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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1656145" data-attributes="member: 813">When my parents bought me a 16 inch Winnie-the-Pooh dressed as Santa for my 19th birthday, I brought Pooh to college with me (my birthday was during winter break). Pooh sat on my bed for the rest of my college years and is still on my bed. That was 17 years ago. Now he shares the bed along with 8 other bears purchased for/with my wife. We like teddy bears. We do not, however, collect them. Collectable teddy bears are stiff and scratchy. A bear you cannot hug is not worth owning. Childish? Perhaps. But a pile of teddy bears can be very comforting when you are down (Either by embracing them or being buried under them). Sometimes you need to distract yourself from important things.Yes. (And I'm talking about computer programming jobs here, not industry jobs.) At the first programming job I ever got, the HR woman asked that question. I answered and she said, "Really? We have a programmer here who writes for RPGs." Turned out to be Robert Schroeck, author of several GURPS books and a fellow whose 1e AD&D game I joined a few years later.Well, if you're going to have delusions they may as well be the fun kind.</blockquote>