Cool/Geeky Decor in Your Room

[WSUCougar]

A Balrog-related comment in another thread prompted this, and rather than thread-jack that puppy even more, I figured I'd branch off thisaway.

This question assumes that you have scratched out some personal space - be it a computer room (like mine), a den, a garage, a niche, a nook, a basement, whatever - which you call your own and (more importantly) which you have free reign to decorate with whatever you wish.

The question is:

What do you consider to be a cool thing you've got displayed, that some might think is geeky or otherwise embarassing?

I'll start.

Several years ago I created and ran a fantasy RPG empire-building game. I got so deep into it that for the hell of it I had a heraldic banner made for my kingdom. It's displayed on the wall. :o

Honorable mention: WSU mini-helmet; Rohan mini-helmet (LOTR)

Alright, step right up, tough guys. Who's got the guts to go next?!?

[Rizon]

I have a life-size Yoda in my living room.

[Fritz]

freaks

[KevinNU7]

I have two TVs in my living room. I can play video games or watch sports while my gf can use the other TV for her shows.

It also works great on Saturdays and Sundays when you can watch to games at the same time.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by Rizon

I have a life-size Yoda in my living room.

This would be impossible, since Yoda was never, you know, alive.

[cthomer5000]

not on display, but i own a life-size Boba Fett cardboard cut-out.

[Bee]

Originally Posted by Fritz

freaks

Are your freaks life size?

[Fritz]

I have a large jar with the pickled vaginas of 50 polynesian virgins on my mantle.

[WSUCougar]

Originally Posted by Fritz

I have a large jar with the pickled vaginas of 50 polynesian virgins on my mantle.

But are they kosher?

[JasonC23]

I have a life-size Homer Simpson in my basement. (And yes, I always like to point out the "how can it be life-size if he's not alive" thing.) It's next to my rocking chair covered by a Simpsons throw rug and my shelves upon shelves of Simpsons figures and rooms. It's also under my Iowa Hawkeyes clock and near my framed, autographed Magglio Ordonez picture, but I don't know that these qualify.

[Alf]

I have a plastic statue (bronze imitation) of a Qb throwing a ball on my desk. I won it as Most Valuable Owner in my main Fantasy Football League <= and yes, there is my name on it !

[heybrad]

On my desk at work I have 2 starting lineup hockey figures, a bobble head Bruce Lee doll and a dia de los muertos skeleton that is smoking and drinking.

I get a lot of comments on the skeleton when clients come in.

[WSUCougar]

Now we're getting somewhere.

[Samdari]

I have a Chamique Holdsclaw bobblehead.

[MacroGuru]

I have on my shelf here in my cube, a baby gargoyle kicking it.

I have a thing for Dragons and Wizards, so on my desk at home I have

Red Dragon, wrapped around a ruby
Blue Dragon and Wizard about to Battle
Merlin Snow Globe

My one thing of fun is, when I owned my own web design company, we did a site for a guy who had created Clinton Parody stuff, and he had the Blueprints for the New Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, It was an Out House, I have this, hanging on my wall (The Blueprint).

[VPI97]

I have an autographed Frank Beamer bobblehead and a Hokie Bird bobblehead on my desk at home and a Virginia Tech mini-helmet on my desk at work.

[NoMyths]

I have an almost complete set of autographed Twin Peaks trading cards on display.

[LloydLungs]

Paul Silas and Jamal Mashburn bobbleheads -- even though I hate Mashburn and I'm afraid that thing is going to come to life in the middle of the night and strangle me.

Also, a piece of the old Deep 13 set from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[NoMyths]

Oh, yeah: I also have the actual phone that Marla uses in Fight Club (when she calls Tyler after taking all those pills) in my bedroom. It works, so it's my main phone.

[Ksyrup]

My CD collection takes up 2 partial walls in our bedroom and is organized alphabetically by artist, and within each artist, each official release is in order of release date, earliest to latest. Then, immediately following each artist, I have any bootlegs that I have for that artist, organized by date of performance, earliest to latest.

[NoMyths]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

My CD collection takes up 2 partial walls in our bedroom and is organized alphabetically by artist, and within each artist, each official release is in order of release date, earliest to latest. Then, immediately following each artist, I have any bootlegs that I have for that artist, organized by date of performance, earliest to latest.

I thought everyone did that.

[Ksyrup]

People always laugh at me when I tell them how I have my CDs arranged, so I assume not.

[Radii]

A Chik-Fil-A cow plus doll wearing a sign that says "GO HEELZ" and has the UNC logo on it sits on top of my monitor at work(except for during September and October when a Cubs hat will replace it).

That's not really very geeky though...

[Sun Tzu]

The only thing I have (outside of my video game collection) is a "wrestle-buddy" Bill Goldberg stuffed thing. I have a poster of Gandhi, and a poster of Rocky...but that's it for now.

[B & B]

Ive got a 10 x 5 foot handpainted mural of dogs playing poker on the hallway across from the bathroom.

[Rizon]

Originally Posted by Samdari

This would be impossible, since Yoda was never, you know, alive.

link plz

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

My CD collection takes up 2 partial walls in our bedroom and is organized alphabetically by artist, and within each artist, each official release is in order of release date, earliest to latest. Then, immediately following each artist, I have any bootlegs that I have for that artist, organized by date of performance, earliest to latest.

Do you fill out a check-out slip before removing one?

[Senator]

Large autographed picture of Winston Churchill.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

Do you fill out a check-out slip before removing one?

No, because I trust myself. My wife and daughter, on the other hand...

[JeeberD]

The only geeky thing I have in my room is me...

[digamma]

Once I got married, most of my decor went away. Now about all I have is my state quarter collection.

[Bonegavel]

I prominently display the collectors tin boxes of Quake III and Civilization III on the shelf in my home office.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by JasonC23

I have a life-size Homer Simpson in my basement. (And yes, I always like to point out the "how can it be life-size if he's not alive" thing.)

So what is it like 10 inches tall?

[KevinNU7]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

My CD collection takes up 2 partial walls in our bedroom and is organized alphabetically by artist, and within each artist, each official release is in order of release date, earliest to latest. Then, immediately following each artist, I have any bootlegs that I have for that artist, organized by date of performance, earliest to latest.

So when you get a new CD you have to move everything over one!

[oliegirl]

I have my cremated cat in a tin on a shelf in my (our) room...I don't advertise what it is, but if someone asks (or tries to open the tin), I tell them. Usually gets some weird looks...

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

So when you get a new CD you have to move everything over one!

Yes, I do. I actually do "the move" once every two weeks, letting my purchases and burns accumulate so I don't have to keep moving everything every single time. It's not that big of a deal, really.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by JasonC23

I have a life-size Homer Simpson in my basement.

I too have this cut-out (it is something like 5 1/2 feet tall) that I received from the brother-in-law for christmas. Also, like you, it is now in the basement.

On our way home christmas eve-night after opening the gift at the in-laws, I was given a look of utter disdain as I informed the wife that Homer would be joining me in my office. Seeing her intense dislike of this cardboard construct, I delighted in its assembly and would place it all over the house for the next few days, giggling like a school girl at each growl it produced. Finally it wound up in my office.

He kind of has a creepy look on his face (a frown of sorts) and it wasn't long before it wound up in the basement at the hands the little lady on the grounds that it was ugly. I can't blame her, but I've made no attempts at a rescue.

[Franklinnoble]

I have a big can of whoop-ass in my home office.

[WSUCougar]

Originally Posted by Senator

Large autographed picture of Winston Churchill.

Serious? That's cool.

Probably not as hot as my two not-so-large autographed pictures of Nicole Kidman, however.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

I prominently display the collectors tin boxes of Quake III and Civilization III on the shelf in my home office.

You do?

Is this to announce to the world, "Look, I paid $30 for these aluminum boxes!"

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Serious? That's cool.

Probably not as hot as my two not-so-large autographed pictures of Nicole Kidman, however.

Hey man, pix pls, thx.

[Fritz]

I got a cobra snake for a necktie

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by digamma

Once I got married, most of my decor went away. Now about all I have is my state quarter collection.

This is so true. I used to have a bunch of posters up on my walls, now I have nothing. I keep threatening my wife that when we get a house big enough for me to have a computer/music room that will be all mine, those walls will be off-limits.

Where'd I put that old Carling Bassett poster from my youth...

[sabotai]

I used to sort my CDs like Ksyrup as well...but I've been lazy recently.

I don't really have anything geeky in my room...well, I don't have room and all of my walls have bookshelves. Yes, I live inside a mini-library. Books, DVDs, CDs, stacks of old gaming magazines, stacks of old Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog, many old computer parts, PS2, XBox and PC games, and now recently, old and new wargames and sports games (boardgames). So obviously, I don't have any room to have something geeky in my room.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by Fritz

I got a cobra snake for a necktie

You ain't 22.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Where'd I put that old Carling Bassett poster from my youth...

She was really hot wasn't she.

[dawgfan]

My geeky stuff is in my office. I have my Ringwraith statue (see examples here) which will soon be joined by a Balrog statue (see examples here) as well as the first set of Homestar Runner figurines (examples can be found here) and my 2 ESPN FFL championship banners and 1 ESPN FFL championship mini-helmet.

[sooner333]

Blue Chips Movie Poster. Also in my dorm room I had an OU poster, despite the fact that I go to a different school.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Samdari

She was really hot wasn't she.

I loved me some Darling Carling!

Then she went and got anorexic, got married, had kids, and turned kinda ugly the last time I saw her. I was shocked.

[JeeberD]

Is this the gal that you guys are talking about?