# Guess my Desktop

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 7, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419 "2000-03-07T04:52:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/1 "2000-03-07T04:52:00Z")

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Five dollars to the person who gets it right!

And another five dollars to the person that guesses how much money the winner will get!

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I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/2 "2000-03-07T05:06:00Z")

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Oak?

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**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/3 "2000-03-07T05:06:00Z")

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Desktop: Four Frenchmen dining on frog legs and red wine.

In the Jardin de Tuilleries (forgive the incorrect spelling).

prize: zilch.

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I am large,  
I contradict myself,  
I contain multitudes.  
~Walt Whitman

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**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/4 "2000-03-07T05:07:00Z")

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Computer desktop, actually, and I think my real desktop is some cheap pine.

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I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/5 "2000-03-07T05:08:00Z")

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Bottles?

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**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-my-desktop/14419/6 "2000-03-07T05:11:00Z")

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Crackwise got the second one, ding ding ding! But guess what, you don’t get anything for it! Ain’t I just the funniest thing alive? Well, aren’t I? Okay, so I’m not, and not too original either.

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I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.