Erimus74
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They'll be priceless Norfolk, keep reading em mate
What is the coolest thing you own?
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Sammysmiths
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My Gulf war and Former Yugoslavia medals
gregorgregorovich
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A 1990's Parker pen used by our Dad at the many quizzes he went to. As a keen quizzer myself, it was the only thing of his I wanted when he died in 1996. Don't use it that often, but it still works to this day.
Wonderful story
Zoophonic
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Yes. On her leg.Way above Jacobs Ladder.
You know where that is dont you
I don't have them anymore but back in the 80s I worked on a tunnel boring machine project that was " supposedly to be " ( another story ) the solution
to ridding the eastern suburbs beaches of Sydney of it's sewerage problem. That being, the sewerage being amongst the swimmers on
the popular beaches of Bondi and Manly.
The idea was to take the sewerage 4.5 ks out to sea.
After reaching the end of tunnel boring and the TBM had been removed, we then had to locate the diffusers that had been drilled through the ocean floor
and alongside the tunnel that had just been built.
During this process and to our amazement, we came across numerous fossils of reeds and ferns with acorns on them. Keep in mind, that we were 4.5ks
out at sea and under 50m of ocean and another thirty metres of solid rock.
My wife was always bitching about the large bag of fossils that I kept at the bottom of her wardrobe and so when I started working on the Sydney harbour
bridge in 90, and daily walked past a geological museum at the Rocks, I popped in and told them my story and asked if they would be interested in taking them.
The guy was " blown away" with my story and would be thrilled to have them.
They had zillions of specimens from all over the globe but needless to say, no one had seen such fossils as these, due to where they had been located.
About a year later, I received a letter from the museum. They had done tests on them and found that they were three hundred million years old and because of
my fossils, they now had a much greater insight of the eastern Australian coastline and the rise in the ocean as well as the amount of sediment deposited over
the last three hundred million years.
Knowing all this and if I still had them, they undoubtedly would be my coolest things.
to ridding the eastern suburbs beaches of Sydney of it's sewerage problem. That being, the sewerage being amongst the swimmers on
the popular beaches of Bondi and Manly.
The idea was to take the sewerage 4.5 ks out to sea.
After reaching the end of tunnel boring and the TBM had been removed, we then had to locate the diffusers that had been drilled through the ocean floor
and alongside the tunnel that had just been built.
During this process and to our amazement, we came across numerous fossils of reeds and ferns with acorns on them. Keep in mind, that we were 4.5ks
out at sea and under 50m of ocean and another thirty metres of solid rock.
My wife was always bitching about the large bag of fossils that I kept at the bottom of her wardrobe and so when I started working on the Sydney harbour
bridge in 90, and daily walked past a geological museum at the Rocks, I popped in and told them my story and asked if they would be interested in taking them.
The guy was " blown away" with my story and would be thrilled to have them.
They had zillions of specimens from all over the globe but needless to say, no one had seen such fossils as these, due to where they had been located.
About a year later, I received a letter from the museum. They had done tests on them and found that they were three hundred million years old and because of
my fossils, they now had a much greater insight of the eastern Australian coastline and the rise in the ocean as well as the amount of sediment deposited over
the last three hundred million years.
Knowing all this and if I still had them, they undoubtedly would be my coolest things.
BigAl76
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That IS cool.
American_Mary
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1913 Epsom Derby Racecard.
My Grandad's USAF and RAF wings from WW2, he was the youngest pilot to obtain both at the time
Original artwork from Elbow's 'Seldom Seen Kid' album plus a couple of personal pieces commissioned by the same artist.
A brand new piece of earth from a volcano in Iceland.
My Dad's England 'C' training top
A signed photograph of Pele to Wilf Mannion
Signed first edition of 'The Damned United'
A still boxed Franck Muller 'Crazy Hands' watch
There's probably some other bits and bobs that are equally cool kicking about but those are the things that spring to mind.
My Grandad's USAF and RAF wings from WW2, he was the youngest pilot to obtain both at the time
Original artwork from Elbow's 'Seldom Seen Kid' album plus a couple of personal pieces commissioned by the same artist.
A brand new piece of earth from a volcano in Iceland.
My Dad's England 'C' training top
A signed photograph of Pele to Wilf Mannion
Signed first edition of 'The Damned United'
A still boxed Franck Muller 'Crazy Hands' watch
There's probably some other bits and bobs that are equally cool kicking about but those are the things that spring to mind.
I was contemplating saying my wife was the coolest thing that I owned but thought better of it.
I could just hear her reminding me " YOU DO NOT OWN ME !
NoloBoro
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The Falklands? MaybeI have a metal minefield warning sign from the Falklands. Also has a terrific aged look about it.
Legitimately 'aquired' off a Para (god knows where he got it from)
NoloBoro
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Staggering 300 million years.
Big_Nothing
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You sir, are a legend.
I've spent many, many hours of my life since the pub opened staring at that piece in varying levels of inebriation.
It really adds something to the pub and I have told your story to many folk over here in Hanoi when we talk about our respective homes.
My favourite by South Banksy
Big_Nothing
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A prototype Boro shirt that was part of a vote and as such was never actually worn by us.
A boro shirt from the opening of the Riverside.
Batistuta Nintendo Fiorentina shirt.
A 70's Japanese portable turntable.
A copy of a Wong Kar Wai book, I'd love to have it signed somehow.
A copy of Ali Brownlees autobiography which has a message from him congratulating me on a personal success.
A pair of vintage persol ratti sunglasses which completely unbeknownst to me became worth a hilarious amount of money.
And either my Honda 67 or Royal Enfield Classic 500.
All of these things have random levels of material and sentimental worth to me and I enjoy the random bits and bobs I and others have picked up over the years. Some really cool stuff on here, great thread.
A boro shirt from the opening of the Riverside.
Batistuta Nintendo Fiorentina shirt.
A 70's Japanese portable turntable.
A copy of a Wong Kar Wai book, I'd love to have it signed somehow.
A copy of Ali Brownlees autobiography which has a message from him congratulating me on a personal success.
A pair of vintage persol ratti sunglasses which completely unbeknownst to me became worth a hilarious amount of money.
And either my Honda 67 or Royal Enfield Classic 500.
All of these things have random levels of material and sentimental worth to me and I enjoy the random bits and bobs I and others have picked up over the years. Some really cool stuff on here, great thread.
