I am WELL versed in:

Louis L'Amour
Luke Short
Max Brand
Zane Grey
Edgar Rice Burroughs

As a freshman in HS, I was 4'11 and 96 lbs. Literature was my escapism...so naturally, macho cowboy books. ALL very well written. And Edgar Rice Burroughs... enough said.

If you want an all encompassing book, with a strong philosophical undertone, research "The Second Son" by Charles Sailor.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very intriguing book
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
This is the third or fourth copy of this book I've bought - it's got a great, compelling story (which is why I tend to give it away). It's a novel about an ironworker who, saving his partner's life, falls 24 stories to the Manhattan pavement, and arises untouched. He then finds he has the ability to heal others by touching them - the Catholic Church (and other Christians) freak out, they take sides about Who This Is, while he just wants to live a normal life. The Vatican proclaims him the Second Son, but he wants none of it ... a very intriguing book, with lots of twists and some powerful spiritual insights that do NOT get in the way of a very good story. Buy it. Read it.

Charles Sailor....got it and thanks, love to add new to me,:thumb:

Those cues would look nice gracing my Gold Crown 1:thumb:

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Steins
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That's a nice Brunny. Haven't seen like that in decades.

Or is that a new one with retro-styling?

With all the ways to listen to music so many are dumping their CD's. I still listen to CD's so been gobbling them up at thrift shops/yard sales the last few years, never spending over a buck a CD, have over 10,000, which is a collection.

So what kind of music do you play? I'm into the rockabilly and some gypsy jazz but no one plays that here in SE Kansas. I've been asked to join a blue grass band and we had a couple of gigs lined up, but then corona.

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Haha! Last time I dragged a bass home the wife was like "They aren't stray dogs!"

I'm good a collecting other people's junk. Mostly consisting of

- broken arcade circuit boards
- broken Mercury L6 outboards

Was fixing stuff for a long time and just got bored with it. Can only fix the same thing wrong on Williams Defender/Stargate/etc. and Atari Tempest/Asteroids/etc. or put together an outboard motor before it gets tiresome.

The arcade thing is showing interest in returning. The old outboard stuff isn't; people don't want to mix oil and gas together and have to turn a screw on a carburetor. Plus the ethanol is horrible on stuff made in the 70s and 80s.

Buy high and sell low (or fill your house with junk)...

A BCM with bocote handle:
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A pic of some of my cues about 25 years ago. Don't even remember what they all are anymore. I do know that the second one from the bottom is a Meucci DH, the third one is a D. Albrecht custom (honey maple handle), and the third one from the top is one of my J. Pechauer Customs. The cue at the top is definitely my old Muecci Hi-Pro 3, the luckiest stick I ever played. Not worth a whole lot (maybe $600?) but won more money and more league championships with that stick than all my other sticks combined:

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GI Joe figures. 3 & 3/4, not the 12 inch.

ROFL :thumb:

I also collect books, magazines, greeting cards. All kinds: tons of children's books, art, art history, design, typography, travel/geography/culture mags like National Geographics, pictorial encyclopedias and loads of cooking magazines plus books. Then there's the books solely for reading, such as history, politics, economics, history, health and nutrition. Of course, except for the political/economics,history, health/nutrition— it's mainly for the graphics and pictures. In art school we were told to create a large file of such things, but I hardly have any more room. It's time for a major expunging.

61' out of a private home in Virginia, never commercial, got to see it broken down for first time and all timbers/rails/slate had never been apart.
I had new black diamond rubber (original rubber was still on her) and fresh cloth laid. Doesn't play quite as quick as I'd like but still quality.

Absolutely beautiful group of cues you've collected, I love the Meucci's.
I actually use a snooker cue I grew up with on Australian full size snooker tables, have never been able to make the change to these massive tipped american style pool cues....but do have a super nice old McDermott D-11 I'm going to get tapered down one day so I can give it a whirl.

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Hats. I collect hats.

Shot glasses and a little bit of Chiefs and Royals memorabilia.

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Nice table. And thanks for the compliment.

D-11s are nice cues. My very first cue was a McD. What they call a Freshman now I think.

I've always been a Meucci fan; my second cue was a Meucci, an 84-4, IIRC. Fell in love with the taper and the balance. It was a real bummer for that 15 or so years when their quality went to absolute ass. Was so glad when Bob came back and got re-involved in the production side of the business. That's when I started buying BMCs.

I began playing around 11 years old. Always migrated to the bass. I mean, I also play guitar and piano - but was always interested in the Bass.

Played in a few garage bands up until I was 17 and went into the Army. Always kept a bass close, though. Too damned old to play with a band these days..... :(

These days I collect - mainly for the tonal qualities of the wood -They give a bass a nice percussive tone. Harder woods include Hard Maple (or Rock Maple), Ebony, Walnut, Paduak, Wenge, Koa and Rosewood. Rosewood is a commonly used wood on the fingerboards of bass guitars and my favorite is Purple Heart. That wood seems to sustain for years. :)

fly rods and guns

Moved my vinyl collection over to the new place personally. Now just waiting for a covid sale on a proper display. I guess what makes my collection unique, outside the fact that it's shit no one but me would ever want to listen to, is that the majority of it is either 1st and/or limited pressings. A good portion was purchased at shows in support of touring or local bands. Good number of test presses in there as well.

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Any carpal tunnel in your hand? :hmmm:

Illuminati New World Order playing cards.

I think I remember iowanian collecting old pulleys.

There are quite a few on Craigslist in kc right now.

This thread proves why Self Storage places never go out of business.

Americans love to collect shit, no matter what it is.

I collect experiences-pure and simple.

When I was young I thought it would be neat to have "things". Then one day I realized it is a giant waste.

Guns. I use them to collect souls

Do you take photos on your outings? Apparently it's "uncool" to suggest group photos while you're out making memories, but I don't want to be the old man with dementia who can't even see pictures of the cool shit I've done.

This is my weakness. What're your top few?

How do you come up with this from my post? :doh!:

Pictures are just pictures and yes they are memories.

Not quite "stuff".

Though the pace has slowed substantially, I collect ex's.

Other than that, I've never had the urge to collect anything other than pics of Jimmy Page from various sources at the time which in hind sight sounds awfully lame. As an avid guitar player I've never had GAS either.

Longest off-season ever.

Currently collecting "final notice"es.....

That sounds stressful.

I have a few firearms and high end wristwatches, but I would hardly say I'm a collector.

I have a collection of pocket knives, probably nearly 200 of them by now. Nothing terribly collectible or valuable, just buy them when I see something interesting or just beautiful.

Have a spent brass collection of sorts. It's very small (less than 50 pieces), but these days it's tough to find brass that isn't 9mm or .223 rem.

There's something about pocket knives that promotes artistic design. Maybe it's the combination of the curves and the metal, and the fact that the handles can be a variety of materials. I've seen a lot of beautiful pocket knives over the years.

"Functional art," I believe is the term. And I completely agree. of course, there's an art to forging any blade, but pocket knives seem to just lend themselves to that kind of expression. Best compromise between carrying size/cost of materials/retail price point I guess.

:huh: I didn’t, I agree with you. I was just trying to start a conversation about making memories.

Golf clubs unfortunately. Luckily I spent a good chunk of change on golf clubs with really good shafts instead of the normal stock shaft offerings that come the set of irons.

Coins,comic books and others.

I collect Canadian quarters...

..I have about 6 of 'em.


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I go to Barnes & Nobles and see records for $30 and $40 dollars that I threw away. I had 4,000 albums from collecting from '66 to about 1995, then I retired and moved to Florida in 2011 and got rid all of them. I cherry picked them and sold the very best to record stores for hardly nothing and many I just tossed out. I moved those records so many times and now with youtube, all I want to do is watch concert videos on my big screen TV and listen to the surround sound. I sometimes regret getting rid of them, heck I still have about 500 CD's and 300 concert DVD's I collected before I discovered youtube. To me it's so much greater to be able to see the artist perform. I just a put a dozen or so videos of tribute bands on 'bands you regret seeing' thread over in media.

If you really take the vinyl serious, here's is the ultimate turntable, the platter floats, only $1400.

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I no longer know anything about pool tables. However, back in 1980 when I built a house in Pensacola I bought a Gandy 8' slate top pool table, the top was 3 pieces each weighed 250 pounds. I paid $1200 delivered and setup and leveled, with cue sticks, wall rack and balls. The seller said about every 3 months he drove to Atlanta and picked up about 20 tables in the box and loaded them on a trailer and brought them back to his home in Pensacola. He had an ad in the classified and he had a couple set up in his home. He told me it was about a $2,000 table at the time, and I had my choice of color, I took a lighter birch wood with a brown felt. I let it go with the house when I sold it two years later. It was nice table, I was always wondering if it was a decent table, it played nice. Here's the only photo I have, this is from 1980.

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Nakamichi turntables -that is all......:clap:

Boxers. I collect Boxer dogs.

Ok but seriously, guitars. This is only a portion of my collection. I'm sure there are other guys on here that have way more, though.

Only things I've ever collected are concert ticket stubs, festival wrist bands, and VIP/backstage passes from concerts I've attended. Got to be pushing close to 1000 by now.

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I have a crate of comics. Nothing really valuable. Just stuff I like from when I was a kid. Mostly Batman. I have probably 15-20 of the recent Batman The Animated Series figures that they've been producing. I have several Victorinox Swiss Army knives and other various knives. I have a few handguns and rifles. And I have 899 Funko Pops according to the website I use to keep track of them. But I don't really collect those anymore. Most of those are from 2013-2017. I used to have over 200 NES and SNES games but I sold them. The price was right.

Fanatics acquires Topps trading cards

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cool!

I'd make a coffee table with matching end tables out of those.

Souls

this isn't all of them, every free corner has a guitar(and a bike), 1 in the kitchen, 2 in the dining room, 2 in the front room, and 5 in my bedroom. I have G.A.S. :D

I have your insurance information.

LOL... that's what I collect.

Moms

I collect watches.

I have about 300 of them.
A Rolex, Tag, Movado, Citizen, Invictus, and a few other brands.

Vinyl records

Tom Hanks collects typewriters.

I collect spaceships... (model spaceships)

I like the NECA horror action figures but I don't own a single one of them. They've made a Jason figure from just about every Friday the 13th. Same with Michael Myers, Freddy, Pinhead, you name it. I always look at them but I never buy. I just don't wanna get started down that road.

But now they're starting to do the Universal Monsters. I saw Frankenstein at Walmart the other day. They're really tryin to get my cash.

Records and Criterion movies.

And apparently birds. Damn finches won’t stop laying eggs.

Beanie caps.

Don't laugh, I look good and tough in them while receiving many complements.

damn it

beat me to it

Collected Pokemon cards 15+ years ago. Wish I continued doing it with the original 152 (assuming you're counting mew & Mewtoo) Also wish I had saved my gameboy color and pokemon games. That was a **** up on my part getting rid of those.

Everything my parents told me to collect is now worthless.

Coins
Baseball cards
Antiques

Yeah and all the bullshit I collected in the 80s and 90s that they ended up throwing away is worth a lot. Some of it anyway.

As a kid I collected sports cards and comics. But that was pretty much every kid from the 70's and 80's. As an adult I collect sports cards and other collectibles of interest.

Skulls and catnip

Neg reps from BEP

LEGO set boxes should interlock with each other so you can build things with them.

Psycho LMAO

Chiefs SB Champion caps . I only have the one but plan on collecting more in the near future.

Shot glasses, scarfs and sunglasses. Now i can start collecting the empty meds boxes from online pharmacy, as i have tons of them. Just a month before new year i started to feel weird and had few different diseases in a raw. I really hope all those health troubles will stay in the past year.

Hotel pens
Mickey Mouse memorabilia
Gas station brands
Books

I have a lot of different collections.

Some of my more interesting things I grabbed up some game used Baseball memorabilia from the 2014-2017 Royals.

The ball Moustakas hit in the 10th inning of Game 1 of the 2014 ALCS.

Second base from innings 1-3 of Game 2 of the 2014 ALCS. Covered in mud, because if you remember that was a raining dreary, muddy day.

Third base from innings 4-6 of the game in 2015 when the Royals clinched the AL Central (has gloved dirtprints on it which I think were from Zobrist sliding into the bag).

The hat Wade Davis was wearing during his heroic Game 6 of the 2015 ALCS

All of the Bobble Head stadium giveaways between 2015-2016 that celebrated the 2 playoff runs.

Moose's batting helmet from Game 1 of the 2016 Regular season vs the Mets (first time with the KC in gold lettering).

A Salvy broken bat from 2016 when he won his first Silver Slugger.

A Moose broken bat from the 2017 season when he broke the Royals homerun record.

I've also always loved football helmets. During quarantine in 2020 I spent a lot of the money I wasn't spending elsewhere on mini helmets. I have the complete updated set for all of the NFL as well as 14 80s/90s throwbacks, all AFL teams original helmets, and the last 11 special Super Bowl Champion helmets.

But my favorite thing I've gotten recently, is an authentic Chiefs Speedflex helmet (That's the kind that a lot of pros wear that has the crush zone on the front/top of the helmet. Darrell Williams is the first to come to mind.) Its beautiful and shiny in its display case. I'd love to get the helmets Mahomes, Kelce, and Hill all wear, but they are hard to find.

I collect money

Yoo

I collect overdue bills. Lots and lots of them. I used to collect speeding tickets but it was too expensive a hobby.
Now I'm collecting weeds. I've got a big collection all around my home. Cheap hobby.