Gee that's not too weird Lepus, my brother bought one too, when he was young.......come to think of it now, my little brother was a pretty weird kid........he spent a lot of time drawing gory cartoons and blowing up his dinky toys with firecrackers in the back yard. His drawings came to the attention of the school district psychiatrist, who did an assesment on him based on his drawings and the fact that he came from a broken home, which at that time was a rarity. Our mother was informed, by the school, that he was a really violent youth....which in itself was weird because his only other violent acts, apart from the dinky toys, were against his drum practice pad. 40 years later he's still making some pretty beautiful music on various instuments and my very non-violent brother came out of it all with a pretty strong sense of outrage against stereotyping and a penchant for routing for the underdog........Ooops serious thread drift here....

Odd purchases? One amongst too many over the years, was a brass fathometer, too large and heavy to hang on the wall and the shape did not lend itself to standing it in the corner, we stubbed our toes on it for years, until finally giving it away as a gift.