Wow, what a group.
I, too, have all my baby teeth in a jar. My Mother saved them and I feel obligated to, since she went to all the trouble.
How about flavored condoms? They were a gift from my truly twisted best friend. Considering I have been celibate since I was widowed 5 years ago, I don’t know what she thought I’d do with them. The banana flavored one did strike me as really funny though!
An ejection seat from an A-7E Corsair II. Is that weird?
An Intel 386 25MHz CPU.
I have a collection of Chick Tracts and rabid Jehovah’s Witness tracts. ( I keep them as a reminder of how bad people can get if left unchecked.)
“An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.”
–As You Like It, Act 5, scene iv
I have two of my ponytails that had to be cut off for assimilation. I recently made a deal with a good friend of mine- It’s a trade, my ponytail for hers!
Also, I have a sliver of Bondo off of my friends 49 Merc. that got totalled one fine afternoon…
My fathers cremation medallion from when we scattered his ashes.
-Sam
I always thought it was really bizarre, but an uncle of mine kept a couple of kidney stones in a jar on the mantle in the living room. Quite a conversation piece!
I still have my eight wisdom teeth that were pulled.
My relatives and I have our own private blood bank.
13 of us have very weird blood. We can’t get trans-
fusions from any other blood but each other, so we
donate every once in a while (usually while running
blood tests) in case we need it.
A 1959 Rambler Cross Country Wagon. All original.
And yes, people have asked me why.
I can’t believe I almost forgot my velvet orange paisley tuxedo jacket! I love this jacket, I want to be buried in this jacket, and I will use any excuse to post a link to it.
The Hoover action figure is my favorite though. Damn, I wish I had one! Maybe some of us can get together and launch a series of Presidential action figures and accessories. Washington ready for battle with his horse (sold separately), to George Bush guarded a barrel of oil, to Clinton (insert BJ joke here).
"A necklace made from my best friend’s toenail.
That is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard. Eve, please explain!"
–OK. My best friend danced with the Joffrey Ballet when we were in college. He banged his foot, and his big toenail turned black and fell off. He painted it red, put it on a gold chain and gave it to me. I put a pearl on it, and it’s my best piece of jewelry. Once I was wearing it in a chic dress store and the salesgirl said, “Oo-la-la [yes, she really said that!] is that real?” “Of course it is,” I replied. “Oh, what a lovely pearl!” she enthused. “The pearl?” I laughed. “I thought you meant the toenail!” She screamed and ran.
I have an 8 track player that still works. Some tapes, too.
I have some 78 records, among them “In the Middle of an Island” by Frankie Laine and “Peace in the Valley,” by Elvis Presley.
I have a newspaper clipping of my amateur boxing debut (I lost).
And I still have my Spelling Bee Medallion that I won in Grade 4.
I also have a Samurai sword that works and a Beretta shotgun that doesn’t.
So the shotgun doesn’t work! Ya hear that boys? It’s safe to hit on Wally’s daughter now!
hehe, Wally, all my samurai swords work. 
so when’s amy free next?
Well, geez, Wally, now that you’ve revealed that the shotgun doesn’t work, you’ve left Amy completely undefended to massive flirtation from fellow Dopers.
As for the Herbert Hoover action figure- since it seems to have captured the minds of many fellow dopers, I’ll elucidate a little more on it.
It’s from a Japanese company, and is part of their “Leaders of the World” series. According to the back of the box, there are four action figures in the series- George Washington (first in war, first in peace, I can understand him getting an action figure); Benjamin Franklin (brilliant inventor and statesman; given his reputation as a randy old man, though, I can just imagine his action figure wandering around, pinching the butts of all the Barbies he can find); James Madison (okay, he wrote the Constitution. But an action figure? The guy was 5’4" and sickly! Come on!); and, of course, Herbert Hoover.
Best I can tell, it’s a 12" GI Joe Action figure wearing a grey suit (clothes are removable, but I haven’t tried dressing him up in my younger sister’s Barbie clothes- that would be more appropriate for the J. Edgar Hoover action figure) and a head molded to look like Hoover’s.
Weirdness abounds with this guy. I mean, just the fact that they chose him is weird enough- what were they thinking? “Okay, we need one more Action Figure. Let’s see- who do the Americans revere?” “Wait! What about that guy who was President during the Great Depression, and made all those social programs and led the country out of the doldrums?” “Yes! Sounds good! And according to the encyclopedia, it was Hoover who was president during America’s Great Depression!” Or maybe they got a few first names confused and figured that any man who had both been President of the United States and Chief of the FBI was definitely someone revered in American culture.
Then there’s the fact of what he looks like. Hoover was president in his mid-to-late '50’s; but the picture of him on the back of the box, and what they apparently used as the model for the Figure’s face, is from when Hoover was in his late 80’s. The shock of white hair is really what gives it away- every picture of President Hoover (that is, while he was still president) shows him with brown hair, with maybe a little white in his temples. But the Action Figure has completely white hair, as does the picture of nearing-90 Hoover on the box.
I’ll see if I can find any web sites commenting upon or with pictures of this guy. It’s just mind-boggling.
In further news:
Found a link to a picture of a still-in-the-box Herbert Hoover action figure.
LMAO
That is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
What’s up with that enormous jacket he’s wearing? It looks like our illustrious ex-Commander-in-Chief is planning on getting himself a 5 finger discount at the local mall.
I have a life sized, working red guitar in the shape of a lobster. It’s world famous! A friend of mine made it for an art class 15 years ago. He gave it to me and I played it on stage every week (several years ago) but now it’s mounted on my wall.
BratMan, that tuxedo jacket ROCKS!!
musing os priapus… makes a name change very tempting! laughs
Well, let’s see. What’s the weirdest thing I have? Well, what comes to mind is the box that held the ashes of my late, lamented Boston Terrier, Pluggy (ashes were duly scattered in the field behind Mamma O’s house); it’s a nifty wooden little thing, the top of the box held in place by a couple of screws.
From my high school days, a pair of red shorts from Peace Frogs (anyone remember them?) with a yellow hammer and sickle on it.
Other than that, nothing fundamentally weird - of course most of my earlier life is packed up in boxes in NH, so I can’t go and dig through it right now…
Heh I have this image of a non-working Samurai sword in my mind… like you swing it and the blade drops off and swirts water in peoples faces or something…