# My desk is beeping

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157>\
**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:** 6\
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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/21 "2005-03-19T08:34:27Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> **Leesha** ’s post had me checking my pants.

It wasn’t _that_ funny. 😃

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**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, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/22 "2005-03-19T13:00:51Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Ahoy hoy, I still have some.
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> From a party costume.
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> A Communist Party costume.
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> (Don’t worry. It makes even less sense on this end.)

A Communist Party costume party! But of course! (Was it a 1920’s style communist party party?)

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**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/23 "2005-03-19T13:39:06Z")

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It was, but only for 20 minutes, in 1960.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/24 "2005-03-19T14:04:23Z")

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I had a similar problem. Intermittent beeping in the bedroom. It never lasted long enough to even determine the direction. Usually it was in the middle of the night. It just about drove me crazy! (I know, not too long a drive. Ha!) I eventually found the culprit. It was an old watch in a drawer.

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**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/25 "2005-03-19T17:55:14Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> 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…
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> AN OLD PAGER

HA! I knew it! 🙂 Your “symptoms” reminded me of a story I read on one of those “tech support funnies” sites a while back. This guy’s computer was beeping for no reason and it turned out to be a pager that had fallen under the desk…

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**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 20, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-desk-is-beeping/295157/26 "2005-03-20T04:38:24Z")

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Well, sure. But you said it would be in my drawers.  
It was in my desk.  
So there.

Now, if a Communist Party Official had spats on his shoes sometime during the party, what would he use to wipe them off?

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