I collect mobiles (the sort that hang from the ceiling).

When I was a kid I collected collector's spoons. This can't be that odd a hobby considering how many frigging collector's spoons there are out there, but I never met anyone else who collected them. I don't think I currently have any particularly odd hobbies.

I like to pluck hair

I used to do leathercraft when I was a kid, which I think is rather uncommon, but I got rid of all the tools several years ago.

My mom and my grandma used to collect spoons, too!

Yours or other people's?

my own

I like to etch mirrors too.

I like to read about and study about and have an odd sort of fascination with death, forensic science, serial killers, strange and bizarre and taboo sexual practices and monkeeeeees.....not that any of these things are actually odd...to me....but maybe some folks might think them odd things to be interested in.

yours or other peoples?

Not really.

Uncommon... hmmmm... not really. I think I'm a bit odd, but I can't point my finger at any particular thing that makes me feel that way. I guess it's a bit unusual for a married couple to prefer to live with other unrelated adults rather than living by themselves or with family members- but that's more of a life-style thing than a "hobby."

Not any more. I used to collect weird things; motel montage postcards with a picture of a room, a picture of the lobby, the dining room, the pool, the motel from a distance...

Those promo pictures that all bar bands seem to have, professionally done, they use them in press kits, for advertising gigs etc. Some of them are pretty funny. One is like a low-rent Kiss tribute band with really cheesy costumes. Another one is a Country Lounge Duo standing in a field, each with a foot up on a tractor, one holding a guitar, the other a banjo. Even just the straight forward Heavy Metal bands or New Wave bands are pretty funny. They are always trying so hard to look sexy, cool and tough at the same time.

I used to have an enormous collection of rare and unusual skin mags. I don't think that is an uncommon hobby, what was odd about it was the sheer volume. I estimated once a total value of about $4000 (original cost). The real value would have been much higher. I had some European fetish magazines from the early sixties that were in mint condition. I had been collecting them since I was about 9 years old. (My parents were pretty open minded about it) I made the mistake recently of entrusting them to a friend. He didn't take very good care of them. Most of the covers were off, and they were pretty trashed when I got them back. I wound up tossing them in the dump.

I also have a collection of those religious tracts that you find on bus seats or get from people on the street.

What do you use to etch the mirrors? Fluorspar (CaF2)?

I'm currently working through a chemistry exam paper and I've just learned about etching glass using halides of group II

I don't know if you would consider my hobbies odd or not. I collect childrens' books and porcelain minatures that you get out of Red Rose Tea-I've been collecting the minatures since I was a teenager.

Corpse

It's called Armour Etch.
Let's see...the bottle says it has Ammonium/Sodium Bifluorides

you and SueBee both...my own

Yes - Sodium bifluoride - that's a group II halide - in fact it's the exact one my exam was asking about! Thanks Oscar, that means I've got at least one answer right!

Glad I could help

Well, probably walking round taking fotos of old houses and stairway-streets. Also probably liking to enter info in personal databases (FileMaker) at home (my biggest database is on Herbs/Healthfoods/Ethnic foods.

Uncommon maybe for my age. I haven't met any other fourteen-year-olds that find great joy in having more than a thousand pages worth of their adventure series.

I collect bat stuffed animals.
I read and study about serial killers.
I write letters to politicians.
I don't think these things are odd, but they are probably not common.

sure

how many years in a row are you going to be 14 years old?

Collecting viewmaster reels
Collecting the soles of shoes washed up on the beach which I work into sculptures at times.
I hang furniture from the ceiling. I probably do a ton of unusual things; I suppose my entire metaphysical way of going about everything is unusual.

Perhaps till wurlitzers stop spinning swing and beat poets poets get published.

hey
i'm going to get published?
(not!)

1. i collect beers
2. and stickers, doesnt matter what they say, i stick them everywhere.
3. i collect rare unusual books and then don't read them.
4. survey central
5. the news. npr is one of my hobbies.
6. oh yeah, and occasional odd poetry.

No.

I've been 14 since May 24th 2001 and will be until May 24th 2002.

I used to collect bus and subway tickets.

I used to do cross-stitching but I havn't done it for ages. I say odd because it isn't common amongst men.

My walls were once lined with carefully restored cans and bottles with a database of all the boked duplicates. I traded it all for a clear vinyl of Bowie narrating Peter and the Wolf which I gave away.
I put all my graphics that reprensent lifes moments in vinyl sleeves, boxes, scans, and my journal. One day Id like the centralized & sequenced with an index.
Rare unread books - check.
SC - of course.
NPR - Have you learned to identify the actors doing interviews yet? "Oh, theres that gal who stuffs navy vending machines". ..or watch the stories mutate "Oh, now the vending machine stuffing interview cites specific candy bar brands". It's really depressing to me, knowing I can't trust a shred of radio to be factual these days.
Fortunately, I write at times.

I want to join a band now. I'm also finally considering surrendering to a bit of living through Ultima Online gaming.

I collect cat figurines

ultima!!
my all-time favorite game in the universe was ultima 4
dont know why, if i like those type of games i refuse to play them online. i used to blame it on my dislike for the very idea of online gaming, but now i am playing return to castle wolfenstein online and cant ever get enough. i bought everquest for $45 and never even bothered to take it out of the box after a 1 1/2 years now. let me know if ultima online turns out to be any good.

as far as npr, well, i am just a news addict, and i cant find better news, even if it leanes to one side or is PR tainted. i find i dont listen to music anymore. poublic radio in the moring on the way to work / at work if the reception is good that day / coming home from work, and then bbc news (or possibly the german channel) at home, cause i am sick of american tv news.

It's probably not that uncommon, but I like to make magnets.

My brothers been doing ultima for years. I just spent a couple hours getting starting tips from him. I was reluctant to commit to that much more time online instead of facing people in the flesh.
Even the BBC claimed Bill Gates invented the internet.

I've done that. I get the idea you mean decorating existing magnets though.

how much does it cost per month?

the internet was a natural result of the bbs of the 80s, i never heard anyone claim bill invented it but i am not suprised

Um...I like cutting out magazine pictures. I really don't have any hobbies, let alone odd ones.

darpa was a document exchange for scientists and military folk long before that, before there were personal computers even. 'bb' = back-bone?
$9.95, I hear. I'm planning some alchemist/tinker & alchemist/tailor characters. My brother was a madman. He'd do things like tear up lake terrain back when there were bugs in the lock-down system so he could have a fishing hole in his cabin. After 9-11 he teleported on top of a huge castle with hundreds of dyed sheets and assembled an american flag that could be seen from space. I plan to go there to preach (about a plane called the physical realm?), and maybe have fun dying and shearing llamas, and making magical jewelry... The sort of thing I'd do now, given the chance. I'd love good company. I'm too proud to rely on my brother much during game-time. Besides, he's spends time stalking NPC charcater generation to scalp their occasional rare black sandals. I can't believe the time he spends alone in spite of it being on-line. I'd be playing on the pacifica shard (UO universe clone) which has 20-80000 players (although it only looks like a few hundred to me) so I can visit family (even my ex & son play there).

I do that too. I put together a scrapbook of things that resemble the life experiences I am having at the time.

bbs
bulletin board system

so, is ultima a 3d view or drop-down?
maybe i will play now that i am not so adverse to on-line gaming. who knows though i still have wolfenstein, arcanum of steamworks and magic obscura, wizardry 8, and rogue spear, and everquest all bought and brand new waiting for me to play.
i have been trading all my dumb games for new ones on bills other site www.gametz.com

I sculpt * paint styrofoam names,cartoon figures & holiday objects.Sometimes I give them away & sometimes I sell them.

Anything Beatles & Elvis

Stamps....like the Elvis stamp etc.

Calendars...I'm a calendar fanatic....that's why I love giving them as XMAS presents.

Have an old collection of "High Times Magazines"

Fast Food Restaurant Toys

Miniatures tha tmight catch my fancey at the time.

I'm a Pack Rat I collect way to much stuff for my own good.

I don't really have any odd hobbies. I collect anything and everything that has to do with Coca-Cola. Most of it is boxed up right now, but I'm planning to redo my kitchen in Coca-Cola in the near future. I've been collecting it since I was 11 or 12 and I've got tons of stuff. Weird thing is that I don't even drink Coca-Cola, I like Dr. Pepper.

I also like photos. My whole house is like a photo musuem. I have pictures on every available space of wall. My fiance hates it, but I love it. I have pictures of my family and friends, from when I was little, before I was born, recent photos. I've got some really old photos of my ancestors when they were living in Italy and Germany. My favorite pictures are ones of my son.

My bro does some of those too, but UO is his prime choice. He says the 3D is buggy. You can use the 2D (second age) to play in most of the same areas. The latest coming out allows you 2D or 3D anywhere. By 2D, it's sort of an orthagonal projection, you see tops and sides of building, but not behind them.

I'm fond of Coca-Cola collectibles too.

uncommon? I suppose TSD rally is up there with curling on the list of obscure sports. Depending on how finely you define my volunteer work some of that might be described as uncommon as well.

Oh, collecting! I actively collect historic street maps, foreign coins, and stamps in sheet form, none of which is particularly unusual. But I also seem to accrete certain other kinds of objects without really meaning to; the oddest collection is probably of hotel room keys.

i belive it is buggy. i played ultima 8 recently, a 3d game engine. and it drove me freaking crazy with all the bugs. it was the most error filled program i have ever seen. too bad cause i like ultima and the ultima stories. well, tell me what it is like if you play, and maybe i will try. i know trhe game itself is as cheap as $10 on sale.

Yeah, I have a boom of things I think look cool. I also have a lot of collages.

I steal mens underwear from the laundromat and wear them with a double dildo up my vagina imagining the beautiful member that this garment once restrained. I also "accidentally" enter male public toilets in order to smell the strong scent of man-pee while I imagine the beautiful member that gushed the amber fluid.

I collect souls. signed Lucifer.

a 'boom' of things? (as a car goes boom on TV (smallville)). Did you mean a 'room'?

Oops Actually I meant a book.

ok, I have a few of those, but they're pretty scattered. I hope to bind them in a chronological scrapbook interspersed with diary entries about what the clippings meant in my life.

i draw, study art.im not making this up.pathetic huh?

What's.pathetic.about.that?

That would be cool. Probably a lot of work though.

Yeah, but's it too much of a mess to go through otherwise. It seems to happen on a random basis, and various periods of my life are getting mixed together.

I do that too. Some of my photos have gotten mixed up since when I was little I didn't date them, so now I have to guess the year.

I used to try so many schemes for organizing my photos, then a commercial photogropher pointed out the easiest way was simply to date them in the back with a pencil.

What year in school are you? Do you have plans for college?

ten pin bowling, ferret education, rat education. Whats the definition of a hobby?

lol Yeah, that's what I do. I'm in tenth grade. I have no plans at all for university yet. I mean, I pretty much know I'm going, but I don't know what I want to take. I don't know what I want to be. This is like, the bain of my existence right now, since I just had to choose my grade eleven courses. What classes I take are starting to affect what I take in university, and if I don't know what I'm taking in university, then it is hard to know what I should take in high school.

Rat education! How cool!

Well, not always. We've just got a baby rat that was taught for its first few weeks to be an SAS attack rat He won't go in with any of the big rats - though he's fine with our other baby.

Don't worry about what you want to be. Just take whatever classes you think are interesting. Your college major will sort itself out. High school is much too early to be worrying about a career. Hell, college is too early to be worrying about a career; most people are doing something other than their college major anyway.

My son's in his senior year and hasn't picked a major. I thought mine was going to be architecture since I was five. In HS, a teacher supplanted me into his college computer programming course instead, then I took an art class there too. Those two ended up being my majors.

we have 4 rats... 1 boy, and 3 girls. The girls are fine together, the boy of course we keep separate!

Wise idea

Odd? No. Is SC odd? Is reading odd?
Writing and playing are not "hobbies" even if I don't get paid.Not yet.

I like astrology and psychology...role-playing games...(but it's been ages...I want to get back to play.)..but nothing ODD,sorry

Is having a fascination with death odd? Oh.

The only uncommon hobby I can think of is flying. I am a private pilot and sometimes I just get up in the air to get away from it all and relax.

I collect Piglet stuff.

wow!

Your not the first person I've met with a piglet collecting fetish. I think it's quite cool, even though I haven't the slightest inspiration to do it myself. My boss , a vp at the united way, used to check up on people wearing a striped tee-shirt that matched the one on his piglet puppet he'd talk to you with. What a blast, having a piglet say "how's that report coming?", and then if he had any opinions about something, he would discuss it with the piglet in front of you. It was all good natured though.

I collect Hello Kitty stuff, which is unusual for someone my age.
I like to read about anything relating to the medical field- even though I have no plans of ever having a career in it. I think I just find it facinateing, and I like to know about something if I or a loved one get it.

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