# Guess what I found under my mouse pad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563 "2000-11-10T01:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/1 "2000-11-10T01:00:39Z")
26 cents! A quarter and a penny! Oh, happy happy joy joy! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/2 "2000-11-10T01:03:54Z")
Oh darn, I thought this was going to be a puzzle. I was going to guess cat fur. Just remember not to spend it all at the same place. ::deb walks out mumble, mumble, mumble:: ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/3 "2000-11-10T01:05:10Z")
hell, I assumed that it was another thread about the elections, and you’d just found those missing Florida ballots… ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/4 "2000-11-10T01:08:34Z")
I thought you were going to say _mouse droppings_. ---
**Author:** ![Fletch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/5 "2000-11-10T01:10:13Z")
Now that was a let down, I was thinking you were going to say you found the mouse pads genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/6 "2000-11-10T02:11:10Z")
Damn! I thought this was going to be a guessing game! My guess was…Pubic hairs? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/7 "2000-11-10T03:29:48Z")
I was going to guess a post-it with your password on it. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/8 "2000-11-10T04:56:08Z")
A postage stamp, a pickle, and a piece of cheese. Maybe its not right, but you could have had a little mouse party… ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/9 "2000-11-10T05:17:45Z")
I found a desk under mine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/10 "2000-11-10T21:56:45Z")
I found the mouse’s downstairs neighbors… ---
**Author:** ![momcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@momcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/momcat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/11 "2000-11-10T22:04:39Z")
wring and Dire Wolf, you just got me in trouble for laughing out loud at work!! 🙂 Keep up the good work! 😃 friedo, if we put your 26 cents with the quarter I found in my pencil cup the other day, we could buy and share a Coke (or a Pepsi, if you prefer). Such wealth!! 😉 MomCat ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/12 "2000-11-10T22:50:49Z")
I wonder how many people looked under their mousepad after reading this post? I did. I didn’t find anything. Damn the luck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/13 "2000-11-10T23:15:44Z")
How many of us don’t even have mouse pads? I don’t. My dad told me I “didn’t need one.” Blindly, I believed him. Perhaps…I was wrong? Was I screwed by the system? Now i lack the chance to overturn my pad in search of gold, riches, and Floridian ballots. Woe is me. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-i-found-under-my-mouse-pad/40563/14 "2000-11-11T01:42:26Z")
I don’t have one. I’ve got a nifty lil’ optical mouse (I guess it’s a girl–no ball :)) that doesn’t require a mouse pad…(and no, you dirty-minded bastards, I’m not gonna make _that_ joke ;))