Not an impulse, but comical nonetheless.
As a poor student I scraped and saved away in order to afford one of these,

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only to find that they'd run out, or stopped selling them by the time I'd gathered enough pennies together.

I was gutted.

Didn't manage to get one of the "Bears of Murder" collection either :-(
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:34, 4 replies)

Little Ted West
"Cuddly Toy or Ursine Maniac - YOU decide."
(sparks , oh, I don't know., Thu 21 May 2009, 17:49, closed)

i'm waiting
on my Complete Pete Doherty courthouse step DVD collection to arrive. 20 discs and over 200 hours of him walking in and out of courts all over the south east.
(Raol Duke, Thu 21 May 2009, 18:36, closed)

I
desperately wanted one of those too.

Along with the Queen Mother's dead tea-towel with various dates crossed out on it.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 21 May 2009, 23:57, closed)

Teddy's first wet dream
The life of Jesus in Cats. etc.
(cheesehead, Mon 25 May 2009, 10:37, closed)