She’s a family friend of one of my wife’s best friends from college. My wife had admired the prints he had in his apartment, so he got the signed/numbered print from Vasilik and had her add a personal message.
I only have two really cool things, most of my stuff is porno or other boring college frat guy stuff.
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A reproduction of the portrait Kramer had painted of himself, found in the TRASH by my mom when she was helping remodel a house.
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A stuffed gorilla wearing a bowtie, given to me by chique last Christmas in honor of this thread. He’s a pretty good dancer when I’m drunk.
–Tim
Let’s see, I have 87 Barbies with assorted outfits, a pink straw fish purse, and a really large piece of styrofoam in my house
The green teletubby
a Cabbage Patch Kids horse
I used to have a frog with a penis, but I have no clue where it went off to…
a small brass bust of Nefretiti
an empty glass soy sauce container
a little wooden reindeer with googly eyes
Christmas lights inside of Chinese paper lanterns
Hey! My parents used to have that 3-D version of the Last Supper. I used to think it was amazing.
That being said, I’d be shocked to see these two items in someone else’s house.
Paco Taco–A hilarious doggie chew toy. It’s a taco made up to look like a Mexican bandito. It sits proudly atop my entertainment center.
Mr. T - Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool–The after-school special you’ve heard so much about. I own the video and it’s one of my proudest possessions. I’d have the Mr. T autobiography to go with it, but my “friend”, that rat bastard, stole it from me.
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[li]A pair of used Irish dance shoes (made in Ireland!)[/li][li]A church pew in my bedroom[/li][li]Agents Mulder and Scully action figures[/li][li]A road sign with my name in Irish and English[/li][li]Talking Simba and Kipper stuffed toys[/li][li]“Are You My Mother” board game (you try to match the chick to the mother hen)[/li][li]A Handy-Dandy notebook (Blue’s Clues)[/li][li]Several Purdue University pennants[/li][/ul]
A flag from the Conch Republic.
A swinging-hips Elvis clock–not young, attractive Elvis, but old, fat, jumpsuited Elvis.
An autographed poster of Andy Richter and another of Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.
A poster of Bob Dylan from the “Think Different” ad campaign.
A magic wand and a set of solid brass cups for the Cups and Balls.
An autographed copy of “The Ralph Nader Reader”.
Wristbands from the current U2 tour, prominently displayed–the one that got me onto the floor, and the one that got me inside the Heart.
More medical textbooks than you could shake a stick at, including such enthralling reading as “Modern Urine Chemistry”. (How it differs from, say, Classical Urince Chemistry I will never know.
Dr. j
i have
a fiber-optic peacock that changes colors
a stuffed dog that sings “don’t worry, be happy”
a statuette of a muscle man that looks like the monopoly guy
a piece of the egyptian book of the dead
a james t. kirk action figure
a set of rusty hay bale piker-up thingies
a set of suffed monsters from “ah, real monsters” cartoon
of course, someone (i don’t know who) left a stagecoach in my front yard 4 or 5 years ago. does that make it mine?
:eek:
Tell me it’s lined. Or not, or ,well…
[li]A shoulder-bag shaped like a sheep[/li][li]An old “Pears” poster with a half-nude girl and a peacock[/li][li]A two-metre long green, purple and pink stuffed dragon[/li][li]The Fart Game[/li]A stuffed doll that looks exactly like Kevin Spacey
Which? The Spartan? Yours is red and mine is black, so they’re different! I have two Champions and a SwissChamp (which replaced the Champion) in red, the black Spartan, a silver metal Soldier and a black Classic SD.
Okay, other obscure stuff:
An ejection seat from an A7-E
A “Max” doll from Where the Wild Things Are (including a miniature WtWTA book in his hands)
666 cough syrup
Voodoo soap
16mm cameras (2 Krasnagorsk-3s, 3 Bolex H-16 types, 2 “gun cameras” and an Eclair NPR)
A Russian “Ushanka” (mouton fuzzy hat)
A life-size rotting corpse movie prop
A WWII AAF cloth flying helmet with earphones, AN-(something) goggles, and O2 mask
A couple HGU-26 (jet) flight helmets
I would love to have an ejection seat!
Hmm, lets see:
Two wooden small sculptures, one an ebony ibis, the other a light brown water buffalo I saw being made in Malawi and bought for about 75 cents each.
The Animaniacs little figurines from the Disney Store on top my monitor.
a Mandocello I bought from the violinist of the Irish band that played in Titanic.
A smallish collection of old Hotwheels cars from the late 60’s early 70’s (redlines) and a somewhat larger collection of Shelby Cobra diecast models.
A Dutch 12 oz. glass Coke bottle with a cap from Malawi and filled with African dirt. Sort of an all in one description of my trip.
A pottery vase filled with a bunch of Tinwhistles. (a Copeland, a few Susatos and a bunch of Generations)
Barnstormers sometimes has them. Click on “equipment” and then “ejection seat”. I got mine about 10 years ago. I think the ad was in the Pacific Flyer (a free newspaper deistributed around west coast airports).
Yours is from Switzerland, mine’s from the mall. Yours has your name engraved, mine has the name of the knife-shop (now defunct) stamped on the side. You win. (Actually no, they’re still the same. I guess Johnny L.A. is ahead, 'cause his is a different color.)
Creaky, your chain mail halter top… is that for mowing the lawn?
So…
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[li]14" tall Talking Tick (Winkie)[/li][li]Bubble gum machine (Lunatic13)[/li][li]Andis AG clipper[/li][li]Trangia alcohol stove[/li][li]Z-scale train[/li][/ul]
Boy we have some good stuff. Maybe we should get in touch with thinksnow and spread the wealth around.
Uh, no. I’ve been meaning to have it lined, but just never got around to it… so as you might guess, I don’t wear it much. I am SUCH a procrastinator! Sigh!
Whoops! Forgot to add…
Rue… HEE! I read Eve’s thread… hilarious. Yeah, it oughta be! But then that metal gets sooo hot in the sun! 
My sister has a church pew in her dining room. But she’s not a Doper, so it doesn’t count.
-Rue
Let’s see now…[ul][li] Battered but beloved Trangia alcohol stove - yup. Aren’t they great ?[/li][li] 105 mm shell casing from a Leopard 1 MBT.[/li][li] A Super Soaker watergun with lasersight.[/li][li] A two-foot metal “K” from a facade sign.[/ul][/li]
I guess that’s it - got some pretty cool art, too.
S. Norman
I’m at work right now so I can’t check the dates and manufacturers on some of this stuff, (yeah I know, do I know how to have fun or what?) but…
A bun separator made about 1910.
A Black & Decker electric drill with a patent date of, IIRC, 1934.
A plastic lighted apothecary jar with ‘RX’ on it that sat on the counter at a pharmacy, about 18” tall.
2 chromed fish storage baskets, about 2’x4’ from a fishing boat that I spray painted red and blue and turned upside down for coffee tables. (They are actually outside with the garage sale stuff ‘cause **Mrs. B ** doesn’t like them. I can’t imagine why.)
The first 21 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica printed starting in 1872. (You subscribed, and they sent you a book every year to 18 months, I think, cause all the books have a different ‘printed’ date in them.)
A number of old books, including 2 Jules Verne books printed in the late 1800s, (no copyright dates): “The English at the North Pole” IIRC and another whose title I can’t remember.
An old AM radio with a 78rpm record player inside.
A table model wind-up Victrola 78rpm record player.
A stack of 78 records.
Some MasonWilliams demo records he had pressed himself, with hand-typed labels.
An 8-track player and a box of 8-track tapes,
About $3K worth of HO and N scale electric train stuff, but no Z scale.
A scorpion encased in a clear plastic dome. (paperweight)
A WW II German Mauser bayonet, but somebody ground the swastika(?) off of it.
The only Gerber Stallion knife ever made with a red handle.
A whole lot of other stuff that I can’t remember right now.
Hey, I’m an old guy. I have a lot of stuff.
But the absolute bestest thing I have in my house that nobody else has is Mrs. B.
Got two of those. One is German and goes with my Spandau-made Mauser and the other is Yugoslavian and goes with my Yugoslavian (matching numbers) Mauser. They appear to be identical except for the stampings.