The 5 weirdest things you own?

Cody montana

Fossilised dinosaur egg fragment

A coin from India from 1845

A stone stone from the Grand Canyon on the fridge

A signed paper plate from Miley from glenroe.

A snake spine

BaywatchHQ

Where do I start?

A 90s figure of John Smith from Pocahontas.

A rejection letter from "School around the corner" from UTV 1999.

Scripts from movies I haven't even seen, I got them free with other purchases.

A Fanta Exotic bottle from 2011.

A worn top from Coronation Street.

A newspaper that was used on Home & Away.

Titanic 100th anniversary coin.

Royal wedding 2011 coin, despite the fact that I am Irish republican.

I also have around 30 signed photos too of C list actors.

My bedroom is a physical display of Autism.

HorseSea

Wow, saw the thread title and started thinking, first thing I thought of was my dinosaur egg fossil, seems that was not such a weird thing to think of after all. Other weird things:

Portrait of Maggie Smith - prop painting from Evil Under The Sun - Peter Ustinov as Piorot 1982.

Massive manual paper press that I have had for about 15 years, still planning to use it....

A bit of stone from Nelsons pillar

About 100 fiberglass rods from safety flags for bikes - too good to throw out.

Slices from an oak tree I bought about 25 years ago and never got around to using.

Guess I am a hoarder or sorts.

 

Mena Mitty

St Patrick's skull as a young boy.

A saddle for a Tyrannosaurus.

A rare bottle of Mae West's washing up liquid.

My Walter Mitty GEDmatch (laminated and framed)

Joe Dolan's Wisdom tooth.

Day Lewin

A collection of hollow logs

A clothes-horse that is older than I am

Two apple-peeling gadgets.

The Mighty Quinn

**paging Wibbs!! **

Gregor Samsa

I’ve a chocolate bar I bought in a 24 hour shop on Dorset St. on the way home from Fibbers in 1995. It’s called a “Mister Henry” bar, but it seems to be the exact same as a Penguin. The distributor’s address is in the UK, but some of the text on the packaging is in Russian.

One of my children found it last year and took a bite out of it, so it’s no longer intact (the bar, not the child - although I was tempted).

Other than that, I’ve a bottle of Chinese rice wine with two full lizards in it (bought in 1993, never opened), a preserved puffer fish (in puffed configuration), the skin of a badger that was hit by a car (car wheel mark across it’s back - my older cousin found it on the side of the road, took it home and skinned, and gave it to me as a present when I was a kid), and all my childrens’ baby teeth. None of these are on display in my house, because I’m not a freak

sam t smith

^ Did you ask the child how it tasted? Comparable to a Penguin? Better?

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118942121#Comment_118942121

I did. She said it was horrible, which is why she only took one bite. I fairness I think a 26 year old Penguin would taste the same. Actually, there’s a long term project for me to try.

Cody montana

A piece of the Berlin wall

A statue of the Indian goddess of death Kali

A cello

A Vietnamese flag

A speargun from the Philippines

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118941716#Comment_118941716

Ah come on. You expect us to believe that ?

No way you have Joe Dolans wisdom tooth.

gladvimpaker

I have an orb that floats around the house.

A worm hole into another dimension.

A cat that talks.

And a sasquatch that stands at the other side of the wall and peeps at me at night when I look out the window.

HazeDoll

A wasp nest, long abandoned.

Quite a collection of cremains, human and pets.

A night vision scope

A pair of socks I bought in January 1998.

A world cup commemoration postage stamp from 2002 featuring Roy Keane from the PS* era.

*PS- Pre-Saipan.

Ger Roe

A small Tesla Coil (used to demonstrate lighting fluorescent bulbs without wires)

A four inch long section cut from a railway track (a good 'guess what this is?' item)

A 1927 BBC crystal radio set (another 'guess what this is?')

A large (A2) photo book about the 9-11 attacks, signed by four NYC firemen who attended at WTC.

A tin can containing an 'all day breakfast' (being kept as a curiosity item)

Crocodile Booze

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118942104#Comment_118942104

Fibbers...walking home via Dorset Street.... 1995..

Man, we definitely know/knew each other IRL, at least to see.

Strumms

A piece of the pitch that the world cup final in 1998 was played on…. Encased in glass with an engraved inscription about 6x6 inches..I’d forgotten about it until recently…

a 57 year old Boozy and Hawkes clarinet.

Acme Thunderer whistle that was my grandfather’s.. he refereed back in the LOI in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

an autograph book with the Ireland, Poland, Chelsea, and Spurs teams having signed… all collected from around ‘88-‘92.

passatman86

A fake 50 dollar bill with rapper 50 cents face on it, from his Irish gig back in the day

A set of keys and the steering wheel off my first sports car

A completed 1998 premier league merlin sticker book

A dinosaur made of gold that came on a chain/necklace that was bought for me 30 odd years ago

A stone off the beach from the first walk i went on with my now wife

These i thought of quickly and not really that strange

ablelocks

native american pewter idol that is supposed to watch over me and bring me luck

a water bottle that Wendy James threw off the stage at Feile

half a drumstick (the drum end, not the handle part) that the waterboys drummer threw from the stage at Feile

a piece of the Zugspitze and a variety of stones gathered from beaches and mountains over the years

a video cassette version of U2s Numb. No idea why i got this.

vixdname

A "Glo Stone", which I got from a friend whos Ukrainian dad worked in Chernobyl, it glows a weird bluish color and is housed in water, the water evaporates slowly as the glo stone heats it ever so slightly and about twice a year I just fill it with filtered water again. - Quite the weird novelty

Ubbquittious

Bottles of mercury

1900's electroshock therapy milliammeter

Third reich Nazi dinner knife

Nokia Kaleidoscope - https://www.nokiaprojectdream.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/4-_Nokia-Kaleidoscope.jpg

Bottle of "vapo cresolene" - meant for curing coughs back in the day but is actually carcinogenic

Dunno how weird these really are:

A pair of antique jade chopsticks. Inscribed with Chinese dragons.

A chess set with tiny mythical animals. Carved wood board, stone pieces.

Irish military uniform from the 1930s.

Communist uniform supposedly from Mao's great march. (rather cool all the same)

A leather bound grimoire of witchcraft spells/incantations.

1st edition rulebook for the rpg Ars Magica. (bit battered now)

Wooden carved Ouija board.

whisky_galore

A set of IRA medals.

Set of bagpipes.

A swivelling drivers seat from a scrapped diesel locomotive.

A Chinese flag.

A bar of soap from the 1930's.

A machete from Vietnam, handy for odd jobs.

Blue850

A sales brochure for the Shamrock car that was built in Monaghan in the 1960s

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118950029#Comment_118950029

That's certainly weird... and rare. Not many would know of The Shamrock.

https://www.below-the-radar.com/shamrock/

retalivity

A 100 Million Zimbabwean dollar note.

A full set of World Book encyclopedias from the 1980s.

A laminator.

A heap of japanese business cards for bars, escorts and weird fetish cafes.

A piece of loose coral from Saipan.

Strumms

My mother has her fathers IRA medals too, only saw them for the first time in about 25 years last summer…

Sgt Hartman

In my parent's house I still have my old retainer from when I was 13 in the drawer in my room.

Inside the in my room wardrobe I also still have my old Super Nintendo console with Kevin Keegan's Player Manager in the cartridge slot (an awfully primitive soccer manager game)

An old Children's Encyclopedia from the early 80's with stereotypical descriptions of various races and cultures that you wouldn't get away with today. My personal favorite is the "Typical Frenchman" who was depicted with a black beret, pencil moustache, black and white hooped sweater and a ring of onions around his neck and a baguette under his arm rolling a bicycle along.

My parents also have two old WW1 brass artillery shell casings as ornaments in the living room.

The Royal Scam

A Baseball Bat from the 1920's.

A bullet from the American Civil War.

A lump of the great Pyramid of Giza

An Unused Nokia 2160.

A lump of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic with paint scrapings on it.

Sleepy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118959183#Comment_118959183

My father very recently managed to retrieve his own father's IRA medal, still in the box and with ribbon from a dealer in London. It had been stolen from my deceased Aunt's house in the 1980's. Would have been unthinkable at the time but a lovely example of the power of the internet imho.

black & white

A mercury tilt switch. Worked with a guy 30 years ago who I (much) later found out was ‘connected’ up North and he gave it to me. Don’t want to stick it in the bin so it’s in the garage since.

ozmo

"A "Glo Stone", which I got from a friend whos Ukrainian dad worked in Chernobyl, it glows a weird bluish color and is housed in water, the water evaporates slowly as the glo stone heats it ever so slightly and about twice a year I just fill it with filtered water again. - Quite the weird novelty"

Im facinated to know what this actually is. Is it charged by light or does it glow all on its own without being charged? or does it need UV or sunlight?

Some of my weird things:

similar to above- an old World War 2 army watch that is very radioactive (not allowed in the house)..

dino egg shell like above.. lol

I've an unopened bottle of Guinness from 1920

A wind up machine that was supposed to cure all ills from 1800's - but actually just gives mild electric shocks.