# What's on your wall? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623 "2002-11-25T08:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 25, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/21 "2002-11-25T16:32:46Z")
A photoshopped image of Obi Wan-Kenobi’s body with my dad’s head. His students did it in lab one day, and he sent me a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/22 "2002-11-25T16:56:14Z")
Weaponry, including but not limited to: A 70 year-old recurved bow, some arrows, a double-headed axe, a sword and a very nice flail. To offset the somewhat scary atmosphere, my wife wants me to hang up her Tibeten prayer wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/23 "2002-11-25T20:06:19Z")
An original print of a rainbow serpent dreaming story painted by an Aboriginal Australian. A little note from a fortune cookie taped to the wall saying “You will conquer all obstacles and achieve success.” ---
**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:** [November 25, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/24 "2002-11-25T20:15:30Z")
A company calendar, open to November: National Diabetes Month! ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/25 "2002-11-25T20:28:13Z")
It’s a tie: (No, I don’t mean there’s a tie on the wall.) a fairly disturbing self-portrait a huge map of the U.S., including Alaska _and_ Hawaii! ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/26 "2002-11-25T20:37:38Z")
On the back wall of my cubicle at work I have an expired VFR Terminal Area Chart of the Baltimore-Washington airspace. On the shelf above my desk I have an origami crane and waterbomb, the latter made from a sheet of D-sized paper. It’s about 8" in each dimension. At home I have a few of those photomosaic posters, but I want to cover one wall with a continuous set of aeronautical charts. -Aviation Geek 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/27 "2002-11-25T22:03:47Z")
The most interesting contrast has to be on the shelf with all the family portraits on it. There are pictures of me and my siblings and a vase and a couple of oil lamps. Over everything there’s a big flowery wreath that one of my mother’s friends made her. Right in the middle of the shelf my father has placed a model of the Exide NASCAR from '99. The more you look at it, the weirder it seems. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/28 "2002-11-25T22:06:54Z")
A fly. (I’ve removed his vocal chords.) ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/29 "2002-11-25T22:10:51Z")
In which chords was he vocalizing? Poor fly. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Yarster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7c8e57/32.png) [@Yarster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/30 "2002-11-25T22:31:59Z")
Like Kal, Some weaponry: A model 1886 Winchester rifle in poor shape An MBA Mark-1 model B Gyrojet rocket pistol with an engineering schematic breakdown of the gun, and two rockets, one of which is one of the original prototypes from when the gun was tested. Both are in shadowboxes… ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/31 "2002-11-25T22:43:17Z")
I had no idea when I posted the OP that the answers would be so diverse and fascinating! > [@](#): > > How do you define wall? You know…those stiff upright thingies that enclose a room. The most interesting thing in my room is probably a letter from Katharine Hepburn. The weirdest is a wooden pub sign, a reproducation, that says SILENT WOMAN and has a rendering of a decapitated woman in mid-1700’s dress. The Sherlock Holmes type Inverness coat and cape is kinda fun too. For those of you who have blank walls — **why**? ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/32 "2002-11-25T22:51:59Z")
An Aboriginal Australian war club, painted and incised, with a spike in one end. Also a self portrait, but that’s not so interesting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/33 "2002-11-25T22:56:02Z")
A WWI German bayonet/sword thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/34 "2002-11-25T23:00:48Z")
Oh! and hanging from the hook that holds the sword, is a set of keys that I have no idea what they go to, and the keys are on a ZZ Top keychain. They’ve been there since the late '80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/35 "2002-11-25T23:37:52Z")
I have the group photograph of the graduating class of the university of Michigan Medical school Class of 1930. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/36 "2002-11-26T00:04:00Z")
My home computer is in the dining room, so it’s all fairly conventional. My favorite is a desert scene that my mom painted. Also a postcard of a drawing of a woman screaming tucked in above the thermostat. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/37 "2002-11-26T00:12:56Z")
A picture of the 1969 Mets outfield, autographed by all three men, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones, and Ron Swoboda. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/38 "2002-11-26T00:16:43Z")
2500 orange icicle lights and a cardboard Dracula. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/39 "2002-11-26T04:32:01Z")
Miles Davis and his trumpet 2001 movie poster Dali print of “The Meditative Rose” Framed copy of the original Metropolis movie poster Photomosaic of Darth Vader ---
**Author:** ![wei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@wei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wei)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/40 "2002-11-26T04:37:10Z")
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