I have two leather antique doctor’s bags 17" and 24" long each.
I also have a foxboro computer terminal (circa 1973) which I am retro-fitting for a 16 gallon fish tank.
I have a fifteen gallon stoneware crock.
A ninety gallon fish tank with a hand-made stand and hood.
Got one too. It’s about 3" long with a felt bottom. But I haven’t seen it for a while. Not since the last time The Little Woman did a “Thorough Cleaning”. Hmmm… maybe I don’t have one…
-Rue
When we were cleaning out my late father’s house, I picked up a little capsule of Mt. St. Helens ash. It;s in one of those little capsules like you get out of a “gum ball machine”.
I still have the .50 cal. round I got when I was a young kid. A friend’s father took the powder out. I thought it was unfair at the time, and I still wish it was loaded.
I have a few .50 cal. (and .30 cal.) ammo cans. I keep my ammo in them. I have somewhere around 20 firearms and I have ammo for all but one of them. All of the ammo is in the boxes, and the boxes are in the closet behind a bunch of packed movie boxes. I don’t feel the need to keep loaded firearms around, and in fact most of my “shootin’ irons” are locked up.
I’ve always wanted one of those inflatable “The Scream” dolls, but I haven’t gotten around to getting one. I think it’s probably backlash from the movie Scream that keeps me from getting one.
Speaking of inflatables… I have a few six-foot long inflatable “Typhoon”-class Russian submarines, which were promotional items for the release of the The Hunt for Red October video. I wonder what they’d fetch on eBay?
Re: the scorpions. I always feel sorry for them, knowing someone went out and collected them just to kill them and put them in plastic. My supervisor has one.
The scorpion paperweight, then breezing through the White Elelphant thread reminded me…
I have a set of wiener-dog bookends from the Archie McPhee catalog.
-Rue
Two Star Wars collectible mugs, one of Chewbacca and one of Obi Wan.
'Cthulhu in ‘92’ campaign pamphlet
Supposedly authentic incense burner from a Buddhist temple
Plush Stimpy doll that farts when you squeeze him
48" blowgun
That should have been “moving boxes”. I’ll get out of California eventually…
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[li]A bar my father and I made out of part of a bowling alley floor, specifically where the 1, 2 and 4 pins would sit, bordered by about 1’, and 4 original (1930s-40s?) pins supporting the shelf beneath it (my father also has two woodworking workbenches made from the same lane, but with no pins.)[/li][li]Two bullets, one slug & one ball, circa (United States) Civil War that I found SCUBA diving the rivers of NC & SC.[/li][li]A Slang CD signed by all of the (current) members of Def Leppard.[/li][li]A ticket and playlist (gripped off of the drums before stage-diving) signed by 7Mary3.[/li][li]3- large (4" or better) chunks of glass taken from the cooled (and jack-hammered) remains of a 600 ton/day glass furnace before a rebuild. They look like little icebergs.[/li][li]An 8" roulette wheel with the felt and chips.[/li][li]A very old pipe and a pocket-watch given me by my Opa (Dutch grandfather). The watch was given to him as a teen (1920’s) by a German playmate.[/li][li]CD’s ranging from W.A.S.P. to **Herbie Hancock **to Yes to The Victorias Secret Christmas Album, resting on [sup]1[/sup]/[sub]2[/sub]" thick glass shelves I cut from a 130"x204" sheet (they are much smaller.)[/li][li]A 16"x"10"x6" ceramic bull, black with gold horns.[/li][li]A 172cm wood-core Freestyle snowboard by Planet Snow. It is old (for snowboards) and it is decidely not a freestyle board.[/li][li]A Recon Tanto by Cold Steel and a few boot knives by the now defunct Parker Brothers.[/li][li]A pair of Mark-19 (a belt-fed, machine-gun-style grenade launcher) 40mm shell casings, made into shot glasses.[/li][li]Every Image comic book, issues 1-5, that had come out by 1994 (and some duplicates.)[/li][li]The original, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy and my fathers “Lifetime Membership” card (metal card with his number on it) and key (with the Bunny-ears and his number.)[/li][li]The 100[sup]th[/sup] issue of Mad Magazine.[/li][li]A Philly-Fanatic stuffed…thing (animal? doll?) that a house-sitter gave to me (complicated story, but basically a stunningly attractive 19-year-old gave a then 12-year-old me the Philly-thing while watching my sister and I while my parents went to the Bahamas for a week.)[/li][li]Possibly the weirdest/oddest movie I’ve seen in some time, The Butcher Boy. I don’t know why, but I had to get it, as bad as it was. Oh, and a copy of Pi, too, but that was somewhat better.[/li]One of the few remaining buckets from Papa Joes on High Street (which had burned down in 1996.) When this place served you a bucket of beer, it wasn’t a bucket with ice and a six-pack, it was a 5-gallon bucket filled with beer. They also had a 10-liter hurricane glass for birthdays. Oh, how a miss Ohio State sometimes.[/ul]I’m sure that’s enough.
Think that’s the same kind as mine.
Sheesh, I thought 4 was a bunch.
Not a clue. But a local video store has one hanging from the ceiling.
I’ve also got a poster for Blazing Saddles that came with the Collector’s Edition DVD.
I also forgot to mention the pair of 10,000 mark Weimar Reichsbanknotes my grandfather gave to me. I also have a five colone note from Costa Rica, which might just be the most beautiful piece of paper money in the world.
Imagine an old-fashioned U.S. dollar with the reverse containing a mural of a seaside port in full Technicolor glory.
[li]a painting, executed in spray paint–done surprisingly nicely, a space scene–that I bought off some guy in Hollywood in 1995. He was doing them right on the street, it really fascinating to watch.[/li]/hijack
Either there are many guys doing it or he moved to NYC. I saaw a guy doing space and skyline scences of NYC in Times Square a few weeks ago
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There’s a guy who does the exact same thing in Deep Ellum (Dallas nightclub district). He can do one in about a minute or less.
1970’s Viewmaster with:
1)Shazam! slides
2)Star Trek slides
3)Hi, Opal!
4)Slides showing lower Manhattan before the World Trade Center was built
5)Incredibly racist “Little Black Sambo” slides from the 50’s
6)Other slides from the 50s showing chimpanzees doing odd things, like shooting bows & arrows or riding ponies.
Also: 1970s McDonald’s collector’s glasses featuring the Hamburglar & Captain Crook (retired fast food criminals)
Joan of Arc carved on a matchstick with glitter flames at her feet
Framed poster from 1995 Bulgarian Folk Dance Festival held in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria (hand exported by me)
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[li]1959 Hammond C3 Organ[/li][li]Rhodes Electric piano(non fender)[/li][li]Ration books from WWII[/li][li]A plastic award to my grandfather from Gates Fan belt company, made of clear plastic, with image of a motor molded in, with silver dollars where the fan belt pulleys would go.(an award for a mystery shopper that stopped into my GF’s service station back in the 60’s) Complete with press releases to give to the local paper(he never did)[/li][li]An original compaq transportable(8086 xt class).[/li][li]a 1953 or so bally pinball machine[/li][li]a collection of horrible biker movies[/li][li]an original vhs copy of The Ruttles[/li][li]a WWI British Lee Enfield[/li][li]a kiln and fairly massive potters wheel[/li]a metric crapload of legos
I have a WWII British SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield). I have some ammo for it, but I haven’t been shooting in a long time and haven’t fired it yet.
My two proudest possessions:
A 1991 staff sweatshirt from the Homestead High School Epitaph, which was, at the time, the best high school newspaper in the country.
An advertising poster for Andy Boy brand broccoli from (I’d guess) the 1950’s, which I inherited from my extremely-artistically-gifted grandmother, which features a happy young blonde girl dressed as a stalk of broccoli with the caption “The Tender Years” (and which is, despite some people’s claims to the contrary, not pedophilic)
Probably the strangest things in my house are my
Meet the Feebles DVD
and my Herbert Hoover action figure.
Looking on the back I just realized that HH died the day after I was born!
I bought that on the recommendation of a friend. Hilarious! It’s like the Muppets on acid!
A few of the more obscure DVDs I have are The Kingdom and The Kingdom 2, Straight to Hell featuring The Pogues, and Greaser’s Palace. It’s not obscure, but I also have the complete MGM James Bond collection. I don’t have Casino Royale. I also don’t have Never Say Never because I read a review on Amazon that the DVD is edited.
A 3’ tall paper mache Homer Simpson modeled from a 2" keychain. I made it in art class last year.
A plaster gargoyle from art class.
A plaster mask of my face, covered in a mosaic made from pieces of color pictures from a magazine, also from art class.
One of the few surviving copies of the original Pooh the Pervert notebook cover.
You really must, They shoot great. I got mine as a graduation present from High School, (1983), and it was sporterized. I have since replaced all the wood and bands so it is back to original. I used to really piss off the folks at the range with thier expensive scoped deer rifles, because I was getting tighter groups with this old beat up military antique(with open sights).