# What bizarre things do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095 "2010-05-20T03:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/1 "2010-05-20T03:06:25Z")
In the IMDb ‘goofs’ thread in Cafe Society I was reminded of the kitchen burner Nelix had on _Star Trek: Voyager_. It’s part of a GE-J-85 turbojet engine. Oddly, I happen to have one. In the ‘best airline seat’ thread, someone mentioned an ejection seat. Got one of those, too. If I thought about it, I probably have a few other things that are just ‘random’. So what weird things do you have lying about? ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/2 "2010-05-20T03:22:01Z")
A goat skull A sperm whale tooth (inherited from long ago, so it is legal) An Exa camera…the first single lens reflex camera ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/3 "2010-05-20T03:26:37Z")
A ronco egg cuber. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/4 "2010-05-20T03:29:31Z")
Real voodoo dolls bought from a market in Cap-Haïtien. I don’t own a gun, but I have a .50 caliber live round. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/5 "2010-05-20T03:43:29Z")
> [@sunstone](#): > > A goat skull Is that weird? I have one, too. It’s keeping my gryphon puppet company on the mantel behind me at the moment. I’m not sure what counts as bizarre, really. Some possibilities: full-size fake mummy (with fake mummified cat) a couple of large (~3 feet tall) golden foam-rubber ankhs a crate of plaques with arcane symbols on them a book entitled _How to Build a Corpse_ several large dragon masks (each about 3 feet long) a webshooter (two, actually, but one needs repair) Those honestly don’t seem all that odd to me, but other people sometimes find them peculiar. Is my baseline just off? ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/6 "2010-05-20T03:43:59Z")
I have crossed nerves in my feet. My second toes feel like my middle toes and vice versa- nobody ever believes me. I also frequently dislocate my middle toes so I think that they are just generally messed up. They look totally normal though- even a bit cute. I have a true Bourbon Street sign. My dad jacked it in the 60s. Along with no parking signs for Nixon’s inauguration. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/7 "2010-05-20T03:47:33Z")
A mummified salamander. Almost certainly the only solid body electric baritone ukulele in Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/8 "2010-05-20T03:59:30Z")
Not one but two dried and varnished alligator heads. My three year old daughter claims the big one is mine and the little one is hers. I also have a five foot tall wooden airplane propeller propped in the corner. I have bunches of counterculture books and how-to manuals for various crime techniques. Oddly enough, I didn’t buy any of them myself. My mother gave them to me as presents over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/9 "2010-05-20T04:27:24Z")
A couple of WWI brass shells from a field artillery piece. Not sure of the caliber, but they’re about two feet long and maybe three inches across. A great-uncle picked them up on the battlefield and brought them home. I also have a female mannequin that started its life in a department store. It’s been rigged with a sound level meter in its ear. My wife (an audiologist) used it in demonstrations of the levels I-Pods could put out, when she presented hearing health safety talks to high school kids. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/10 "2010-05-20T04:35:18Z")
Apparently, owning a goat skull isn’t as odd as I thought. Do I get extra credit by revealing that it was a wedding gift? I also have a fossilized beaver tooth and my late grandfather’s glass eye. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/11 "2010-05-20T04:41:22Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > full-size fake mummy I have a fake rotting corpse. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/12 "2010-05-20T04:42:26Z")
I have a couple glass insulators from electric poles. One is this gorgeous greeny blue, the other is a sort of cloudy-clear color. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/13 "2010-05-20T04:50:58Z")
I have a pre-WWII Japanese baseball and a tin of D-Day beach sand. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/14 "2010-05-20T04:56:38Z")
WWII Japanese cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/15 "2010-05-20T05:20:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I have a fake rotting corpse. I used to have a REAL ro . . . oh, right, my attorney told me to stop telling people about it until after the trial. :smack: I don’t have much in the way of truly weird/unusual stuff, but I have clean needles and syringes everywhere - desk, car, dresser. :dubious: It’s partly from stuffing them in my pockets at work and forgetting about them until I get in the car/get home. I also purposely have a collection with my cats’ meds (SQ fluids and Adequan) and my horse first aid drugs. Besides the Adequan and vaccines they get regularly, I carry a couple doses of injectable NSAID’s and sedation so that I can keep them on their feet until the vet gets there if one of the horses colics or hurts themselves badly. The drugs, which are not controlled substances, were legally prescribed and dispensed under a valid vet-client-patient relationship for as-needed use, and it’s legal to have syringes and needles without a prescription in my state, but it still looks a little hinky because I never know exactly where a syringe might pop up, and I hope I never get pulled over on a day when I’ve tossed my wallet in my bag with the random medical supplies. I used to have Vetrap everywhere when I was recovering from an ankle sprain and used it every day, but I’ve managed to reduce some of my bandage material load. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/16 "2010-05-20T05:21:07Z")
Oh, yeah, forgot a recent find: I’m now the proud owner of a six-pack of beer packaged in 1983, with graphics (including a picture of James Oglethorpe) commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Georgia colony. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/17 "2010-05-20T08:34:49Z")
A brief note written to me from Katharine Hepburn A letter written by Colette. (French writer) The script to the last scene of the last episode of M_A_S\*H autographed by Alan Alda Two or three scripts from **24** autographed by Cherry Jones (plays the President) An 8x10 photo of Cherry Jones inscribed to me (Her sister gave it to my sister to give to me.) A full-length heavy tweed Inverness cape (think Sherlock Holmes) A Baby Ruth candy bar wrapper from the 1920s (I think). ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/18 "2010-05-20T08:54:31Z")
An ocarina A raccoon skull An optimistic take on life Bah, I fail. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/19 "2010-05-20T09:29:24Z")
The usual stuff. - A sump pump from a 19th century canal boat. - A piece of a P-38 radiator from “Glacier Girl” - An antique doctor’s examination table that I got free (complete with stirrups) - A ram air shaker hood scoop from a 351 equipped mustang. - A center console vacuum gauge for a 65 Grand Prix. - Unused German stamps with Hitler on them that my dad picked up in WWII. - Stereoviews of the World Trade center taken during the 9/11 attack. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095/20 "2010-05-20T10:06:16Z")
An empty can of rubber cement from the 20’s. Yea that’s pretty much it for bizarre. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-things-do-you-have/540095.md?page=2)