What's the ODDEST item in your house?

[Modem Butterfly]

In our house, it's a tie between this box of eight track tapes that neither of us remember acquiring (we didn't move with it last time, we don't own an eight track tape player, and we don't garage sale much) and an Australian ration pack that my partner traded his MRE for during the last Gulf War. He swears that someday we'll be glad we have that ration pack. I'd rather go hungry.

[liberal N proud]

1. ME!

[coolhandlulu]

2. tibetan singing bowl...

n/t

[soothsayer]

17. got one! and a crystal singing bowl, too! n/t

[Hugin]

3. Me!

Yup... I'm pretty odd.

Just ask my step-daughter.

[benburch]

4. An entire bookcase full of Serial Killer books. nt

[soothsayer]

18. serial killer trading cards, have I n/t

[Lilyhoney]

59. Ummm, Ben Burch sounds like cereal killer name. n/t

[benburch]

62. In fact, once I ate a WHOLE BOX of Frosted Flakes at a sitting!

I was in my teen growth spurt at the time, thoush...

[demnan]

5. This

[cmd]

6. Turn out gear for a two foot tall firefighter

Just the coat and bunkerpants, but made just like the real thing.

[arwalden]

7. Gay Porn Magazines From The 60's And 70's.

[Modem Butterfly]

40. Is it still sexy?

Or is it just dated?

[arwalden]

42. I Think Those Guys Are Hotter Than The...

... guys you see these days with their cookie-cutter looks... their perfect plastic face, tweezed eyebrows, impeccable-hair, shaved-everything, airbrushed, mole-free freckle-free blemish-free skin, etc.

[UncleSepp]

43. Is a scanner among your odd household items, too? :grin: (n/t)

[MindPilot]

8. A vegetarian MRE

What's odd about that? I just have a hard time visualizing a tough-as-nails combat-hardened Marine after three days on patrol, who won't eat meat.

On edit: It's a rice burrito.

[WhollyHeretic]

31. Eating meat doesn't have anything to do with how tough you are

You can't tell who's a veggie and who's not by looking at them. I'm a 6'3" 230lbs contractor who has been a vegetarian for 10 years.

[MindPilot]

35. Thanks for pointing out the obvious...

I'm not criticizing anybody for being vegetarian. I just see "MEAL, READY TO EAT, vegetarian, Rice Burrito" as a bit of a humorous oxymoron is all, as in "odd".

Now back off or I'll jam your nailgun. :D

Edit for spelin

[WhollyHeretic]

51. Seems like it's not very obvious to you...

[SarahB]

9. A plaster of Paris torso of myself.

It was when I was pregnant 4 years ago. Kind of cool I think, but a little different. :shrug:

[biscodawg]

15. thats not odd

thats beautiful :D

[alpizzy]

10. Blowfish...

left in the closet by the previous owner.

[wryter2000]

11. Snake sheds

I can't bring myself to throw out my snakes' discarded skins. The skin comes off perfectly in one piece. Eventually, I throw them all out, but the snakes keep making more. :)

[Squeech]

12. Parking meter

Not an entire parking meter, but the working parts. My first wife and I were walking downtown, heading for Museum Wharf, and we saw a parking meter that looked a little skew. I reached out and poked at it and the internals fell out into my hand. She immediately unzipped her purse, into which I dropped the meter works. I subsequently ascertained that it would work if you put in a quarter.

Little known fact: the mechanical parking meter was invented by a guy named Duncan, who also holds the patent for the yo-yo, or in scientific parlance the return-type bandolever (sp?) top. However, he didn't actually invent the yo-yo, he saw a similar toy in the far east and just figured out the production engineering of it.

[biscodawg]

13. Skinner says the fun is over

so i can't tell ;)

[Justpat]

14. A six foot tall totem pole

painted bright red, yellow and green with eagle feathers sticking
out of it's head.

[Debbi801]

16. The first is a fun house mirror--you know, the wavy kind that alter your..

appearance. My parents brought it back from somewhere for my kids when the older two were smaller.

The others cannot be mentioned. :evilgrin:

[WeRQ4U]

19. Emperor Palpatine Pez Dispenser...

Or my one kitchen cabinet filled with used, random cookbooks. Some titles include:

The Gentleman's Kitchen
Microwaving on a Diet
The Tiny Norwegian Lefsa Manual (or something like that)

[soothsayer]

20. Viewmaster slides (medical ones) on the clitoris, and also on

diseases of the eyes

[Deep13]

21. cemetery photo album

[-..__...]

22. Dead parakeets in my freezer.

(it's okay, they're safely tucked away in Tupperware containers).

I'm thinking about putting them up for bid on Ebay. There has to be at least one casino foolish enough to put up some serious cash for them.

[dajoki]

26. huh?

but you have a point about ebay.:silly:

[dajoki]

28. after some careful thought...

it has to be ME!!:bounce:

[mongo]

50. Not so odd

Someone learning taxidermy might buy them.

[-..__...]

61. Maybe they could be used in a Monty Python skit?

"He's probably pining for the fjords".

Or....

"We've decided to have the budgie put down."
"Oh, is he very old then?"
"No, we just don't like him."
"Oh. How do they put budgies down anyway?"
"Well, it's funny you should be asking that, as I've been reading a
great big book called `How to put your budgie down'. And as I understand it,
you can either hit them over the head with the book, or shoot them there, just
above the beak."
"Mrs. Conkers flushed hers down the loo."
"Oh, you don't want to do that, because they breed in the sewers and
pretty soon you get huge evil smelling flocks of soiled budgies flying out
of peoples lavatories infringing their personal freedoms.

[LynneSin]

23. back when GOPisEvil was visiting it would probably be him

he's pretty odd

:loveya:

[SCDem]

24. A rock from the desert of Utah

It is about a 5 pound odd shaped rock. My brother when he was going to college in Utah found this rock on a hike and thought he would send it to me. It just cracks me up that he probably paid $4 + in shipping to send me a rock that he thought looked cool.

[AuntiBush]

25. "Me..."

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. dolo amber

[dolo amber]

29. So much comedy from only one man...

:rofl: LOL!!!!!!1111 *my sides* :D

:eyes:

[Magrittes Pipe]

30. Behind every funny man...

...is a funny-looking woman.

Oh yeah, baby, don't stop me while I'm hot! :D

[RPM]

32. again Grandma....

after that (again) it's the GM fridge in the basement.

[Not_Giving_Up]

33. Definitely my husband

Hands down, without a doubt.

[Patiod]

34. Signed posters from The Clash, Eric Idol, and

the World Famous Pontani Sisters, a burlesque act.

Needless to say none of them are mine.

[Merrick]

36. THe little old lady who lives in my closet...

who only comes out when I summon her to spank sexually imprudent guests with her whip while croaking, "You knew it was naughty but you did it anyway. Well this is what you get!"

[MissMillie]

37. this egg separator

http://www.thewhitewhale.com/albumen.htm

[Misunderestimator]

38. NSMA

:D :bounce:

Just kidding, she's not in my house right now... :)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

39. A photo album of beheadings...

I think that would be the oddest of the many odd things I have in my house. The album is from an uncle who was in the military and was in China during the 1920s. It seems public beheadings were very common back then and he took many pictures of the beheadings themselves and of the boxes they used to put the heads in afterwards to hang in the squares. The ick factor is very, very high.

On a lighter note, the other odd thing I have is a miniature working accordian! My Mom got it for my birthday a few years ago. I'm terrible at playing it.

[havocmom]

41. toss up between a New Home treadle sewing machine in an oak cabinet

and the cedar lined mahogany wardrobe with burl inlays.

Oh, and my feet are pretty old too.

[Scout1071]

44. A life size cardboard cut-out of Alexi Lalas.

Don't know why I brought it home or why I still have it, but I do.

[AllegroRondo]

53. The Soccer Player?

that ROCKS!

[Scout1071]

55. Yes, the soccer player, musician, and now General Manager.

We used to "hang" and when he moved, I would send him the occassional picture of his cardboard cut-out enjoying a few cold ones with the old gang. We all got a "kick" out of it.

[UncleSepp]

45. A letter from Hans Goebbels to his sister Maria

in which he complains about their mother dumping out her heart to her kids, their brother Konrad screwing up in business and asking everyone in the family for a bailout (again), their other brother Joseph being too busy to help with Konrad's problems until after the elections, trying to get a frame for Joseph and Magda's wedding picture, and a long, hard to follow rant about SA uniform pants being bought from the wrong vendor. Enclosed in the letter is a handwritten tally sheet for an order of said pants. This was all written during the windup to the 1932 elections, and the man was worried about... pants.

[Reverend_Smitty]

46. a bombsite

from a WWII era bomber that my grandfather got from an army buddy after the war, and we've had it ever since. It's a big clumsy thing collecting dust in the basement

[Ariana Celeste]

47. A description will only confuse you- here's a pic

I can't find an updated picture of it, but it now has a cross behine it made of an old keyboard and a piece of wood. Above it's head is a Halloween prop skull thing to look like an evil soul coming out of it. :7

My SO is a weird dude.

[YankeyMCC]

48. Knifeula

I have this kitchen utensil that is a cross between a knife and a spatula.

Long, flexible, serrated on one side, and thin.

I can not explain to you why I thought this would be an effective and useful tool when I bought it. As a hybrid tool it is not good for any task a knife or a spatula would be good at.

Yet, whenever someone laughs at it I have an irresistible urge to defend it.

It's some kind of mental blind spot I can not explain. :shrug:

[maveric]

49. A bottle of Vietnamese Cobra wine.

A bottle of clear colored wine with an actual baby cobra(dead of course), in the bottle, poised in a semi-coiled stance. My Vietnamese sister in law smuggled it back from her last trip to Saigon. (She refuses to call it Ho Chi Mihn City).

[crispini]

52. I drank some of that once!

Ok, it was actually Laotion lizard whisky, but same diff.

[tarkus]

54. Gentle Giant albums!

[datasuspect]

56. my "sausages of bavaria" collection

circa 1967

[Radio_Lady]

57. Ahem! I have a HUGE, Caucasian, flesh-colored, unused, blister-packed --

dildo which has a large "crank" coming out of it. (No, the crank isn't my husband, folks!) Presumably, if you turn the crank, it moves in some non-electric way.

I'm serious. I don't remember buying it or getting it as a gift, and never used it. I'm too embarassed to give it away or sell it -- and I don't think the Salvation Army or Goodwill would be pleased with me if I give it to them. Any suggestions?

[Dukkha]

58. Real human skull

discarded by a surgeon. I purchased it for the Bone Room in Berkeley

http://www.boneroom.com

I also currently have 328 action figure and 73 12" figures

[hyphenate]

60. Hmmm

I think the strangest thing in the house is me. Yup--that's gotta be it. :)

[formernaderite]

63. A working electric meter turned into a lamp...

my wife got it for me...looks to be from the 1950's or 60's.

[RetroLounge]

64. a suitcase full of 1950's Vibrators

of course, they called them massagers then. It is a yellow suitcase that opens up with a main unit (the mothership) with a bunch of smaller vibrators on cords, all different shapes and sizes.

Quite odd...

RL

[BiggJawn]

65. A Japanese square boiled egg press...

Plastic. Drop in a boiled egg, crank it down, let cool, Ichi-Ban! a cubical boiled egg.