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?!? :D

[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]

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]

freaks
Are your freaks life size?

[Fritz]

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

[WSUCougar]

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]

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]

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

link plz

[Desnudo]

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]

Do you fill out a check-out slip before removing one?
No, because I trust myself. My wife and daughter, on the other hand...:cool:

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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... :D

[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]

I got a cobra snake for a necktie

You ain't 22.

[Samdari]

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

She was really hot wasn't she.

[dawgfan]

My geeky stuff is in my office. I have my Ringwraith statue (see examples here (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=lotre&item=8701R#jpgs)) which will soon be joined by a Balrog statue (see examples here (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=rotks&item=9339#jpgs)) as well as the first set of Homestar Runner figurines (examples can be found here (http://www.homestarrunner.com/store.html)) 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]

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?

http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_tennis/BASSETT_Carl_198506_GH_L.jpg

[Ksyrup]

Yup.

[Samdari]

You are my hero today Jeeber.

And Ksyrup, keep that old, fat, married, rent by the ravages of childbirth thing to yourself. To me "Carling" will always conjure up images of a hot, lithe, sweaty 15 year old blond.

[Ksyrup]

...and named after a brewery, as well.

What else could you want in a girl?

[rkmsuf]

You are my hero today Jeeber.

And Ksyrup, keep that old, fat, married, rent by the ravages of childbirth thing to yourself. To me "Carling" will always conjure up images of a hot, lithe, sweaty 15 year old blond.

I'm aroused just by your imagery

[JeeberD]

You are my hero today Jeeber.

And Ksyrup, keep that old, fat, married, rent by the ravages of childbirth thing to yourself. To me "Carling" will always conjure up images of a hot, lithe, sweaty 15 year old blond.

Interesting. That's how I think of Martina Hingis (except for the blonde hair)...

[Ksyrup]

If Jeeber's your hero, what am I after this...:)




http://picserver.org/view_image.php/28JUK023F2RJ/picserver.jpeg

[Bonegavel]

You do?

Is this to announce to the world, "Look, I paid $30 for these aluminum boxes!"
If that was the case, I would have just put up a sign "Look, I paid $30 for these aluminum boxes!" They are actually decent looking containers.

$30!? If you are talking british pounds and not dollars, you might be right.

You did understand the point of this thread, right?

[Samdari]

If that was the case, I would have just put up a sign "Look, I paid $30 for these aluminum boxes!" They are actually decent looking containers.

$30!? If you are talking british pounds and not dollars, you might be right.

You did understand the point of this thread, right?

The $30 was my guesstimate of the difference between the regular game and the collector's edition - the sum of which nets you an aluminum box. Thus the value of the box itself = $30.

I did understand the point of the thread. I also understood why most people displayed some of their geeky paraphenalia.

[Samdari]

If Jeeber's your hero, what am I after this...

Deity-like. Is there an actual adjective which conveys this thought?

I'm aroused just by your imagery

After having aroused another male, I must leave this thread, despite the fact that I am rather pleased in its' having been semi-hijacked into a Carling Basset reminiscence thread. Thanks for the compliment though. I really think I would have been successful writing pornographic fiction.

[MacroGuru]

My geeky stuff is in my office. I have my Ringwraith statue (see examples here (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=lotre&item=8701R#jpgs)) which will soon be joined by a Balrog statue (see examples here (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=rotks&item=9339#jpgs)) as well as the first set of Homestar Runner figurines (examples can be found here (http://www.homestarrunner.com/store.html)) and my 2 ESPN FFL championship banners and 1 ESPN FFL championship mini-helmet.
Homestar Runner is my next purchase for work, and Buddy Jesus Statue will be my other one from home. Example Here (http://store.yahoo.com/jsbstash/budchrisdass1.html)

I am a massive fan of the movie Dogma and Kevin Smith in general.

[Samdari]

You did understand the point of this thread, right?

You know, I just looked up in my office and saw my pieces of flair.

They are:
A talking Cartman doll, wearing both a "Tulsa, Oklahoma" hat, and a large button which says "What, me 30? There must be some mistake. The doll and accoutrements were all gifts (duh, for my 30th b'day) from when I was living in Tulsa.

A beanie parrot, a gift from the Tulsa parrot head club.

Pez dispensers Yoda (not life sized), C3PO, Darth Vader, Santa Claus and the Tazmanian Devil.

Two Rob Konrad football cards (the only two I own).

A frisbee from the 1999 ultimate tournament in Tulsa.

A Chris Berman bobblehead.

Are Pez dispensers as geeky as bobbleheads? Who makes the rules about relative geeky values?

[Bad-example]

A framed poster advertising a Star Trek blooper show at a local university.

[MacroGuru]

Are Pez dispensers as geeky as bobbleheads? Who makes the rules about relative geeky values?
I think you get your ass kicked for collecting Pez dispensers. You can eat Pez, just not collect it.

[rkmsuf]

A framed poster advertising a Star Trek blooper show at a local university.

That has to be the winner

[NoMyths]

I think you get your ass kicked for collecting Pez dispensers. You can eat Pez, just not collect it.My girlfriend collects Pez dispensers. For her birthday I spent $35 on one of the buggers.

[MacroGuru]

My girlfriend collects Pez dispensers. For her birthday I spent $35 on one of the buggers.I did forget to give the waiver for female. My Step Mom has the scariest Pez collection I have ever seen.

However, the ultimate scary collection comes from buddy's fiance.

Check it here - Ph33r Teh Pon33z (http://www.cayci.com/pony/ponyroom/)

[Samdari]

Perhaps now might be a good time to mention to your buddy that he is marrying a chick with SERIOUS PROBLEMS.

[sterlingice]

Here's a pic of the insane stuff I have in my room. This was from when I just got my camera and was still trying to get stuff calibrated so the quality isn't that great. Oh, and it's pretty big. Yeah, I pretty much have a giant nerd desk:

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Erica has her own brand of insanity in that she has a crazy cow collection
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Then there's the living room with its collection of nerd stuff (video games, books, models, etc)
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SI

[Buzzbee]

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...

Poor pussy. :(

[Franklinnoble]

Clark: "Do you smell something?"

Eddie: "Yeah... fried pussycat."

[pennywisesb]

I have this cool poster of Ken Griffey Jr. from like 1994 or something when he was on the Mariners, and behind him in the pic, there is a huge wave and the caption of the poster says "RIP TIDE" on it. Its pretty ridiculous, and anytime I have new people over they are always asking about it and why I still have it. And my answer is always the same, "I have no idea, I guess I'm just too lazy to take it down". ;)

[pennywisesb]

Dola, oh yeah, I forgot, I also have one of those soft tip dart boards in my room that is like 10 years old as well, and there has been only one dart in it for the last five!

[Tom E]

A life size stand up of George W. Bush, a Lava lamp, an American flag, a 125 gallon fish tank and a cat who only leaves my room to shit and eat

[Poli]

I won't describe Coffee Warlord's house for you. I'll let him.

[Radii]

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...


Holy shit. The things you learn about your nearest and dearest on a message board.

To quote oliegirl(as I'm typing this up): "She will always be in our bedroom"

... "and she's on your side of the bed!"

[TargetPractice6]

I have a 1-foot plastic gnome on my desk that belches when you walk by it.

[Masked]

I won't describe Coffee Warlord's house for you. I'll let him.
He was the first person I thought of when I saw this thread - his reply should be interesting. SI was the second.

[LionsFan10]

My room is decked out in Puerto Rico stuff, flags, jerseys, shirts, mini dice ... anything Puerto Rico I can get my hands on goes into the "collection." I have a very Irish friend who is also very proud like I, and he is quite envious of my collection. Only he wishes he had a lot of Irish things, of course.

[AZSpeechCoach]

In my office, I have pennants from every D-Backs game I've been to (30 something.) I also have trophies from my competition days, including the ceramic rabbit I won at a Coach's tournament a few years ago. I also have my "Weird Al" Yankovic autographed ticket stub matted and framed.

In my classroom, I have a jar marked "Ashes of problem students." I also have a large poster of Elvis Presley.

[sterlingice]

He was the first person I thought of when I saw this thread - his reply should be interesting. SI was the second. I should have some sort of board contest to see how many characters in my room that people can name. It would require sports fans, cartoon fans, anime fans, video game fans, and more :D

SI

[Franklinnoble]

I have a 1-foot plastic gnome on my desk that belches when you walk by it.
Nice. :D