Prized possessions?

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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,673
    edited September 2020
    Utah Beach where my thumb is down to Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge, town was surrounded by Germans) bottom right.  No clue what he did but I know he was there in some capacity. 
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    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,673
    Very cool cliffy!!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,921
    That’s awesome 
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Those are precious, both of you.

    I can't imagine what it's like to hold that canteen.
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,303
    edited September 2020
    Those are amazing. There are a lot of very interesting prized possessions here. Love this thread.
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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,303
    hedonist said:
    dankind said:
    The lead singer of Pearl Jam went through a brief David Soul phase, too, I recall. 


    :rofl: I literally laughed out loud. 

    GG, I’ll never forget - when David Soul’s album (Playing to an Audience of One) came out, Rolling Stone reviewed it. It said something to the effect of “Make that none, Dave. We just heard the album.”

    I was all about Starsky. We even flirted twice (!) in the 80s :)
    I was perusing the stacks at my local record store today and came across this. Decided not to buy it because, you know, it is terrible. 


  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Smart girl!

    To follow up on close encounters with the Glaser kind, I was around 18 and driving to work.  Had the windows open, music loud, stopped at a light, and he pulled up next to me in this gorgeous Carrera (I actually noticed the car first!).  He smiled, said hi, asked where I was going (work at Bullock's), which department I worked in, said he may stop by.  Never did, of course.

    A few years later, I was having dinner with my dad.  We were facing each other, and Glaser was facing me behind my dad.  We kept making eyes at each other.  I found out afterward about his wife, and felt shitty.

    He's 77 now! :open_mouth:
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,303
    hedonist said:
    Smart girl!

    To follow up on close encounters with the Glaser kind, I was around 18 and driving to work.  Had the windows open, music loud, stopped at a light, and he pulled up next to me in this gorgeous Carrera (I actually noticed the car first!).  He smiled, said hi, asked where I was going (work at Bullock's), which department I worked in, said he may stop by.  Never did, of course.

    A few years later, I was having dinner with my dad.  We were facing each other, and Glaser was facing me behind my dad.  We kept making eyes at each other.  I found out afterward about his wife, and felt shitty.

    He's 77 now! :open_mouth:
    Wow. Two close encounters with Starsky. I wonder if the second time he saw you he remembered you - or you might have just been his type.
    Sad about his wife. Both of his kids were born HIV positive, and his daughter died as well. But his wife's foundation that he headed up for a while has done a lot of great work for pediatric AIDS. He seems like a good guy.

  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,683
    edited September 2020
    the harmonica Hugh Dillon tossed to me in the crowd at a Headstones show in 2018. It was during their song Captain of the Shit Out of Luck, so there's masking tape on the top that just reads "'shit" so he knows which one to use for which song. pretty fitting since he swears like a sailor. 

    been "chasing" the stage-used harmonica since the beginning of the band in 93. one bounced off my hand between my thumb and index finger at a show in 97. 

    usually he just chucks it into the crowd like they throw t shirts at baseball games. he knows me, probably saw that i tweeted about it the day of the show, pointed at me, and fucking baby-lobbed it right to me. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • darwinstheorydarwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 6,670
    Very cool items Cliffy and McGruff.
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,240
    Wobbie said:


    my middle initial is "F"...it can stand for whatever you want.
    So many possibilities....
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • My most prized possession is my 1969 Reggie Jackson rookie that I got when I was 10.
    Picture 
    It's not in great condition.  It's worth the same as when I first got it, lol.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,507

    My dad and I were always very close and discussed politics and history plenty. Somehow he never told me these existed. After he died, my aunt told me about these books. Apparently his high school senior thesis (didn’t know that was a thing) was on Truman. The paper somehow made its way to Truman (teacher or family) with a request to sign these books and postage included for return. He did sign them and send them back and also included the postage as former presidents apparently don’t pay postage, according to his note (which no longer exists).  They were on our shelf the whole time and obviously now mine

    I thought cliffy’s PP would be his pimped out golf cart.
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Wobbie said:

    My dad and I were always very close and discussed politics and history plenty. Somehow he never told me these existed. After he died, my aunt told me about these books. Apparently his high school senior thesis (didn’t know that was a thing) was on Truman. The paper somehow made its way to Truman (teacher or family) with a request to sign these books and postage included for return. He did sign them and send them back and also included the postage as former presidents apparently don’t pay postage, according to his note (which no longer exists).  They were on our shelf the whole time and obviously now mine

    I thought cliffy’s PP would be his pimped out golf cart.
    You said cliffy’s PP, :giggle:
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    edited September 2020
    Not signed, of course, but I nearly kissed the man’s nuts who gave me this, the traveling sales rep for the region where the bookstore I managed at the time was located. As you can tell, I read it instantly. 






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    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,529
    Nut kissing is a very high sign of appreciation....he likely left disappointed.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,991
    Somewhere, I hope, I still have chunks of the Berlin Wall -- broken off of it several years before it fell.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    I can't think of a single prized possession I own lol
    My great Grandma's apple pie filling recipe could qualify, but I have it memorized haha.
    I guess my Great Grandpa's Coleman stove is a prized possession, but not really because I still beat the shit out of it on nearly every camping trip lol
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • darwinstheorydarwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 6,670

    She's a real beaut! I probably shouldn't feel the way I do about her, but she's more than just a lawnmower. :lol:
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,529
    ^^°at ND, she is what they call "a hottie"
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • darwinstheorydarwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 6,670
    ^^^Don't act like you wouldn't take her for a ride.
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • Id ride that like thorough bred stallion
    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,529
    ^^^Don't act like you wouldn't take her for a ride.

    She would make quick work of my less-than-1-acre.  :lol:

    Then she could do the W.o.S.


    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,683
    ^^^Don't act like you wouldn't take her for a ride.

    She would make quick work of my less-than-1-acre.  :lol:

    Then she could do the W.o.S.


    with her W.A....nevermind
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,529
    edited October 2020
    That gal is a champ.  That really should be a victory lap, walking in no shoes in the snow.
    Just thought it was a funny contrast with the lawnmower / Notre Crap Hotties, etc.
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    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,683
    That gal is a champ.  That really should be a victory lap, walking in now shoes in the snow.
    Just thought it was a funny contrast with the lawnmower / Notre Crap Hotties, etc.
    the dude or gal who made her do that should be drawn and quartered. 

    unless, of course, that was her Quick Escape. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,529
    Yeah I think there is a common misconception about the WoS in many cases
    In college I get why it was called that.....but once out of college it became almost idiotic to bring flings to your place if you could go to hers same about giving out numbers.  Take theirs, don't give yours.

    I choose to see her as the champ, here.  
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,303
    Yeah I think there is a common misconception about the WoS in many cases
    In college I get why it was called that.....but once out of college it became almost idiotic to bring flings to your place if you could go to hers same about giving out numbers.  Take theirs, don't give yours.

    I choose to see her as the champ, here.  
    I always preferred to go to my place. I liked being in my own space. Plus - guys sheets :o

  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    GlowGirl said:
    Yeah I think there is a common misconception about the WoS in many cases
    In college I get why it was called that.....but once out of college it became almost idiotic to bring flings to your place if you could go to hers same about giving out numbers.  Take theirs, don't give yours.

    I choose to see her as the champ, here.  
    I always preferred to go to my place. I liked being in my own space. Plus - guys sheets :o

    Not to mention guys' bathrooms.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I’ve never even had a one-nighter. An all-nighter, sure, but I couldn’t be with someone I didn’t know and trust. Not sure if I regret that in hindsight. 

    Nah...I don’t ;)

    But yeah, those fucking sheets and bathrooms!
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