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At home my other half has a broken piece of a piano. Just a single hammer from a broken piano. And yet this twisted bit of wood and metal is a piece from the piano that they flung in the TV series Northern Exposure. We've also got some gardening tools from the first series of Big Brother.

What wierd stuff do you own that has a history?

(, Thu 4 Nov 2004, 8:19)
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My Mum has that copy of
The Daily Mail. The one that went on about what a top chap Hitler was.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 13:05, Reply)
Mutilated black baby doll
...the legs have been hacked off and there's stuffing coming out of it. Also, it has a red ring drawn around one eye. I keep it at work in my locker. It was used in a short film (shot on 8mm film) about toy sacrifice. It nearly won an award. I'll see if I can get a .mov of the film or something. It's horrible.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 13:04, Reply)
Beat this all you with your green bits of The Berlin Wall...
...I have a piece of the original floor from Fareham Shopping Centre from before it was re-furbished a few years ago. Used to do a paper round nearby and took it out a skip.

Not sure why now.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:52, Reply)
A friend of mine
works for a cable company, and has a short (6 inch?) length of thick cable, which is part of the cable used to detonate the first ever nuclear test explosion.

It's cross-sectioned to show all the different layers, including one layer made from Zinc (or something similar) to stop termites/other creatures from gnawing through it.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:50, Reply)
Skull
A real human one. Apparantly from a 13th century plague pit.

my lucky charm.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:34, Reply)
taking pride of place on top of my monitor
is a small black object which looks not too dissimilar to a feline turd. It is in fact the rubber put down by Michael Schumacher's F1 car tyre at the start of the British GP he won earlier this year (the smug little wanktrout that he is)

i keep the cat turds in a box elsewhere to avoid confusion.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:32, Reply)
Empty now
I have a test tube thatI nicked from school full of Chloroform. I was having running disagreements with my brother at the time, and thought it may come in handy. I never did find the right time to use it, and despite my best efforts it evaporated after a year or so.

If I had of used the stuff the bottle might have been more famous now I guess.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:30, Reply)
my flatmate worked on the set of 'Crystal Maze'
it was the final series when that cunt tudour-pole was presenting. hes got one of the crystals that succesful teams were given, with 'i cracked the crystal maze' written inside it. he also has a rainstick from the aztec zone. and his dad has got one of the crytals they used to denote the time they had in the end dome. it sits on top of his telly.
i was actually very impressed when he first mentioned he had a genuine crystal, sadly enough.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 12:02, Reply)
feeder
i have a feeder single thats signed by jon lee, their dead drummer. my mum collects jumble for sales from neighbourhood people. some guy's mum probably just gave away a bunch of his cds thinking them worthless. its probably quite valuable and im not much of a feeder fan so im trying to sell it
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 11:52, Reply)
Adamski's stilts.
Adamski used to live down my road. When he moved out, his parents had a garage sale, and I bought adamski's home made stilts for 10p.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 11:32, Reply)
various bits....
I have keith chegwins autograph... on a limited edition Yazoo "nobodys's diary" 12"..... thats that devalued then......

also a standard autograph sheet from Arsenal football club (1978/79) standard enough except most of them signed the reverse of it as well.... (sammy nelson, pat jennings.... etc etc..) and some obscure blue see through 12" singles from one off bands from the 80's who i never heard of... (and dont seem to be able to find them on google either....) and some bootleg recordings of bands and dj's on minidisc that me mate made when we were roadies a few years back....
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 11:05, Reply)
Mr M@
I bet it did't have rainbow glitter on it though.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 11:02, Reply)
Video games of the stars...
This is a sad admission...

Keith Chegwin is a family friend, who came to me for advice on what video game console to buy to play flight sims. This being the early 90s, I advised him to buy a Sega Megadrive.

Anyway, when he got bored of it, I bought it off him. So I own Cheggers old Megadrive!

Have some of that!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 10:42, Reply)
I have some photos of Hitler taken at an unknown location during the war
as well as a set of Mussolini & his missus being strung up and killed. They were developed from a film found in a house that was being searched during the war by the guy that gave them to me. I cant remember where he said he was posted at the time but I think he was a military policeman. They were given to me to use for a presentation at junior school when I was 10. I mentioned them to a history teacher at school a few years later and showed them to him and a girl with a similar set of Mussolini pictures had been in the paper not a year before. Apparently they were worth a fair bit and of great interest. The Hitler pictures are probably more so as they were taken in private.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 10:21, Reply)
The owns friends own(ed)
My brother in law owned one of Mark Knopfler's guitar. I think the guy's brother entrusted him with it. Anyway, the guitar was sold when he was skint.
He also has some session tape from The Cult, which he found in a studio when working as a sound engineer.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 9:56, Reply)
The one I own:
a nazi plate my dad and I dug up from the garden. It''s at the back of a cupboard, no one knows exactly what to do with it.

a picture of Declan Mullholland and I at Xmas dinner. The name may not ring a bell but he was the stand in for Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars.

a piece of the Berlin wall.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 9:50, Reply)
i have
a pepper pot (nicked from wetherspoons) that we gave to rick waller (yes, the man himself!) at a local river festival thing.
I've still got it, you see. He wasnt interested in keeping it.

fat git.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 9:30, Reply)
I didn't realise just having signed stuff was allowed.
In that case I have a signed copy of Chas 'n' Dave's 'Rabbit' 'cos my next door neighbour when I was a kid knew them (or something) and a signed copy of Stutter Rap my Morris Minor and the Majors from when I met Tony hawks in a pub and went back home to annoy him by getting him to sign an embarassing pop record from ten years previsouly rather than the bestselling copy of 'Round Ireland With a Fridge' he was probably expecting.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 9:29, Reply)
Got a Munch's Oddysee poster
signed by Lorne Lanning (cunt) and Sherry McKenna. I won it in a competition. I'll wait 'til Oddworld Inhabitants folds, then see how much I can get for it on eBay.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 8:56, Reply)
I've got
several bits from a blown up Boeing 747 that was used to trial different baggage containers.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 8:36, Reply)
Also: See. Look.
I've also got Joss Ackland's Spunky Backpack.

And 3 and a half litres of Rolf Harris' finest ass juice (108% proof).
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 8:01, Reply)
My ma and pa went to an auction and got:
Two signed MJ lp's one with Michael's cat piss on it. One signed Savage Garden hat and them some other stuff which has no real history.

On the Lp's one just has a signed thing on it, and the other one says "sorry for the cat pee, here's another"

We also have the lady who invented Branston Pickle's bench. It's green. She used to live up our road. My ma got it from a different auction. Lady who invented Branston Pickle is dead. You probably know that anyway.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 7:38, Reply)
Mementoes...
I have a fulgarite, which is what is found on a beach after a lightning strike on sand. It was formed way back in the 70's when my family was on holidays at the beach, and a summer storm hit. My dad ran out and marked where the lightning had hit with a stick, then went back out and dug it up when the storm (and the vicious lightning) had passed. It is a weird looking thing, but not as weird as a memento my mate John has - a coprolite, which is essentially a fossilised turd.

I also have an album signed by The Uncanny X-Men (Aussie band from the 80's).

I like the fulgarite better. Any fans of the Xmen contact me for the album!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 4:51, Reply)
My (new) husband (yes, I know you're all sick of hearing how I got married last Saturday!)
has on our bedroom wall............it scares me.........
A home made plaque the cub scouts gave him for selling the most raffle tickets in a year.
When I laughed at it, he explained, in detail, how because of that he won a bike, and he sold more rafflet tickets than anyone in the California Scouts that year.
Now that we're (newly) married (Okay, I promise I'll stop it!) I've told him it's no longer going to be hanging on the wall.
Neither is his Event Horizon signed poster or his signed X Files clock!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 4:35, Reply)
I
have Patrick Viera's sunglasses. And he's not getting them back. MANUUUUUU!!!!!!
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 4:10, Reply)
hmmm
how about the original negatives of Abbey Road photo-shoot? My dad's friend has those, we have seen them.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 3:40, Reply)
The lovely Kylie...
Unimpressed as I am with fame, I nevertheless purchased, off a bloke in a pub, a turd that came from the anus of the delightful Kylie Minogue. You can tell it's genuine because it has rainbow glitter on it.

I will never brush my teeth again.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2004, 3:26, Reply)

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