Thread: What is the weirdest thing that you collect?

I collect FOP cards, I know it sounds weird (hence the thread title), but I dont get tickets and I get FOP cards from a few different states on an annual basis, since I had so many laying around I decided to start collecting them. I generally try to get expired cards that no one wants anymore for collecting purposes, so far the most colorful ones that I have are NYC I think, but I really only have seen a few counties and states. When I get enough of them I will probably make some sort of large hanging display out of my favorites. I would like to get around 500, and I think I have around 30 or 40 now including duplicates.

So if anyone have any old FOP cards, don't throw them out! Send them to me instead. They arent worth anything and can't be used once they are expired so don't worry about me abusing them


So, what is the weirdest thing that you collect????

Josh, could you tell me what FOP cards are?

human hair, toenail clippings, other peoples porn, shoes i find on the roadside, small animals (or portions of larger ones) in jars, tinfoil from cigarette packs, scabs, elvis busts, dead lightbulbs, socks with holes, bloodletting tools and empty fish tanks.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

Josh, could you tell me what FOP cards are?

Fraternal Order of Police cards or Pulice Benevolant Association cards

They used to be cards given out by police to friends and family and were used as "get out of a ticket free" cards. Now however they are given out in such huge quantities often they are not really worth much in some areas.

FOP=Fraternity of Police card. Apparently like a get out of jail free card that officers can give to their friends. Must be frickin' nice. I get pulled over for doing 85 in an 80 zone and get a ticket. The next guy gets a free pass because he knows a cop in Kansas?

BTW, FOP cards are on ebay so you can bump your collection if you want.

Ahhh ok. Our cops' quotas are too high for them to be giving out those cards. They'll nail you even if you don't break any laws and it's your word against theirs (happened to me twice)

When I got my cat neutered earlier this year, I had them put his testicles is a jar of alcohol I brought them. It's now sitting on my dresser. Although I can't call it a collection just yet, any male cats I might get in the future will be undergoing the same thing, so. In time... in time.

Originally Posted by shavethebadger

FOP=Fraternity of Police card. Apparently like a get out of jail free card that officers can give to their friends. Must be frickin' nice. I get pulled over for doing 85 in an 80 zone and get a ticket. The next guy gets a free pass because he knows a cop in Kansas?

BTW, FOP cards are on ebay so you can bump your collection if you want.

Matt,

If it makes you feel any better, FOP cards dont hold that much water anymore because they are given out so freely. Most cops I have talked too give their close family a mini badge replica or business card with their personal their phone number and signature on back, with a quick note stating something like "please call if I can be of assistance".

I have seen them on ebay but I refuse to pay for something I can get for free, especially the expired ones.

I collect nothing that can beat scabs. Wow! How cool is that...

I used to collect bottle caps. Beer bottle caps, but somebody stole my collection years ago (how weird is that!?!?) so I stopped.

Some would think me weird for collecting (very selectively) comic books, but that's not actually that weird.

I've thought about collecting the New Cambridge editions of Shakespeare's plays, but I think that would inspire a rivalry between my wife and I since she'd really keen on the Arden versions. I think that WOULD be weird.

But I settle on collecting Shakespearean lore:
This first pic is of a painting (undoubtedly one panel of a larger work) likely, completed for King James' ascension, depicting two writers at a game of chess, done in the style of the Dutch renaissance school of Van Mander and possibly even by that master himself. The figures are QUITE convincingly argued to be that of William Shakespeare (on the right) and his contemporary and friendly rival, Ben Johnson. The last time the painting was moved, the frame (which was moved seperately and assumed to have the painting intact with it) was stolen! As a result the painting is kept largely secret from society, in a hidden location and no attempt is made to set its provenance.

The pic on the right is a Sanders family heirloom now belonging to Lloyd Sullivan (passed down maternally) which has always been called the painting of Shakespeare among them. It has been proven to be of the exact period and of a man of Shakespeare's status, although without absolute certainty of being the man himself. Some argue it looks too young to be a man of 39. Since both pictures here would have been painted within a year of each other, that argument loses some credence with me. Both men bear a remarkable resemblance with each other and with the Droeshout engraving with which we are all familiar. This second I have seen myself twice and it is a wonderful piece. The face and tunic are quite clearly painted by two seperate people, which was not uncommon at the time, the student taking time to do the mundane deatils of buttons and such which the master painter didn't have time for.

The interesting thing is that these two paintings are the only ones conjectured to be composed of the man while he lived. ALL other images of Shakespeare that come down to us were made posthumously, even the Droeshout and the Stratford Bust which both show him with some more weight on, which he may have gained later in life. He was getting quite rich by the end of it all.

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