I didn’t bring much crap for my dorm room, but the weirdest thing on my desk is a little plush pizza and cutter. My 2 best friends decided as a birthday present to go to Build a Bear and make me an Elmo (one of said friends had a running joke about tickle me Elmo - doing the voice and saying “that’s my no no spot!” and it used to crack me up). They recorded that onto a chip and it’s in Elmo’s hand. I left Elmo at home cause he is huge, but I brought the little pizza accessory they bought for it. (We all worked at a pizza place together in high school.) So on my bookshelf on my desk, I have novels, textbooks, photo albums and frames, a Mizzou coolie cup, a Rubik’s cube, and a plush pizza. The pieces come off (velcro) and you can take off the toppings too (pepperoni and mushroom). I think it’s cute, but other people are confused by it.
The old Waukesha Wisconsin Public Library issued those.
I can still remember how proud & excited I was when I first got one.
It was my first piece of i.d.
A full sized dummy of Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN) the former US Senator.
A six inch wide promotional Stelazine pill (An anti-psychotic tranquilizer)
A bee’s head mounted on a plaque (okay, I mounted that one myself)
A plastic human torso with removable organs. Well, two actually. One is a cheap one.
But I’d have to say Rudy is the strangest thing I own, and I own a lot of strange things. He was at my wedding. He wore a kilt.
EXTREME envy !
My plastic nun finger puppet. Or maybe my russian nun nesting dolls. Or maybe my nun outfit.
Or maybe the collection of “tips” from when I put out a “tip” jar when I was working at a small company in Vermont. I didn’t get any money, but my coworkers had a ball writing “tips” on little post-its such as “Tip: Going to gay bars with your underage co-workers is good for your soul.” I couldn’t bear to throw any of them away for some reason.
Geez, my entire place is weird stuff!
Hundreds of very odd vinyl records, knives and machetes from various parts of the world, a wolf leg bone I found, 3 shishas (middle eastern water pipes), various Qurans, various advertising and landmine awareness posters I take while travelling, Nepalese prayer flags, large blue styrofoam Mummer wings, an antique Vietnamese pipe, a bust of Ho Chi Minh, a gutra (Arab headdress), an Israeli landmine sign, prayer rugs (one with a compass to help find Mecca), religious icons, a Dome of the Rock alarm clock, a Sarajevo soccer hooligan scarf, a Thai sword, antique erotic postcards, etc etc…
And that’s just the living room. I have to warn people about what the place looks like before the first time they visit.
I have a Civil War (USA) mini ball bullet. My paternal grandparents built their home on an old battle field, so there were a lot of these around.
5 human teeth - my own. There were pulled out for orthodonic work. (Getting braces in your 20’s is not for sissies!)
A now shriveled orange with the alphabet tatooed into its skin.
Probably the 2’ long walrus dick on the bookcase.
Approximately two feet of my own hair, hacked off years ago when I left school and had to get a real job.
I have a bunch of Extra Red Bull from Thailand. The guy who gave it to me explained that regular Red BUll in Thailand is stronger than the stuff here and the Extra Red Bull is what the truckers drink. So I’ve been too scared to try it…
My parents are antique dealers and my dad is a “scout” of the highest order - put him head to head with any number of flea market or garage sale scroungers and he is guaranteed to pick the most obscure thing that ends up having a lot of value. A knack, karma - whatever; when I’ve seen it happen countless times over 30+ years, I know it isn’t random…
Anyway, while I could speak to the various Native American artifacts he has, the meteorites, the mammoth tooth, the weird pen knives advertising the most bizarre snake-oily stuff from the late 1800’s, etc., I will limit this to the one that immediately came to mind.
A Mayan / Meso-American Sacrificial Knive. Jade (nephrite jade), about 8" long, cylindrical and about as big around as a cardboard toilet paper core, weighed, oh, maybe 1.5 lbs (guesstimating here - it had a very solid heft). On end was flat; the other had been crafted into a straightedge. Basically, it wasn’t a chipped piece of obsidian, like other sacrifical knives I have seen; it was more of a jade hand-adze. Dad had it researched and aged and it was the right age (over 1,000 years old, IIRC), but there was no way to understand if it was actually used or more ceremonial. Either way, once you held it, you remembered it - it had a mojo I can’t really describe. It felt like it meant business.
Dad sold it for a hefty sum when he was hot in pursuit of some new obsession and needed ready capital. I was really angry…
A crumhorn bender.
A film cannister containing confetti from a 1976 KISS concert.
Dead bat in a jar of formaldehyde
A set of dentures which belonged to late Uncle Max
Fossilized shark’s teeth
Northstar Horizon home computer (circa 1979)
Eagle terminal
Numerous Commodore 64s, 1451 disk drives, monitors, printers, joysticks, tape drives, numeric key pads, modems, a magic voice, koala pads, and a mouse
Commodore 128
Commodore Plus 4
2 Intellivisions- Intellivoice modules, game cartridges
Atari 2600- numerous games, joysticks and paddles
VirtualBoy- with Warioland, Tennis, and MarioCrash
Two styrafoam mannequin heads
8086 Ibm machine
Two mens’ shirt mannequins (full neck, front of shoulders, front of chest)
Bates Motel slippers
A 3 foot tall Chucky doll
Leather belt buckle containing a prosthetic grade glass eye
Yelow and white mushroom lamp
Coffee table made from an old pinball machine
Cheap sword blade set in a pool cue handle
Set of TechnoKnight armor
Metal helmet with beak and mylar lenses
Chestplate(with epaulettes) with metal hoses on the sides and purple hawk on the front.
Silver and purple bracers
Plastic purple greaves
Plexiglass shield with CD corners, decorated with big purple hawk
Sword-cylindrical lucite with purple and black handle
Lance-silver, roughly 7 feet long.
The Scarecrow-Homemade mannequin. The face needs some work
The Cowardly Lion-Homemade mannequin, the face needs work, and I want to make the mane fuller.
Both mannequins have jointed arms and legs.
Can of tomatos autographed by John Astin
Moon Shoes- essentialy trampolines you strap to each foot.
A hunter green felt Cthulhu over-the-head-mask
There’s more, but that will do for now.
An ejection seat from an A-7E Corsair II.
About 8 bayonets (two British from WWI and one German plus others)
Three gas masks
6 Spongebob sweet toy type plastic container thingies (one pez dispenser)
Various helmets from WWI and II and since then. (no I am not a meglomaniac I use them for teaching purposes, except the spongebob items, those are for my personal pleasure. 
I think this thread just made me realize that I have nothing interesting, strange, or unusual. 
I think the closest is a stuffed Cthulu, an old Graflex camera circa…I have no idea, but I would guess 50-60 years old, or a brown bottle with an image of George Washington on the side of it, and an Eagle on the back. My guess is that it was made sometime around the Bicentennial.
I see your stuffed Cthulu and raise you a stuffed Super Cthulu.
Which reminds me
Bosda Chi Tricor
I see your articulated Harryhausen cyclops and raise you a painted metal statuette of the same, plus a garage kit Harryhausen cyclops model which comes with two heads.
Does it have a flashgun? I’d have to check a bookmark I can’t get to right now because the Yahoo toolbar for Firefox gives me problems, but some of the lightsabers in Star Wars (I mean A New Hope, not the series in general) were made from a certain type of Graflex flash gun. They are highly sought after for this reason.
I would say a Suzuki RE-5, but I sold it a while back.
I have some strange rocks/concrete and stuff like that. A piece of “The Big Rock” from the Donner Party Saga, a piece of the Berlin Wall, a piece of the St. Francis Dam, a piece of coal from the Titanic, a piece of rock from Genoa Peak.
Two Jeep Commandos. That makes ME strange.
http://members.aol.com/yodashous2/building.htm
Graflex 3-Cell Flash Handle is the term I was looking for.