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I was this on A&E or Discovery once so I don’t have a link.
If I remember correctly, all warm blooded animals, except Man, has a penis bone. I can remember a table in some museum with an array of bones laying out, all the way from the teeny-timy mouse up to one from a sperm (no pun inteneded) whale.
They said it had something to do with an instant erection or something like that.
I have yet to decide if I’m jealous.
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Two items up for bid.
Weirdest: A picture of my parents and me taken in 1953 when I was only a few months old. The catch? We had just had a phone installed and it happened to be the 10,000th phone in the county so the utility company took pictures and a big deal was made of it in the local paper.
Neatest: A piece of the Great Wall of China.
SouthernStyle
You know what I mean.
When my daughter was two, she swallowed a nail. I still have the xrays. Don’t tell the Navy though, I was supposed to return them…
I have a piece of shrapnel from an artillery range that we drove through on a field exercise when I was in the army. The catcher was, it was a misfire that went zinging over our heads and hit about a mile in front of us. When we got to the site, the shrapnel was still hot.
I don’t think I have anything weird enough to even compare to this thread … The frog band has got to be the best … there’s an image I’ll be fighting to get rid of for weeks on end!
Some really weird things here…
The only thing I can offer up is my fossilized mollusk, found inside a limestone block in Italy. It’s whole, both halves together, and detailed to the point where you can see the sea worm tracks on it.
It currently resides in a jar at my mothers’ house.
I’ve got a Mexican stuffed musician toad too! I had a whole band, but some evil fool stole them.
Also have:
Pulled teeth, roots and all, from adolescent orthodonture.
A Leatherface action figure, complete with chainsaw and severed head and hand. A fine Christmas present from my buddy Carl!
A plastic fish signed by Kurt Vonnegut. He was perplexed.
A plastic ear signed by David Lynch during the Blue Velvet years. He laughed.
An album of trucker songs, Radar Blues, signed by John Waters. He liked the gogo boots on the cover gal.
A handpainted Hawaiian tie given to my grandfather by his friend Dorothy Lamour. God, is it UGLY!
Several jars of old shell buttons saved by my frugal pioneer forebears. They hold a sentimental value, reminding me that they were pretty tough folks who knew how to make due on the move West.
I have a Mahogany Thunderbird with a six foot wingspan and Bronze Feathers. It frightens away everything.
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A complete set of paperback Tarzan novels.
On of the coolest things would be:
A Mark Grace foul ball from the first Crosstown Classic that counted. Caught on the fly, one-handed. Autographed by Mayor Daley.
the weirdest thing I have…is my ceramic elephant.
My sister gave me a two foot elephant when I was 13 to put my phone on. Now anywhere I move, it has to be the first thing next to my bed. I have dropped it 3 times and it is chipped. i even painted it. i think I’ll put in one of my children’s rooms when I have some. I dunno.
I dunno, the frog band sounds pretty cool, but so far the Herbert Hoover action figure has entranced me the most.
Nothing I have is in this league, but what the heckers:
an Audrey (the carnivorous plant from Little Shop of Horrors piggybank. It has bilious plastic leaves and an obscene growth in the middle that growls, “feed me!” then munches down your pennies.
a 3’ bust of a dead (but very dignified looking) German guy who founded a brewery in Cinti. The heirs sold him at a yard sale. Mom bought him and, being the man of the family, we called him Grandfather. He sports earmuffs and a scarf at Christmas, a jaunty boater in summer, etc.
Veb
Me.
Scud parts.
This doesn’t compare to much on here (the Hoover action figure, the frog band, etc.) but here goes:
When I was a baby, I had a small pillow with a sewn-on green velvet cover. When that fell off, I had a blue cover, but I kept a piece of the green cover and slept with it every night. (It was my version of a stuffed animal.) I called it my “pillow piece” and I keep it in a drawer in the house now.
a penis. c’mon, it is too wierd, it hangs there all day long between my legs, sometimes left, sometimes right, and then for some reason, it decides to do tricks like a dolphin all on its own. stands up and bobs, and it’s been on some pretty crazy rides…
ok, i’ll stop now. :rolleyes:
You people with the teeth, toenails, bones etc. are freaking me out! Very Ed Gein-ish.
I have a Diabolo – its like a yoyo – take a string, put a stick on each end of it to be used as handles, and take an hourglass shaped item and spin it on the string. Do tricks with it.
The wierdest thing I’ve seen: My high school A&P teacher had a fetus that was in its 6th month preserved in a jar. Very strange
Mine is either; a wall clock that is backwards and the hands go backwards also, or a strip of yellow plastic (like police use to quarter off murder scenes) that warns of mines…I picked it up in a bombed suburb in Sarajevo, unfortunetly I was on the wrong side of the sign when I saw it.
hmm… I have a few weird things…none to compare with the frog band though. that’s gotta be the weirdest (although the rat with wings kinda freaks me out in a weird way)
I have:
-several of my baby teeth, one molar that had to be pulled out in two peices because the cavity had split it.
-a lock of hair from every major haircut I’ve ever had (any time I cut more than 1 or 2 inches)
-a button collection from my great grandmother
Lets see if I can top the Hoover action figure.
I have a collection of over 300 kidney stones - All mine. thanks for asking.
A blown headlight from a '31 Ford (Still in the box the replacement came in)
A cigar box labelled “Used caps and pieces of string too short to be of any use” (That’s caps as in rolled caps for a capgun)
A Commodore 64
A piece of the mast from the VanMarie which sunk off Annapolis in 1956 (I think)
4 hockey sticks from the Baltimore Clippers free stick night.
An original “Free Joey Coyle!” T-shirt
A poker chip from the Playboy Club in Atlantic City
A 450 foot long chain made out of gum wrappers
A “Nudie” calendar from 1962
Lastly, a ticket book from Disney World circa 1971 with one unused “E” ticket
Oh yeah - and my wife. Can’t get any weirder than someone who will stay married to me for 17 years.