The oddest thing in your house!

[Frank7]

maxdb said:

Probably a signed Michael Jackson cd on the kitchen wall - it's framed etc.

The council thread is over that way.

[anonymous-user]

Gary29 said:

My Grandfathers 'liberated' Mills bomb sits proud;y on display on my mantle piece, gets a few strange looks if people don't know about it.

My parents have an underwing anti tank rocket on their mantelpiece! Next to a WW1 kukri

[Jasandjules]

keirik said:

My parents have an underwing anti tank rocket on their mantelpiece! Next to a WW1 kukri

Now those are cool

[RicksAlfas]

I've got a WW2 40mm Bofors shell cut in half for training purposes.
I'm not allowed to put it on the mantlepiece.

[HTP99]

Jasandjules said:

keirik said:

My parents have an underwing anti tank rocket on their mantelpiece! Next to a WW1 kukri

Now those are cool

My dad had to Kukri knives; a childs one and an adults one, they were presented to him and myself by then local Gurkas when I was a child; the childs one was mine; we are talking probably knocking on 40 years ago now.

My dad died 4 years ago and the bh that he re-married, claimed she couldn't find them when I asked for them, however there were other things that I was given which I know the knives were stored with, she knew how much the knives meant to me, so they are long gone now.

The oddest thing that I have is probably my dads original wooden Police truncheon which would be approx 50 years old now and a vintage brass Merryweather fire brigade hose nozzle thing, exactly like this:



Both the truncheon and nozzle were "liberated" from my dads before the bh became even more of a bh.

[Gareth1974]

[mrtwisty]

What is that?

Looks a bit heady-choppy-offy.....

[Gareth1974]

mrtwisty said:

What is that?

Looks a bit heady-choppy-offy.....

It is for heads - it’s a wooden pillow. Our house used to be the village police station, this was in the cell.

[RicksAlfas]

I thought it was a butchers block.

[Doofus]

I've posted these before, and they're not odd, so much as unusual. The bigger one is dated February 1956, and the smaller one is April 1957.

According to the first page, if I were to divulge any more I would be in breach of the OSA...


ETA: Although page 2 tells me that "This document contains no classified atomic energy information". So I may yet remain a free man.

Edited by Doofus on Friday 16th November 15:37

[Riley Blue]

I don't know about odd, but I have a WW2 'First Field Dressing', still stitched into its cloth bag. It was carried throughout the the war by my Dad and though he was blown off his feet when a torpedo hit HMS Kelly, it remains unused. He once told me that it wasn't intended for him, it was for his 'oppo' if he got injured.

[Trophy Husband]

Riley Blue said:

I don't know about odd, but I have a WW2 'First Field Dressing', still stitched into its cloth bag. It was carried throughout the the war by my Dad and though he was blown off his feet when a torpedo hit HMS Kelly, it remains unused. He once told me that it wasn't intended for him, it was for his 'oppo' if he got injured.

Photo please.

[rastapasta]

A 1969 guide to the Swiss Ski World championship Team.

[Riley Blue]

Trophy Husband said:

Riley Blue said:

I don't know about odd, but I have a WW2 'First Field Dressing', still stitched into its cloth bag. It was carried throughout the the war by my Dad and though he was blown off his feet when a torpedo hit HMS Kelly, it remains unused. He once told me that it wasn't intended for him, it was for his 'oppo' if he got injured.

Photo please.

Here you go. I've just noticed the date is 1943 so not carried throughout the whole war:

[rxtx]

I have a small bit of Sikhote-Alin meteorite from Russia.

[XB70]

Two chairs made from the engine cowling of a MD-80 airliner.

Also have a coffee table formed from the wing of rhe same aircraft.

Also a compressor blade from a 747-200 engine

[Allanv]

Cleopatra is not the oddest but the new one

https://www.flickr.com/gp/138445546@N04/9i949L

The garden has more

https://www.flickr.com/gp/138445546@N04/3w4v78

[sufcfan1]

I have a CH78 Periscope head on my living room shelf. It reminds me of my dad.