A velvet Elvis. Hanging on the wall next to my husband’s velvet John Wayne.
A pair of Jell-O molds shaped like certain parts of the male and female anatomies.
A perfectly hideous tealight holder shaped like a cherub sitting by a fountain. The cherub has his hand up to his mouth and looks as if he’s seriously worried that he forgot to turn the oven off before he left the house.
An “Official Metallica Frisbee.” Well, actually, it’s a seat cushion. Long story.
A Tokyo sign taken right off the M.A.S.H. set.
Both Old Skull CDs.
Considering that CDs weren’t invented until 1983, that one is very strange indeed. 
A halberd and a grapeling hook are the two more unusual ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Oh, and a stuffed shark on my coffee table.
The skeleton of a cat from Shanghai. With a guide to what all the bones are.
The School Biology department chucked out all their skeletons because many had rotted. This one was in a box and it was ok but they were still going to chuck it. That day I happened to be kicked out of class, saw the thing and said ‘I want it!’
The teacher thought I was mad but I love the thing.
An autographed script from The Roof of the World - an episode of Doctor Who from 1964; the episode no longer exists and the script is not commercially avaialable so I don’t think I’m doing badly for obscurity!
CDs were invented in 1979, KGS. Says so in my inventions of the twentieth century book.
Um… can’t think of anything too amazing right now.
I do have My Little Ponies which due to my age and gender many would think is weird. Rest assured I did get them when I was no older than 7 though!
Oh my God, I have one of these too! Is it yellow and white with the little black band of seaweed wrapped around it?
I too, have not one, but three gas masks. My oldest is an American mask from WWII. Another is an Israeli mask I got around the time of the Gulf War (used to wear this one when I chopped onions, but it scares my wife so I don’t do that anymore). The third is part of a full American NBC chemical warfare suit I got about 7 or 8 years ago for use as a Halloween costume (it’s complete with gloves, boot covers, and even a little decontamination kit).
They are a part of a small collection of random military paraphernalia that I’ve accumulated over the years. The most unusual items are probably a pair of grenades (one shrapnel and one high-explosive), a bunch of 20mm aircraft cannon rounds, a handful of miscellaneous switchplates and an emergency fuel dump lever from the cockpit of a Soviet Tu-16 Badger bomber (I know they’re from a Badger because I pried them from the cockpit myself), and my prize possession: a 105mm artillery shell. (All of this stuff is defused, deactivated, or inert training rounds, BTW.)
I also keep three regulation hockey pucks in the freezer so they are always kept frozen and ready for play. Odd considering I live in Florida.
A Simpons cartoon in 35mm that was “liberated” from the head of a print of The War of the Roses
A set of Efron’s Dice hand-made from cocobolo wood.
My boss has a huge circuit board with 8k of core memory and a little loupe so you can look at the tiny black Lifesavers carefully strung on the wires.
A human female skeleton (all in pieces in a trunk) with her medical history (died age 13, influenza. 1934).
Two decorated Tibetan human skulls. One Tibetan skull “lid”, also decorated. Goat and bird skull similarly decorated. Two neclaces made from Tibetan monk’s finger bones, carved to look like little skulls (not the llama or goat bone ones, I have those too).
Two ashtrays from the original Hellfire club. Various Victorian satanic artifacts. A few opium pipes (my favorite is ebony shaped like a skull and in a little coffin case). A “Sambo” bottle opener. Freak post cards (JoJo the dogfaced boy, etc. All vintage). Various knives and swords including one triangular asassins dagger with ivory handle and one god inlay folded metal heavy knife with femur handle (it’s partially opal now).
The creppiest thing is something that was in a misc box I bought from one of my “pickers” (I used to sell oddities, hence the abundance of weird stuff, and employed pickers to go places and find things for me): A Junior SS ring. Silver with gold swastika and gold “SS” on either side.
'80 - '83 … what’s a couple of years? (the ‘over-40’ memory ain’t what it used to be, ya know…) It was back in the days when I was still buying “audiophile” LP’s and spending many, many dollars on fancy stylii for the top-end turntable I had at the time. These cool little plastic discs came out with digital music on them and I simply HAD to have some and a player.
A sitar.
A woman’s arab robe that I used to wear to high school (not realizing the extent of my fashion statement).
A catty handwritten dedication in a book by a favorite author – which happens to use my name.
A copy of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” in Danish from Philip K. Dick’s bookshelf.
Most of a brass chandeler for candles that’s too large for my place or any place I’m ever likely to live.
OH - and the Gieger counter. I almost forgot about the Gieger counter. It’s reportedly one used during one of the actual nuclear tests in Nevada in the late 1940’s - I doubt that seriously, but it was manufactured in 1946 and uses three vaccuum tubes and a REALLY big battery to operate.
OH - and the Gieger counter. I almost forgot about the Gieger counter. It’s reportedly one used during one of the actual nuclear tests in Nevada in the late 1940’s - I doubt that seriously, but it was manufactured in 1946 and uses three vaccuum tubes and a REALLY big battery to operate.
[1] A set of pants stretchers (they were a hit before your mother was born) - useful for putting creases in pants without ironing.
[2] A map of the state of Alaska made from a chunk of the Trans-Alaskan pipeline
[3] An oosik
[4] I have one of those little green cubes of marble, too! Mine has a small square of felt on the bottom - to prevent scratches, I guess.
[5] A collection of LP records numbering close to 500, in orange crates in my garage, dating back to the early sixties… I haven’t looked at them for about fifteen years… anyone in the market?
A milage meter out of a circa 1960’s GreyHound bus on a display shelf in my hall.
A reproduction barrel pump - no barrel - just the pump. Hand operated of course.
An old juicer (circa 1950’s?) with a silk plant in it, displayed on top of my refrigerator.
A big pillow in the shape of, and with a covering that resembles a Schlitz beer can.
I have a stuff animal that was bought for me at Spencer’s Gifts - it is made in likeness of Mr. Bigglesworth.
I also have a mini-Zen Garden complete with little rocks and rake the size of a tooth brush…
Lemme see here…
A wooden crate that originally held hand grenades that I got from some French Foreign Legion guys during Desert Storm.
Two poncho liners that I’ve had since the early 80’s.
A stuffed chicken that goes moo when you squeeze it.
A still-in-the-boc Macintosh IIsi that my Mom gave me.
A Polizei raincoat.
Numerous handmade canes that I use on occasion due to a bad back and bad knees.
A couple of staffs that I got at a rennasaince fair years ago.
A collapsible bucket.
Tools for which I have absolutely no use whatsoever for, but, since I’m a guy, I’m not allowed to get rid of them.
A nice little collection of short swords and daggers.
Many, many, many hand carved aggates, crystals and other cool-type stones just because.
I also own a small,brown teddy bear wearing a shirt that says " I heart O-Town" (the Heart shown as a "heart’) I had this signed by the members of O-Town outside of a Wal-Mart in Daytona
Hold right there. A sitar is not at all odd. I owned one for almost 20 years until last year. Would have never thought to list it.