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Admission PriceAdmission for viewing The BUB in person is $1 or a lighter donation.All BUB contributors receive free lifetime viewing privileges. TOP of PAGE What Counts as a Lighter?Following are a few questions and answers that should help clear up The BUB's policies on lighter donations. If you have a question not addressed here, please feel free to write us at TheBUB@bublighters.comE-mail received 4-9-02: Dear BUB I am considering contributing to your lighter collection. I would like to know what the criteria is for a contribution. Do they have to be "bic's" or will any lighter do? Do we include a story? Please let me know....Thank you....A.J. Plasse (Caleb English's arch nemesis) E-mail reply: Dear Mr. Plasse, We are delighted to hear from you. The only requirement of a donation is that it be definitively identifiable as a lighter or some piece of a lighter. Definitive identification is determined by The BUB Head Curator, but in cases of ambiguity, it is determined by the majority rule of The BUB Board of Directors. Generally speaking, we collect pocket cigarette lighters, although there have been two noticeable exceptions to this: a table cigarette lighter and a kitchen lighter. Decisions as to accepting non-pocket cigarette lighters always lies with the majority rule of The BUB Board of Directors. Matches are never accepted as an alternative lighter. Donations of lighter related items which are not themselves parts of lighters but are nevertheless interesting are accepted occasionally as part of our interesting lighter related items collection, but never as part of The BUB proper. All brands of lighters are accepted. It is not necessary for the lighter to be in working order. We like to receive the stories about where and when and how lighters were found plus any other interesting tidbits you might offer; however, a story is not required in order to donate. We look forward to hearing from you again, and sincerely hope that you will decide to become a BUB contributor. As you are Caleb English's arch nemesis, I feel it is my duty to inform you that Caleb became a contributor late last year and is currently one lighter ahead of you with rumors circulating that this number might soon jump. Sincerely, Donna Nisbett The BUB Head Curator E-mail received 1-7-03: Hi! I have a very short question. Do automobile cigarette lighters count? I'm trying to get the most lighters of the cousins, so every last lighter counts! Joel E-mail reply: Hi! Yes, those count too. In fact we have one in the collection already. Amanda found it in a parking lot on one of our trips. Good luck to you! :) Donna Q: Can you buy a lighter to donate? A: Generally speaking, we discourage buying lighters because finding them is more in the over all spirit of the collection. However with that said, we have been known to buy a special lighter from time to time for various reasons, and we have never turned down any lighter donated whether found or bought. Q: Do lighter warning labels count? A: Yes, they do. Q: Does the package that lighters come in when you buy them count? A: No. TOP of PAGE Celebration DinnersIt is the policy of The BUB that whosoever shall find a lighter that upon being catalogued is assigned a number being a multiple of 100 shall take The BUB Board of Directors* and all other readily available contributors who show up on our doorstep to Pancho's Mexican Buffet to celebrate the auspicious occasion of The BUB achieving another 100 mark. By the words, "shall take The BUB Board of Directors," it is meant that said contributor shall finance said celebration dinner. In the event that the provisions laid out above are not possible for any reason, said contributor shall make equal and due compensation to The BUB Board of Directors.*The BUB Board of Directors currently consists of Donna, Margie, and Rhonda Nisbett. TOP of PAGE How we became known as The BUBSome time around February/March 1997, The Tonight Show featured a PEZ lighter in a "products that failed to catch on" segment. Margie saw the show and decided we should ask them to donate it. While writing a letter to ask for the lighter, we decided we should have a name for our collection. After much brainstorming, we decided to name it The Box Under the Bed Museum since that's where the collection had been now for some time, and we would call it The BUB for short. And that is why we're known as The BUB. And if you're wondering about that PEZ lighter....I'm sorry to say we didn't get it, but we did get a good laugh for our trouble. One day when none of us were home, a woman called and asked first for me, then Margie, then Rhonda. Finally our mom, who didn't know what we'd done, asked if she could take a message. The woman said, "Yes. I'm with The Tonight Show...." and then went on to totally confuse our mother by leaving a message saying she was sorry but the PEZ lighter belonged to the prop department and something about they might want it again. I don't think our mom understood that she really meant THE Tonight Show and that it was not a sales/prank call. She didn't even mention the call to us till much later that night, and it was like...."oh, by the way, somebody called for you today....." TOP of PAGE |