what is the most unusual thing you own?

[wdfifteen]

Umm... this is going to take some thought.
I have a B-50 (R-4360) exhaust valve on my desk. Somewhere I have the rotor out of an experimental Wankel engine GM was working on when I worked there. I'm not sure if they are the MOST unusual though. I'm going to have to think about this....

[Noah930]

My wife would say me.

[dad911]

How about a Granite Machinists Straightedge, a Heathkit robot from the 80's, collection of mad magazines 50's-70's......

[yetibone]

A pair of Lamborghini Countach intake manifolds.

A parking meter in my living room.

A rotary dial pay phone in the kitchen.

Traffic signal in the garage.

[cashflyer]

At first I though, "Ha.. it will be easy to freak them out with some of the weird s**t I own." So I sat here and pondered a while and am coming up with nothing. Nothing I own is really outlandishly weird, or even terribly unusual.

I have a couple of CH-53 refueling nozzles that I use for bookends in my office. I guess not everyone has that, but it's not really as interesting as having Hitler's right pinky finger in a mason jar, or a necklace made of ears.

edit:
yeti's post reminded me... I have a blinking orange light from a road construction sign. Picked it up in the 80s when I was in school, and still have it for some reason.

[BeyGon]

My Father in Law. An early achiever, graduated from University of Chicago and MIT by the age of 21. He went directly to work in the space program and Died of cancer at 55

[Outback Porsche]

A set of Water Buffalo horns.

[yetibone]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

yeti's post reminded me... I have a blinking orange light from a road construction sign. Picked it up in the 80s when I was in school, and still have it for some reason.

I forgot, I got a couple of blinkys and a barrel down in the basement too.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by yetibone

I forgot, I got a couple of blinkys and a barrel down in the basement too.

Does everybody steal those things while in college?
I've got a few tucked away somewhere.

[wdfifteen]

I snagged the name plate thingy off the desk of the superintendent of our school systems when I was in high school. I still have it. It's been 50 years. I was leaving gym class when I was called into his office so he could chew my ass about something (again). He got called out of the office for a second and I grabbed the name thing and shoved it in my gym bag. That'll teach him to f@&k with me.

[imcarthur]

An ancient Egyptian Ba statue . . . or a good fake? An expert at the British Museum that I communicated with said: "This appears to be the upper part of a ba statue. These are mostly known from the Saite periods onwards (i.e. after 660 BC), with examples known from Graeco-Roman Egypt as well. Few are provenanced, so our knowledge of their original context is relatively limited: some come from coffins, while others adorned stelae."

Ian

[jwhcars]

My great uncles Two glass eyes, one normal. And one is blood shot for when he was drinking.
I wonder where they are, I had a lot of fun with them in school.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I snagged the name plate thingy off the desk of the superintendent of our school systems when I was in high school. I still have it. It's been 50 years. I was leaving gym class when I was called into his office so he could chew my ass about something (again). He got called out of the office for a second and I grabbed the name thing and shoved it in my gym bag. That'll teach him to f@&k with me.

I'd bet he searched high and low for that thing.... lol

[LeeH]

I have a 3 pound chunk of Labradorite on my desk. My local Goodwill had this thing in their glass case priced at $80. I just happened to find it the night before $1 day and saw that it had been there long enough that it would cost $1 the next morning. I went back and picked it up. Not sure why it fascinated me... I think it's cool how it glows, seemingly from within, when the light hits it just right.

[M.D. Holloway]

Far left, a cannon ball I stubbed by toe on when I lived in Newport - found buried halfway in the sand off Ruggles Ave, next is a chunk of race track from Texas Motor Speedway I got it when they had to bring the banks down a few degrees after guys were passing out, a Blackbird creamer, in front of the creamer is a portable ashtray, next to the creamer is a sample of a composite that I am not supposed to have, and lastly business rubber stamps. I have no idea why I have these other than I thought they were too cool to throw out!


I guess these items would be considered unusual.

[Otter74]

-a raw egg in a protective box that was a science project from 6th grade, ca. 1986. Rediscovered it when I was about 30, and by then it was so old I *couldn't* get rid of it, so I didn't Almost 30 years old now.

-a homemade Venezuelan flag that I made in Kindergarten or 1st grade (I'm from Caracas).

-a key tag that suggests that it is from a stateroom on the Titanic. I have no idea if it is real or not, nor any idea how such a thing came into my dad's possession.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by HHI944

Does everybody steal those things while in college?
I've got a few tucked away somewhere.

I left mine at school, but still have a couple of milk crates

[john70t]

A high-res photo of my great grandfather as a small child on his dads lap.
I'm in my forties. Do the math.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I have a hood ornament off a '69 Lamborghini Miura.

I have the decklid scripts from a Bizzarrini.

I also have a piece of Mars rock. No, seriously.

[Tidybuoy]

My Abacus collection