do you own anything unusual in your home??

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the right 200+ year-old dung might be worth something to somebody. like if you had a specimen of benjamin franklin's turds in a jar. just a jejunum thought

They might have something like that in the Mütter Museum

ah yes, medical oddities. much more intense than my lump of faux flesh. when i was in the army there was the walter reade medical museum of medical oddities. they had in jars of formaldehyde, various weird specimens from years of collecting medical oddities, such as the stomach of a man who offed himself by drinking lye [it was "charred" white and like swiss cheese]; a "push-me-pull-you" fetus, that was a head at each end and a common trunk, but no legs; a tumorous abdominal mass the size of a small medicine ball, and the like. in the late 80s a new installation commander thought this museum was unseemly and politically incorrect, so he dispersed the items to the four winds, including [to] the mutter museum, and closed up shop for a bit, then reopened it as a museum of medical technology. drat. i liked it far better the way it was.

Here's my short list of what I think most would consider unusual:

A large watercolor scroll of Shoki.
A gargoyle statue.
About 40 Pez dispensers.
A couple of Rubik's Cubes.
A samurai sword.
A 6-volume set of Robert Browning's works from the 1890s.

I have a used WWI bayonet (The story is that it belonged to a family member, and they shipped it back) .. I suppose that's the most exotic thing I have

i inherited a relatively rare jennings .22 short semi-auto pistol, a tiny little thing that is hardly large enough to fit in my hand and takes real care to shoot without the slide abrading the web of my hand. my brother wants it, and i will probably sell it to him. he has smaller hands than me. i believe it was made for a tiny lady's hands.

The most unusual is probably my copy of Pocket Oxford Dictionary from 1934 and a volume with Edgar Allan Poe poems from 1860-ish. The last is also my most prized possesion

Let's see...

- A G1 My Little Pony license plate...I don't even drive or own a Car

- A coconut that my aunt sent me from Hawaii that's painted red with a sea turtle on it (this is actually in my room at my mom's house)

- A DVD of Fritz the Cat

- Lots of toy Cars and stuffed animals

The list is long, so I will truncate it here: Armillary sphere, Maxim machine gun, air raid sirens, unusual amount of military surplus items (especially foreign), odd music collection, Giant Microbes stuffed animal Herpes virus, and old books on preserving human corpses.

a small collection of laser pointer pens in various shapes, sizes, laser colors and power levels, from 1mw up to 1000mw [which is dangerous, btw].

Some new ones I got since I last posted...

A Wild Boar hide rug (head and feet included.)

A wild boar foam head form.

A domestic pig skull that remained after I cooked off the flesh on it's head. It sits in the fridge in a shallow bowl, smiling up at me everytime I open the door. It's like a fridge pet.

I have my mom's gallstones in a jar. She died in 2004 and I miss her quite a bit.

I've a few strange things.

1. A collection of mexican glass soda bottles.

2. A pin cushion filled with needles.

3. A ice scraper * even though I live in Texas. *

4. A " small " collection of Mardi grais beads/ masks.

does that count as strange?

I suppose the most unusual things in my home are the full size CNC lathe and milling machine in my workshop. Next to them the piles of computers and radio control models on every available surface pale into insignificance...

A TRS80 Color Computer by Radio Shack. One of the very first personal computers to come on the market that had no hard drives, floppy drives or any other drives. My programs that I had to write myself were stored in memory chips and if I didn't save them on a tape recorder the programs would be lost as soon as the power is disconnected.

It is probably pretty unusual for a woman to own and operate a backhoe loader too.

an Atari 2600 and some games for it. Still works! I Bought some more games for it at a flea market a couple years back.

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