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17 Mar 2016, 11:51 pm

I have my original specimen july 20, 1969 Tacoma news tribune newspaper with a 72 point banner in front, "THEY DID IT!!"

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18 Mar 2016, 12:23 am

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Also, 'raptor leggings may be unusual, but now I want a pair so bad...

This is the pair I have:
https://society6.com/product/raptors-p6g_leggings#56=417

They have different ones on this site as well.

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18 Mar 2016, 12:24 am

A 5ft sock monkey. I already kicked him out of bed for taking up too much room. :mrgreen:

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18 Mar 2016, 12:25 am

I also have packed away someplace, the last Tacoma news tribune printed December 31, 1999.

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18 Mar 2016, 12:27 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I also have packed away someplace, the last Tacoma news tribune printed December 31, 1999.

Those are so amazing!

When I was in school (a few decades back, before the fall of print newspapers) I discovered the library's newspaper & magazine archive that went back to 1907 (+1906 in the special collections room). I would disappear for hours.

Five years ago I was helping my dad remodel a kitchen and realized there would be a space between the corner cabinets that would not be found until the kitchen was remodeled again. Just before the countertop went on, in went a copy of each of of the city's papers for that day. Likewise, in another house I helped work on, one of the 100 year old walls now has about 100 AOL-era (ie mid-late 1990's) internet access CD's sealed in layers of plastic, waiting for someone to discover them.

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18 Mar 2016, 2:29 pm

^^^hopefully they will be rediscovered in favorable times.

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18 Mar 2016, 5:22 pm

I have a dead starfish, which I keep at my Dad's house. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and even he doesn't know how, when, or where we got it.

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18 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm

- A silver Superman ring purchased in NYC in 1994. It's been on my finger for 22 years now.

- A rectangular plaque with miniature Ethiopian musical instruments affixed to it.

- My Peace Board.

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18 Mar 2016, 5:47 pm

^^^EXCELLENT :star:

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19 Mar 2016, 9:06 pm

I have a replica gold-pressed latinum set. It's the Ferengi currency on Star Trek.

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19 Mar 2016, 10:18 pm

^ Nice!

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19 Mar 2016, 10:22 pm

nick007 wrote:

I have a replica gold-pressed latinum set. It's the Ferengi currency on Star Trek.

That's unusual, all right.

And pretty neat. To this day when I read it, I hear Quark's voice...

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19 Mar 2016, 10:33 pm

Edenthiel wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I have a replica gold-pressed latinum set. It's the Ferengi currency on Star Trek.

That's unusual, all right.

And pretty neat. To this day when I read it, I hear Quark's voice...

The molds that made em were made from actual props. I had to buy the brick separately thou. It was from a seller on eBay who sold TV & movie memorabilia.

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20 Mar 2016, 12:52 am

The purpose of the Universe, as described in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan. It's an odd piece of metal. I keep it on my desk to remind myself to keep things in perspective.

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20 Mar 2016, 12:55 am

a headphone that has a bass actuator element in it [powered by batteries] that is akin to a subwoofer for headphones. it basically makes my head shake a bit on bassy music.

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31 Mar 2016, 2:10 am

Bose QC25 noise-cancelling headphones.

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