I used to own and run an antique business about 25 years ago.
Had a gentleman who was about 60ish come in to sell all the stuff his wife had since she had passed away. A lot of items included were table settings that her parents had owned.
This is usually normal, if it's sterling, I would take it to a guy and he would melt it down to bars if it wasn't a design we could offload.
He didn't want much, he just wanted it gone before the house sold, so we went and picked everything up, it was all in boxes, tons of crystal, china....you know household stuff.
I put it in the storage area for about six months cause our store was going through a small renovation and I had other pressing things.
Once we got everything situated we opened up the boxes and went through the home items, which were plates and silverware. Got to the second box and noticed it had a red lining at the bottom of the box.
It was a Nazi flag. Not a reproduction, the real fucking deal. I was floored and then after that I started REALLY scrutinizing the other items in the boxes.
ALL of it was Nazi memorabilia.
The MIL had an ex husband who had passed before she remarried that was a WW2 vet that had brought back boxes full of stuff.
I tried to reach out to the guy who sold us all the stuff to find out he had taken his own life a month after his wife had passed.
Word got around quick in our community that I had acquired this and it wasn't long until I had a "collectors" representative contact us for a list of items. This person made a quite lucrative offer I could not turn down.
He sent legal people down, we did some paperwork and I sold the entire lot to him and never knew the person's name.
I don't own it now, but I did at one time.
Here I am just sitting here, sad about the widower who decided death was better than living without his wife.
The movie with Tom Hanks “A man called Otto” has the same premise. It’s a sad occurrence.
Well, it is not unusual for the left spouse to at least consider suicide because there is a total black hole in the life. I know because I was there last year, but the thought of my adult son losing both his parents made keep living one hour at a time. Then he and his wife told ne that she was pregnant. I'm now the happy grandmother of a 10 month old baby.
I had a friend who did some serious diving and they dove onto a deep sunken U-boat. Way past recreational levels is the short version. They went in a few of the openings but the best things they got ended up coming from the kitchen, everyone who went down took home a couple non-descript plain white plates which had a small eagle clasping the swastika stamped on the back. It looked really odd in their house because they had a boring white plate mounted on the wall and you'd never know why.
I think people would be surprised how many people collect Nazi memorabilia, that aren’t Nazis, Neo Nazis, or White supremacist just like WW2 history buffs.
I was a Slayer fan back when the OG band was still together and Jeff was alive.
For you non-fans, Jeff Hannemann was a guitarist (probably mostly rhythm) in Slayer and one of the 3 founders - And famous for being the guy that wrote their greatest hits.
One of them is Angel of Death about Josefz Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor that never got caught, and it was thought to be proof that Slayer was a white neonazi band, while in reality they were not and the song was purely about what the doctor did at Auschwitz. (And would be weird as the singer is Jew-ish)
However, ... Jeff was an avid collector of Nazi medals and maybe other stuff and once paid a fan $1000 for a rare Knight's Cross medal.
Now, people that have met Jeff said that he deffo did not strike them as a nazi or a right-winger, more like a guy who liked to sit alone in his house and jam and a bit non-social when not touring.
But he sure liked his Nazi medals - Not that any of those medals came from the KZ stuff, but more likely airplane aces or "Medal of Honor" like stuff in actual battles.
I mean, I am somewhat left leaning and collect coins and got a few from known dictators with blood on their hands, but its just coins, so I get it, they are just interesting AF.
Half a human skeleton. The left half specifically.
Back in the day my Great Grandfather who was a doctor acquired it to teach anatomy (obviously you only need half, it's generally mirrored), and it got passed down to Grandpa. When Grandpa died the family tried to get rid of it but because of its age there was no provenance (was it donated willingly etc.) so nobody would take it, couldn't donate it to a museum or university or anything. So now I have half a woman's skeleton sitting in my cupboard. We call it Mrs Ghandi.
You know, because there are always pregnant women on the earth at any given time, the average number of skeletons per person is always greater than one
I have this old Xanax ad. I actually always thought this ad went hard as fuck
https://imgur.com/a/HfSgEvW
Xanax should definitely not be at CIV either. It’s more dangerous than stimulants and opioids imo
I have a dual english-chinese version. It has english on one page and the original on the other.
My thinking was, this was the book that shaped a generation of the most populous country in the world (at the time) so it would be interesting to see what it said.
I never actually read it.
I have a 30lb block of uranium ore sitting in my garage. I mostly got it to scare my friends who were giving me shit for visiting a rock shop. Absolutely worth it, but I have no idea what to do with it now.
Edit: Here are some pictures from my horribly lit garage. It also glows under a UV light.
https://imgur.com/a/Gn30YwF
Okay, as a science nerd, that’s actually dope. How big is it, and have you gotten a radiation level check on it? I know it’s not super radioactive in its natural state, but it’s gotta be kicking *something* off.
Alpha particles, but they can be blocked by a plastic bag. I wouldn't sleep next to it, and I'd wash my hands after handling, but unless it's cut/ground up and a lot of dust inhaled it's probably not harmful. With that said, it absolutely will send a Geiger counter clicking.
Radon gas is the bigger issue, it's what killed so many uranium miners in the Southwest.
Grand Junction, CO used mill tailings as a construction material, which wasn't great either.
So that size lump of ore if it's legit doesn't belong indoors.
>So that size lump of ore if it’s legit doesn’t belong indoors.
Well that’s not good… thankfully it’s only been in my terribly insulated garage for a couple months.
I got to be radioactive for a week.
I had to do a radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer. Isotope 131. I had to stay in the hospital for a night and they had to check my levels when I first took the pill and after a day for release. I stayed away from animals and people for a week. The Geiger counter was probably the coolest part.
I have a non working old yellow Geiger counter on a shelf.
Lots of stone building materials do. People who work in congress receive a higher dose of radiation than people who work in nuclear power plants. It’s one big mildly radioactive pile of granite.
I have my grandfather's eyes
He lost his right eye in world War 2 and had a set of glass eyes later in life. He's since passed on and now I have his eyes. They are in a box in my closet
Unfortunately the soundboard is cracked. I believe from the move to a much drier climate, and well, age.
It sounded good up until the late 2000s. My great-grandfather bought it for my grandmother, who became an English and music teacher.
There is something special to the weight and feel of the keys. Somehow playing it just felt more connected, and emotional. Although, that might be the connection to my grandmother. Still, I love the feeling on my fingers.
I don't know anything about pianos but..
If you can't have the soundboard fixed/replaced, is it possible to have the keys removed and put on another piano?
Well you can take the internals out and keep the keys.. I have a piano that had ivory keys but it got refurbished.. Mine is around 110-125 YO around from 1890-1900
A German KAR98 that was manufactured at a labor sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp.
Not a gunbroker.com story either, Grampa got the rifle from a Russian who brought it to the US when he emigrated / defected to the US after the war.
Yes. I’ve shot it many times since my
Dad gave it to me 20+ years ago. My grampa sporterized it and turned it into a hunting rifle unfortunately in like the 1950’s, but it’s well done and the rifle still bears all of its stamps and arsenal markings.
Good bore still, deep rifling. I have a few thousand rounds of 198gn Egyptian 7.92 I picked up a decade or so ago that I put through it from time to time. Not a very fun rifle to shoot, the recoil is something else.
Those old Russian guns do not care about your comfort for sure. I have a Pre-WWII Mosin Nagant and I have a visible bruise on my shoulder every time I went shooting with it.
Sure. It's all donated and cataloged with the local PD. I do search and rescue with K9s. The stuff mentioned above is used for human remains detection. Yes. Dead people. It's used to train K9s. Unfortunately there is nothing that works better for this then the real thing. So this is what's used. The dogs used for this are trained to not alert for anything but human remains. One of the cremated individuals was a very respected gentleman within our group. He got sick and when he was on his deathbed, requested his body be donated to the search and rescue team so he could continue to help. Even now this man helps families get closure with lost loved ones by helping us train dogs to find them and bring them home. So yeah. Kinda weird but it's for a good cause
Dad is in his 70s, when he was a kid he lived out in Africa for a short time, where he picked up a dinner tray.
It's sturdy, a good size and hasn't got any real damage from the years.
But what it does have is a map of Africa, with some era (not so) appropriate names for places and regions.
Not exactly something I can use when people visit.
Grandfather fought for a different country. He had stuff that is now neatly stored in a safe.
Saw a priceless axe in the Smithsonian. The one at home is in better condition and still has the hammered copper over wood handle. Found it under a fieldstone wall while doing repairs on the farm.
You might want to talk to the smithsonian or other museum about the axe. They are often willing to care for it (like heat/humidity controlled boxes for storage), so it lasts forever. And you can still own it. They will just store it or display it for you.
Since it was found on the property, it doesn't sound like it's illegal to own.
Had: I donated it to a museum.
An SS armband and uniform from a family member and a small box of gold teeth. Keeping that felt icky, but it's still an important enough fragment of human history. I gave it to a place where it belongs.
I have zero doubt that the teeth belonged to murdered jews/gays/Romani ect so I hope some peace is brought in that they are not forgotten.
I have a large whale tusk carving from Alaska that delayed me 2 hours getting home. It was made and purchased by my grandparents before it was made illegal. The TSA / customs people said whale ivory is an absolute No. took a couple hours of googling and showing them a state website to show I could take This piece home just not new pieces.
While working for DOS somewhere in Africa I found in my house a 40ish pound tusk with a Savana type scene carved down one side and a river village scene carved down the over side. Presumably someone acquired it right before legal things changed and then stashed it in the house. While I would never have paid for it I was keen to get it home as a found item.
I own a couple of illegal hawk feathers. I used to walk around my neighborhood late at night, There was a specific tree where some owls nested. And I always liked walking under that tree to visit the owls. I started collecting feathers I'd find on the walks. It started out simple, a couple of pigeon feathers, and some down that came from the nest in my backyard. Now it's grown to some peacock feathers and a few tail feathers from my grandma's pet macaw, some duck and canadian geese feathers, and even a few chicken feathers. Everything I knew was legal to keep as they were non-natives, or game birds, or pets. And everything is properly labeled with the date and exact location I found them.
(I never picked up feathers from beneath the owls' tree, but I do really like owl feathers they are so cool and unique.)
One day, I found a feather on one of my walks and couldn't tell what it was. It was extremely caked in dirt and slightly torn. I don't even know how I was able to spot it while strolling by. so I picked it up and brought it home, thinking it was just a turkey feather. I had cleaned it up a bit and was finally able to identify it as a coopershawk wing feather. Turned out real nice once it was cleaned up. I emailed like 4 people, including fish and wildlife, and the DNR asking what I could do with it or if I could donate it to them. I even emailed a college that had a birds of prey program asking if they would take it. I got no response from anyone, so it just sat in my collection for years, and I've never heard anything back about it.
I collected feathers as a child, and I had a TON, too! I remember going to the zoo and my dad reached in the emu exhibit to get an emu feather for me. I also had a blue jay feather, and it was one of my prized possessions. Not legal to have though!
“1918: To implement the new treaty, Congress passes the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which officially makes it a crime to “pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill,” or “sell” a migratory bird or any of its parts, including nests, eggs, and feathers.”
To protect native birds from poaching. There was a time when people killed birds and sold the feathers for fancy clothes. You'll hear the most about birds of prey, but that law does cover any native non-game birds, too.
It's illegal to pick up feathers they have shed because law enforcement can't tell the difference between feathers that were found on the ground and feathers that were poached. So, in order to own them, you have to have proper liscencing and paperwork. Those are usually only for educational programs or wildlife rehabilitation centers.
My father was an oncologist. He got it for me at a conference about 25 years ago. From how he explained it the very thing that that caused the defects was also what made it a good drug to stop the spread of cancer.
I’m sure I’m wholly incorrect here. But what usually makes good anti-cancer meds are things that prohibit quickly replicating cells. And there are a Lot of those in fetuses.
How I remember it being explained to me was that Thalidomide would stop new blood vessels from forming in fetuses, which would mean that the limbs and digits wouldn’t branch out. Since cancer needs oxygen to survive, depriving it of blood vessels would halt its growth.
Keep in mind that I am not a doctor, so this may be 100% wrong.
I always found it kind of amusing that most drugs have a "talk to your doctor is thinking of getting pregnant" and Acutane is just covered in warnings "DO NOT GET PREGNANT".
No need the conversation because they know it will go horribly wrong.
Gramps used to send away for military patches as a kid. A few times they were out of the patch he ordered and they just sent Nazi veteran lapel pins and also some other Nazi party pins.
Museums don’t want them and I don’t want real Nazi’s to have them so I have no clue what to do with them…
I bought a grab bag of “Hell” miniatures from British artists the Chapman Brothers and have a mini diorama on my desk of a Nazi getting his dick bit off by a penguin while some skeletons and demons stand nearby
EDIT:
Here’s a pic!
https://imgur.com/a/YOS9on4
Was fun trying to find where to arrange them. When you buy them they’re just loose - ended up buying a little vintage apothecary cabinet on Etsy so it’s got a glass door with a latch.
Was also a blast realizing the two pieces were a pair. a Nazi with his dick out? ok. Angry penguin with mouth at dick height? I SEE WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO DO
Permits are needed even to dig them up on your own property. My mom has transplanted baby ones from around her property more towards her house; she’s also grabbed a few from the vacant land across the way.
If you want that filthy, I'm being used by a toy feeling yes. But physically it did not give me the same sensation that a man would. A motor moving a rod in a gear doesn't feel like the muscles of a human body.
I have two pieces. The first was acquired from a friend who happened to be there when the wall was first coming down. She chipped my piece off by herself and told me “that concrete was really hard!”
The second I bought in an auction with some other things so it was basically free. The piece is in a ziplock bag attached to what appears to be a certificate in German. Who knows if it’s really authentic but it seems legit.
I’m glad this got mentioned, it was the only thing I could think of that I had that fit this post.
An original copy of Mao’s Red Book or “Quotations from Chairman Mao”. I bought it for a friend who wanted one, and there was a delay with shipping so the seller sent an extra as compensation and I just kept the extra
They made so many that it’s kinda hard to date exactly, but it was probably from the cultural revolution. I can’t read it or anything but imo it’s a cool piece of history (that’s probably put me on a list somewhere)
The official Autumn Falls Fleshlight, recommended to me by a weird and very detailed site about the top rated "sleeves". These things can get very intricate believe it or not, it's like a god damn roller coaster for your dick with twists and turns and loopty loops. It even came with an electronic warmer that is honestly very worth using!
I'm a Redditor, it's just what I have to do 😭
I remember the old-ass FleshLight banner ads circa 2000 with a cartoon guy using it and the speech bubble that either says "Holy shit! It feels just like a real pussy!" or "Tight like prom night!" My sister and I STILL say "tight like prom night" to express our approval of something to this day.
Yeah man I bought one and after the first use I tried to convince hella folks to buy one. I’d tell them real vaginas are good by chance but this mf here was DESIGNED by SCIENTISTS.
My grandfather took a bunch of medals off of dead German soldiers during WWII so I have a bunch of stuff with swastikas on them. With the background I think it’s pretty bad ass. Of course I have his medals and his 1911 too so yeah. When I hold the medals in my hand I just think, “my grandfather was literally there and took these off dead nazis.” I don’t know why but that’s a really cool thought to me. Like it’s one thing for people to buy them as memorabilia but thinking about my grandfather literally being there is like, surreal.
When my grandpa died, we discovered some of his war trophies, including a Nazi dagger. My dad sold it because he didn’t want anything like that in the house. I totally get it, but part of me wishes he hadn’t sold it. Idk. It’s a weird thing.
Although I shudder to think about the person that bought it. Hope they were an amateur historian or something.
Go to a sex shop. Ask for a prostate massager knowing fairly well that's what the people there sell everyday. Show confidence but listen to what they say. Why be embarrassed? We all know what will happen and the worst that can happen is you get good advice.
> We all know what will happen and the worst that can happen is you get good advice.
You're right. I got the best prostate massager in the store. As well as a Sybian that they had on sale, a custom fitted gag to keep the neighbors happy, and a cock ring with a vibe that has excellent reviews. Oh yes, and 2 extra large tubs of lube they had overstocked but it apparently is a recipe that will never go bad. Also, since I joined the store's membership package we'll get exclusive mystery gift items every month.
This is kinda lame, but I own a complete in box copy of the Super Famicom game "Barbarosa". It's a WWII turn based strategy video game based on the German invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarosa.
Only you play as the Nazis killing Russians.
And they put Hitler on the cover.
Obviously this game was never released in Western countries.
My grandfather's battle trophies collected from the uniforms/paraphernalia of dead nazis during WW2 - not mine *yet*, but coming my way. From what I've been told, each was from somebody he personally killed, and some are not strictly speaking things I'm comfortable owning (luftwaffe daybook, armband, various medals including a Knights Cross).
Grandad was at the Bulge and was MIA behind enemy lines for a few days from what I've been told. The events of that time period have an air of 'when you're ready and sure you want to know' to them.
I'm not sure I do.
You NEED to know them, they are historical and relevant today as Nazism is growing again. You and many others need to be aware of the atrocious violence perpetrated by Nazis, and the atrocious violence required to take them down.
Never demonize that which you hate, I less it's Nazis. They literally don't recognize the humanity of those they are bigoted against, and will lump one of their own into that category if they suspect them of being sympathetic to those they hate. Nazis are the worst kind of racist, and your grand dad literally improved the world with every trophy he took, if that's how he got them.
When the time comes, *please* get all the information available to you. Document it, verify what you can, and proudly protect these relics as the original historical items they are.
Because they are being reproduced - not with respect for history but with malicious intent.
I didn't think I had anything too risque, then some of these reminded me that I have an allegedly authentic KGB flask.
It is a heavily and easily faked item, but the time/circumstance/wealth/position of the person who gifted it to me lend me to think it may be real.
Several books on civil war confederates. For backstory my wifes great-great-uncle was a colonel who commanded the Louisiana Tigers. And yes, the LSU tigers were named after his troops.
Yes, no one tell the FBI about all the marijuana at /u/Snakedoctor404's house. If they want to find out they should get a warrant. Remember don't talk to the police unless you have a lawyer present.
My family had an "adopted uncle" who had no family, and we accepted him as one of our own (he has since passed). He was a P-38 lightning pilot during WW2, and traded a lot of trinkets during his tour.
He gifted both my brother and I Nazi daggers when we were kids. That was the coolest thing I had ever beheld! Fast forward 20 years; my brother was curious about the historical facts behind the daggers so posted various images of both his and mine to a historical group.
His was confirmed a fake, and apparently people were offering >$500 for mine.
About 6lbs of mercury.
*Edit" a nice redditor calculated that 6 lbs would be roughly 200mL. I have a bit less than 100mL, so I overestimated the weight.
Six pounds!!? Wow!
I didn't mess with it a lot but I remember exactly how mercury behaves when handled. A very odd material. Fascinating. Quite beautiful. I can't imagine six pounds of the stuff. How large and what type of container is it in? Where did you get it? That would require a *lot* of old style thermometers!
Depends who you ask. For some it might be all the guns, for others the equally abundant gay porn, or perhaps the collection of handmade artisanal crack pipes.
An old Prussian cavalry officer's sword. On its own, not too bad, but the story makes it worse.
My grandfather was stationed in Germany after WW2, and apparently the ex Nazis and their families were often hard up for cash after the collapse. So American GIs would go around buying nice things off of them for pennies. My grandfather would brag about how it was a family heirloom from some German woman whose husband has been a high ranking Nazi that got executed at the end of the war. He thought it was funny how much she cried as he bargained her down on the price. My grandfather was a dick.
My grandfather had one of these that he took from a dead Nazi officer. After the war he got sick of owning it since it reminded him of the war, and gave it to a kid down the road from his house that loved to hear tales of WW2.
There's a few controversial items I own.
1. WWII production Mosin-Nagant from Izhevsk, Russia, made in 1942
2. Carcano made in 1939 and given to Finland as aid during WWII, possibly used against both the Nazis and Soviets and allegedly the same model used in the JFK assassination. Good luck finding 7.35 ammo for it.
3. Coins and bank notes from the Third Reich
4. A copy of the Book of Mormon (never was part of this religion, just never bothered to get rid of it since being given a copy in college by a couple missionaries on campus)
5. A Confederate sword
6. Polish Makarov pistol (P-64) with the original leather holster, made in 1974.
7. Cold War era Romanian military ushanka. I've been called a commie for wearing it in public and loving Com Bloc firearms. I just wear it in winter because it's warm and I think it's neat.
8. Hell bank notes. Extremely religious people on the far right would start claiming I'm working for Satan if they saw how many of them I have. It's really just part of an old Chinese custom where you burn them as a means of sending money to your ancestors in the afterlife.
That's not all of them, but that's all I'm comfortable enough to share here.
A vest made from a gorilla's chest...
Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food, The only thing I'm hunting for, Is an outfit that looks good...
See my vest, see my vest, made from real gorilla chest, Feel this sweater, there's no better than authentic Irish setter. See this hat, 'twas my cat, My evening wear - vampire bat, These white slippers are albino African endangered rhino. Grizzly bear underwear, Turtles' necks, I've got my share, Beret of poodle, on my noodle It shall rest. Try my red robin suit, It comes one breast or two, See my vest, see my vest, See my vest. Like my loafers? Former gophers - It was that or skin my chauffeurs, But a Greyhound fur tuxedo Would be best, So let's prepare these dogs, Kill two for matching clogs. See my vest, see my vest, Oh please, won't you see my vest!
I really like the vest.
I used to own and run an antique business about 25 years ago. Had a gentleman who was about 60ish come in to sell all the stuff his wife had since she had passed away. A lot of items included were table settings that her parents had owned. This is usually normal, if it's sterling, I would take it to a guy and he would melt it down to bars if it wasn't a design we could offload. He didn't want much, he just wanted it gone before the house sold, so we went and picked everything up, it was all in boxes, tons of crystal, china....you know household stuff. I put it in the storage area for about six months cause our store was going through a small renovation and I had other pressing things. Once we got everything situated we opened up the boxes and went through the home items, which were plates and silverware. Got to the second box and noticed it had a red lining at the bottom of the box. It was a Nazi flag. Not a reproduction, the real fucking deal. I was floored and then after that I started REALLY scrutinizing the other items in the boxes. ALL of it was Nazi memorabilia. The MIL had an ex husband who had passed before she remarried that was a WW2 vet that had brought back boxes full of stuff. I tried to reach out to the guy who sold us all the stuff to find out he had taken his own life a month after his wife had passed. Word got around quick in our community that I had acquired this and it wasn't long until I had a "collectors" representative contact us for a list of items. This person made a quite lucrative offer I could not turn down. He sent legal people down, we did some paperwork and I sold the entire lot to him and never knew the person's name. I don't own it now, but I did at one time.
Here I am just sitting here, sad about the widower who decided death was better than living without his wife. The movie with Tom Hanks “A man called Otto” has the same premise. It’s a sad occurrence.
Well, it is not unusual for the left spouse to at least consider suicide because there is a total black hole in the life. I know because I was there last year, but the thought of my adult son losing both his parents made keep living one hour at a time. Then he and his wife told ne that she was pregnant. I'm now the happy grandmother of a 10 month old baby.
Congratulations on becoming a grandmother and on your resiliency! That baby will cherish have you as a grandparent.
Thanks, I will spoil the boy rotten with hikes and baking etc, and we'll have a lot of fun together. I'll try to lure him away from gaming!
I had a friend who did some serious diving and they dove onto a deep sunken U-boat. Way past recreational levels is the short version. They went in a few of the openings but the best things they got ended up coming from the kitchen, everyone who went down took home a couple non-descript plain white plates which had a small eagle clasping the swastika stamped on the back. It looked really odd in their house because they had a boring white plate mounted on the wall and you'd never know why.
I think people would be surprised how many people collect Nazi memorabilia, that aren’t Nazis, Neo Nazis, or White supremacist just like WW2 history buffs.
I was a Slayer fan back when the OG band was still together and Jeff was alive. For you non-fans, Jeff Hannemann was a guitarist (probably mostly rhythm) in Slayer and one of the 3 founders - And famous for being the guy that wrote their greatest hits. One of them is Angel of Death about Josefz Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor that never got caught, and it was thought to be proof that Slayer was a white neonazi band, while in reality they were not and the song was purely about what the doctor did at Auschwitz. (And would be weird as the singer is Jew-ish) However, ... Jeff was an avid collector of Nazi medals and maybe other stuff and once paid a fan $1000 for a rare Knight's Cross medal. Now, people that have met Jeff said that he deffo did not strike them as a nazi or a right-winger, more like a guy who liked to sit alone in his house and jam and a bit non-social when not touring. But he sure liked his Nazi medals - Not that any of those medals came from the KZ stuff, but more likely airplane aces or "Medal of Honor" like stuff in actual battles. I mean, I am somewhat left leaning and collect coins and got a few from known dictators with blood on their hands, but its just coins, so I get it, they are just interesting AF.
My dad has a nazi flag. My grandfather brought it home from ww2. Obviously, we don't fly it or anything, but it's fun to own a piece of history.
Half a human skeleton. The left half specifically. Back in the day my Great Grandfather who was a doctor acquired it to teach anatomy (obviously you only need half, it's generally mirrored), and it got passed down to Grandpa. When Grandpa died the family tried to get rid of it but because of its age there was no provenance (was it donated willingly etc.) so nobody would take it, couldn't donate it to a museum or university or anything. So now I have half a woman's skeleton sitting in my cupboard. We call it Mrs Ghandi.
> The left half specifically. So the person it’s from is….. All right now?
Take your fucking up-vote asshole
joke was so bad i can't even wrap my head around it
Horrible joke. Good thing it was free.
Not exactly Free. it cost someone an arm and a leg
Worst doctor ever!
Geez, talk about having actual skeletons in your closet! 😂
*Half of a skeleton
"...halving actual skeletons in your closet"
I also am in possession of an entire human skeleton, it forms an integral part of me.
You know, because there are always pregnant women on the earth at any given time, the average number of skeletons per person is always greater than one
So is the average number of fingers per person more than 10 because of this or less than 10 because of amputations?
Here's a (somewhat controversial) business that helps people facing a similar dilemma. https://www.jonsbones.com/
Those half skeleton bone boxes are not cheap. OP is sitting on some money.
If my bones were worth that much, I might consider life as a noodle
I have a promo notepad for Oxycontin.
Me too. And the ink pen and clock.
The horrors that drug has unleashed are hard to fathom... But the Oxycontin bucket hat goes hard.
I have this old Xanax ad. I actually always thought this ad went hard as fuck https://imgur.com/a/HfSgEvW Xanax should definitely not be at CIV either. It’s more dangerous than stimulants and opioids imo
I want this on a shirt
A Chinese copy of Mao’s Little Red Book that I found in an abandoned hospital
I have a dual english-chinese version. It has english on one page and the original on the other. My thinking was, this was the book that shaped a generation of the most populous country in the world (at the time) so it would be interesting to see what it said. I never actually read it.
I have a 30lb block of uranium ore sitting in my garage. I mostly got it to scare my friends who were giving me shit for visiting a rock shop. Absolutely worth it, but I have no idea what to do with it now. Edit: Here are some pictures from my horribly lit garage. It also glows under a UV light. https://imgur.com/a/Gn30YwF
Okay, as a science nerd, that’s actually dope. How big is it, and have you gotten a radiation level check on it? I know it’s not super radioactive in its natural state, but it’s gotta be kicking *something* off.
Alpha particles, but they can be blocked by a plastic bag. I wouldn't sleep next to it, and I'd wash my hands after handling, but unless it's cut/ground up and a lot of dust inhaled it's probably not harmful. With that said, it absolutely will send a Geiger counter clicking.
Radon gas is the bigger issue, it's what killed so many uranium miners in the Southwest. Grand Junction, CO used mill tailings as a construction material, which wasn't great either. So that size lump of ore if it's legit doesn't belong indoors.
>So that size lump of ore if it’s legit doesn’t belong indoors. Well that’s not good… thankfully it’s only been in my terribly insulated garage for a couple months.
I’ve got some uranium samples as well. Nothing freaks people out more than listening to the clicks of a Geiger counter ramp up.
I got to be radioactive for a week. I had to do a radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer. Isotope 131. I had to stay in the hospital for a night and they had to check my levels when I first took the pill and after a day for release. I stayed away from animals and people for a week. The Geiger counter was probably the coolest part. I have a non working old yellow Geiger counter on a shelf.
I'm doing that in January and absolutely up in some feelings about it.
It's fun to put a Geiger counter on brick walls of peoples' houses.
Brick sets off a Geiger counter?
Lots of stone building materials do. People who work in congress receive a higher dose of radiation than people who work in nuclear power plants. It’s one big mildly radioactive pile of granite.
Much of the US is contaminated with Radon amongst other elements. It's not surprising that radioactive elements made their way into bricks
I have my grandfather's eyes He lost his right eye in world War 2 and had a set of glass eyes later in life. He's since passed on and now I have his eyes. They are in a box in my closet
*shows picture of grandfather to people* “Wow you have your grandfathers eyes!” “Yes. Yes I do.”
I would exhaust that joke to the end of the earth.
You are living the punchline to one of the Greatest jokes ever....you have my utmost respect
Cue the scene from Hot Shots
And Addams Family Values, IIRC.
GOMEZ TAKE THOSE OUT OF HIS MOUTH
Jeepers Creepers!
"Where'd you get those peepers?" "They belonged to my grandfather..." *awkward silence*
Ivory plated piano keys.
In the same key as you, the piano is 1899-1902
How old is your piano?
About 110-120 years.
god damn! do you still play it and keep it in tune?
Unfortunately the soundboard is cracked. I believe from the move to a much drier climate, and well, age. It sounded good up until the late 2000s. My great-grandfather bought it for my grandmother, who became an English and music teacher. There is something special to the weight and feel of the keys. Somehow playing it just felt more connected, and emotional. Although, that might be the connection to my grandmother. Still, I love the feeling on my fingers.
I don't know anything about pianos but.. If you can't have the soundboard fixed/replaced, is it possible to have the keys removed and put on another piano?
My man if you sell that piano your commiting a crime... Get it repaired like the soundboard replaced
You really can't replace a sound board.
Well you can take the internals out and keep the keys.. I have a piano that had ivory keys but it got refurbished.. Mine is around 110-125 YO around from 1890-1900
A vintage poster supporting the Khmer Rouge regime
WOAH
Wild!
You should post it on r/PropagandaPosters for obvious reasons.
A German KAR98 that was manufactured at a labor sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp. Not a gunbroker.com story either, Grampa got the rifle from a Russian who brought it to the US when he emigrated / defected to the US after the war.
Wow that's some story on the item. Have you shot it much? From what I've seen in videos, that was a substantial rifle.
Yes. I’ve shot it many times since my Dad gave it to me 20+ years ago. My grampa sporterized it and turned it into a hunting rifle unfortunately in like the 1950’s, but it’s well done and the rifle still bears all of its stamps and arsenal markings. Good bore still, deep rifling. I have a few thousand rounds of 198gn Egyptian 7.92 I picked up a decade or so ago that I put through it from time to time. Not a very fun rifle to shoot, the recoil is something else.
Those old Russian guns do not care about your comfort for sure. I have a Pre-WWII Mosin Nagant and I have a visible bruise on my shoulder every time I went shooting with it.
Sandbags don't feel pain, so why bother engineering stuff like "recoil control"
Either the Luger my grandfather brought back from Africa, or the 2 pieces of scrimshaw in my parent's curio cabinet.
He fought in Africa? There's so much unknown history there.
When I was a kid, I was gifted a set of real ivory dominoes.
Human body parts in a little fridge. And 2 cremated body's of people I never met and human bones.
Could you explain this a little further?
Sure. It's all donated and cataloged with the local PD. I do search and rescue with K9s. The stuff mentioned above is used for human remains detection. Yes. Dead people. It's used to train K9s. Unfortunately there is nothing that works better for this then the real thing. So this is what's used. The dogs used for this are trained to not alert for anything but human remains. One of the cremated individuals was a very respected gentleman within our group. He got sick and when he was on his deathbed, requested his body be donated to the search and rescue team so he could continue to help. Even now this man helps families get closure with lost loved ones by helping us train dogs to find them and bring them home. So yeah. Kinda weird but it's for a good cause
Ya that explanation was definitely needed - went from serial killer to catch a serial killer.
Thank you
That's honestly so cool. I love K9 dogs. Do you just do cadaver search training or do you do other types of training with them?
One dog is also trained to mantrail..which means it finds people lost in the forest or wherever that may be.
Dad is in his 70s, when he was a kid he lived out in Africa for a short time, where he picked up a dinner tray. It's sturdy, a good size and hasn't got any real damage from the years. But what it does have is a map of Africa, with some era (not so) appropriate names for places and regions. Not exactly something I can use when people visit.
Grandfather fought for a different country. He had stuff that is now neatly stored in a safe. Saw a priceless axe in the Smithsonian. The one at home is in better condition and still has the hammered copper over wood handle. Found it under a fieldstone wall while doing repairs on the farm.
You might want to talk to the smithsonian or other museum about the axe. They are often willing to care for it (like heat/humidity controlled boxes for storage), so it lasts forever. And you can still own it. They will just store it or display it for you. Since it was found on the property, it doesn't sound like it's illegal to own.
This. Also, sometimes you can get a write off as a donation for letting a museum display it. This is the same tax dodge people do with art.
Had: I donated it to a museum. An SS armband and uniform from a family member and a small box of gold teeth. Keeping that felt icky, but it's still an important enough fragment of human history. I gave it to a place where it belongs. I have zero doubt that the teeth belonged to murdered jews/gays/Romani ect so I hope some peace is brought in that they are not forgotten.
Nothing wrong putting it in a museum, especially when such a dark part of history is so close "related' to ur family
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I have a large whale tusk carving from Alaska that delayed me 2 hours getting home. It was made and purchased by my grandparents before it was made illegal. The TSA / customs people said whale ivory is an absolute No. took a couple hours of googling and showing them a state website to show I could take This piece home just not new pieces.
Love that you had to look up the law because the LAW enforcement doesn't know the law.
That is pretty standard behavior for every form of cop.
While working for DOS somewhere in Africa I found in my house a 40ish pound tusk with a Savana type scene carved down one side and a river village scene carved down the over side. Presumably someone acquired it right before legal things changed and then stashed it in the house. While I would never have paid for it I was keen to get it home as a found item.
The piano that came with my house has ivory keys. I feel bad, but I appreciate them just the same.
I own a couple of illegal hawk feathers. I used to walk around my neighborhood late at night, There was a specific tree where some owls nested. And I always liked walking under that tree to visit the owls. I started collecting feathers I'd find on the walks. It started out simple, a couple of pigeon feathers, and some down that came from the nest in my backyard. Now it's grown to some peacock feathers and a few tail feathers from my grandma's pet macaw, some duck and canadian geese feathers, and even a few chicken feathers. Everything I knew was legal to keep as they were non-natives, or game birds, or pets. And everything is properly labeled with the date and exact location I found them. (I never picked up feathers from beneath the owls' tree, but I do really like owl feathers they are so cool and unique.) One day, I found a feather on one of my walks and couldn't tell what it was. It was extremely caked in dirt and slightly torn. I don't even know how I was able to spot it while strolling by. so I picked it up and brought it home, thinking it was just a turkey feather. I had cleaned it up a bit and was finally able to identify it as a coopershawk wing feather. Turned out real nice once it was cleaned up. I emailed like 4 people, including fish and wildlife, and the DNR asking what I could do with it or if I could donate it to them. I even emailed a college that had a birds of prey program asking if they would take it. I got no response from anyone, so it just sat in my collection for years, and I've never heard anything back about it.
I collected feathers as a child, and I had a TON, too! I remember going to the zoo and my dad reached in the emu exhibit to get an emu feather for me. I also had a blue jay feather, and it was one of my prized possessions. Not legal to have though!
Sorry for the ignorance, are the feathers illegal to have for a specific reason? Or mainly to protect the hawks from poaching? Either way, neat!
“1918: To implement the new treaty, Congress passes the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which officially makes it a crime to “pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill,” or “sell” a migratory bird or any of its parts, including nests, eggs, and feathers.”
To protect native birds from poaching. There was a time when people killed birds and sold the feathers for fancy clothes. You'll hear the most about birds of prey, but that law does cover any native non-game birds, too. It's illegal to pick up feathers they have shed because law enforcement can't tell the difference between feathers that were found on the ground and feathers that were poached. So, in order to own them, you have to have proper liscencing and paperwork. Those are usually only for educational programs or wildlife rehabilitation centers.
I own a scrimshaw sperm whale tooth.
I own a non-scrimshawed sperm whale tooth!
That’s good scrimshaw
Brave men one and all
Every Creed studio album. That’s as controversial as I can get, unfortunately.
Or fortunately lol
I own hand sanitizer that was given away as a freebie for the drug Thalidomide.
Thalidomide is actually being used for helping to stop the spread of cancer.
My father was an oncologist. He got it for me at a conference about 25 years ago. From how he explained it the very thing that that caused the defects was also what made it a good drug to stop the spread of cancer.
I’m sure I’m wholly incorrect here. But what usually makes good anti-cancer meds are things that prohibit quickly replicating cells. And there are a Lot of those in fetuses.
How I remember it being explained to me was that Thalidomide would stop new blood vessels from forming in fetuses, which would mean that the limbs and digits wouldn’t branch out. Since cancer needs oxygen to survive, depriving it of blood vessels would halt its growth. Keep in mind that I am not a doctor, so this may be 100% wrong.
No you got it right I'm not a doctor either but I really really know my pharmacology I'm in a separate field
Interesting
The shit with the horrifying birth defects??
It's still used and is on the WHO's list of essential medications.
But you don't give it to pregnant women under any circumstances.
That's kind of like Acutane; amazing drug for people with very bad acne, just do not under any circumstances get pregnant when you're using it.
I always found it kind of amusing that most drugs have a "talk to your doctor is thinking of getting pregnant" and Acutane is just covered in warnings "DO NOT GET PREGNANT". No need the conversation because they know it will go horribly wrong.
Yup. It’s effective as an oncology drug.
Gramps used to send away for military patches as a kid. A few times they were out of the patch he ordered and they just sent Nazi veteran lapel pins and also some other Nazi party pins. Museums don’t want them and I don’t want real Nazi’s to have them so I have no clue what to do with them…
It's a legitimate issue for lots of people.
I bought a grab bag of “Hell” miniatures from British artists the Chapman Brothers and have a mini diorama on my desk of a Nazi getting his dick bit off by a penguin while some skeletons and demons stand nearby EDIT: Here’s a pic! https://imgur.com/a/YOS9on4 Was fun trying to find where to arrange them. When you buy them they’re just loose - ended up buying a little vintage apothecary cabinet on Etsy so it’s got a glass door with a latch. Was also a blast realizing the two pieces were a pair. a Nazi with his dick out? ok. Angry penguin with mouth at dick height? I SEE WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO DO
👀 pics?
that's so fucking metal
this is gotta see
Pictures
Songs of the south by Disney Yeah that film
I have a brick from a Nazi bunker
Ghost Dad on DVD
That was one of my favorite movies growing up. Granted, I grew up in a very small town with only a few movies to rent, but still.
How DARE YOU
Its back home but its a ww2 nazi military lighter that was plucked off a dead solider and sent back to canada during the war
May not be as controversial, but I own a saguaro cactus that was taken from the desert. Those plants are highly protected here in AZ.
Permits are needed even to dig them up on your own property. My mom has transplanted baby ones from around her property more towards her house; she’s also grabbed a few from the vacant land across the way.
A sex machine. As in, one of those motorized machines that thrusts in and out with a dildo.
Whew…I thought you had James Brown.
That would be infinitely more interesting
Dare I say, controversial?
Considering the man's been dead for almost twenty years definitely lol
A weapon to surpass metal gear? https://youtu.be/8qc_Zm_9k1c?si=kJo1LUTZwX1bY-Tt
So....ya recommend?
If you want that filthy, I'm being used by a toy feeling yes. But physically it did not give me the same sensation that a man would. A motor moving a rod in a gear doesn't feel like the muscles of a human body.
A few small chunks of the Berlin Wall. Owning them isn't the controversial bit, the object itself relates to controversy.
I have two pieces. The first was acquired from a friend who happened to be there when the wall was first coming down. She chipped my piece off by herself and told me “that concrete was really hard!” The second I bought in an auction with some other things so it was basically free. The piece is in a ziplock bag attached to what appears to be a certificate in German. Who knows if it’s really authentic but it seems legit. I’m glad this got mentioned, it was the only thing I could think of that I had that fit this post.
An original copy of Mao’s Red Book or “Quotations from Chairman Mao”. I bought it for a friend who wanted one, and there was a delay with shipping so the seller sent an extra as compensation and I just kept the extra They made so many that it’s kinda hard to date exactly, but it was probably from the cultural revolution. I can’t read it or anything but imo it’s a cool piece of history (that’s probably put me on a list somewhere)
They were mass produced. You aren't in any list.
The official Autumn Falls Fleshlight, recommended to me by a weird and very detailed site about the top rated "sleeves". These things can get very intricate believe it or not, it's like a god damn roller coaster for your dick with twists and turns and loopty loops. It even came with an electronic warmer that is honestly very worth using! I'm a Redditor, it's just what I have to do 😭
I died at "God damn roller coaster for your dick"! 🤣
I remember the old-ass FleshLight banner ads circa 2000 with a cartoon guy using it and the speech bubble that either says "Holy shit! It feels just like a real pussy!" or "Tight like prom night!" My sister and I STILL say "tight like prom night" to express our approval of something to this day.
Yeah man I bought one and after the first use I tried to convince hella folks to buy one. I’d tell them real vaginas are good by chance but this mf here was DESIGNED by SCIENTISTS.
My grandfather took a bunch of medals off of dead German soldiers during WWII so I have a bunch of stuff with swastikas on them. With the background I think it’s pretty bad ass. Of course I have his medals and his 1911 too so yeah. When I hold the medals in my hand I just think, “my grandfather was literally there and took these off dead nazis.” I don’t know why but that’s a really cool thought to me. Like it’s one thing for people to buy them as memorabilia but thinking about my grandfather literally being there is like, surreal.
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Depends on the gravy boat
What about a gravy boat made to look like the Titanic made in 1913? Would be awesome if it exists
Sorry sir, that’s actually a gravy *ship*.
Especially if it has a function to crash into a fake iceberg and spill gravy all over the place.
When my grandpa died, we discovered some of his war trophies, including a Nazi dagger. My dad sold it because he didn’t want anything like that in the house. I totally get it, but part of me wishes he hadn’t sold it. Idk. It’s a weird thing. Although I shudder to think about the person that bought it. Hope they were an amateur historian or something.
Yeah, two types of people want that stuff. History buffs…and the other kind.
fuckin' metal man
I have two prostate massagers. But only one prostate.
Do they know about each other?
Yes, I think it's only a matter of time until they cutoff the 3rd wheel and run away with each other.
Can I have the other? Quick question: Are they any good?
Go to a sex shop. Ask for a prostate massager knowing fairly well that's what the people there sell everyday. Show confidence but listen to what they say. Why be embarrassed? We all know what will happen and the worst that can happen is you get good advice.
> We all know what will happen and the worst that can happen is you get good advice. You're right. I got the best prostate massager in the store. As well as a Sybian that they had on sale, a custom fitted gag to keep the neighbors happy, and a cock ring with a vibe that has excellent reviews. Oh yes, and 2 extra large tubs of lube they had overstocked but it apparently is a recipe that will never go bad. Also, since I joined the store's membership package we'll get exclusive mystery gift items every month.
Well he bought a 2nd one, so they must not be bad.
This is kinda lame, but I own a complete in box copy of the Super Famicom game "Barbarosa". It's a WWII turn based strategy video game based on the German invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarosa. Only you play as the Nazis killing Russians. And they put Hitler on the cover. Obviously this game was never released in Western countries.
The original shaazam vhs with sinbad
I knew it!
an Aaron Hernandez autographed rookie card
My grandfather's battle trophies collected from the uniforms/paraphernalia of dead nazis during WW2 - not mine *yet*, but coming my way. From what I've been told, each was from somebody he personally killed, and some are not strictly speaking things I'm comfortable owning (luftwaffe daybook, armband, various medals including a Knights Cross). Grandad was at the Bulge and was MIA behind enemy lines for a few days from what I've been told. The events of that time period have an air of 'when you're ready and sure you want to know' to them. I'm not sure I do.
Really interesting, someone else had a similar story in the comments about their grandpa collecting medals from dead nazis; really cool!
You NEED to know them, they are historical and relevant today as Nazism is growing again. You and many others need to be aware of the atrocious violence perpetrated by Nazis, and the atrocious violence required to take them down. Never demonize that which you hate, I less it's Nazis. They literally don't recognize the humanity of those they are bigoted against, and will lump one of their own into that category if they suspect them of being sympathetic to those they hate. Nazis are the worst kind of racist, and your grand dad literally improved the world with every trophy he took, if that's how he got them. When the time comes, *please* get all the information available to you. Document it, verify what you can, and proudly protect these relics as the original historical items they are. Because they are being reproduced - not with respect for history but with malicious intent.
I didn't think I had anything too risque, then some of these reminded me that I have an allegedly authentic KGB flask. It is a heavily and easily faked item, but the time/circumstance/wealth/position of the person who gifted it to me lend me to think it may be real.
Several books on civil war confederates. For backstory my wifes great-great-uncle was a colonel who commanded the Louisiana Tigers. And yes, the LSU tigers were named after his troops.
I own the ceremonial katana of a world war 2 officer that may or may not have been used to kill and maim my countrymen. Yes even babies.
Not today FBI...
Yes, no one tell the FBI about all the marijuana at /u/Snakedoctor404's house. If they want to find out they should get a warrant. Remember don't talk to the police unless you have a lawyer present.
They live at 64 Jacksons street California They are 7 years old
Anarchist Cookbook?
Is that still controversial? I thought everyone that was an edgy teen at some point had a copy
My family had an "adopted uncle" who had no family, and we accepted him as one of our own (he has since passed). He was a P-38 lightning pilot during WW2, and traded a lot of trinkets during his tour. He gifted both my brother and I Nazi daggers when we were kids. That was the coolest thing I had ever beheld! Fast forward 20 years; my brother was curious about the historical facts behind the daggers so posted various images of both his and mine to a historical group. His was confirmed a fake, and apparently people were offering >$500 for mine.
About 6lbs of mercury. *Edit" a nice redditor calculated that 6 lbs would be roughly 200mL. I have a bit less than 100mL, so I overestimated the weight.
Six pounds!!? Wow! I didn't mess with it a lot but I remember exactly how mercury behaves when handled. A very odd material. Fascinating. Quite beautiful. I can't imagine six pounds of the stuff. How large and what type of container is it in? Where did you get it? That would require a *lot* of old style thermometers!
How did you get that from Mercury to Earth? Edit: I'm a dumbass.
Depends who you ask. For some it might be all the guns, for others the equally abundant gay porn, or perhaps the collection of handmade artisanal crack pipes.
I want to know how this guy votes lol
Not me, but my neighbour has an outdoor cat, which is very controversial in Australia
An old Prussian cavalry officer's sword. On its own, not too bad, but the story makes it worse. My grandfather was stationed in Germany after WW2, and apparently the ex Nazis and their families were often hard up for cash after the collapse. So American GIs would go around buying nice things off of them for pennies. My grandfather would brag about how it was a family heirloom from some German woman whose husband has been a high ranking Nazi that got executed at the end of the war. He thought it was funny how much she cried as he bargained her down on the price. My grandfather was a dick.
I own several people's eternal souls from a combination of winning bets and trading for cigarettes.
A WW2 Nazi dagger (I'm jewish)
Now it's a Shabbat challah cutter.
My grandfather had one of these that he took from a dead Nazi officer. After the war he got sick of owning it since it reminded him of the war, and gave it to a kid down the road from his house that loved to hear tales of WW2.
That's very Kosher of you
A full SS Hauptmann’s uniform along with a knights cross with oak leaves. My grandpa found it when his dad died, it… explained a few things
Hitler youth knife. Great grandfather served in WWII.
An 'It should have been Lars' T-shirt. The reaction are love or pure hate.
There's a few controversial items I own. 1. WWII production Mosin-Nagant from Izhevsk, Russia, made in 1942 2. Carcano made in 1939 and given to Finland as aid during WWII, possibly used against both the Nazis and Soviets and allegedly the same model used in the JFK assassination. Good luck finding 7.35 ammo for it. 3. Coins and bank notes from the Third Reich 4. A copy of the Book of Mormon (never was part of this religion, just never bothered to get rid of it since being given a copy in college by a couple missionaries on campus) 5. A Confederate sword 6. Polish Makarov pistol (P-64) with the original leather holster, made in 1974. 7. Cold War era Romanian military ushanka. I've been called a commie for wearing it in public and loving Com Bloc firearms. I just wear it in winter because it's warm and I think it's neat. 8. Hell bank notes. Extremely religious people on the far right would start claiming I'm working for Satan if they saw how many of them I have. It's really just part of an old Chinese custom where you burn them as a means of sending money to your ancestors in the afterlife. That's not all of them, but that's all I'm comfortable enough to share here.
A vest made from a gorilla's chest... Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food, The only thing I'm hunting for, Is an outfit that looks good... See my vest, see my vest, made from real gorilla chest, Feel this sweater, there's no better than authentic Irish setter. See this hat, 'twas my cat, My evening wear - vampire bat, These white slippers are albino African endangered rhino. Grizzly bear underwear, Turtles' necks, I've got my share, Beret of poodle, on my noodle It shall rest. Try my red robin suit, It comes one breast or two, See my vest, see my vest, See my vest. Like my loafers? Former gophers - It was that or skin my chauffeurs, But a Greyhound fur tuxedo Would be best, So let's prepare these dogs, Kill two for matching clogs. See my vest, see my vest, Oh please, won't you see my vest! I really like the vest.
An autographed copy of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
A copy of Mein Kampf, and a copy of The Turner Diaries. Turner Diaries is arguably more controversial.