# Items in which you are a sucker for. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364 "2005-06-15T12:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/81 "2005-06-19T03:42:51Z")
Irish music. Pretty women. Any of the new sour Altoids flavors, apple, raspberry, all of them. Dim sum. Bonsai. Any fiction book which involves the Knights Templar. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/82 "2005-06-19T20:45:08Z")
Cups. God I love cups. Especially the super colorful cheap plastic ones at Wal-Mart. Cups cups cups. My mother always makes fun of me because I buy new cups all the time. Also, anything with palm trees on it. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/83 "2005-06-19T21:10:15Z")
I love weird shit. Examples: - Rosetta Stone mouse pad (it’s even _shaped_ like the Rosetta Stone: too cool.) - desk-top cannon that actually fires (uses caps; great for releasing aggression) - gryroscope - fossils, geodes, funky rocks of all sorts - balsa wood build-your-own dinosaur - gorgeously painted pterodactyl mobile (w/ a 3’ wing span) - horned toad carved out of cedar wood - filagree Victoria mourning brooch - Edward Gorey lithos - antique silver drop (for a necklace) shaped like a mushroom - desk-top model of a Stutz Bearcat - a pewter aardvark Shopping for clothes bores and frustrates me witless. But museum stores…mmm. And hardware stores. I can’t go in one without wanting to buy all kinds of neat things I don’t need. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/84 "2005-06-20T01:02:36Z")
Hmmm, let’s see . . . Buying books I could just as easily get at the library . . . check. Women with glasses . . . check (Actually, if you are anywhere in the vicinity of nerd cool, glasses or not, chances are we’re talking at least schoolboy crush) Ghost in the Shell . . . oooooh, _check_ (What did you think of GITS 2 Innocence?) And my own: The old horror movies. Hammer Films and Roger Corman stuff, especially. Tacky, garish color, laughable dialog, and special effects that my kid nephew could duplicate in his chemistry class. Now, **that’s** good horror. I blow more money on these DVD’s and books than anything else. If Vincent Price or Christopher Lee starred, appeared, or even worked as key grip in the movie, I want it in my collection. Anything having _anything_ to do with Lovecraft. I even liked [Necronomicon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107664/), that’s how much I love Lovecraft. I’m actually kind of ashamed of the fact I like this movie, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/85 "2005-06-20T04:27:38Z")
**Ms Veb** , that desk-top cannon will now be fodder for so many lovely images of your volleys hereabouts. Love the pewter aardvark, too. Martha Stewart; “Pewter, Revered Again”… I am a sucker for weirdities, too: Mexican Stuffed Toad Bands; yep, real stuffed toads playing instruments, Hecho en Mexico, especially awful bonus points for being a vegetarian. Plastic Frilled (Jesus) Lizards; someone in China is cranking them out, my friends find them. Small hardbound clinical medical books that have harshly lit graphic photos; Mouth Sores is entrancing; find them at local thrift shops from med students moving on up. Bird nests; say that once to friends, endless supply. Rocks-n-Fossils, yeps. More, but on the normal front, baskets, bowls, and blue glass. Put something in a blue bottle, I’m a sucker. Thanks **Shirley** for this thread; a fine good topic! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/86 "2005-06-20T04:53:27Z")
Kitties (natch) Books Music Movies Fire Company Mugs & Glasses Odd beer bottles Old electronics & photography equipment Tools-I’m a confessed tool ho-see something neat, it’s not a question of whether or not I need it, my mind is already trying to logically justify the purchase :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/87 "2005-06-21T14:39:17Z")
Worn corduroy…the kind that is oh-so-soft to the touch. I have some kind of perpetual obsession about **purses**. I am always on the lookout for that Ultimate Purse. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/88 "2005-06-23T13:16:56Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Women with glasses > [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Martini, wine or shot? Rose-colored. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364.md?page=4)