# So I'm heading over the world where all the inexplicably lost stuff goes. Can I grab y'all anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035 "2010-03-19T17:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/41 "2010-03-19T22:48:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m still looking for the mate to that ONE SOCK that came out of the dryer. > > Where do those lost socks disappear to? Earth-Analogue 19484501-r. Antarctica. The Ross ice shelf. Dress socks, anyway. Crew socks are someplace else on the continent. I can’t be arsed to check the catalog as I am not going to Antarctica. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/42 "2010-03-19T23:14:54Z")
The lid to my great-grandmother’s cast-iron Dutch oven (the camping kind, with the feet). And **Oakminster,** on behalf of women everywhere, thanks for finally manning up and letting us off the hook for that whole salt-shaker thing. Lemon slice? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/43 "2010-03-19T23:20:39Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You better HOPE the Avengers catch me before I catch you, woman. Not even Piers Anthony would sink so low. You’re kidding right? Many of his puns were much worse. I had a tarot deck about five years ago. It disappeared. You may not be able to find it, since I’m still suspicious one of my parents threw it out. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/44 "2010-03-19T23:26:36Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > And **Oakminster,** on behalf of women everywhere, thanks for finally manning up and letting us off the hook for that whole salt-shaker thing. Lemon slice? Thank you kindly, ma’am, but I reckon I’ll pass. I’m more of a bourbon & Coke kinda guy. Also, I don’t really like my cheeseburgers with lettuce and tomato, but am not necessarily adverse to Heinz 57 and/or french fried potato 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![TheTerribleTako](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TheTerribleTako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTerribleTako)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/45 "2010-03-19T23:29:16Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I will take that as your agreeing to help pay for my fuel, TTT. I’ll send somebody over to take one of your livers. Inventory’s a bit low on livers here, old chap. I only got one left. How about a kidney and some fresh baked cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/46 "2010-03-20T00:06:23Z")
Can you find my friend’s six-year-old daughter’s teddy bear? It was originally pink, but it is kind of worn to a pinkish grey by now. It was given to her when she was born. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/47 "2010-03-20T01:30:27Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I loooooove _Square Meals_. “After-School Gingerbread” is one of my favorite recipes. You can’t have my copy, but I’ll PM you recipes till you find your copy. Aww, thanks, that’s very kind of you. I’ve made my favorites so many times I don’t need to refer to the recipes any more, though. I’m partial to the bundt cake made with Milky Way bars, myself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/48 "2010-03-20T01:43:51Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Only material things are kept in this world, sadly, like that stuffed tiger I lent to Little Sister #2 in 1978 which she somehow lost IN HER OWN BEDROO. > > Lost youth, squandered opportunities, failed ambitions, and desperately-yearned-for-love-&-innocence are kept in the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Then I guess my sanity is gone forever… Could you find the bag full of coins that disappeared during my move of 1984? I wouldn’t mind so much, except that the coins were abot twenty or thirty Susan B Anthony’s and the double handful of British change I had collected during my trip to England in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/49 "2010-03-20T01:58:28Z")
[Major Matt Mason](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Matt_Mason). Last seen he was in the lunar explorer multi-legged thingy driving into the slough\*. I figured, ‘Hey, he’s a lunar explorer, he should have no problem with salt water’. Anyway. If you see him in your travels. - swamp or shallow lake, southeastern US. Actually, in this case more of a cove, but ‘slough’ was the term. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/50 "2010-03-20T02:14:23Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > My St. Anthony’s medal. I lost it at the beach in 1982. > > Ironic, I know. I immediately pictured it giving its life for yours. You were meant to drown that day, Surly Chick. Or maybe get eaten by a shark. As for me, I’ve been missing a copy of Dynamite magazine since I was about 7. I think it was the one with the Walton’s on the cover. I hadn’t even read it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/51 "2010-03-20T03:50:56Z")
How exactly do things wind up there anyway? Quantum wormholes popping into existence only for a short time before dissipating? I ask, because once, I was sitting outside doing some work, and as I was erasing something, I accidentally dropped the eraser. I bent down to pick it up, and it was _gone_. I spent 10 minutes looking around within a 10 yard radius of where I was sitting, and there was no eraser to be found. Clearly, some mini-wormhole opened up right at my feet and swallowed up the eraser in the 2 second interval between me dropping it and me looking down to pick it up. I would be very curious if you could find my eraser. It was a pretty good one and I was sad to lose it. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/52 "2010-03-20T03:53:18Z")
Hmm. You might keep your eyes open for things that no one believes are really lost, because if you find them, it means… ah, but that would be paranoid… probably. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/53 "2010-03-20T06:09:07Z")
> [@maladroit](#): > > The other earring I paid too much for when I was drunk at the Renaissance Festival. I took them off when I was still drunk. I am still peering under furniture in the hopes it will fall out of where ever it’s been all this time. I think the cats know something but they aren’t sharing. Cats always know something, and they never share. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/54 "2010-03-20T07:45:19Z")
I was missing my jacket, but you returned it earlier today. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/55 "2010-03-20T08:37:07Z")
This thread wouldn’t exist if you guys would just look where you last put the lost things! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/56 "2010-03-20T11:02:14Z")
Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhart, but only if they come back with the truth about where they were. Oh yeah, and all those Bermuda Triangle ships and planes, particularly Flight 19. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/57 "2010-03-20T12:05:23Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > It’s so weird. My colander went missing. You know, that pot with holes used to drain pasta and the like. It’s not something that usually varies from the cabinet where it lives to the sink where it works. It’s not something you normally take anywhere or use somewhere else. > > But it’s gone. I’ve looked everywhere for that stupid colander! It’s nowhere in the kitchen. Where could it be? > > Please find it for me and ask it where it’s been all this time. It has been repurposed as a tinfoil hat. Very important. You shouldn’t interfere. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/58 "2010-03-20T12:07:41Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Earth-Analogue 19484501-r. Antarctica. The Ross ice shelf. > > Dress socks, anyway. Crew socks are someplace else on the continent. I can’t be arsed to check the catalog as I am not going to Antarctica. Sorry, I should have read the OP more closely. My bad. OK, here’s one. I have a set of brain-shaped beanbags for juggling. The grandkids were playing with them a while back and managed to lose one of them. Nobody can find it. We’ve looked everywhere. I can’t juggle with only two brains. I need my third brain! ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/59 "2010-03-20T12:10:59Z")
> [@Kyrie\_Eleison](#): > > If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, could you grab the large green easy chair? About a year after we moved into the new house, my wife asked me where it went. I figure she might like it back. Hopefully Skald will do both of you a favor and NOT return it. You lost it for a reason you know. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035/60 "2010-03-20T14:06:49Z")
I’d like the package the USPS lost 2 months ago. It contained about $300 of brand new medical textbooks I need to study for my boards and the Shel Silverstein books I’ve had since I was about 7 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-heading-over-the-world-where-all-the-inexplicably-lost-stuff-goes-can-i-grab-yall-anything/533035.md?page=4)