mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....

Raak

Is it for displaying knick-knackery, bric-a-brac, trinkets, curios, and the like?

Bismarck

[Raak] YES, that is the most common usage of the whatever-it-is.

Raak

A cabinet of curiosities?

Although I have a hard time imagining IKEA stocking one.

Simons Mith

[Raak] Well, there's the KASSEBY...

Bismarck

[Raak] NO, not a cabinet. IKEA still have a thing under the name of some fruit that could be described as the AOTC, but the version I found when the subject came up first has now disappeared from the catalogue.

Superman

I have no idea. Is that it?

Raak

Is it a display case sold with a subscription to receive a uniquely designed collectible thimble every month until you build up a treasured heirloom to pass on to your descendants, who will after a decent but short interval (say, on return from the funeral) chuck it in the bin?

People who collect thimbles (it says on a thimble-collecting site) are known as Digitabulists. How very depressing.