Strange Hobbies or Past Times

[CaptKundalini]

Do any of you folks out there have any Strange Hobbies or Past Times?
I have a hobby which one might call strange. It's called Celebrity Grave Hunting. Sometime between now and the end of the year, I'm going to go out to LA for my first visit and do this thing which I have wanted to do for so long. In the meantime, I have had to grave hunt via a website called Find A Grave.
When I go out there, I'm going to visit as many Celebrity Gravesites as I can within 10 days.
Some of them will include the following:

Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Stratten, Carl Wilson, Carl Switzer, DeeDee Ramone, Mel Blanc, Benjamin "Bugsy" Seigel, Rudolph Valentino, John Ritter, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Nat "King" Cole, Larry Fein, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Darla Hood, John Candy, John Wayne, Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Minnie Riperton, Sharon Tate, Nicole Brown Simpson, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, David Janssen, Al Jolsen, Bette Davis, Morey Amsterdam, Andy Gibb, Freddie Prinze, Tex Avery, Noah L. Beery, Jr, Ralph R. Bellamy, William Conrad, Scatman Crothers, Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, Walt Disney, Marty Feldman, Buster Keaton, Ritchie Valens, Bob Hope, Nicolette Larson, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Kenneth MacDonald, Strother Martin, Jr., Ozzie, Harriet and Ricky Nelson, Rod Steiger, Lee Van Cleef, Lionel Atwill, Ross Martin, Cass Elliot, Fanny Brice, Bela Lugosi, Lou Costello, Kabar, Bob Crane, Bob Kane, Brian Keith, Jack Lemon, George C. Scott, Walter Matthau, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and several more.

[Laird]

That is a strange hobby, enjoy yourself.

I snap photos of rocks so be it from me to say what's normal and what's abnormal.

[ElKamino]

I collect lintballs. I keep the collection on a green alpaka sweater...

[Shirleypal]

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids
in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or even the early 80's, probably
shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

We had no childproof lids or locks on medicine bottles, doors, or
cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.

Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special
treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in
it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one
actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all
day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all,
no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell
phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.


We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame
but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to
get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told
it would happen, we did not put out any eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or
rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were
held back to repeat the same grade.
Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.


The idea of parents bailing us out if we got in trouble in school or
broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the school or the
law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers, and inventors, ever.

We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility --- and we learned
how to deal with it.

And you're one of them!
Congratulations.


Please pass this on to others who were blessed to grow up as "kids" before
lawyers and government regulated our lives "for our own good" !!!

[BenSlain]

I paint little faces on candy corn and then talk to them like there my friends.

[BenSlain]

[Shirleypal]

Hey Captain, what an interesting hobby, you are going to be visiting some of my all time favs.
I am 60 now and have been collecting books on UFO's since I was 8-9 years old, I have one of the most extensive and some rare and one of a kind books in the World. Today it is not unusual to collect these kinds of books but it was when I was growing up.

[Devastated]

I collect dictionaries.

[SvladCjelli]

I actually enjoy programming....

as if that wasn't bad enough,

I play banjo
I collect rocks that get put into boxes all over the house
I have enough spare cabling that is exactly the wrong length for anything to circle the earth twice if joined together
I believe conspiracies
I have every seinfeld episode on my hard drive

[Dude111]

I used to love "sneaking out" when i was younger..... (Mostly during the 80s)

I would go out @ 2 am,meet friends and walk around,ride my bike,goto the park and sometimes go skinny dipping

I remember one night i went over to a friends (About 1am) and it was my birthday,he had a pizza for me!! (And cake afterwards)


I sure loved 'sneaking out' when i was younger

[voguy]

Geeeezzz.... I could write a book on this.

[Dude111]

Tell us about your adventures buddy,what ya liked to do in your younger years

[Fan]

I roast my own coffee, taking a lot of my time these days.

[Raggedyann]

I've racked my brain and nothing about my hobbies or pastimes is strange that I know of. Having said that though, my neighbours, friends and family may secretly think I am a complete wacko. Who knows? What may be strange is that if this is true, then I don't care now, never have in the past and never will in the future.

[voguy]

Tell us about your adventures buddy,what ya liked to do in your younger years

Younger years? In the 70s I worked in radio and recording studios. My hobby was inventing things to do to sound, being shaping it, or making it do something that people would say "how the hell did they do that?" My mentors were a strange conglomeration of people in music and recording, and some nights at the bar would be spent debating "what ifs" about how to do something.

These days my hobby is restoration of audio using a lot of hardware and computer tools to take tape and records, and save what is on them. The majority of it is record restoration, which uses tools that can fix most problems. Here's an example.

Elvis Test

The first 30 seconds of this audio is the record. The second half of the file is the restored record after pops, clicks, and distortion was removed. I also EQed the guitar so it sounded more natural. This is probably average for most records. Some are worse than others, some better. In the 60s and 70s there wasn't the tight quality control on 45s that there was on LPs.

I love this hobby because there are so many records and recordings that we don't hear on the radio anymore, and much of them are going to be lost to time. So myself, and a few other guys are taking our collections and restoring anything we can.