "Dixie" had the band change the name in the early 2000s to just "The Chicks".

The Chicks may also be remembered outside of music for comments made by lead singer Natalie Maines against George W. Bush regarding the Iraq invasion back in 2003, which she then had to apologize for and then rescinded the apology a few years afterwards (in 2006). Whether you agree with them or not, the impact that a popular entertainment act can have on society is there - similar to how Taylor Swift could impact something like the current US election by being vocal one way or the other. Whether that SHOULD be the case or not, is another matter, but I think it can't be overlooked that there is an impact.

As for the cards - a handful of dupes here to end (I remember the Howard Stern movie being a thing, but never did watch it). I expect more dupes will be coming sooner than later as we start to fill up the base set now.

Buffalo Wings

Before getting to the cards today - looks like Cavan Biggio is out of Toronto, traded to the Dodgers. As a Jays fan, and a fan of second generation players, it's sad to see him go, but he has been struggling and the change will hopefully be a good one for both sides.

As for today and the Silly packs...in looking at the bunch of new base cards from the 2001 Sill CD's set, buffalo wings is the only thing that comes to mind.

We finally get the *NSYNC card which is what the cover box shows, and of course the Backstreet Boys card isn't far behind.

498 Degrees makes me think of member Nick Lachey who at one time was married to Jessica SImpson (which lasted about 4 years). Jessica was famously filmed - scripted or not - finding out that Buffalo Wings do not come from Buffalo. Oh the things that bring my mind back to the late 90s and early 2000s.

Still no puzzle duplicates, but more Madonna and Cher below!