My prized bizarre possession used to be an unassembled, in the box, Spiro T. Agnew needlepoint kit.
Sadly, I no longer have it… I gave it to a friend who had been coveting it in exchange for some work he did for me.
The thing looks like a medieval torture device and I could not guess it’s function before being told.
A caribou horn. (I have it hanging by my cattle mute. Heh.)
A leg hold grizzly bear trap. It will snap a 2X4 in half.
A few others:
**An antique Mah Jongg set with bone counters
A horn 9for playing) made out of a longhorn horn
A 2 foot high 1960s Tyrannosaurus Rex model
Several Fulgurites
A couple of Radiometers (“Light Mills”)
An Antique Emmett Kelly Doll
A Danny O’Day Ventriloquist Figure
A Bugs Bunny Animation Cel that was used in an actual cartoon
A Commercial Tarot Card Deck with Three Cards in it that my Wife Posed for
An old Commodore Computer with the miniature keyboard and cassette tape drive. That still works
A Digicomp I
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I have a trilobite fossil. Is that weird? It was a gift from manhattan.
I just noted in another thread that I don’t have much stuff in general, so I don’t think I have anything much weirder than that.
Strangely enough, I bookmarked a page a few years ago where you can buy new ones.
A John Anderson for President T-shirt, circa 1980. Actually it belongs to MrWhatsit, but I’m counting it anyway.
Also, a plastic brain-shaped jello mold.
several dozen antique glass coke bottles
a 7" diameter civil war cannonball
a live 20mm, armor piercing, incendiary cannon shell
a two hundred+ model Warhammer 40K Praetorian Imperial Guard army
2-liter plastic bottle filled with assorted dice
small pack of Confederate currency
Oops. I’ve just been informed that it’s a dummy round. My dad bought it at a gun show as a novelty. Probably a lot safer to keep around that way.
An anti-zombie kukri. I’ve pared things down to just the essentials.
I don’t have this but my sister does. A presidential pardon from Andrew Johnson issued to our g to the nth grandfather for allowing the yankees to use his plantation home ‘Lithia Springs Plantation’ as a hospital for wounded union troops.
Yes, the same state park that the city of Lithia Springs, GA is named for.
The weirdest thing I can think of is a cigar in a jar from 1990, so I guess I fail.
That Titanic jewelry box that was mentioned would be amazing.
Oh, we’ve got one of these. You know what it’s good for? Making chocolate brains at Halloween.
2 hand made leather skirts from the Barabaig tribe in Tanzania. - Note: leather tanned with urine and smoke really really stinks.
I thought you used those against vampires and their minions. At least they did in Stoker’s original story.
A Timex watch owned by an American who was “disappeared” in one of Stalin’s purges. Not really bizarre but I think it’s interesting.
•A deer skull. (It goes well with the two human, one dragon, and one alien skull I’ve got on my walls and bookshelves. Er, fake ones, anyway.)
•A piece of Deep 13.
•What is, as far as I know, the world’s first Shego action figure.
-Also, to my knowledge, the world’s only Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner figure.
•A few odd MP3s that I don’t think exist anywhere else.
•A couple of 20mm shells and casings.
A speaker stand and two speakers from a drive in movie.
A real gum ball machine.
A large glass japanese fishing float.
a bowler hat
An antique advertising give-a-way for a furniture store/ funeral home. It’s a big meat fork.
I refer to it as an anti-zombie kukri (AZK), because a distant relative of mine who also posts on the Dope (we have the same mother and father) gave it to me for zombie protection, and because the inimitableMilla Jovovich made the AZK the de rigueur zombie killing accessory.
The AZK is a pretty multi-purpose tool, at home splitting wood or splitting heads and would certainly be useful in a vampire decapitation situation. I might also mention it is the sharpest, best edge-retaining weapon I have ever owned. I keep it in the cabinet over the fridge, easily accessible for going down stairs to answer the front door or investigate the funny moaning noise.