Things I cannot find.

In My Humble Opinion
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[li]My green corduroy jumper.[/li][li]My Easy Rider soundtrack (CD, no label, just a jewel case).[/li][li]Piglet’s oven mitt.[/li][li]The little ramekin I have for dipping sauces.[/li][li]My Union Army cap.[/li][/ul]

I think I posted here two years ago, wondering where the green corduroy jumper is. I still cannot find it. I didn’t lend it out; I don’t lend anything out. I didn’t forget to pick it up from the dry cleaners because I never had it cleaned. I didn’t sell it, and I don’t see how it could have been thrown out.

The Easy Rider soundtrack could have been in my car when it was broken into last year, but I think I’ve listened to it since then. I was also very certain, at that time, of what was missing. (Thanks again to the Dopers who helped me replace them!)

My stuffed Piglet (Shepard, not Disney) wears a chef’s hat, apron, and one oven mitt. He used to have two, but I’ve torn the bedroom apart and I can’t find it. Well, actually, I haven’t torn the bedroom quite apart. Tomorrow, I’ll go through the laundry very carefully.

The ramekin is not in any of the cabinets. And it can’t be stuck in the dishwasher, because it’s large enough to have caused damage if that happened.

The Union Army camp was AWOL for a while. Then it turned up amongst a bunch of other caps. Then it disappeared again before I had a chance to wear it.

Things don’t go missing around here very often. Mr. Rilch and I are scrupulous about putting things back in their designated places. And we have a lot of designated places. Therefore, when something’s not to be found, it’s highly noteworthy.

I hereby declare tomorrow to be “Search Day.” I will post the results. Meanwhile, feel free to list the things you can’t find.

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what about those little things with a sort of raffia-work base…that has an attachment…?
btw - I have a horrible feeling I remember the corduroy pullover problem. So it is still missing?

Hmmm - strange things are afoot.

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Things I can’t find :

The world’s best choc chip cookie recipe. I made them once and lost the recipe :frowning: They were the moistest cookies too !

One of Mr Goo’s business shirts. I have no idea where this is. He never came home without a shirt on, and I was using an indoor drying rack, not the outside clothes line (which is the usual culprit in this area, for missing clothes)

A few CD’s. I haven’t lent CD’s out in the last 6 years, because they were always returned with scratches, and I don’t throw parties, so I have no idea where it’s gone.

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1/ My best blue shearer’s singlet (I think it’d be called a ‘wife beater’ in the US). It’s not in behind the washing machine (the usual place for missing clothes) and it’s not drying anywhere in the house.

Chance of loss being due to theft: low.

2/ My absolute fav red boxer briefs. No idea where they could have run off to.

Chances of loss being due to theft: very low.

3/ My 1999 Amberley (Margaret River) Cabernet Merlot. I swear I never drank it, but it’s nowhere to found in my house. It’s not rolling around in my car either, the usual place for missing alcohol.

Chance of loss being due to theft: high.

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A desirable, available woman in my age group & geographic area.

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My youthful idealism.

[sub]Can’t link directly to the strip, but it’s the third one down.[/sub]

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  • My Noritake gravy boat
    I have the underplate, but can’t find the gravy boat. Admittedly, though, I only took a few minutes to look for it. My kitchen, however, isn’t very large. I had to use the gravy boat that doesn’t have a matching underplate for last night’s dinner. The horror. Anyhoo, I’ll look for it again this evening.

  • My sanity
    I swear I had it earlier this year.

  • My indigo Armani Exchange t-shirt
    I have the white one but can’t find the indigo one. Grrrrrrrr. This one bothers me because I love this t-shirt.

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My favorite black shirt. It was stretchy. It had a flattering neckline. It was slightly shiny. It went well with all my skirts and most of my pants.

I know I brought it home from college. I don’t know what happened to it after that.

I’m also missing a few CDs, but I have a pretty good idea of where they are and those people can keep them.

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My power drill. I have about six household projects to work on right now, and I know that drill is around somewhere, but darned if I know where…

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My copy of Patterns Of Fashion by Janet Arnold. I think it got lost in translation when I moved back home after school. It’s a $60 book, and I’m annoyed about losing it.

My favorite long black dress, from Tristan&America. It’s perfect- made out of a comfortable, washable knit, plunging neckline, fits perfectly and makes me look gorgeous. I haven’t seen it since February. I want it back!!!.. I’ve searched my house, my fiance’s apartment, my friend-who-borrows-clothes house…

Who would steal a dress? How did I not notice they’d stolen it? Usually I notice if someone publicly undresses me…

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My wife’s 4 foot long pet iguana. He jumped off my shoulder when I took him outside two weeks ago and then he ran into our large row of assorted bushed at the edge of our yard. I thought that he was gone for good but people keep seeing him around lounging in bushes and brambles. Unfortunately, every time I try to find him, I can’t and I am the only one that can catch him.

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<B>Shagnasty</b> - there was a loose iguana at my sister’s subdivision a couple years ago. All the kids would see her her and there. She seemed to be flourishing. Finally she was spotted in a tree. The firemen came and got her down. Meanwhile, a woman pulled in and said “Edna! There’s Edna! She got lost 4 months ago. We bought a dog to replace her.” One of hte firefighters offered to take her, but the woman wanted her Edna back.

I’m missing:
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My doberman McGyver, stolen from my deck 9 years ago
My kilt, imported from Scotland
Almost all my potholders - I have one left that is burnt from the stove
My black belt**

If anyone wants to confess and/or return said objects, no questions will be asked.

StG

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That game ‘Crossbows & Catapults’

I cant even find it on Ebay.

Sheeeeeeeh

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I was at Outback recently (as I always am), enjoying my Outback specialty “Heart Attack on a Plate” aka “Aussie Cheese Fries,” and as often happens, I just couldn’t quite finish them.

When I told my waitress I needed a box for the rest, she asked me if I wanted my *dipping sauces to go, too. When I replied, “Yes,” she then asked, “Would you like a ramekin?”

I then said, “I don’t know. It sounds like it can be painful.”

*In my case, blue cheese dressing and dijon mustard.

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I searched through all the cabinets, every one of them, and did not find the ramekin. I should have been doing some cleaning as I went along, but I did not. :stuck_out_tongue: Finally, Mr. Rilch asked, “What did it look like again?”

It’s in his humidor, holding charcoal or something. Whewwwwwwww. I don’t mind sacrificing it to that! As long as I know what happened to it. If I feel the need, I can get a set at Smart & Final. It’s just the idea of something vanishing into the space-time continuum that I can’t bear.

Now for the Union Army cap…

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I’m not a sentimental sort, thus I have very few pictures. And I don’t actually recall ever having attempted to retrieve a picture save for this one.

I have (somewhere) a photograph of my Dad’s first wife. She was a WASP and she was killed during WWII. In the course of searching something else involving my last name, I stumbled across a site dedicated to the WASPs. All they have is her service photo.

They’d love this picture! She’s - well, if she’d been my mother, I’d’ve been handsome (I hope my Mom never starts surfin’ the web). Wearing one of those fleece lined leather flying jackets, she’s leaning up against a P-51 Mustang.

Great photo! And I’ve mounted two full scale assaults on my “stuff” drawers and boxes, as yet to no avail.

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My girlish figure.

Luckily I still have my sense of humor :slight_smile:

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Attrayant, you beat me to it! Bloom County rocks!

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I’m missing a couple months of Victoria Magazine from 1989 that I know were in my possession at one point. This is what comes of moving every year.

Even worse, I’m missing a necklace I got from the Field Museum in Chicago waaaaaaaaayy back many years ago when Tutankhamen was on exhibit there. It was a delicate wire chain with tiny glass beads of different colors and probably cost less than $5. It was simple and yet elegant enough that I could wear it as a child and as an adult. I had it for years, but it seems to have disappeared sometime during the last five. I can’t imagine what could have happened to it.

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Big map of Benelux that I bought just two weeks ago.
One green sock with toucans on it.
A photo-copycard with 20 bucks left on it (damnit!)
Any hard copy or computerized version of the paper I gave at that conference two years ago that i want to re-use
Hydrometer-- third I’ve bought and had disappear