what's the oddest thing you own?

[kb4ns]

please DO NOT post pics.

This cannot be emphasized enough!

[Garufa]

This is one of those times I wish Google did not exist.

Never knew what that was called. I though it was pipe tobacco.

[Mike.357]

whats a prince albert?

show me a pic of one.

and back in the day we used to make crank calls to stores and ask if they had Prince Albert in a can, if they answered yes we told them to let him out so he would not sufficate.

[kb4ns]

show me a pic of one.

No!!!!

[Ebow1]

Now would be the time to stop following this thread.

[safeandsecure]

I was ignorant too, Mike. So I googled it. Trust me ... you DON'T want to see it.

[bubbiesdad]

whats a prince albert?

show me a pic of one.

and back in the day we used to make crank calls to stores and ask if they had Prince Albert in a can, if they answered yes we told them to let him out so he would not sufficate.

I was ignorant too, Mike. So I googled it. Trust me ... you DON'T want to see it.

I once worked with a guy who claimed to have one. trust those who say you don't want to see one. I know I don't want to see one. I can only think of the PAIN involved.

[Mike.357]

bull****, it can't be that bad, someone post a picture

[Daniel]

It is a piercing located in the head of a penis. I hope no one posts a pic that would be against hte CoC.

[bubbiesdad]

bull****, it can't be that bad, someone post a picture

Probably wouldn't even pass muster in the Ready Room.

[bubbiesdad]

It is a piercing located in the head of a penis. I hope no one posts a pic that would be against hte CoC.

Even worse, the "LADDER".

[Daniel]

Yeah Jacobs ladder goes across in a series of piercings starting at the bottom and working it's way up. Some have more than others.

[Il Duce]

bull****, it can't be that bad, someone post a picture

see it isnt as bad as people make it out to be

[Il Duce]

Yeah Jacobs ladder goes across in a series of piercings starting at the bottom and working it's way up. Some have more than others.

you sure do know a lot about these types of piercings

[Guest Jamie]

Okay, how 'bout for the purposes of this thread, we limit "odd things you own" to actual items, separate from your body, and NOT any extra holes you might have poked in odd locations on your body?

Tattoos are hereby dismissed as well.

Will that work, Mike?

J.

[Farman]

OK, I'll change the subject. Maybe not odd, but I have the original naval record parchment from when my great grandfather was in the USN 1872 to 1878. He served on the USS Monongahala.

[Mike.357]

I agree that piercings do not qualify as oddest thing you own.

[kb4ns]

OK, I'll change the subject. Maybe not odd, but I have the original naval record parchment from when my great grandfather was in the USN 1872 to 1878. He served on the USS Monongahala.

That is pretty neat. The only thing better than old military stuff is old military stuff with family ties!

[Guest mikedwood]

The oddest thing I have is an old bank main frame.

My granddad had a collection of about 10 broken lawn mower handles from the 60's on. If anyone can explain that one please do.

[Mark@Sea]

My strength is as the strength of ten, for I am of pure heart and have this lawnmower handle to beat you with...

[EMB145]

My granddad had a collection of about 10 broken lawn mower handles from the 60's on. If anyone can explain that one please do.

Not odd at all, actually I think its damn cool. My grandfather never thew much away and saved a lot of odds and ends as well. He passed away 26 yrs ago and to this day when me or my father are working on something or have a project, my grandfathers collection of stuff comes in handy.

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

If it isnt the Tennessee shaped chunk of concrete that fell when they imploded the old bank building in Jackson years ago, it would have to be the wife that grabbed it for me.

It is kind of a toss up, the wife can sure do more for me but the rock is cool everyday.

[daddyo]

I have a chunk of copper ore (about 15 lbs) that came out of the old Tennessee Copper Company mine in Copperhill, Tennessee.

[Superposed]

* Grandfather's Lieutenant's badge, billy club and revolver from the early 1900's for the Nashville Police Department.

* 1940's wooden sliding top liquor box with all barreling/bottling/taxing information on the outside.

* Odd-ball old wooden egg crates, milk crates, cheese press boxes (weigh about 30 + pounds empty), wooden ammo boxes (a neat .38 special box), wooden drink crates, etc.

* Collection of "all-plastic" (no metal head) shotgun shells.

* Went to Nova Scotia last year. Wife likes flower arranging. Was on a ferry from Digby, NS to St. John's New Brunswick. Bought her a large neat looking Bay of Fundy rock that had been made into a flower vase. It was like carrying around a bowling ball in a wal-mart bag until we got down to the car.

* Old milk bottle collection.

And more and more and more . . . .

Superposed

[Guest Bronker]

A couple of things right off the top of my head. Both things involve my grandfather. He will be 90 next year.

I have the old metal, handmade door hinges off of the dirt floor cabin that he was born in, up in Smith County, TN. Just outside of Difficult, TN up in Boston Hollow.

After his family moved from there, the people who had the old family farm turned that cabin into a hog barn. About 5 years ago, I took him back up there, and we found the cabin / barn leveled and piled up for burning. Fortunately, I dug through the pile to find the hinges.

We went back up there this past Saturday, and the barn was gone.

The other thing is that I have both of his WWII service uniforms.

These things are probably best suited for a Nostalgia thread, but I'm proud to have them nonetheless.

I do have a well-preserved buffalo horn sheath that my friend and I found while hunting mule deer on his ranch outside of Forsyth, MT. We found it buried in a cutbank right after a flash flood. According to him, the last buffalo in that area disappeared around 1870. So, it had been there a while.