# What odd things do you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761 "2002-10-04T01:42:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/1 "2002-10-04T01:42:32Z")
Maybe not the _oddest_ item I own, but certainly unusual: A three-sided die. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/2 "2002-10-04T02:09:50Z")
Oh Christ, don’t get me started. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/3 "2002-10-04T02:14:24Z")
Deja vu! The oddest think I own is still the A-7E ejection seat. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/4 "2002-10-04T02:20:28Z")
The boy. Definitely the boy. ---
**Author:** ![bee\_with\_an\_itch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@bee\_with\_an\_itch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bee_with_an_itch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/5 "2002-10-04T02:24:06Z")
I may be young, but I’ve amassed quite the odd collection: -signed Macauley Culkin photo -a weasel pelt -a Barbie Winnebago -a veritable raccoon hat a la Davey Crockett -a couch that I constructed from scratch -a 9 foot long chest of drawers -approximately 15 shoeboxes full of Crayons ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/6 "2002-10-04T02:46:15Z")
Here are a few of my possessions that might strike some people as slightly odd: -the mummy -the mummy’s cat -two obelisks with odd glyphs on the sides, mounted on lazy susans -a year’s supply of monster hand gloves -a flamenco dancer top too small to fit anyone I know -a large supply of balloons filled with sand and/or birdseed -several oily and blood-stained sheets of parchment bearing Enochian writing (Relax. If I’ve translated it correctly, it’s a shopping list.) Maybe I should compile a full list some day. (Oh, neither the mummy nor the cat are real–they’re props from a theatre company’s moving sale.) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/7 "2002-10-04T03:27:17Z")
A U.S. Army gas mask. A pencil sketch from the original cartoon version of _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/8 "2002-10-04T08:03:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*A three-sided die. \*\* How the… Even a pyramid has four sides. How can a die have three sides? Is it a cylinder? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/9 "2002-10-04T12:04:25Z")
A walking stick made from a horse penis ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/10 "2002-10-04T12:34:49Z")
A singing, dancing Daler Mehndi doll. It was a gift. I love it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/11 "2002-10-04T12:50:19Z")
Hmmmm… I also have a gas mask, this one from Iraq. (I keep it in my car’s trunk, which _really_ confuses people.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/12 "2002-10-04T13:10:48Z")
-A piece of the “Deep 13” set from “Mystery Science Theater 3000” -A goat skull -A slightly used rubber assault rifle prop -A Russian army-surplus fur cap ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/13 "2002-10-04T13:16:26Z")
I have a Theremin - did you hear that Twistoffate, I have a theremin and you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/14 "2002-10-04T14:34:56Z")
I have a blue ceramic hippo wearing a crown and a pink brocade dress with beaded lace edging. I saw it in a consignment shop and it was so damned weird, I had to have it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/15 "2002-10-04T14:40:19Z")
Yeah, me too—I don’t even want to _think_ about some of the things frightening my houseguests . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/16 "2002-10-04T15:00:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\* > > How the… > > Even a pyramid has four sides. How can a die have three sides? Is it a cylinder? \*\* It’s probably just a six-sider numbered 1-3 twice. I have several. I also have one snowshoe. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/17 "2002-10-04T15:00:59Z")
I have a blue ceramic hippo wearing a crown and a pink brocade dress with beaded lace edging. I saw it in a consignment shop and it was so damned weird, I had to have it. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/18 "2002-10-04T15:51:53Z")
My crown from being “Courtwarming Queen” my senior year. I guess it’s not that weird to HAVE it, it is a tad weird though, that I wear it around. I only do it to freak my husband out, though. haha Oh, I don’t own this one, but my dad does and it is weird so I’ll put it in here. It’s a “diamond encrusted” belly button brush to get the lint out. haha It’s in a little red velvet box. I’m sure it was a gag gift sometime, but it’s really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/19 "2002-10-04T15:54:32Z")
Just re-read my post and I want to make it clear that I don’t wear the crown ALL the time. I just get it out now and then. haha I don’t want anyone thinking I’m THAT weird! haha ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761/20 "2002-10-04T16:03:42Z")
Lots of sharp pointy things… which always raises eyebrows since people tend to think I’m this sweet and innocent young thing… 😃 (I go to RenFaires.) Too many pairs of black suede boots. A computer bug made out of part of an old motherboard. ‘Pickle Boy’ [Stuffed animal. About two feet tall, one feet 'round in diameter, flat head (white top, with very short white fringe around it), neon green body and stubby arms, stubby yellow feet, white face, big eyes, stubby yellow beak, and holding a green pickle-like object with ‘kappa-za!’ (I think, it’s at home and I’m at work at the moment) written in neon pink lined with black upon it.] I really should take a pic and post it somewhere. * * * \<\< There is no spoon. \>\> [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-own/130761.md?page=2)