An Asterix hard cover comic book, a Dietzgen triangular white edge chain scale, a Nikon digital camera, a Mitutoyo digital vernier scale, an empty Original Celebrated Curiously Strong CINNAMON Altoids can, a Linksys 2.4 GHz wireless hub…which one is the oldest…I think the Altoids can.
On my desk: a dried lizard, a human skull, a chunk of frito seasoning the size of a walnut, someone’s left tennis shoe, a decapitated teddy bear/pencil cup, a plaster birthday cake with goldfish, mice and butterfly sprinkles (my cats just turned two!), a Ben and Jerry’s pint container with wings and legs attached, and a giant eyeball made from a beach ball.
Most of the stuff in my desk is pretty dull, with the exception of the 18 inch long dildo I confiscated last period today. Gonna be glad to turn that puppy in to the office-- there’s something worrying about a penis that size.
On my desk: a dried lizard, a human skull, a chunk of frito seasoning the size of a walnut, someone’s left tennis shoe, a decapitated teddy bear/pencil cup, a plaster birthday cake with goldfish, mice and butterfly sprinkles (my cats just turned two!), a Ben and Jerry’s pint container with wings and legs attached, and a giant eyeball made from a beach ball.
Most of the stuff in my desk is pretty dull, with the exception of the 18 inch long dildo I confiscated last period today. Gonna be glad to turn that puppy in to the office-- there’s something worrying about a penis that size.
Ack, my hamsters are acting up tonight, sorry for that double post!
A plastic angel. Wind it up and she flaps her wings.
I’m awfully glad for the OP. Because of it, I found a bag of Reese’s peanut butter cups that I didn’t know I had.
I’ve got a Wonder Woman Pez dispenser, fuses for my car, seven rolls of undeveloped film in my drawer. On top of my monitor, it’s a pair of plush Gumby and Pokey dolls. With Gumby riding Pokey.
My bottom drawer is half full of pennies, which I add to daily. I call it my “retirement fund.”
But the oddest thing is my carved wooden nutcracker. It probably dates to the fifties or so - I found it in a box of crap I bought at an auction. It’s in the shape of a “native south-seas-island girl.” She’s topless, and her legs are hinged to - ahem - crack the nuts. Positively Freudian.
Being a high school student, I have a backpack instead of a desk. Same idea, though.
I have at least 5 bouncy balls, a miniature mannequin wearing a pair of jeans and a flannel shirt that I made (his name is Jeremy), an egg of Silly Putty with 2 colors of silly putty mixed together (I also have a needle stuck in the silly putty. It’s just a good place to keep it), a squishy star, a badge with my name on it and my homeroom teacher’s name from last year, and a bunch of beads from various broken pieces of jewellery.
Best I can do is the Killer Tomato™ that lurks on top of my nameplate.
Boring.
A bottle of out of date medication, 3 packs of flower seeds from 1997, one of those squigey stress balls, a pincushion bristling with pins, a new pack of white shoelaces, 2 sets of chopsticks.
Dull, dull, dull
An eight inch high grey gargoyle with spread wings given to me by my daughter six years ago on father’s day.
A bunchteen reference books, including the Video Hound guide and various Billboard record guides from 1940 through 1995.
Perhaps fifty official reporter’s notebooks.
A two foot by three foot architect’s drawing of a former grocery store that is being converted into doctor’s offices by our local hospital.
A huge fat-bottomed plastic FedEx cup (gift from my sister-in-law who drives a route for them).
A ceramic cup with “Good @#$%^ Morning!” on it (also a gift from my daughter, come to think of it.)
A magnifying glass.
Three books waiting to be read for reviews.
A servo-motor from a V2 rocket. It was situated in the tail, and adjusted one of four vanes to control the attitude of the rocket in flight, as directed by a gyro in the nose.
Not on the desk, but under it - a small plastic cage with a pink top. This is at my AM job. We had a mouse in the office and spent ten minutes one shift chasing him around. I think once he realized who he was dealing with he ran for his life. Never did get him.
I don’t have a desk at my PM job, but there’s a pink comb and brush set in my area for the long-haired guinea pig. Unfortunately it’s a male pig. Oops!
I also carry a backpack to both jobs and the oddest thing in it is a full emergency kit, including food, shelter and cooking equipment. No, I’m not afraid of the War, but I am a bit worried about earthquakes. I was at my AM job when the Seattle quake hit and we could feel it quite strongly. I live on one side of the Fraser River and work on the other, so it’s very possible that when the big one hit’s, (they say it’s way overdue), I may not be able to get home for several days, if the bridge goes.
The oddest thing on the desk at home is an old, non-working five inch B&W TV, which the monitor sits on to raise it to eye level.
All four of the Handy Hindu Finger Puppets. Finger puppet versions of Kali, Brahma, Ganesha and Garuda.
A tiny rubber skull
A tiny AIBO keychain (he and the skull watch me from on top of my monitor)
Copies of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The MovieHound Guide and Contingency Cannibalism, which contains some rather tempting recipies.
A rubberband ball, but after reading about Caricci’s, I feel pretty inadequate.
Not mine, but something I found in an abandoned office down the hall (which looks as if no one has entered it in decades, which was apparently when aliens vaporized the owner, because nothing’s been moved):
A road map of Boston circa 1960, before they bulldozed the North End and put in all the interstates.
Gator head, metal dental tool for getting between teeth, and full size gold brick.
I’ve got a few strange things:
a shirtless Willie action figure,
A book on the music group the Scorpions, in German, from Germany. I brought it in to find out more about it and probably get rid of it on e-bay.
The strangest thing I have though is a tube of mustard from Finland. One of my co-workers goes there once a year and he brought it back to me.
Crayons, a stack of post-it notes shaped like an Aloha t-shirt, a gold candle, Chocolate Euros, a Speedy Gonzales pez dispenser, a teabag strainer, and a remote-control car.
By comparison, the toothbrush and toothpase are pretty standard equipment.
Oh, I forgot that on the side of my computer you’ll find a rubber fried egg, and a rubber piece of toast. And a lei. And a little green cotton ball with googly eyes from the Armed Forces.