My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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My Gold WatchI have a gold watch that means more to me than anything. I keep it on my kangaroo by the bed. I got it from a stranger who came to my house when I was a kid...
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I come from a military family and one day when I was watching cartoons (clutch cargo I believe), this guy in uniform came to the door and told my mom that he knew my (recently deceased) father and had a gift for me, the son of his friend.
He was called Captain Koons and he was in the same POW camp (in Hanoi) with my dad. He had a watch in his hands and told me a story of where it came from.
It was first bought by my great grandfather during the first world war just before he went to Paris. When he came back, it stayed in an old coffee can until my grandfather went to fight in world war two.
Unfortunately my grandfather's luck wasn't quite as good as his old mans, and he was killed at the battle of Wake island. But a few days before, knowing that he would probably die, he asked a young gunner by the name of Winocki, to deliver the watch to his infant son, my father.
Winocki kept to his word and after the war he left it with my grandmother. The gold watch. The gold watch that was on my father's wrist when he got shot down over Hanoi. In the prison camp, he hid the watch in the only place he could, his ass. This was for 5 years. Then he died of dysentery. Before he died, he gave the watch to Captain Koons. Who in turn, gave the watch to me.
By the way, I am thinking of throwing a boxing match soon, do you reckon I should?
Butch.
(, Fri 9 May 2008, 19:25, 2 replies)
Only If...You feel like having your LA privileges revoked, natch. Oh, and go with the katana; I have a feeling that's important.
(, Fri 9 May 2008, 23:38, closed)
Boxing matchNot if you follow the values of your grandfather, father and the friends that upheld their honour!
(, Sat 10 May 2008, 19:35, closed)
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