# What's the ugliest item in your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515 "2002-06-05T18:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/21 "2002-06-06T06:47:37Z")
an over sized Barney Fife poster, it sits at eye level right across from the throne…very disconcerting or so I am told by visitors. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/22 "2002-06-06T13:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enola Straight \* > \*\*I have this…thing…and I don’t even know its scientific name. > > Its not a sun dial, but similar… > It belongs outside, but sits proudly atop the entertainment center. \*\* I HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO! A friend bought it for my birthday after I had admired it at Pier 1. I think it’s called an astroglobe. Thing is, it looked fine in the store, and I’ve seen one in the middle the reflecting pool in a fountain-and-flower garden that looked fabulous, but in the average home? Nope. There’s just nothing you can do with that sucker. Right now, it’s sitting on the dresser (opposite Jesus in purple bike shorts) and it just looks…stupid. Bulky. Useless. Don’t know what to do with it now-it was a gift, after all… Anyone want a white elephant? ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/23 "2002-06-06T14:18:00Z")
I just moved into a room in the house of a friend of mine. Basically, all my stuff is in my bedroom, aside from the big-ass tv. My roommate has ‘interesting’ taste. There are various tapestries on the walls, covering the windows, and the sofas. Beatles posters, Grateful Dead posters, lots of incense, you get the idea. But, on the wall next to the pool table there hangs a velvet painting. I would be cool with it if it was a Velvet Elvis, for kitsch factor. But it’s this hideous (!) painting of tiki huts on a beach. There’s lots of gold, green, and blue. And my lord, is it ugly. As oddball as the rest of the decorating is, at least there was some sort of theme. It sticks out like a sore thumb. There’s something innately creepy about it, though, like I feel like some character in the Twilight Zone when I look at it. I keep imagining little natives running out of the huts and attacking the house while I sleep. :eek: **sidle** , Jesus in purple bike shorts? BWAH HA HA HA! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/24 "2002-06-06T15:11:43Z")
This is terrible to say about ancestors but… two larged framed photos of great grandparents taken while in their 60’s in the 50’s or 40’s. Very Sober, dark, grim faced homely portraits. I want to hang them behind a door. ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/25 "2002-06-06T15:24:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katie1341 \* > \*\*Hubby’s father owned a shoe store for many years in Auburn, AL. He had a rug (about 3 ft by 4 ft) with the Hush Puppy dog on it in the store. When he retired and closed the store, he proudly gave his firstborn this monstrosity. To make matters worse, hubby decided to HANG IT ON THE WALL. When we moved (into the house with the big honkin’ TV), I made him put the damn thing in the attic. I used the TV as my bargaining chip. \*\* Honestly, that rug if in good condition could be worth something to a collector. Hush Puppy memorabilia comes up on ebay now and then. Textiles with HP logos might be rarer! jen ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/26 "2002-06-06T16:10:35Z")
A Suzuki RE5. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/27 "2002-06-06T17:30:57Z")
18" high. Dark brown wooden base. Oval, blood-red canvas shade. Doughnut-shaped, fluorescent bulb. Back-to-back jen-you-wine deer legs for the “stem.” It was given to me on the conditions that it must be displayed and it could not be thrown away, only given to someone who agreed to those same conditions. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515/28 "2002-06-06T18:29:43Z")
The Urn. I was on my last deployment before getting out of the Navy - Rota, Spain. My husband flew over to spend a week with me. We went exploring in town and came across this clay urn - maybe 28" tall. The paint is crackled to look old and there is a painting of flowers on one side. It’s thick-walled and heavy, and we carried it all over Rota (bought it early in the evening) including to dinner. When I returned to the States, I made sure it was packed carefully for transport. Once home, we lovingly unpacked it, paused to look, and said “What the _hell_ were we thinking?!?” At least we didn’t get the red one. But it’s not a complete loss - we found that if we turned it so the flower side faces a corner and if we put a big spider plant on it, it makes a nice plant stand. But we laughed about it for a good long time. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-ugliest-item-in-your-house/112515.md?page=1)