So I'm heading over the world where all the inexplicably lost stuff goes. Can I grab y'all anything?

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.

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?

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.

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 :cool:

Inventory’s a bit low on livers here, old chap. I only got one left. How about a kidney and some fresh baked cookies?

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.

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. :slight_smile:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cats always know something, and they never share.

I was missing my jacket, but you returned it earlier today. Thanks.

This thread wouldn’t exist if you guys would just look where you last put the lost things!

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.

It has been repurposed as a tinfoil hat. Very important. You shouldn’t interfere.

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!

Hopefully Skald will do both of you a favor and NOT return it. You lost it for a reason you know.

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