# Need the Dopers Devious Minds: Hiding Rocks **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537 "2002-06-11T23:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/21 "2002-06-12T21:34:10Z")
I just now noticed that I suggested gutting a teddy bear in two different posts. Apparently I have unresolved issues. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/22 "2002-06-12T21:45:12Z")
We forgive you, **seawitch**. 🙂 I think you should mail all of the rocks to him COD. ---
**Author:** ![absimia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@absimia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absimia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/23 "2002-06-12T21:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*\>\>These are great! Will the USPS really deliver him a rock, Athena? > > I don’t see why not. I’ve sent bagels that way. Sufficient postage is the key. > > My understanding of the USPS is that once it gets in the system, they do their best to deliver it. They can, however, refuse it when you try to send it - ie, if you go to the post office and try to hand it to a postal clerk, he or she can say “No”. That’s why it’s important to just drop it in a public mail box. \*\* More on this option from one of my favorite magazines _The Journal of Improbable Research_. [http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html](http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html) There they discuss all the improbable things they tried to mail and the results. The conclusion I came to is that the USPS certainly puts up with a lot. Makes me proud to be an American. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/24 "2002-06-13T00:46:53Z")
I have one suggestion if it’s a small rock-- inside the toilet paper roll. Between the spring thingie and the cardboard inner… ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/25 "2002-06-13T01:21:03Z")
Does he use a computer? Does he have an optical mouse? If not, you can see where this is going… Take out his mouse’s trackball, and replace it with a fairly (but not quite) round rock, just a little smaller than the ball so it will still work somewhat. When his mouse starts going crazy, he’ll turn it over and find - the rock! Keep his mouse’s ball around though, because he’ll want it back. Order a porn video. At the point where things start getting, uh, “heavy,” record over it so that the rest of the tape is a shot of a rock; just sitting there. Then put it back in the box, replace the cellophane (seran wrap and a blowdryer work well), and mail it to him. He’ll have had to put up with the horrors of a porno exposition, then is teased into the joke - a rock where nobody expected. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/26 "2002-06-13T13:02:08Z")
As long as it’s big enough not to get sucked past the U-bend, in the bottom of the toilet bowl and then put the lid down. Does he drink coffee? In his cofee cup (upside down). Hollow out a tomato and insert rock into hollow. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/27 "2002-06-13T13:43:07Z")
Slight hijack: This makes me think of a news story I read some years ago. A man (I think in Florida) every year on Christmas would get a coconut delivered to him. Attached to the coconut was always the same message: “To the Daddy from the Thingy.” He had no idea who kept sending a coconut to him, or why the person would go to such great lengths. For example, one year the coconut was delivered by helicopter. Another year it was brought to his front door by a semi-pro basketball team. This is funny if it happens to someone else. If it happened to me, it would freak me out severely. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/28 "2002-06-13T15:04:27Z")
Oh, that coconut thing is funny! (Creepy-funny) These are all great ideas! Loved your stories, **Ich Bin** and **Telemark**! Hee. I love the mouse idea but these rocks are bigger than that–they’re at least two inches if not more. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/29 "2002-06-13T15:51:33Z")
Get a Gideons copy of the Bible, open it to Lamemtations and cut out a space for and deposit a sedimentary rock. Leave it on his bedside table. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/30 "2002-06-13T22:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > …hide one in the freezer–if it’s been well-cleaned, stick it in a carton of **Rocky** Road ice cream. 😃 A can of ground coffee. A large box of laundry detergent. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/31 "2002-06-13T23:24:51Z")
Local Pizza place. Go there. Give rocks & Instructions. Pay for delivery & give a big tip. It’ll smell so good at the door… “Yes sir. I have a large Pepperoni with EVERYTHING on it, pre-paid.” Wanna bet he takes the rocks off and eats it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537/32 "2002-06-14T15:22:28Z")
Oh, he would SO take off the rocks and eat it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-the-dopers-devious-minds-hiding-rocks/113537.md?page=1)