Other hobbies

Greetings,

Entomology started as a hobby for me when I was about 12, and I've been lucky enough to turn it into my career. Still, where hobby ends and job begins is a blurry line - a great situation to be in.

As a kid in the 1970's I built plastic model car kits. Most became bits and pieces over the years, but Monogram started reissuing some of those kits in the 2000's and I began buying them to build them again some day. The series I collected were the show car kits - the "Red Baron", "Tijuana Taxi", "Beer Wagon", "Paddy Wagon", etc.

The other hobby that I shared with thousands of others in the mid-70's was collecting beer cans. I grew up about 10 miles from Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Mansfield, Ohio. In those days, the track featured the Trans Am and Can Am series, later adding the Indy car series, and therefore attracted an international audience. Fans brought their favorite beers from home and my brothers and I would go to the track after the races to scrounge through the trash cans which were filled with cans from all over the country.

Beer can collecting is a nearly dead hobby now - but I still have a collection of several thousand cans in the garage that need a new home. My wife says to just recycle them, but I know some have value and who could send those 'Old Frothingslosh' cans, "The pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom", with that memorable 'Miss Frothingslosh' lady on them to a recycler - that would just be wrong!!

Cheers!
Bandrow

Other hobbies? Okay: I have an aquarium with some simple fish, it was the one from my son but when he left home for studying, I kept it and love it.
My main interest is also astronomy. Here we have some good telescopes, and, maybe nobodoy knows, in Göttingen Gauss lived here. Also, the first data through a cable the managed . And we have the most nobel prize winners in graves / population . Ha.
I am also interested in all kind of science by reading. I once tried to collect meterorites but find living materials much more interesting. I have some but small one from the moon and from mars . ( Not by apollo mission but from meterorites )

Furthermode, I collected postcards from my home town espesially my grandparents had a hotel and their own postcards in the 20ies. I bought many as my mother was getting demented and so I had something to talk about.
I also have fake money from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard

as the factory in which the paper was made is near to my hometown. I think it is the only fake money one can possess for legal but it has a really very very bad background.


So now I am going to collect 500 EUR bank notes, if anyone wants to send one or two as a gift, I can give you my adress. And of course, I am collecting bad jokes.
( Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was "shut ip" ) by Lenny Bruce

Have a greaat time,
Joachim

P.S. the best poem by Frank Wedekind 1902


Der Tantenmörder

Ich hab meine Tante geschlachtet,
Meine Tante war alt und schwach,
Ich hatte bei ihr übernachtet
Und grub in den Kisten-Kasten nach.

Da fand ich goldene Haufen,
Fand auch an Papieren gar viel,
Und hörte die alte Tante schnaufen
Ohn Mitleid und Zartgefühl.

Was nutzt es, daß sie sich noch härme —
Nacht war es rings um mich her —,
Ich stieß ihr den Dolch in die Därme,
Die Tante schnaufte nicht mehr.

Das Geld war schwer zu tragen,
Viel schwerer die Tante noch.
Ich faßte sie bebend am Kragen
Und stieß sie ins tiefe Kellerloch.

Ich hab meine Tante geschlachtet,
Meine Tante war alt und schwach,
Ihr aber, o Richter, ihr trachtet
Meiner blühenden Jugend — Jugend nach.

In english:


691/5000
The aunt killer

I killed my aunt,
My aunt was old and weak,
I had stayed with her
And dug into the box.

There I found golden piles,
Also found a lot on papers,
And heard the old aunt puffing
Pity and tenderness.

What good is it that she still hives -
Night it was all around me -,
I pushed the dagger into her intestines,
The aunt did not wheeze anymore.

The money was hard to carry,
Much harder the aunt yet.
I grabbed her by the collar, shaking
And pushed her into the deep cellar hole.

I killed my aunt,
My aunt was old and weak,
But you, O judge, you seek
My blooming youth - youth after.

what kind of fish did you breed?

I love the softies. Leather, mushrooms etc. But I am going to go out on a limb and get a brain and pink birds nest. I think they will be ok

I have been a Lepidopterist for 66 of my 73 years. I was also into Diptera. I had a rather large collection of flies. However, when I met Ms Betty, it was easier to explain Caterpillars than Maggots. I still,stick pins in interesting looking flies, just never got back into collecting them.

I also collect long neck beer bottles with the beer enclosed. I have well over 3000 beer bottles. I have bootlegs from the 1930's and 1940's. Leisy's, POC (Pilsner of Cleveland, but locally known as the "Piss of Cleveland".) I have several bottles of Brockmyer of New England and even of bottle of "Schittface" from Chicago.

I have a friend in Cleveland, Ohio who collects Cigarettes. They are all in unopened packs.

My father collected "First Day" covers. He had tens of thousands of them. My older son currently has the collection. He no longer has the interest.

There is a group her in Central Kentucky that are into "Star Wars" figures. And people think I am crazy? These guys are absolutely obsessed with Star Wars.

Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY, home of the Kentucky Derby, has employees whose job is to collect all the horse ### during and after the race to prevent it's collection and resale. Think about that for a minute.

Joee30,

If you’re asking me, I used to do the platy and swordtails, but now have Gouramis and Tetra tank....20g. My main love w tropicals now are Discus......75 and 55g tanks.