The life and death of hobbies...

shoot&scoot

Reminds me of the pimp who bought out his competition:  He got "ahead" in his job.

DISCLAIMER:  Any construed dirty meanngs of the above statement are strictly products of your depraved minds.

Caution: shoot&scoot may or may not be on extra-strength pain meds at any time...

I hereby award you (and your shrunken head collector friend) the "Dead Hobby: badge...wear it with pride...

Okay, after all this...  are we in agreement that this is a dead  hobby?  if so, then is this dead hobby worthy of badge (one with little skulls maybe)?

bbrowniii

 

Reminds me of the pimp who bought out his competition:  He got "ahead" in his job.

DISCLAIMER:  Any construed dirty meanngs of the above statement are strictly products of your depraved minds.

 

 

My coworker said his grandpa would pay up to $1000 for a little head.

 NOTE: see disclaimer above

shoot&scoot

Reminds me of the pimp who bought out his competition:  He got "ahead" in his job.

DISCLAIMER:  Any construed dirty meanngs of the above statement are strictly products of your depraved minds.

Guilty as charged...

Reminds me of the pimp who bought out his competition:  He got "ahead" in his job.

DISCLAIMER:  Any construed dirty meanngs of the above statement are strictly products of your depraved minds.

i just got a gundam model as a gift - GNX-704T AHEAD

joeviz

I mentioned to my coworkers about this thread.  I was shocked to hear the man who has sat next to me for the last 10 years keeps shrunken heads in his desk drawer!!

And you MOJO's get uncomfortable discussing modeling at work?...if this cat can nonchalantly harp about his shrunken head collection in his desk as if he were discussing a stamp collection, ya'll shouldn't have any issues standing on your collective desks at work and shouting at the top of your lungs:  "Yes, I build plastic models and I'm proud of it!"

DISCLAIMER:  the word used was "MOJO", not "MO_O"...with an "F"...

Metal detecting...

maybe... the "head" of HR is already in the desk ??....

Manstein's revenge

 

What, did his grandfather immigrate from New Guinea? 

Better... A remote region of California.

joeviz

Anyway, so he explained that collecting shrunken heads was his grandfather's hobby...

What, did his grandfather immigrate from New Guinea? 

Manstein's revenge

 

There has got to be something about this being forbidden in the "Employee Policy Manual"...

I can say that as soon as HR finds out, heads are gonna roll!  

Maybe... thats why the heads are there.. past employees with "issues"... ???

joeviz

I mentioned to my coworkers about this thread.  I was shocked to hear the man who has sat next to me for the last 10 years keeps shrunken heads in his desk drawer!!

There has got to be something about this being forbidden in the "Employee Policy Manual"...

Manstein's revenge

Who is in the cubicle next to you, Jeffery Dohmer? You may want to post this in the "Deadhead" thread as well...

Tell him not to get a "big head" about his collection...You could say with some certaintly that he is well "a-head" of many of us with his hobby...He'll do anything to get a-head...

LMAO!

I believe you are Head-ded in the right detection with your comments.  One of the heads does have gnaw marks... he very well may be relation to or even Dohmer himself.

and.. he says he's not dead yet...!

is that the pot, calling the kettle black??..

Maybe he is a newspaper editor, and uses them when he needs inspiration for the next big headline...

Who is in the cubicle next to you, Jeffery Dohmer? You may want to post this in the "Deadhead" thread as well...

Tell him not to get a "big head" about his collection...You could say with some certaintly that he is well "a-head" of many of us with his hobby...He'll do anything to get a-head...

I mentioned to my coworkers about this thread.  I was shocked to hear the man who has sat next to me for the last 10 years keeps shrunken heads in his desk drawer!!  I've heard of shrunken heads before but I always dismissed it as Hollywood.  I had no idea it was actually real.

Anyway, so he explained that collecting shrunken heads was his grandfather's hobby back in the 30's and 40's. And, that he stopped collecting because he could not find anyone else interested in his hobby.  After his grandfather passed away he kept some of his collection and brought some work to show off.  He forgot about them until today. 

He said at one point he looked for others with the same passion for lil-heads.  Aside from museums and the occult he found none.   Wow a trully dead hobby.

I am tempted to print out the dead hobby badge and frame it for him to hang in his office.

p38jl

I say ya rate..

I say ya rate..

after much thought  i have come up with a couple of dead hobbies scrimshaw is one now that the whaling is baned ( save the whales for valuable cupons ) second is building ships in a bottle and one that my grandfather did as a hobbie whittling, my father even did some his ball in a cage on a chain is mindbending. now im sure that there are more that i have not thought of yet.        as for call sign owl keep it up and dont let anybody ruffel your feathers.           now where is my badge or do i rate one        

VanceCrozier

 

 

 

I've done this before, but it's been years. Visiting my grandparents in Yarmouth NS, stuck out in the Atlantic, it was possible to get good clear signals from all over Europe. Still have the receiver unit in my basement. I keep thinking I should set it up again but not really sure where to put it, the thing must be 2.5 feet across, 1.5 feet high and deep. VACUUM TUBES baby!

To be honest if it doesn't go on display somewhere I really should see if any museums are interested in archiving it.

Internet radio - yup, I listen to it all the time at the office and either internet or satellite radio at home.

Commonly referred to as boat anchors.  If you don't want it , you might see what they are going for on E-bay.  I have a circa 1954 Collins ham receiver with 22 vacuum tubes.  It was given to me by a friend who's Dad bought it new.  I fire it up once in a while just to see it glow.  I've seen it on E-bay for as much a $1000, but I'd never part with it.

Don

Don Wheeler

Ham radio was mentioned.  There are still a few Hams around, but the hobby that is really dead is short wave listening.  SWL's (short wave listeners)...

I've done this before, but it's been years. Visiting my grandparents in Yarmouth NS, stuck out in the Atlantic, it was possible to get good clear signals from all over Europe. Still have the receiver unit in my basement. I keep thinking I should set it up again but not really sure where to put it, the thing must be 2.5 feet across, 1.5 feet high and deep. VACUUM TUBES baby!

To be honest if it doesn't go on display somewhere I really should see if any museums are interested in archiving it.

Internet radio - yup, I listen to it all the time at the office and either internet or satellite radio at home.

Don Wheeler

I spent many pleasant hours at this, starting with a war surplus ARC 5 receiver when I was a kid.  I still have a couple receivers, but I don't turn them on much any more.

 

No wonder you never answered my request for a breakout from Stalingrad...

Ham radio was mentioned.  There are still a few Hams around, but the hobby that is really dead is short wave listening.  SWL's (short wave listeners) would try to log as many foreign broadcast stations as possible.  Most stations would respond with an SWL card if you sent them a reception report, and people collected these cards.  There were books, magazines and broadcasts devoted to this hobby and many major manufacturers made general coverage receivers, including Sony, Kenwood, and Panasonic.  Australia, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan, used to beam broadcasts to the U.S.  Now, none of them do.  Neither do most of the other countries that once did.  The internet killed it.  Broadcasting is very expensive while a website is relatively cheap.  And, why would a person stay up late and try to make out a signal midst the squeaks and whistles of interference when they can hear the program perfectly clear any time they want from their computer?

I spent many pleasant hours at this, starting with a war surplus ARC 5 receiver when I was a kid.  I still have a couple receivers, but I don't turn them on much any more.

Don

fermis

 

VanceCrozier:

 

 No really, how many people can cook for themselves now?

 

 

 And how many of them that can cook for themselves will actually go into the woods and kill their own dinner? And, how many of those that kill their own dinner, can do their own butchering?

I do all the cooking, and understand where all that wonderful protein on the hoof comes from, but I've never really had any interest in bringing the critters in myself.

ukeleles in NB? Nah, you must be mistaken, they've been driven to extinction just like the Eastern Cougar. (And no, not the ones you'll find in the bars!! )

...okay...I see a new badge in my mind's eye...