# Things you find in your pockets...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-in-your-pockets/27110>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 27, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-in-your-pockets/27110 "2000-07-27T22:02:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-in-your-pockets/27110/21 "2000-07-31T18:29:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by BratMan007 \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by xizor \*  
> > \*\*somebody else’s hand. \*\*
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> What kind of funky-ass places are you getting drunk? Did this happen at Jeffry Dahmer’s going-away party after he was sentenced to prison?  
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Well, it wasn’t a detached hand. It was actually somebody going through my pockets. I never did find out what they were looking for, but it was the strangest thing I have ever found in my pocket the morning after.

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-in-your-pockets/27110/22 "2000-07-31T18:52:18Z")

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-The head to a parking meter, those babies are heavy.

-A full set of gortex army kit, socks, raincoat, pants & bug hat… I’m not sure where it came from

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**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-in-your-pockets/27110/23 "2000-07-31T18:57:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DRY \*  
> \*\*This reminds me of a blooper (or is it a UL, anyone know)?
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> Don’t know the show, but the question was:
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> “What do you find on a pool table, and in men’s trousers?”  
> :eek: \*\*

That was a old Benny Hill routine. Benny was the world’s smartest man going up against a computer. The computer spit out the answer “pockets.” Benny just looked at his answer and wadded it up.

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