# My desk is beeping **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157 "2005-03-18T17:19:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/1 "2005-03-18T17:19:20Z")
But, I have to go out for a while, will figure it out later. Long, long time between occurances, on the order of hours. Three short beeps in about 2 seconds time, very faint, quite high on the note scale. I wonder how many crazy replies vs not crazy replies this will generate? ciao4now --BE GOOD! ;j ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/2 "2005-03-18T17:29:55Z")
Um, that’s weird. Is your desk on the Starship Enterprise by any chance? Other than that, I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/3 "2005-03-18T17:38:46Z")
are you wearing you’re tin foil hat? Because if you’re not, then you may _think_ that the desk is beeping, but it’s really just the CIA beaming messages into you’re brain. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/4 "2005-03-18T18:10:36Z")
Is there a strong smell of popcorn in the air? If so, the answer could be that you’re really quite small and have been using a microwave oven for a desk, and someone has used your “desk” to make popcorn in, and now it’s done. Simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/5 "2005-03-18T18:39:26Z")
I’m guessing it’s something like a Tamogotchi that’s fallen behind a drawer and is slowly dying, or some other kind of keychain gadget/game whose batteries are running down. 😃 Do tell when you solve the mystery. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/6 "2005-03-18T19:58:32Z")
You know it’s just a vast conspiracy to make **NCB** go insane. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/7 "2005-03-18T19:59:27Z")
_Go_ insane? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/8 "2005-03-18T20:09:04Z")
Sounds like you have a dying smoke detector in a drawer. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/9 "2005-03-18T21:08:40Z")
Check your drawers. You may have somebody’s pager buried in your desk someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/10 "2005-03-18T21:13:25Z")
I have a little battery-operated birdie (that sounds really weird). No, it’s a little artificial bird, a cardinal to be precise, and you stick its feet in a plant’s soil. Then it chirps to tell you when the soil’s dry. Anything like that? ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/11 "2005-03-18T22:05:32Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have a little battery-operated birdie (that sounds really weird). No, it’s a little artificial bird, a cardinal to be precise, and you stick its feet in a plant’s soil. Then it chirps to tell you when the soil’s dry. > > Anything like that? Clearly, his desk must be in dire need of watering. 😃 d&r ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/12 "2005-03-18T23:17:02Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have a little battery-operated birdie (that sounds really weird). No, it’s a little artificial bird, a cardinal to be precise, and you stick its feet in a plant’s soil. Then it chirps to tell you when the soil’s dry. If that’s the OP’s case, I’ll eat my spats. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/13 "2005-03-18T23:47:45Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > Clearly, his desk must be in dire need of watering. > > 😃 > d&r THAT’S IT!!! Not really. Okay, I have an L shaped desk with 8 drawers. BTW, **Leesha** ’s post had me checking my pants. I have a couple of old meters in it, a dead hard drive, and… AN OLD PAGER I mean, from a long time ago. I haven’t used a pager since I got a cell phone, and I’ve had a cell phone for about 6 years now. No, I haven’t heard it beep again yet, but I have it on top of the monitor now (my pet lizard), so I should know eventually. Funny thing, tho. It used a AAA battery and there isn’t one in it right now. In some of my cameras, there is a long life lithium imbedded in the works, often not user replaceable, which remembers settings like ISO or something. Perhaps the pager has a lithium somehwere inside it remebering its number and now, after 5 - 6 years, it’s going bad and signalling the need for replacement? That’s my WAG. I couldn’t find anything else in or near the desk that could be the culprit unless the Mars Guys are beaming some sort of mind control at me. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/14 "2005-03-19T02:05:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > THAT’S IT!!! > Not really. Okay, I have an L shaped desk with 8 drawers. BTW, **Leesha** ’s post had me checking my pants. I have a couple of old meters in it, a dead hard drive, and… > > AN OLD PAGER My goodness, you had all of that in your pants? Man, I am just full of wit today! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/15 "2005-03-19T03:19:06Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > If that’s the OP’s case, I’ll eat my spats. 😃 😕 I thought spats were something you did with your SO? (have an argument) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/16 "2005-03-19T03:23:52Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > 😕 I thought spats were something you did with your SO? (have an argument) [Spats](http://www.wirralpipeband.free-online.co.uk/kit_for_sale/spats.jpg) were also the leather or canvas uppers that the fashionable wore to keep their trousers and shoes from letting their ankles show. I think that’s the purpose of 'em at least. Not exactly something many people wear day-to-day these days. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/17 "2005-03-19T04:02:06Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > [Spats](http://www.wirralpipeband.free-online.co.uk/kit_for_sale/spats.jpg) were also the leather or canvas uppers that the fashionable wore to keep their trousers and shoes from letting their ankles show. I think that’s the purpose of 'em at least. > > Not exactly something many people wear day-to-day these days. 😉 Ahoy hoy, I still have some. From a party costume. A Communist Party costume. (Don’t worry. It makes even less sense on this end.) **Ninja Chick** , you realise this means WAR! Still no noise from the lizard. Maybe it’s completely dead now. It’s amazing how one tries to fill their time when the woman they just started dating’s kid has a cold/flu/spontaneous combustion problem/evil demon possesion. At least I’m learning to like IM again. I feel like I’m 33 all over again. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/18 "2005-03-19T04:06:47Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Ahoy hoy, I still have some. > > From a party costume. > > A Communist Party costume. > > (Don’t worry. It makes even less sense on this end.) We need a smiley for an exploding head. Really. I’m trying to figure out how even a non-sensical Communist Party costume would have spats… and I can smell the smoke, starting, now… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/19 "2005-03-19T04:13:53Z")
Please don’t make me start a stream-of-consciousness thread. We may not survive it. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/20 "2005-03-19T08:14:13Z")
Yanno, it would have been sooo much cooler had you said > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Please don’t make me start a **steam** -of-consciousness thread. We may not survive it. Then I could have followed with puns on lifting up a little relief for the pressure you’d be under. 😉 Alas, you flubbed your straight line. 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157.md?page=2)