I have:
pencil lead
black thread
Lego (not Star Wars, but it has a little astronaut guy on some kind of rocket)
glue stick
car keys
alarm clock
Mardi Gras beads
catalogs by the ton
black sharpie
I also have:
hand-held fan
mini rainbow slinky
clip-on flashing safety light
squishy glow-in-the-dark moon
poster for “The Crawling Eye”
two fortune cookie fortunes
lanyard
egg cup with feet (full of paper clips)
Tigger pez dispenser
misprinted glass trophy (not mine)
kazoo
pencil lead
glow-in-the-dark paint
black thread
tweezers
Swiss Army knife
black light
promotional frisbee (nerf-type foam)
6" plastic Eric Cartman (belongs to an office-mate, but its sitting on one of my cabinets)
mortar & pestle (gotta take that home)
Gameboy SP
spoons & forks
canned air
plush Cthulhu
dice (a full set, like my fellow gamer bouv)
portable fan (It gets really hot here in hel…I mean, Dallas.)
Mardi Gras mask (plus some dragon masks and such)
flashlight
various screwdrivers
candles
ginger (crystallized ginger, mmmm…)
Other stuff:
LART (made from rainbow-colored ribbon cable)
webshooter
vial of heather oil
mummified cat (fake, so you PETA people leave me be)
Bondage Moose[sup]TM[/sup]
Dalmutation (plush two-headed dog–a Meanie Baby)
plush Bun-Bun (a rabbit with a switchblade)
theatrical makeup kit
can of cold vulcanizing fluid
overload protection circuit from a 100-foot long microwave oven
clip leads
business card for “J.J. Steele, Confidential Agent”
instructions for assembling a coffin The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
Japanese primer, dictionary, and workbook
foam rubber ball bearing a gunshot smiley
paintbrushes
list of quantum physics product warnings
lockpicks (both good spring-steel picks and some made from paperclips)
Ocarina of Time (not the game, an actual ocarina)
I’ve got a Willie Simpsons figure
Shells from many beaches, all gifts
Pressed pennies from Six Flags, Florida and Devil’s Tower
One PIAA light
Leprechaun in a can
Bazooka Joe box of comics
Motorcycle toy
Motorcycle helmet
Motorcycle Boots
Motorcycle Jacket (guess who rode to work today)
500 count of rainbow paperclips
Compas for drawing circles
Engineer scale
12" pair of scissors
2 Dunkin’ Donuts napkins
One of those ink pens that you have to dip in ink.
x-acto knife
14lbs bowling ball
bowling shoes
earplugs
lug nut
two, count em two lunch bags, neither of them gets used
two hole punch
Newgrange spiral
I’ve got both of those (I don’t use the lunch bags either!)
Other things:
A Leatherman
Three homemade quilts
A two-dollar bill
Blown glass perfume bottles
An orchid
A pile of fortunes from fortune cookies
Three rolls of grey duct tape
One roll of white duct tape
From the lists:
cell phone
socks
empty popcorn bag
empty glass
mortar and pestle
ticket stubs
Mardi Gras mask
ginger (pickled)
several fortune cookie fortunes
stuffed animals
New stuff:
2 sets of chopsticks
a half-empty Zima bottle
statue of Shiva
purple jump rope
Hello Kitty backpack
autographed picture of James Marsters
carpet shampooer
I have a sword and firecrackers near my desk.
My own list of wierd objects:
American Flyer NY Central System 4-6-4 Locomotive
Clay beaver, a 20-year junior high school art project
“Tips of the DOOM Programming Gurus” Guide
“Official Duke-Nukem 3-D Guide”
“VB4 Programmer’s Guide”
Sports-bottle shaped like Marvin the Martian
Pair of leather boots from when I was maybe four
Bag of 30-pin SIMMS
A Conferate artillery major’s uniform (replica)
Two rifles and a shotgun
Valve grinding compound
Unopened Ozzy Osbourne Action Figure (complete with headless bats)
Topographical maps of a couple hundred square miles of the surrounding territory
An original Carmageddon CD
Two working TI-99/4As
Two 1935 $1 Silver Certificates
Well, I hope this counts, as I have a little Marvin the Martian figurine atop my computer monitor pointing his little ray gun directly at my forehead.
As for my list:
[ul]
[li]A bunch of Godzilla figures [natch] of various sizes[/li][li]A lava lamp[/li][li]A glass Coca-Cola bottle from China[/li][li]A “Notary Public” sign[/li][li]A small Chinese snuff bottle decorated with pandas[/li][li]A collage made up of the disassembled parts of a pocket watch[/li][li]A copy of “The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style”[/li][li]A framed photograph of me with Chow Yun Fat[/li][li]A nifty green laser pointer with a range of two miles [/li][/ul]
Barry