Your Daily Question, Wednesday April 15th. Most prized possession?

Tikay10 · April 2020

Inspired by some of the eye-opening replies yesterday to the Desert Island Discs "luxury" thread, what is your most prized possession?

Family members & house are excluded. This is more pinball tables/cameras/cars/trophies/sporting souvenirs etc.

Photos not mandatory but are encouraged.

avix · April 2020

Tikay10 · April 2020

@avix

I don't know much about cameras but that collection must be worth a good few bob.

For me though, I'll take that Beemer please, what a beaut.

I won't be adding my contribution to the thread and I'm a bit boring, but I have some magnificent books, many of them over a century old & signed by the author. Most are about horse racing & racehorse breeding. I did warn you I was boring.

NOSTRI · April 2020

I used to have an original 1983 edition of The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson, signed by both him and Ralph Steadman, his long-time friend and illustrator of many of his books. It wasn't in print for long and there are probably fewer than 1,000 copies on this planet. Sadly I had to sell it along with the rest of my enormous book collection when I moved to New York in the early 2000s as I was broke and couldn't afford the shipping.

I've moved around so much since then that I've shed most of my non-essential material possessions. These days it would be my David Bowie poster and Vans. He posed for the poster in 1987 as part of a campaign to by America's Libraries to get kids reading. They released a limited-run reprint of it a few years ago and my wife bought one for me for my birthday, since she knows I'm obsessed with him.

The Vans were released as a one-time limited run a while after he died and I couldn't afford them at the time. I saved up for a little while and got some off eBay. I've got the white ones in the middle but I'm planning to buy the full set eventually.

Edit: Just remembered another very cool book I used to have and cherish. Back when I was studying linguistics in my early 20s I hunted down a 1934 copy of the Webster's New International Dictionary because it is somewhat famous for having accidentally included what is known as a ghost word in the entry for "dord." Here's a short explanation I pulled off Google:

The phantom phrase hung out until 1939, when an editor finally noticed its lack of etymology. Spooked, he checked the files and found the original slip: "D or d, cont/ density,” which was actually referring to abbreviations using the letter D. At the time, words to be entered in the dictionary were typed with spaces between letters so “d or d” might have been interpreted as “d o r d.”

Despite having proved its non-existence, it would take until 1947 before Webster’s pages were dord-free.

Sadly that too went the way of Curse of Lono and I don't have it anymore.

stokefc · April 2020

I've got nowt special so I went for this

stokefc · April 2020

stokefc · April 2020

Wow that's a big pic

mumsie · April 2020

stokefc said:
Wow that's a big pic

Yes, photos from your phone come out massive.

Glenelg · April 2020

Not sure how pic will turn out.....its of a set of ww2 airplane plates given to me by an old neighbour who was a fighter pilot during the war. I got to know him as i was doing a lot of running and he asked me for some advice. He was in his 80's at the time but fit as a whippet. Long story short i paced him round a half marathon when he was 86! He lived till he was 98. At his funeral i found out he had earned 2 x DFC's in ww2.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/RgTsuqStm8ebqOJt0A3dQVyxS07eh1ff2tBedbRT1Gq

Itsover4u · April 2020

Holds no real sentimental attachment but it was a blood sweat and tears grind from poker to get the money together in time... So probably my most valuable item because of the effort I put in to make it happen

DoyleBrun · April 2020

Bit boring but I would be lost without my computer given me hours of fun and a little stress playing poker and a little money play on five sites and apart from an initial deposit usually £30ish never deposited again. Paid for a few Xmas's and helped my little girl out when she moved into a new house and have made some real life friends.

VespaPX · April 2020

My health
Material things are worthless without it.

Enut · April 2020

Some fishing gear I was given by my fishing mate who died last year. I had fished with him on and off for 25 years and he was more of a dad to me than my own father was. He left me the pick of his fishing gear so I now have a few rods with his name on them as well as some other bits and pieces that remind me of him including his lucky fishing hat, cheeky **** never told me he had two identical fishing hats, now that's cheating!

Cammykaze · April 2020

My old man's - man purse, can't think of a better way of describing it. Full leather and where I keep money for emergencies.

He was very good with cash and not a bad three card brag player back in the day from what I understand. His bills were always paid and the money he gambled with was always extra, never cutting into savings or daily or monthly expenses.

His son is not quite as good with money however it is a token remainder to handle money better.

Cammykaze · April 2020

VespaPX said:
My health
Material things are worthless without it.

Covered so much ground in so few words

waller02 · April 2020

Been struggling to think of anything that I would class as my prized possession, but there is certainly one thing that keeps me sane and without it I would be back on the ciggies in no time.

Enut · April 2020

waller02 said:
Been struggling to think of anything that I would class as my prized possession, but there is certainly one thing that keeps me sane and without it I would be back on the ciggies in no time.

Showing my ignorance here but WTF is that? Looks like something out of a 1970's Dr Who episode!

TheEdge949 · April 2020

My Dad was a singer and later a compere. He was reasonably successful in that he had residency slots at Jollees (before Mel Scholes got it by working for free) and also at Trentham Gardens. He was able to work for over 50 years and to be fair he was pretty good.

Through him compering I got, as a young man to meet the likes of Sir Cliff, Lenny Henry, Bob Monkhouse, Russ Abbott, Bradley Walsh and a host of other celebs of the stage.

In the mid 80s he made a live recording at Trentham Gardens and it had an initial 1,500 cassettes made. They sold out but Dad never thought to get the master.

When he died in 2016 we decided that we wanted to have him sing as the mourners left the crematorium so we desperately searched for a copy. We found one but the quality was really poor.

Step up the guys at OZZ light and sound in Stoke (yes blatent plug but they deserve it), who managed to get the whole concert onto C.D. with a much improved sound at a cost of nothing. Yup free and gratis.

That C.D is my most treasured possession, although if Im brutally honest, I don't play it.

Its still too raw.

waller02 · April 2020

Enut said:

waller02 said:
Been struggling to think of anything that I would class as my prized possession, but there is certainly one thing that keeps me sane and without it I would be back on the ciggies in no time.

Showing my ignorance here but WTF is that? Looks like something out of a 1970's Dr Who episode!

It's a vape mod and tank. I turned to vaping to quit smoking a few years ago as it's nowhere near as bad for you (allegedly).

NOSTRI · April 2020

waller02 said:
Been struggling to think of anything that I would class as my prized possession, but there is certainly one thing that keeps me sane and without it I would be back on the ciggies in no time.

Vape gang represent. Almost a year off, myself.

Think you need an upgrade though, that thing looks like it's from 2005.

waller02 · April 2020

NOSTRI said:

waller02 said:
Been struggling to think of anything that I would class as my prized possession, but there is certainly one thing that keeps me sane and without it I would be back on the ciggies in no time.
Vape gang represent. Almost a year off, myself.

Think you need an upgrade though, that thing looks like it's from 2005.

It has served me well. I wont fork out for a new while that one still works.

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