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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 44, October 22, 2000, Article 11

As a public service, The E-Sylum occasionally highlights collecting hobbies even stranger than our own, so we can say to our spouses, "Gee honey, it's not as bad as collecting <fill in the blank here>"

The October 4, 2000 issue of The Wall Street Journal featured an article about the history and collecting of airline airsickness bags.

"The year 2000 edition of Guinness World Records lists Dutchman Niek Vermeulen as having the largest collection - 2,112 different bags from 470 airlines, past and present. He says his trove actually consists of 13,000 bags, including duplicates....

He says he knows of 80 other collectors. And there are at least two dozen Web sites devoted to this strange passion. (An interesting one is http://www.vomitorium.co.uk)."

[Editor's note: the site's marbled background has an uncanny resemblance to the background we use on part of the NBS web site. Scary, huh?]

Wayne Homren, Editor

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