What's the oddest thing you have laying around your house..

[ralph7]

Some great and weird things you guys have but an ejection seat is so cool. Get a pic up man!

Yeah, but I am kind of leaning towards the 40 million year old turtle ****.

 

[Road Rat]

Something that you won't find in every home.

A Do-Nothing-Machine..............you turn the handle and it just goes round & round........

 

[timn8er]

Marshwheeling, The Curta is cool. I know that they have an interesting back story, but i only remember little parts of of it.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Marshwheeling, The Curta is cool. I know that they have an interesting back story, but i only remember little parts of of it.

The Wikipedia article contains the history, which is fascinating. The calculator was designed by a prisoner at Buchenwald. After the war, he escaped to Austria and was able to get it produced.
Curta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I knew none of this as a wannabe rally driver. As kids we used to read about them in Road and Track and just thought they were the coolest devices ever. My stepfather bought this Curta in the '70s, after my rally interest had waned, and gave it to me some years later. I have extracted dozens of square roots, but never used it to navigate a rally. For me, the Curta is an icon of some of my youthful enthusiams.

 

[houdini26]

I have a book from England 1877

 

[shouldazagged]

I have a couple of "odd" items that you won't find in every home.

First is a Do-Nothing-Machine..............you turn the handle and it just goes round & round........

I've seen that device marketed as an "Executive Bravo Sierra Grinder".

Of course, many of the executives I've worked for were kind of do-nothing types as well.

 

[arjay]

Picked this guy up at a gator farm in the desert in southern Colorado because my little girl was fascinated with it.

 

[sceva]

No photo but I also have my Great Grandfather's Mathematics book "Primary Elements of Algebra for Common Schools and Academies by Joseph Ray. Written 1866, printed ??? and a price of 66 cents penciled in. My Great Grandfather Henry A. Sceva signed his name in it dated Dec 4th, 1894 and again in the back plate Feb 1895. His Sister, my Great Great Aunt Essie Sceva wrote and dated it Feb 13, 1985. I'll tell you; Math was just as tough then.

 

[model70hunter]

I've got an ejection seat from an F-4 S Phantom II in my garage...wife won't let me bring it in.

Is she afraid she may sit in it and it might send her through the roof.

 

[model70hunter]

I have my Dad's WW 2 things. A Nazi ring, an Italian Beret, the compass he used in the North African campaign. They sit in a 20 MM ammo box where he kept all his "treasures".

 

[timn8er]

The Wikipedia article contains the history, which is fascinating. The calculator was designed by a prisoner at Buchenwald. After the war, he escaped to Austria and was able to get it produced.
Curta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I knew none of this as a wannabe rally driver. As kids we used to read about them in Road and Track and just thought they were the coolest devices ever. My stepfather bought this Curta in the '70s, after my rally interest had waned, and gave it to me some years later. I have extracted dozens of square roots, but never used it to navigate a rally. For me, the Curta is an icon of some of my youthful enthusiams.

That's it. I remember that he finalized his design in one of the camps, but not that it was Buchenwald. Fascinating story. Thanks for the info!

 

[mtgianni]

I have books from all 4 grandparents and one great Grand-father. The oldest is 1887. I have plumbing tools from when my wife's grandfather apprenticed after 8th grade in the 1930's.

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

This solid brass disk came out of a closed gun shop in Montana a long-- time ago. About 8 inches around and a 1/4" thick.

 

[Bert Man]

Somewhere around here I have an antique powder horn which was handmade by my great, great grandfather.

 

[kritter]

not really in the house but in the garage..
a half restored 1954 Oliver 0c4 bulldozer that one day I'll get motavated enough to finish

 

[big&slow]

Odd things

A Ugandan fertility stick. No, I can't post a pic.

 

[rwsmith]

At least it's not.......

I tend to accumulate objects that are a bit out of the ordinary. There's a lot of it around here but this one happened to already in my Photobucket account. I use this as a reading light in my home office.

I can't say my wife was overjoyed when I drug it home.

Regards.

Bob

I could be a leg lamp.

 

[wuluf]

Not as cool as some posted here, but I've got an ugly, 5lb piece of coral that I dug out of the Carribean while on vacation 49 years ago. I've carried it from house to house since I was 8 years old. At this point, I've had it longer than anything else....

 

[Bullzaye]

I've got an ejection seat from an F-4 S Phantom II in my garage...wife won't let me bring it in.

So...are you looking to sell??? Seriously, what good is it doing you in your garage? I could be interested.

Ok seriously, we need a pic of this missle in your living room.

I will work on getting a decent pic posted soon.

Tim

 

[tompehret]

I'm sure a LOT of you have one of these...

Baseball Frog. Don't know what else to call him. Garage sale find; it's a New Mexico thing.