We need to put him on the watchlist. lol
Hobbies/collections you kinda stumbled into unexpectedly...
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Would come in handy sitting in a foxhole while being shelled.
A couple of my
old scout uniform items:
Those little Gibsons look great. Did they give you another box also?Yes, miniature guitars. I'm not sure how it happened. My sister bought the boxed set of Gibson replicas when I graduated from TCC. Then, people just started giving them to me, my sister has given me some of the others and my wife bought most of the rest of them. I've never bought one, or even asked for one, but I guess they decided I was collecting them.
I'm not complaining, I love them!
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That one for the guitars and one for their little headstocks when they crack off?
While in the military I was living in Germany in the 80s and went to flea markets every weekend, I collected militaria, would find all kinds of stuff! Was lot of fun finding things an bartering for it. Prices have gone out the roof now and I don’t live where I can find stuff like that anymore without paying crazy prices. Sold most of it over the years but still have a lot of helmets and medals. And a few swords, like the Japanese WWII swords and have a few civil war swords also. Another reason I quit is all the fake stuff!
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^^^^^ Cool stuff there ChrisWilson!
Anybody here collect things that they really wasn't trying to, but wound up collecting anyway?
I know, that sounds kinda silly, but I have a collection of certain items, that just kinda started one day without me even realizing it did.
The year was 1980. I was in the fifth grade, and we had just finished lunch, and were on the playground. The bell rang and we all filed in back to our classroom...ho-hum.
As I walked in to sit down, I noticed there was a little red book on every student's desk. I sat down and looked at mine, and it said New Testament/Psalms Proverbs.
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Our teacher, Mrs. Perkins told us that the Gideons came and missed us, because we were at recess, but left us all a pocket bible. At 11-12 years old, I didnt know (nor care) too much about God's word, but I knew well enough not to just throw it away, so I kept it.
Fast forward about 25 years...
I start work at Seminole State College campus police in 2005. One night, I was locking up and I walked through the student union and I see a little green Gideons pocket bible just like my red one that I still had. So I picked it up and put it in my pocket.
A few weeks later, I spotted an orange one...then a blue one...then a white one. Before I knew it, I had about 7 or 8 of em. I always heard that if you have three or more of a particular item, that makes you officially a collector.
Here's my modest collection today.
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I've researched them and each color means something. Like the white one is dedicated to nursing, orange for sidewalk distribution, brown for county jail gifts. I don't know how some of the different colors wound up at the college, but that's where I got them all.
Except my three camo ones. The army ACU was given to me by my son in law while he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas 12 years ago. The navy digital I received from my niece who just signed up for another 4 years in the US Navy. And she also gave me the desert camo one, she found it in a thrift shop in San Diego where she lives. Those three probably mean more to me than any of the others.
Besides the red one.
Sorry for the novella.
Anybody here collect things that they really wasn't trying to, but wound up collecting anyway?
I know, that sounds kinda silly, but I have a collection of certain items, that just kinda started one day without me even realizing it did.
The year was 1980. I was in the fifth grade, and we had just finished lunch, and were on the playground. The bell rang and we all filed in back to our classroom...ho-hum.
As I walked in to sit down, I noticed there was a little red book on every student's desk. I sat down and looked at mine, and it said New Testament/Psalms Proverbs.
View attachment 296879
Our teacher, Mrs. Perkins told us that the Gideons came and missed us, because we were at recess, but left us all a pocket bible. At 11-12 years old, I didnt know (nor care) too much about God's word, but I knew well enough not to just throw it away, so I kept it.
Fast forward about 25 years...
I start work at Seminole State College campus police in 2005. One night, I was locking up and I walked through the student union and I see a little green Gideons pocket bible just like my red one that I still had. So I picked it up and put it in my pocket.
A few weeks later, I spotted an orange one...then a blue one...then a white one. Before I knew it, I had about 7 or 8 of em. I always heard that if you have three or more of a particular item, that makes you officially a collector.
Here's my modest collection today.
View attachment 296880
I've researched them and each color means something. Like the white one is dedicated to nursing, orange for sidewalk distribution, brown for county jail gifts. I don't know how some of the different colors wound up at the college, but that's where I got them all.
Except my three camo ones. The army ACU was given to me by my son in law while he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas 12 years ago. The navy digital I received from my niece who just signed up for another 4 years in the US Navy. And she also gave me the desert camo one, she found it in a thrift shop in San Diego where she lives. Those three probably mean more to me than any of the others.
Besides the red one.
Sorry for the novella.
Interesting Bible collection. The Manual of manuals. Thanks for sharing. Camo one are really interesting. No atheists in foxholes or sinking ships. Sadly, soo many in good times today. I started collecting books on faith, Jesus, the Apostles, eternity, etc.........The Case For Christ, the classic by Moody Life After Life, Mark Cahill's One Heartbeat Away - Your Journey Into Eternity, More Than A Carpenter, Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven, Bill Wiese's 23 Minutes in Hell, Ravi Zacharias' Jesus Among Other Gods, many, many more. Even books on Quantum Mechanics, explaining latest science understandings meshing with concepts of spiritual world, infinity, eternity, boundless space, time, matter, human comprehension with our limited capacities. Really facilitates the understanding, comprehension of science meshing with faith.Anybody here collect things that they really wasn't trying to, but wound up collecting anyway?
I know, that sounds kinda silly, but I have a collection of certain items, that just kinda started one day without me even realizing it did.
The year was 1980. I was in the fifth grade, and we had just finished lunch, and were on the playground. The bell rang and we all filed in back to our classroom...ho-hum.
As I walked in to sit down, I noticed there was a little red book on every student's desk. I sat down and looked at mine, and it said New Testament/Psalms Proverbs.
View attachment 296879
Our teacher, Mrs. Perkins told us that the Gideons came and missed us, because we were at recess, but left us all a pocket bible. At 11-12 years old, I didnt know (nor care) too much about God's word, but I knew well enough not to just throw it away, so I kept it.
Fast forward about 25 years...
I start work at Seminole State College campus police in 2005. One night, I was locking up and I walked through the student union and I see a little green Gideons pocket bible just like my red one that I still had. So I picked it up and put it in my pocket.
A few weeks later, I spotted an orange one...then a blue one...then a white one. Before I knew it, I had about 7 or 8 of em. I always heard that if you have three or more of a particular item, that makes you officially a collector.
Here's my modest collection today.
View attachment 296880
I've researched them and each color means something. Like the white one is dedicated to nursing, orange for sidewalk distribution, brown for county jail gifts. I don't know how some of the different colors wound up at the college, but that's where I got them all.
Except my three camo ones. The army ACU was given to me by my son in law while he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas 12 years ago. The navy digital I received from my niece who just signed up for another 4 years in the US Navy. And she also gave me the desert camo one, she found it in a thrift shop in San Diego where she lives. Those three probably mean more to me than any of the others.
Besides the red one.
Sorry for the novella.
Another collection became movie DVDs. Enjoy perusing the likes of GoodWill thrift store......like hunting without the gun....never know what one will bag.....it's the hunt rather than the kill scenario. Wanted a collection to carry in my 45' DP tag motor coach for en route layovers, no TV reception, bad weather days, RV park entertaining, chillin' movie nights. Plan was to pull 75-100 for each road trip.....always fresh choices. With zero adult supervision in my life, I possibly have gone overboard a smidgen.....as I tend to do with guns, optics, cars, wild women, well everything, Pushing hard toward 5000 DVDs, needing ordered storage, cut the drywall between studs in a two-story boring long hallway, with rolling library style ladder, in one house where the coach is docked when in town. Developed focus on specific genres and actors.......McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape, Papillon,....) Eastwood (Dirty Harry series, spaghetti westerns, et el.....his last Cry Macho was painful to see his physical/acting decline), John Wayne (he's a terrible actor, but classic), Stallone (yeah, Rambo, Rocky,....), Gere (Pretty Woman, Officer and a Gentleman, Nights of the Rodente,...), Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis (Die Hard series....I actually have a friend a professional shooter from Las Vegas named John McClain...honest truth!!!), Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series,....), Costner (Field of Dreams,....), DeNiro (Taxi Driver, did you know he did a version of Little Shop of Horrors...), Nicholson (The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Few Good Men,...), Steve Martin, John Candy (yeah, Planes, Trains and Automobiles,....), Cruise (Risky Business, Top Gun,...) Robin Williams (Good Morning Viet Nam, Mrs. Doubtfire,...), Hoffman (Tootsie, Rain Man,...), Hitchcock, Bond, James Bond (have all, save Connery's 1983 return Never Say Never Again, and the spoof Casino Royale with David Niven; watching evolution of special effects and story lines.....and errors is fun....Dr. No, Bond goes around same curve 3 times in car chase; another movie he exits cellar door flipping door back/leaving open with bad guys immediately passing door closed; Connery is holding guy with one hand to punch with other, view switches and hands are reversed as punch landed....fun finding, logging errors....really crude by 2022 expectations) classics (Godfather trilogy, Star Wars - I- VI, Deliverance, Casablanca, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Maltze Falcon, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, American Graffiti 1&2, American Pie series (yeah classic gross), Star Wars 1-6, .....), war genre (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, We Were Soliders, Apocalypse Now, Run Silent/Run Deep, ToraToraTora, D-Day, Bridges At Toko-Ri,...). and of course, girly/date night/tear jerker genre....I really do enjoy them on occasion. The problem is making selections for a road trip......lottery.
Next fetish, are my Barretts. Had no intention of getting a Barrett. My gun club has manufacturers day each year where local factory reps showcase their wares. On our 60 point 600yd range, points 1-20 are all types of guns, save Barrett M82 and big bore 338s-up are on points 56-60. All day long, every time the Barrett barked, everyone turned, looked that way with a big ****-eatin' grin. On way home, I had an epiphany.....It's un-American not to own a gun that brings that much joy to the world. Bought first M107A1 week later, and it's been a long slippery slope since....and the rest of the story is history. M107A1s, MRADs (including the MK22 Deployment Kit, REC7, REC10.....all the colors produced, some discontinued. All the calibers offered for the MRAD, literally got the last 7mmRM fluted. Been numerous times to Barrett in TN for training (spent week of 8/15 in M82/M107A1 and MRAD/MK22 Armorers training); several runs to NRA Whittington in NM for Barrett Long Range shooting M107A1 and MRAD.
Another unintended collection are the SKB and Beretta O/U and SxS shotguns. Got started in 70s with home-based FFL license. Good customer ordered a SKB, then didn't take it. I kept it, and as Paul Harvey said, "Now you know the rest of the story." Buying at retail really sucks!!!
Have SKB 485 28ga SxS in bound as I type. Payment for Beretta 687 EELL Classic 4 ga/5bbl outbound today. Gifts to Dad returned with his passing......NOTE: TODAY IS HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY!!! MISS YOU DAD....AND MOM!!!...she's 101, Dad married a cougar 3 days post Pearl Harbor....together 65yrs 21days when Dad passed. I hit God's lottery jackpot for parents.....see below.) Unintended consequence of collection........partnered with two friends to buy bank building for the HUGE vault.....and the man cave options. Gonna need a bigger bank with zero adult supervision. These other guys are no help!!! But, my most prized collection........family and friends. Have been blessed with a fantastic unplanned, accidental collection of these treasures. Now, losing them, running sadly low on them. This year #16, 17, 18 in last 8 years. Once re-connected at friends' weddings; now funerals. I've been blessed in every way, but would give everything back if I had my only girl back again. Last year would have been our 50th; gone 21yrs now; together just shy 30yrs, car accident. God and I still have spats over that. Need to make peace there soon. Nothing else matters. Just a really, really old guy's ponderings. What did Glock 'em Down say....novella??....apologize.
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Very very nice!Mr.Glock said:
Yes. These two was at Bell Isle and then the Carousel was moved to Springlake Amusement Park. Some you Okies that are old might have planted your ***** on these two!
I have had an interest in carousels for many years. I started wood carving figures of carousel animals about 20-25 years ago. These two were the first I did, and have given about a dozen to family members over the years. Something very reminiscent with these old figures. Somewhere here, I have photos I took of every figure on the Santa Monica pier carousel.
@DavidMcMillan
You sir are talented!
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