What do you collect?

I’ve been collecting Legion of Super-Hero comics for 39 years, and I have a serious collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber cast CDS in 21 languages. This has also become a collection of Sarah Brightman, ABBA group and cast CDS, and Julian Lloyd Webber CDS.

Frank Zappa stuff, such as unreleased album’s, rarities, European issues and whatnot.

Science Fiction paperbacks by certain authors.

Tools, many of which are still in their original packaging because they looked cool so I bought them then realized I have absolutely no use for them.

Computer hardware - currently seven nonworking ones as well as four unused monitors, two printers and a few boxes full of cables, keyboards, mice and whatnot. Also a couple of shelves full of drives, motherboards, memory chips, cpu’s, video boards and sound boards. Oh yeah…I also have Persephone’s scanner :slight_smile:

CD-Rom’s - currently a couple hundred program and game discs.

Geometric shaped lead crystal from all over the place.

Coins from other countries that aren’t worth anything.

Long grey hair.

Sem MAlee hokh (“kh” = one of those hacking sounds, like “ch” in German.)

Shot glasses from places I go to.

Dog figures. (Mostly Sandicast, but whatever catches my eye is fair game)

It looks like I also collect X-Acto knife handles, but that’s just an accident.
-Rue.

When I was younger (a long, long time ago) I used to collect comic books (Marvels, of course) and baseball cards.

Now, it’s hippos and kids…

Zev Steinhardt

i, too, collect Barbies, the expensive collector ones. but only certain “lines”. right now i’m working on the “together forever” and “television series” lines.

beanie babies, but only certain ones.

shoes from “just the right shoe”.

a pattern of depression glass called “american sweetheart” in pink. the first piece i got was given to me by my aunt, and had belonged to my great grandmother, so i decided to try to collect one piece of everything. so far, i have a cup, saucer, cereal bowl and 9" platter. i found the 80 oz. water pitcher on e-bay, going for $1250, so i probably won’t be getting that one any time soon!:frowning:

Minature TV show cars. I have a few, including Scooby Doo, Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky & Hutch.
Mysphyt here’s your phrase as gaeilge:

Is Mise buchaill beag

is mish-eh booch-al be-ug

I collect elephants with the trunks down. See, most elephant chatckeles you find have their trunks up, which is supposed to be good luck or something, so it’s more challenging to find trunks-down pieces.

I also collect books that have two stories in one volume, and when you’re done reading the one you flip it upside-down and read from the other side. (Does that make any sense whatsoever?) I’ve got mostly science fiction so far, maybe because I spend 99.9% of my used-book-store time in the sci-fi section.

Oh, also anything with Diglet or Dugtrio, my favorite Pokemon.

finnish: minä olen pieni poika. (MEE-nah O-len PEE-e-knee POY-cah. :slight_smile: i love doing this.)

swedish: jag är en små kille. (never mind the pronunciation guide for that, it would just make me crack up uncontrollably when i reread it.)

ahem. anyway.

I collect antique dishware known as Flow Blue. Made from the 1810’s through the 1920’s, and very beautiful.

I also collect swords, armor and weapons.

I have this thing for autographed Robert Heinlein novels, first editions preferably. I have three right now, but am always on the lookout for more. (I have “The Number of the Beast”, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” all signed firsts…) If anyone has a copy of “Time Enough for Love” signed first, I will be your friend forever!

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Absolutely, Podkayne. I collect original hardcover Perry Masons and have seen some of Gardner’s work reversed into a volume like that. If both stories had been Perry Mason I would have bought the volumes for sheer novelty value.

PS: I adore your screen name. I still picture you surrounded by nine foot tall, four armed Martian warriors.

Pronounced (as far as my rotten Danish/Swedish goes);

Jag = Yi (long “I” with the ending “G” silent)

är = Air (with an “A” as in apple)

en = en (just as it sounds)

små = smo (as in the first part of “smoke” except the “O” sound is more like a truncated “A” sound.)

kille = keyla (as in “key” with “la” with the final “E” modified to a nearly “A” sound.)

I hope that is more helpful than confusing. Most Scandinavian languages can only be spoken properly with a mouthful of potatoes.

PS: Allow me to officially welcome to the boards, auRa.

Flow Blue! I love the look of that stuff. I was thinking of collecting a few pieces.

I currently collect: pets, porcelain hinged boxes, and anything retro, specifically, 50’s. If it is a replica of something from the 50’s or an actual item from the 50’s, I want it!