# What's the most interesting object you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151 "2023-02-21T18:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/122 "2023-04-03T17:30:20Z")
Welcome @Wonko-the-sane! Discourse says you’re new here, but you sure look familiar to me. Glad to have you, either way. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko-the-sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/67e7ee/32.png) [@Wonko-the-sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko-the-sane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/123 "2023-04-03T18:04:31Z")
I lost access to one of my old email addresses, so I made a new account. I have not posted in quite some time. My personality has mellowed in the last 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko-the-sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/67e7ee/32.png) [@Wonko-the-sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko-the-sane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/124 "2023-04-03T18:06:45Z")
It’s a Mercedes aluminum V8 engine block. I can lift it with one hand. It weighs less than an armchair. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/125 "2023-04-08T02:03:19Z")
Interesting to _me_ but most people I know don’t know or care what it is. I bought a Klein bottle from Cliff Stoll. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/126 "2023-04-09T20:00:02Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > That’s an amazing story - sounds like something from Terminator 2. Did the girl next to you recoil in horror or was she attracted to your manliness? Sorry, I was away for a couple of days. Women and men both are attracted to my manliness all the time, so that was nothing new. 🙂 In reality, there was a lot of concern. We were a pretty close bunch. Someone got a half ass med kit from the bartender and cleaned it up for me. Ointment, gauze and some band-aids (and an offer from a friend to pour his rum and coke on it to sterilize it).The waitress tossed us a wet rag to clean up the booth and my jacket. One guy was wearing a flannel shirt over his t-shirt that he loaned me and we were all set. Lot’s of bullet jokes for the next couple weeks. What strikes me now is that I don’t think anyone there, even the only person over 21, the bar owner, suggested calling the police. The past is a different place. If it happened today, I’m sure everyone, myself included, would have called 911. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/127 "2023-04-10T11:43:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > My gf’s most interesting object is possibly her 1956 Murray Luxury Liner, restored by her dad who restored classic cars and bicycles as a hobby. My gf’s mom and brothers were discussing doing a bike ride and they decided to offer me dad’s bike, because he would want me to have it. [![](https://i.imgur.com/72tZs4k.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/72tZs4k.jpg) We went for a ride yesterday. It was glorious. I felt like PeeWee Herman. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/128 "2023-04-10T19:48:33Z")
A floor tile from the public toilets of the Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth (A famously hated piece of 1960s Brutalist architecture which was demolished in 2004) [![](https://www.starandcrescent.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tricorn-1-678x381.jpg) ](https://www.starandcrescent.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tricorn-1-678x381.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/129 "2023-04-10T22:25:07Z")
I’ve got some German Marks from the hyperinflation era before Hitler. I also have a 2 Shilling coin with King George VI. Also a bunch of one pound banknotes from the Bank of England as well as a variety of other banks where one pound notes are still used ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151/130 "2023-04-11T01:48:19Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I’ve got some German Marks from the hyperinflation era before Hitler. You mean you have some _trillion_ German marks from the inflation? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-object-you-own/980151.md?page=6)