Name your artifact...

[RadiO]

The Transformers bedspread from 1985.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I love legends and my other really cool thing is my Maltese Falcon. I have a limited edition prop replica manufactured by the company that makes the Oscar statues. Damn heavy plaster, & black paint, fuck it feels like it could be made of Gold or Lead.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

I don't have anything specific, but I get all sentimental over something I don't use anymore when I throw it away. My brother has it worse. He throws a fit whenever someone's useless crap is thrown out.

[Agent R]

I'm a packrat, so I've got a whole closet full of stuff I won't throw out because of some odd reason.

[haas mark]

I guess it's just cheesy Pagan fluff, but I won't leave my room without putting on my silver pentacle pendant. I just don't feel complete without it.

Don't worry about it.. You're not the only one, though mine is made from something else (not sure what, exactly, though).

However, I would have to say I have a few things:

-My pentacle
-My Pride necklace (the first Pride thing I ever owned, which I bought with my favorite faghag)
-My Derby glass from two years ago that my aunt bought for me
-My dragon ring; I just don't feel whole when I'm not wearing it. [shrugs]

~ver

[Chardok]

In the early 60's my grandfather was attached to the 504th MP Bn. and he was given a plaque and this really neat Beer stein (the unit was in Germany at the time, I believe) the beer stein has his name etched on it in gold lettering with the 504th MP Bn insignia, One of those "in appreiciation of" things.

30-some-odd years later, I joined the army and was assigned to the very same battalion. He gave that stein to me as a momento, and I hold it very very dear. Neat how things work out sometimes...

[Howedar]

Corvallis, Oregon, to be precise. Yeh, got the grades required for the Environmental Science exchange program, Oregon's the place, -8 hours is the time, and it's all rather groovy. Am here for the entire second year, aside from coming back at Christmas, dissertation project and all.

Corvallis is a nice place. I've lived in Albany my whole life.



As for me:

1. The key to my 1986 Mazda 323 that I sold several years ago. I still have the key, and I'm not about to get rid of it. With me always.
2. Pictures of a couple of girls I went to dances with in high school, against all odds due to their popularity and my lack thereof. Just to remind me that crazy shit is possible. In my wallet, with me always.
3. My lucky socks, given to me by my cross country and track coach a few years ago. I wear them for all exams, important events and such. Always in my residence or on my feet.

[Solauren]

My Blue and White Panda Teddy Bear.

Yes, I admit it, I still have my teddy bear from when I was little.

Funny thing it, it's older then I am. My mother won it 2 summers before she meet my father.

I haven't slept with it in years. Keyop (the teddy bear) is currently sitting on top of a bookcase in my bedroom, surrounded with some stuffed animals I won with in a 'grab it claw' game and a few stuffed dogs people bought me when I said I was thinking of getting a puppy.

No one touches that teddy bear. If it came down to kicking a puppy or letting it chew on the teddy bear, the puppy is out of luck.

I plan to be buried with it. it's on my list of things to be buried with.
Incidently, that list includes a hand trowel and a scuba tank. I fully expect to wake up after being buried

[TrailerParkJawa]

I have a simple silver ring and a watch given to me for my birthday from my best buddy. They are quite important to me and I wear them everday.

[LadyTevar]

One month before I was born, my mother was given a Teddybear 'for the baby'.
Teddy was the first item I ever held, and he's still with me today. Every now and then, when I'm feeling bad, I still turn to Teddy.
Lord only knows how he's kept from rotting, with all the tears drying in his fur over the years...

I also have other things, like those little 'In Memory Of' pamphets you're given at funerals. Those are in my keepsake box, along with the seal off my first bottle of Glenfiddich, school medallions, etc.

[Agent Fisher]

A dagger from Saudi Arabia that has a handle of Camel bone. It was given to my father by his older brother and one day it will be mine.

[Lord Pounder]

Sentemental
My ruby ring that used to belong to my Uncle Tommy untill he was murdered.

Future Gold Mine:
Every computer i've owned since my Comodore Vic 20. All in perfect working order.

For no apparent reason. A Star Trek TNG Alarm clock that tells me to wake up in Klingon, atleast i think so, it could be calling me a dick and i'd never know.

[StarshipTitanic]

I have tons of relics. Some of the most prominant would be:

Buddy Bear: A light blue bear "wearing" a yellow shirt that has a red heart in the center. One arm is crooked because I would sleep with that arm firmly stuck in my armpit. His eyes look to the left.

Cowie: Purchased years ago. According to mom, it's an animal that arts and crafts people dress up and put on display. That explains why, after years of abuse, he's now a Frankenstine monster of repairs and restuffing.

Mr. Pigsley: Not my earliest piggy bank (sadly he was killed after falling from my shelf and was too fragmented to put back together. I did get a two-dollar bill that I didn't know I had out of the deal, though), but the longest lasting. He was in regular use until some unwanted cousins were dumped on me one weekend. My heavy speaker/remote combo was pushed on his head, breaking a huge piece of his side off along with an ear. My mom, who felt guilty (the cousins' visit was her idea), repaired him well and even bought gauze and clay to fix parts that disintegrated. Now he sits on a comfortably high shelf in my room.

Keys: I have a slowly growing keyring. It has a wooden wheel attached to it from seventh grade when, in shop, we were learning how to use some tool.

Various pieces of jewelry: I like shiny things! Fragments of my nana's old jewelry are in ornate boxes sitting on a shelf. The latest edition is some gaudy button with tons of fake diamonds from a recently deceased relative.

Rowsdower: Named for a character in the MST3Ked movie "Final Sacrifice." He's a plastic piggy bank I got at a bank's booth in a Greek Orthodox church's fair. A sort of replacement for Mr. Pigsley.

[Soontir C'boath]

Artifact eh? What age should it be to be consider one? heheh

Anyway to me, they are
My baby underwear!
My mom kept them in a nice snuggly place for along with a blanket that is now fallen apart.
Still it gives a nice depth to see how far I have come.

And here's one for a thread in the future..
http://www.geocities.com/deathshead2432/Snuffer.JPG
My Snuff Bear! This little guy is so darn cute and huggable. He also seems to be the only one with a short length mouth which'll give his mean look which I think is adorable.

Cyaround,
Jason

[Admiral Valdemar]

Corvallis, Oregon, to be precise. Yeh, got the grades required for the Environmental Science exchange program, Oregon's the place, -8 hours is the time, and it's all rather groovy. Am here for the entire second year, aside from coming back at Christmas, dissertation project and all.

This puts a bit of a damper on us going out drinking at the weekend, y'know.

I was going to go on the Canada or America exchange too at one point, even considered Oz, but I don't like the idea of being away for a year and still doing work.

As for artifacts, my Casio G-Shock watch, follows me everywhere even if the bloody batteries died this week. My Roland Rat stuffed toy is also something from my past, got that when I was 1 in London, screamed all day until my Dad got me one.

[Ryoga]

My Transformers collection, all 400+ pieces of it.

I can count the number of G1 Transformers I have yet to acquire on one hand, and also have a bunch of obscure shit like this wierd little electric train set, several blankets and sheets, and even a sort of mini-tent thing that can be set up over a child's bed.

What makes this an artifact, you may ask? Well, I'm not selling. EVER! Mwahahahaha....

[El Moose Monstero]

Corvallis, Oregon, to be precise. Yeh, got the grades required for the Environmental Science exchange program, Oregon's the place, -8 hours is the time, and it's all rather groovy. Am here for the entire second year, aside from coming back at Christmas, dissertation project and all.

This puts a bit of a damper on us going out drinking at the weekend, y'know.

I was going to go on the Canada or America exchange too at one point, even considered Oz, but I don't like the idea of being away for a year and still doing work.

As for artifacts, my Casio G-Shock watch, follows me everywhere even if the bloody batteries died this week. My Roland Rat stuffed toy is also something from my past, got that when I was 1 in London, screamed all day until my Dad got me one.

Tonight, on the six o clock news, Greg Dyke denies that the BBC is dumbing down, in a key speech, he strongly denied the claims, over now to our new media correspondent...

Yehhh, allllo, rat-fans....

Well, there's always 3rd year, wouldnt like to go to Oz, we're talking majorly long flight times and mega jet lag from hell. As it is, the laptop battery will last about half way over the Atlantic before giving up the ghost, enough time for a game of Homeworld 2, I feel... should weird the person sitting next to me out some.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I will one of these days inheirit a watch and .44 revolver.

[Patrick Degan]

I love legends and my other really cool thing is my Maltese Falcon. I have a limited edition prop replica manufactured by the company that makes the Oscar statues. Damn heavy plaster, & black paint, fuck it feels like it could be made of Gold or Lead.

Definitely there's the hand of the Russian in this.

I have two prized artefacts: a hardback collection of political cartoons not only autographed by the artist, but personalised with a colour drawing of his trademark character on the front endsheet. Easily the single most valuable volume in my library.

The second is a baseball; the first and (so far) only ball I've ever caught in the stands at a game. Last day of the 1999 season, Zephyrs v. Raniers —came off a 2-2 foul shot to left off the bat of Chad Aakers in the top of the 8th inning. Sits atop my computer.

[Vendetta]

I don't have any artefacts.

I do have a vast quantity of stuff, but no single central possession.

[Sporkzen]

An old patchwork quilt my grandmother made for me about 2 years before she died.

alice cooper's black tophat he threw into the crowd.

an old hotwheel shaped like a toilet on wheels

and a 180 year old tomahawk passed down the family line

oh and last thing is the rear view mirror from my first car

[Enigma]

My 28 year old teddy bear. The fur is short but spiky. Why any parent would give a sharp spiky teddy bear to their child, I do not know.

[InnerBrat]

alice cooper's black tophat he threw into the crowd.

I can do better than that because he walked across the stage to where I was standing to hand his cane to me.

Others:
- A pair of signed ballet shoes that were first prize (with tickets to see the NBT's Dracula) for a poetry competition when I was 15.
- an invitation to the book launch for the paperback Maskerade and hardback Hogfather, that was used as the card when a friend's father, who was in publishing, gave me my first signed Pterry book (Hogfather) as a present.
- All birthday presents my friends from home that I only see a few times a year nowadays have given me in the last 6 years, including a plastic tigger, hand turned wooden trees, and a glass pictures frame with 'moooooo!' around the outside (My oldest gay friend has been calling me his mad cow for years)
- A Klingon mug, which may be stable at warp speed, but is impossible to wash...

But I'm actually not very sentimental, and have thrown away a whole host of things many people would keep forever...