Conference back40::soapbox

	Soapbox smile's		%^)

    Small collection of coins and bb cards.

    
    
    masks (the porcelain kind), key chains, and shot glasses
                                          
    
    

    Who shot at them?

Getting those glasses from the White House, raq?

    Mechanical Banks (that is when my wife lets me)
    
    -M-

    Clowns... I love clowns have a curio full of 'em.. want more.. yes want
    more... more more... smiley faces :-)

    .3
    I have a shot glass from Daytona Beach, FL. If you would like it send
    me your address off line and I`ll send it after Christmas. 

    Skulls
    
    

    Jars of moon beams.

    
    Empty beer cans...one of each.  (Send yours to John Collins @TRO)
    
    :^)
    

| Small collection of coins and bb cards.


	bb, you have your own cards???? How come you never told us???? Sure,
you let SOME boxers know about them, but not ALL! :-)

    bb=baseball
    Ray

| <<< Note 206.12 by TROOA::COLLINS "Cardboard City, a paper metropolis." >>>


| Empty beer cans...one of each.  (Send yours to John Collins @TRO)


	Joan, I just went to a friends party this weekend where he collects
beer cans. He's got 2 full walls of them!

	I collect shot glasses and stuffed aminals. :-)

    
    I am not a card.
    
      bb

    
    .15

    >He's got 2 full walls of them!

    Glen, I'm nowhere near that, but I do have 3 custom-built display
    racks full of them...maybe 150 cans in total. My girlfriend hates
    them.  :^)
    

	Maybe if you would share some of the beer she wouldn't hate them so
much!

	NO, it's all that belching after drinking them  %^)

    
    Small boxes

    guns - to most are in MT
    
    reigstered arabians - soon to be out my back door
    
    dried roses and strawflowers - i've created some really beautiful
         arrangements
    
    silver dollars - safely tucked away
    
    

    
    
    
    I collect old unusual stuff.  Have some military stuff from a few wars,
    have some old toys, some old gadgets.......oh yeah and a few old
    ladies. ;')
    
    
    Mike

    
    Sad memories.   :-(  bb
    

    
    I seem to be collecting grey hairs - raq pointed out a fifth one this
    morning.

    
    
    sorry, dear...but there it was!!! try lightening your hair...they don't
    show up as easily unless you *REALLY* look for them...(ask me, i'll
    tell ya...)
    
    crane...check your mail... :>
    
    -raq
    

    	Just pluck out the grey hairs.
    
    	Voila!  They're gone!

    I collect road kill(s).... Flatten what evers...;) 

    I didn't know you collected what you ate.
    
    

    
    I don't want to pluck them...I want them right up front where I can
    keep an eye on them, else they'll multiply like bunnies!
    
    Maybe I'll go blonde!

    Audio/video electronics...it's an expensive hobby, but it keeps me from
    wasting money on things like clothes and food.

    I collect spores (sp?), moulds and fungus.

    i collectt political buttons, primarily presidential campaign buttons.
    have just over 300 of them and growing. 
    
    

 I'llnevergotoanothermallaslongasIlive

wire coathangers

    
    chele,
    
    you into breaking into cars??? 
    
    ;>
    
    

    
    Aliens, Grandparents, Sand, Strategic Thermonuclear Weapons, 
    Spelling Mistakes, Victims, Peas, Phone Calls, Former World Records
    (mainly Track & Field), Dirty Fingerprints on White Wallpapers, 
    Crowded Places, Holes, Used Camel Lights cigs with Lipstick, 
    E-Flats (Piano), Cliffs, Souls, Moons, 3-lane Streets, Autopsies,
    Vetos, Icelandic Golf Professionals, Eyebrows, Conditions, Flying
    Red Turtoises, Multimedia PCs on Wheels, Cubic Eggs, Toenails,
    
    	just Things to Wonder About.

    
    
    I collect Train Spotters and Stamp collectors, I string um up by ther
    feet and stick spiders & worms to um.
    
    8*\
    

    .29 Not only what I eat, sometime what one can wear! Hate to see that
    good fur go to waste....:)

    Matchbooks, business cards, old books.

    days

    
    .38:
    
    I hear Brit Rail staff have a term for train spotters:
    
    	G A N G Y
    	r n o i e
    	e o   r t
    	e r   l
    	n a   f
          k   r
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              n
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    tropical beaches
    
    (sigh)

    
    oh yeah...thanks for reminding me, ron...i also have a small collection
    of matchbooks, too...most of them are from las vegas casinos, but hey,
    who cares!!!
    
    
    

    I collect Aluminum foil and lint.  I roll them into balls.  I am going to
    open an attraction which people from miles around will come to see.  It
    will be the "See the World's largest Lint and Aluminum Foil Balls".  I
    will sell post cards, t-shirts, and bumper stickers as well as various
    gifts like collectible spoons and varnished wooden clocks with a
    picture of the Lint Ball on it.  I will be rich and retire to a boneless 
    chicken ranch.  Yes, I will. 
    
    Brian 

    
    
    and i'll visit you often at that 'whitecoat ranch'... :>
    
    

    Hey! Careful of razin .46! He also has a great alumin suit to go along
    with that foil collection. Cozzz-mic rays man!! :)

    Now Gerorge, don't be exagerating about my eccentricities.  I have no
    suits made of Aluminum foil.  I have opted instead to have all my
    clothes lined with lead.  
    
    Brian

    
    I collect caps/hats.
    
    
    Re. lint
    
    If you want, I'll send all the lint my bellybutton collects!!!

    
    I just been to the rest room and gathered my own original collection of
    winetts and tagnuts.
    
    If anyone out there has an odd shaped tagnut please let me know.
    
    DUHIGR@REO

    
    
    P.S. I forgott to mention my collection of cat tails.
    
    I've got some real good-ones, my best one is the Tabby tail(its still
    dripping with blood) thats why it my fave.
    
    

    .49 Brian,
    
    Gee. I have the alumin suit myself. I didn't know that there was a lead
    type. Have had troubles with lightning storms. Perhaps the lead types
    will ward off those bolts of fun.

 They're out there...

    
    
    They're in here!!!

    We're everywhere...

    Greetings Earthling!:)

    Hour-glasses, I've always like them.  I have a few unique ones at home.
    They are getting a little hard to find these days.
    
                             DJ

	I bet you've been eyeing the one that they use for, "The Days of our
lives" sitcom.... err... soap opera. 


Glen

    
    **        I bet you've been eyeing the one that they use for, "The Days
    **of our
    **lives" sitcom.... err... soap opera.
    
     Actually I have one that is quite similar to that one but I could
    always use another.
    
         DJ

    
    I have an hourglass.

    	Perhaps you should add a black widow spider to that hourglass
    	collection...

	bodies don't count... unless you want to be put up on a display shelf!

               <<< Note 206.61 by POWDML::LAUER "Had, and then was" >>>
    
    
      **  I have an hourglass.
      
    
    Mz.Debra,
            Is the frame wooden or brass?  I tend to like the wooden, four
    pillar, with darker sand.
    
    
          Or are we talking about your figure?
    
    BTW: I already have an office bash tomorrow night. :^(  I'll have to
    keep an eye open for the next one.
    
                           DJ
    

              <<< Note 206.62 by CSC32::J_OPPELT "Plucky kind of a kid" >>>
                                -< Unique application >-
    
            Perhaps you should add a black widow spider to that hourglass
            collection...
     
    
           NORMAN COORDINATE !

    
    No no, I really do have an hourglass.  But Glen, I thank you for your
    suaveness 8^).

        Full-size  arcade  pinball  and  video  machines  -  makes  our
        "Pinball, Pizza and Beer" parties very successful! :*)
        
        Andy
        

    
    I have a Japanese Pachinko machine.  Just one, tho.

        I  too   have  a  Japanese  Pachinko  machine  -  had  to  take
        photographs of it  before I stripped, cleaned and rebuilt it so
        I'd know what went  where.   Even has the original arcade balls
        with the engraving and the tax stamps.
        
        Andy
        

    
    Me too!  Me too!
    
    Mine's a "Diana".

	you mean that really noisy game??  me too, if you do.

    
    I never realized so many people had Pachinko machines!
    
    I feel all fuzzy and connected.
    
    
    

        Mine's a "Matsuyasangyo", whatever that is 
        

    
>>    I feel all fuzzy and connected.

    try the delicate cycle next time
    
    
    

    .68, .69
    
    i also have a pachinko machine, an all-mechanical one except for the
    lights that come on when a ball wins.  'twas a birthday present in
    1977.  i've got about 750 original engraved balls for it.  had 800 but
    them things gets away from yez, they does.

    I have a pachinko machine too!!!!
    

    Actually, no, I don't. And I doubt if I would want 750 engraved balls,
    I have a bad enough time with chaffing as it is.

    Glenn

dysfunctional pens

Dandelions

(I don't know if I'm collecting wire coathangers, or if they're breeding)


Chele

    ... but after I cut 'em out of my Windows display and paste 'em into my
    catalogue, the bits of glass where I last saw 'em are empty.  And
    there's phosphor dust on the pages.  Can anyone help me?
    
    |-{:-)
    

      >>>Full-size  arcade  pinball  and  video  machines  -  makes  our
      >>>"Pinball, Pizza and Beer" parties very successful! :*)
    
    
    
    cool!  when's dinner???
    
    

>    cool!  when's dinner???
        
        Depends on when you like to eat...
        
    
    

    
    usually before 2000hours...
    
    

    
    RE: 81
    
    
    >  2000hours...
    
    
     That's a long time to go between meals!!!!
    

    
    
    military time, numby... :>
    
    

    I also collect guns much like Gene. I also collect old antique
    postcards. If anyone has any please drop me a line.
    
                           Jon

    always been into Nazi era militaria... Collecting belt buckles
    now.
    
    I stopped over a fellow collector/friend's house on Friday. He just
    acquired one of Hitler's SA tunics.. I shivered when I picked it up.
    
    Chip

    
    
    got to add one more shot glass to my collection on friday...THANKS!!! 
    
    
    :>
    

    What's an SA tunic... sorry not much of a history buff.

>    <<< Note 206.87 by JULIET::MORALES_NA "Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze" >>>

>    What's an SA tunic... sorry not much of a history buff.

Uniforms have tunics (what we would call a jacket) usually below the waist in
length.
The SA was the Sturm Abeitlung(sp?) the German "brown shirts" the first band
of hoodlums that hitler organized. most/many of them were killed by the SS
(Black Shirts) during the "night of the long-knives".

Amos

    <- Amos is righ. More commonly referred to as storm troopers (of the
       non-Star Wars variety).
    
       Actually, a bunch of SA & SS ranking leaders and close buddies
       of Ernst Rohm (a pervert in his own right) were, ummm neutralized.
    
       Chip
    
       

>  <<< Note 206.90 by LJSRV2::KALIKOW "SERVE<a href="SURF_GLOBAL">LOCAL</a>" >>>
>                              -< St�rm Abteilung >-

 Thank you sir.
I always get that scr***d-up.   

    I collect Smith & Wessons, and Winchester "pre-64's"...
    Not a bad collection, I might add...But there have been times that I wish
    a smith was edible..  
    
    I also collect Rolling pins.  yes, the type used in kithcesn..I
    have about 45 now, and I am always buying..so if any body
    out there has any "pins" that are made of glass or are unique
    please dop me a line.  
    
    Sin-te-da 

    Guns and rolling pins, why does this trouble me?

    
    
    	it only bothers me when I'm on the receiving end of one or the
    other....:_)
    
    

    
    
    I collect rare books, stuffed animals, glass animals, and baskets.
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

I collect interesting beer bottles, and recordings by various artists.
I also collect a huge amount of junk off the internet, it's really about
time I did some spring-cleaning on my system!

Chris.

    
    Mostly, I collect dust.
    

    
    
    
    SO, heretoforth Brian will be referred to as Dusty.

Saw a stuffed bison at Brimfield yesterday.  My wife wouldn't let me start
a collection of extremely large examples of the taxidermist's art.

I collect ...

Hey, someone got me - baseball cards.

    
    
    Speaking of collections.....I'm looking for a collectors edition
    Monopoly Game.  Anyone know where I can get one of these, other than
    paying the rediculous price of the Franklin Mint Store at the
    Burlington Mall?
    
    
    Thank you!!
    
    
    Terrie
    

    If you mean the silly one that's built into a wooden
    table/box/gameboard with drawers, and the gold- and silver-plated
    tokens and all, the only places you can get it are from the Franklin
    Mint or from purchasers who have realized just how overpriced they are
    and are trying to recoup part of their wasted expenditure.

    
    {cough}
    
    The Franklin Mint Store ?!?!?
    
    Now you've _got_ to be kidding me! The kings of junk have gone
    retail?
    
    You know, it is getting kinda cold here in hell... :-)
    
    -b

    
    
    I don't want 'that' collectors set.  I want 'any' collectors set
    *except for* that one.  I know there have been three or four different
    ones put out over the last 10-15 years.  I want any one of them.  There
    was one that was built into a plastic spinning board similar to the
    newer version of Scrabble.  There were a few others also.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    Ooh, I have that plastic spinning board Scrabble game.  Much easier to
    play than the standard version.
    
    My Monopoly is the London version rather than the Atlantic City
    version.  Are there others?
    
    

    There are Paris, Tokyo, Rome, and Moscow versions, and probably still
    others.

    There's Monopoly Jr. for the wee capitalist...

    
    
    Where did you get the London Version??
    
    I wonder if every country has their own version??  If I sent some of
    you the cost of the game and shipping, would you buy one for me?
    (I only speek and read English, so that would have to be the language
    on the playing cards.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    
    Yup, we have Monopoly Jr. also, and Quick Monopoly, which is a card
    game.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    I got the London version in...London, yes I did 8^).
    
    
    
    >(I only speek and read English
    
    I notice you left out "write" 8^)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))).

    
    
    :*)  Just for you Hun.  :*)
    
    
    I know.....speAk. 
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

	i saw a monopoly Boston Version at the paper store in leominster.

    The Moscow version must take decades to play and is designed so
    everyone ends up with a huge debt no?

    
    
    	I collect guns. Evil, baby killing assault weapons with bayonets,
    flash hiders, and large nasty lookin' magazines stickin' out of 'em....
    
    
    <drool - drool - slobber - drool>
    
    
    

>    	I collect guns. Evil, baby killing assault weapons with bayonets,
>    flash hiders, and large nasty lookin' magazines stickin' out of 'em....
    
I still think that a Bren gun with a bayonet attached is one of the
most evyl looking weapons around...

Chris.

    
    	I collect CD's ... I have alot of 'em.
    
    	And I'm starting on coffee mugs ... have less than 20, but the
    	collection grows every week.
    

    
    
    
    Hey Shawn...I have a big collection of coffee mugs...
    I'll sell them to you if the price is right....
    
    
    
    
    
    (Unless of course, you're collecting them from other people's offices.)
    :*)))  heeheehee
    
    Terrie
    

    I collect CDs, too, Shawn, but at present I have only two.

    
    	RE: Terrie
    
    	No, these are legally-obtained [IE, bought by me] from wherever
    	I happen to see something I like.
    
    	Whaddaya got ... all kinds of boring floral and animal mugs?  Or
    	do you have cartoon characters, etc.?
    
    	RE: Dick
    
    	Which 2 CD's?  If I had to guess I'd say a Motley Crue and a
    	Metallica.  Am I close?
    

>    	Which 2 CD's?  If I had to guess I'd say a Motley Crue and a
>    	Metallica.  Am I close?
    
I'd guess they bear more interest than those do.

    .121
    
    Both of my CDs are Bank of New Hampshire, Shawn.

 oh i get it - bear interest - ha.  that was a little pun wasn't it.
 i do think it was.

    
    
    
    Shawn...I have mugs from lots of different Electronics companies,
    Snoopy mugs, trade show mugs, university mugs, mugs from travel
    destinations, and lots others.  I have a box of about 40 different
    ones that I finally cleaned out of my kitchen cabinets about a month
    ago and put into the attic.
    
    
    Terrie
    

    I collect dogends, beer bottle tops, the little bits you find in the
    tubes blocking your bathroom sink, toe-nails, the little bits you find
    trapped under your finger nails.
    
    It's all lies... I actually collect beer bottle tops, you see I'm
    saving them up for my kidney dialisys (sp?) machine.

    
    i collect rubber frogs, razor clam shells from newburyport beach,
    and chiquita banana stickers.

Re: Monopoly

Whichever company that is (Milton Bradley or Parker Brothers - I can never
keep 'em straight) used to be based somewhere near Salem, MA, I believe,
and at the museum in downtown Salem there is a permanent exhibit of their
nostalgic memorabilia including the various versions of Monopoly.

    
    Parker Bros. And the museum is the Peabody Essex.
    
    -b

    We have an original Monopoly game (London Version of course !)at home,
    it's pretty cool but showing it's age.

If it's the London version, it ain't original.

/john

    Ok then, I have an original London version of Monopoly at home.

    	My mother and father have many of their toys and games from
    	their childhood.  My mother has her monopoly set from 1939,
    	and a Lionel train set from 1935 (nearly mint condition, still
    	with their original boxes and instruction booklet.)  My father 
    	has an erector set from 1940.  Metal carrying case.  No plastic
    	parts.  The motor still works!
    	

    .133
    
    > My father has an erector set...
    
    Joe, I think you missed out on an obligatory ooh-er there.
    
    I still have my mother's Lionel No. 8 Standard Gauge train set from
    1924.  I have lots of track for it, and it still runs, but the working
    two-color signal light has disintegrated.  Doggone zinc alloy!

My father has an extensive collection of American Flyer model trains and
accessories. I dunno how old they are, I'd guess 40s or 50s.

    Carousel related collectibles. I have numerous limited edition horses,
    collector plates, calendars, and related books on carousel art.

    I collect:
    
    	dust.
    	dog hair.
    	dirty looks.
    	extra weight.
    	my paycheck at regular intervals.
    	junk mail.
    	dirty windows.
    	smelly socks.
    	bills.
    	credit card applications.
    	bad employee reviews.
    	words to live by.
    	unkind references about starting too many new notes.
    	the undying affection of my mutts who don't know any better.
    	trade rags.
    	useless knowledge.
    
    	and lots more...

    re -1
    
    <<< and lots more
    
    
    like meaningless replies to pointless notes
    :)_ss

    > like meaningless replies to pointless notes
    
    feeling a little pointless yesterday?
    

    No, just meaningless.
    -ss

    > No, just meaningless.
    
    I'll bet my meaningless is bigger than yours!
    
    wanna hold 'em up to the light and see?