[Bobert]

I can't find the other "crazy things you've done" thread, so her's another one.

Tell us what eccentric things you've accomplished.
I want to hear things like you wrapped a grove of trees in aluminum foil kind of things (Northern Exposure), or you covered your car with a lawn. You built a medieval torture device for the fun of it. These things require some planning.

Not the streaking through a sporting event or acting like wierdos in a crowd, stuff. Those things just require some beer and/or guts.
Nor do I mean accomplishments that merely annoy others.


For me, I'm currently planting about a third of my lawn with a variety of sunflowers. If I didn't have kids that needed outdoor play room, I'd do the front, too.

[Synamon]

Did you mean this
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[rara avis]

OK, here's something. I have boxes - about eight, and several smaller containers, of tiny images cut from books and magazines. I just went into a zone for a couple of years where I was feverishly cutting out little images & letters with manicure scissors. Very precisely.

I don't have that kind of intensity going on right now, so I'm just left to sit and admire the results of my own crazy... this picture is poor quality and it also doesn't really do much capture the full effect, you really have to be able to physically reach in and move the piles around to see the layers under the layers, but...

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Here's one of the bigger "categorized" boxes. The blue starburst is about the size of a nickel.

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Here's one of the smaller containers

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FTR, my mother finds this very annoying.

[Bobert]

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I think it's pretty neat looking!
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[rara avis]

Why, thank you. Will you post pics when your sunflowers come up?

[azelismia]

hmm, I can't think of anything I've done along those lines. I have some OCD quirks but nothing that manifests in this sort of way. I've got my giant antiques collection but I don't know if that qualifies as truly eccentric. it's a collection that I am pretty sure nearly anyone would be willing to take from me. Sunflowers are awesome.. thinking about planting some in my new garden. My first wedding was actually in a church and i wanted sunflowers instead of roses... they were impossible to come by. ( even in early august go figure)

when I was a teenager we had a art band called pigmansweetpigman; we made up teeshirts with various strange phrases. we knew a lot of the seattle grunge scene and we talked them into wearing them on stage. we planted fake posters all around the university district and broadway with various concert dates.

we managed to get a fairly large following for a band that didn't really exist. it was fun. people talked about us.. they said they heard us play..it was awesome.

[dalidaisy]

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These would make for the funnest game of I Spy ever!

[Bobert]

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	Why, thank you. Will you post pics when your sunflowers come up?

Of course. I hope it works. Me and my daughter planted 12 yesterday (two year old seeds). I have to scrounge for more containers. I figure it's best to start them indoors instead of having the squirrels dig them all up.

[Hjordis]

I collect wood, as I've told some people who've questioned me about my avatar. I'm really picky about what I will and will not add to the collection, too. My friends find it amusing, and my dad just wishes I'd get rid of it all.

I've also recently taken up the cultivation of carnivorous plants, but I'm not sure that's eccentric.

[Bobert]

What do you look for in wood?

I'm partial to patterned woods- particularly the curly figured hardwoods.

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has lots of pics of peices for sale.

[Hjordis]

Well, I like walnut and maple a lot, but I'm not really sure what I look for. I just go through the woods looking for pieces that draw me in. I mostly just pick up driftwood though. If I want lumber I can get scraps from the school's wood shop(which I have before) or get my dad to take the stuff they threw out at his job site(which I haven't because their wood is ugly).

[Night Runner]

I'm not sure whether this counts as eccentric or not, but as of right now, I've entered every single giveaway, sweepstakes and drawing available online.
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I have access to a board where their links get posted, and a special software that fills out forms. I usually spend an hour or so each week to enter all the new giveaways, and every now and then I win. (Still not sure what to do with that $600 prom dress...)

[Amphorian]

I organized my little sister's craft beads the other day. My organization OCD I can control unless it's just mind bogling a mess.

I'm landscaping the front yard! It's quite fun being creative but using logical and technical means to set everything up.

[btbonval]

After I was working a few months, my office mate had commented on the lack of anything on my wall. I'm not one to "express myself" in the company of others.

To answer his comment, I began grabbing whatever was nearby and putting it on my wall. Random graphs I was going to throw away were taped up; this sort of thing.

The person who had used the desk before me had removed the arms off of the chair. For some reason, that helps carpal tunnel? I never bothered to put them back on, so they sat in a corner of the office.

I grabbed some neodymium magnets (very powerful) and mounted the arms of my chair onto the wall.

From there on, people have given me various kinds of junk they don't want, so that I might put it up on my wall.

Be careful what you wish for, I guess? (That office mate has since left, so now it is tradition more than anything else)

[Hjordis]

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After I was working a few months, my office mate had commented on the lack of anything on my wall. I'm not one to "express myself" in the company of others. To answer his comment, I began grabbing whatever was nearby and putting it on my wall. Random graphs I was going to throw away were taped up; this sort of thing. The person who had used the desk before me had removed the arms off of the chair. For some reason, that helps carpal tunnel? I never bothered to put them back on, so they sat in a corner of the office. I grabbed some neodymium magnets (very powerful) and mounted the arms of my chair onto the wall. From there on, people have given me various kinds of junk they don't want, so that I might put it up on my wall. Be careful what you wish for, I guess? (That office mate has since left, so now it is tradition more than anything else)

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I can see myself doing that.

[rara avis]

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	...From there on, people have given me various kinds of junk they don't want, so that I might put it up on my wall. Be careful what you wish for, I guess? (That office mate has since left, so now it is tradition more than anything else)

I did very much the same thing at my last job - in a used bookstore, you find all kinds of fascinating debris. So I started archiving the best finds on the breakroom wall. You wouldn't believe the things you find in people's books.

I can graciously admit that part of my motive was to irritate the living f*** out of a psychotic ES*J asst mgr. Everyone else got into it, though, which put her in the position of not wanting to be the bad guy outright. Occasionally something would be forcibly edited out because someone found it offensive (always the best items, sadly)

They took a picture of me with a segment of the collage on my last night... the tradition has carried on in my absence...

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[Bobert]

Well, my sunflower dream will have to be pursued another year. In short, life happens.
In long, my 20 month old took out a quarter and chipmunks took out another quarter (both by knocking over pots), before they were in the ground. I have also been neglecting the garden. May/June always seems to be very busy or overwhelming for me.

[reb]

i'm sure i've posted this elsewhere, but i will contribute one of my 'quirks'.

my tombstone has '2007' for 'deadline' on it. already in set in place.

[rara avis]

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	Well, my sunflower dream will have to be pursued another year. In short, life happens. In long, my 20 month old took out a quarter and chipmunks took out another quarter (both by knocking over pots), before they were in the ground. I have also been neglecting the garden. May/June always seems to be very busy or overwhelming for me.

Sorry to hear it. The best laid plans of chipmunks and men gang aft agley...

I'd like to see video of the chipmunks wreaking havoc. I love chipmunks. And I want to hear you yell, "AAAALVIIIN!" in the background.

[Mader]

Cool activities.

I have none, well, I like to save magazines, but not excessively, sort of.

I too am Interior Design Challenged.
I let my daughter decorate my office.

There are some small, low cost electric mesh fences to keep critters out of your garden. You can plug them into the wall, so you can also unplug them when the children are about. Mild zap for small critters, not like a horse fence. Very temporary, easy to move.

[Bobert]

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	Sorry to hear it. The best laid plans of chipmunks and men gang aft agley... I'd like to see video of the chipmunks wreaking havoc. I love chipmunks. And I want to hear you yell, "AAAALVIIIN!" in the background.

Chipmunks is my polite way of refering to them. I give the little rat bastards have of lot of other names. They always get my strawberries!!!
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[DurrRuhRurr]

I'm far too eccentric even for most eccentrics. ***crazy googly and goofy faces***