# Oddest item currently found in your work desk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471 "2003-02-25T20:27:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/21 "2003-02-25T21:48:47Z")
2 dried crawfish shells, a picture of future neice or nephew’s sonogram, Mr Hankey, bottle of Tabasco, several Dale Earnhardt and Kevin Harvick diecast cars of various scales, Bob & Doug McKenzie figures, and a softball from a tavern league championship game in 1996 (we lost) ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/22 "2003-02-25T21:57:01Z")
I have several Smurf wind-up toys from 1982 on a shelf above my desk. Nothing _in_ the drawers is very old. The oldest is probably an employee newsletter from 1996. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/23 "2003-02-25T21:58:42Z")
Sorry, I read that “oldest” instead of “oddest”. Answer is still the same. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/24 "2003-02-25T22:11:21Z")
100 times actual size promotional [Stelazine](http://www.psyweb.com/Drughtm/trifne.html) tablet. I fint giant anti-psychotic drugs to be quite the conversation starter. I also currently have 3 partially gutted G3 Powerbooks. ---
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/25 "2003-02-25T22:18:05Z")
A bag full of googley eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/26 "2003-02-25T22:45:34Z")
Probably my Duke Nukem 3D mouse pad. (I used to have a Warcraft II Orc Warrior action figure standing on my monitor, but he disappeared some time ago. Damn cleaning people.) ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/27 "2003-02-25T22:57:04Z")
A porcupine-fish squirt gun. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/28 "2003-02-25T23:19:42Z")
Oldest **and** oddest: a Los Angeles High School Winter 1923 Semi-Annual (like a yearbook today, but in those days they had winter and summer graduations). The reason it’s there is that about 10 years and two jobs ago I brought it in to show a co-worker, and now it’s just travelled along from job to job with my office possessions. I also have some pages photocopied from a summer 1898 semi-annual, but I xeroxed that myself so it’s not really old. Why I’m interested in these antiques I have no idea, unless it’s just a general fascination with the old, engendered of having grown up in West L.A. where everything was new. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/29 "2003-02-25T23:29:24Z")
a chemical warfare protection suit. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/30 "2003-02-25T23:35:06Z")
A bichon frise named Spunky. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/31 "2003-02-25T23:40:27Z")
The Cup of Christ okay i made that one up ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/32 "2003-02-25T23:47:47Z")
A picture of my daughter when she was only a few hours old. At 1# 7oz. she was a wrinkly little thing. A kazoo. A die cast 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Gullwing coupe. The cowbell my blue-fronted amazon parrot played with. Picture of Max, my first kitty. ---
**Author:** ![3.885AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/58956e/32.png) [@3.885AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3.885AM)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/33 "2003-02-25T23:58:42Z")
A slide rule, actually not on the desk, but in the top drawer. I don’t still use it, but I still know how. ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/34 "2003-02-26T00:29:43Z")
A hand written note from John Wooden ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/35 "2003-02-26T00:35:18Z")
_In_ the desk: Nothing of interest. If anyone had asked a few weeks ago, I could have said: Melvin the Mouse. He wasn’t wearing a name tag or anything. He just looked like a Melvin. He got bored and went away after chewing a few things and entertaining me with his tap dancing ability. _On_ the desk: The skull of some sort of medium-size rodent, perhaps a gopher. I found it in my field one day, cleaned it up _really_ well and now I use it as a paperweight. It’s a little scary. Still has all its teeth. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/36 "2003-02-26T00:44:14Z")
Taped to the monitor: A b/w picture of the late Queen Mum, with holographic stickers in the shape of stars where her eyes should be. She watches over me. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/37 "2003-02-26T00:50:35Z")
A Kegel exerciser. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/38 "2003-02-26T01:43:53Z")
Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam and Silent Bob Action figures. On my monitor border, a clipping from a magazine saying “_I’d Like To Fill Your Mouth With Spiders_”. Keeps me smiling while I cover the supervisor line. In a coffee cup, WCW finger puppets that I glammed up with markers. My friends call them the rasslin drag queens. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/39 "2003-02-26T01:47:37Z")
A tea ball. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471/40 "2003-02-26T02:32:38Z")
An alligator head courtesy of **UncleBill**. Beyond that, it’s a $25 chip from a local casino that I keep as a coin on my desk. Tripler Yes, I intend to include it as one of my military coins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-item-currently-found-in-your-work-desk/157471.md?page=3)