# What have you got on your desk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154 "2002-06-09T23:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/21 "2002-06-10T07:29:43Z")
Holy crap…lots of stuff. Let’s see if I can get it all down here. Computer monitor, microphone, modem, keyboard, mouse, and speakers Monte Dolack mousepad (The Return of Glacial Lake Missoula) Visa card 2 burned CDs Bubbles plush doll (yea PowerPuff Girls!) CD case (Everclear: Songs from an American Movie pt.1–Learning How to Smile) Dilbert desk calendar Dilbert notepad Old pages from Dilbert desk calendar Old pages from Dave Barry desk calendar Tape measure Old Tsukuda’s Square puzzle Catnip-filled bubble soap Piece from Melee game The Newcastle I’m drinking Stainless steel squirrel Dogbert toy (wearing origami crown) Catbert toy (wearing origami helmet) Wind-up scorpion Charmander toy Customized Princess Bride birthday card Metal angelfish sculpture (wearing origami helmet) Poliwrath toy Origami cicada Origami goldfish Origami bird Glow-in-the-dark plastic snake Glow-in-the-dark plastic bat Flat plastic dog-shaped bookmark (which is wearing my old wedding ring around its neck) CD game cases (Myst, Myst III, Diablo II, Myth) Zip disk (supposedly containing my master’s thesis) 4 Sharpie markers Plaster gargoyle pen holder Picture frame with devil horns Dilbert cube-puzzle calendar Starcraft manuals AC adapter Big earthenware mug from Germany filled with writing implements Pocket flashlight Glasses-repair kit 2 floppy disks (Microsoft Word stuff on them) Harry Potter trading card game cards Big balloons (uninflated) Pikachu top Then there’s some crap. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/22 "2002-06-10T15:06:12Z")
The reason I never clean my desk is that I value my sanity too much to spend 20 hours sorting loose beads into their containers. Yeah, yeah, I _could_ just tidy up when i finish something… whatever. I forgot some stuff. 18. Permanent marker 19.Nymo beading thread, black and white 20. Half package of Social Tea biscuits 21. Small package of organic Earl Grey tea 22. Package Strawberry Jam-Filled Marshmallows (really gross) 23. Box of chocolate hazelnut hedgehogs. (Candy, not a bunch of real hedgehogs I’ve filled with… oh, never mind.) 24. Pieces of chainmail 25. Dufflet pastries menu 26. Computer speakers 27. Random pieces of ribbon 28. Pencil 29. Little bug made out of broken computer parts and wire- present for a friend ---
**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/23 "2002-06-10T15:19:17Z")
Christ, how big are your desks?? Anyway, an electric stapler, computer monitor, 4 cube speakers, a galileo thermometer, a sound-activated plasma ball, lamp, bar cloth, coke cans with pens in it, a couple of calculators and a couple of tubes of CD-R’s. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/24 "2002-06-10T15:39:18Z")
Computer monitor, hard drive, and keyboard are all on the desktop. The monitor is sitting on a crate. This leaves no room for anything else. On top of the hard drive are my little webcam type thingy, one of the speakers, and a rubber duckie. On top of the monitor are the other speaker and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The mouse is on a little pull-out thing on one side. The desk was my great-grandmother’s and was made back in the '20s. I don’t know what the little pull-out thing was for when they made it, but now it’s incredibly useful because if it wasn’t there I wouldn’t have anyplace to put my mouse. The computer I use most often is my mom’s, and this desk has the monitor, speakers, scanner, a tape dispenser that is actually mine and she stole it, a box of floppies, a stack of CD-Roms, a container of CDRs, a joystick, a sheet of Mr. Yuck stickers, the mouse, a plastic container of notepaper, a shoebox full of paperwork, an LED flashlight, the phone book, some stamps, two pens, a hair scrunchie, photogrphas of the dogs and my older sister, eight pug figurines, an orange glass vase shaped like a tongue of flame that I was going to sell on eBay but my mom won’t give me her credit card number so I can set up the seller’s account (even though I was setting up the account at her request), a sheet of paper with a list of Jeeps I want to look at for possible purchase, and a copy of _Zoot Suit Riot_ by the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/25 "2002-06-10T15:39:36Z")
Much too much. Rather than try to list them all, I’ll instead post a [picture](http://www.winternet.com/~grzesiak/audrey.jpg) of what my desk looked like last October. I’m in a new cube now, but all the crap is here, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/26 "2002-06-10T15:55:21Z")
Let’s see… Desk proper- monitor, with two hats on top, and a “computer angel” keyboard two small stuffed dinosaurs coffee cup, full water glass, half full oil diffuser oils for the diffuser watch, needs repair twp pairs of earrings cigarettes, ashtray, lighter two coasters remote control old-fashioned wooden in-box, which contains bills to pay candy bar CD my man made for me pens and pencils in container wooden pipe stand, with more pens and note paper in the box section stuffed gorilla hair clip Room spray scented lotion speakers candle snuffer rolling back massage thingy Top shelf- picture frame, empty two stuffed Snoopy dolls dressed as angels candle holder in the shape of a bear small vase incense burner candles fancy coffee cup I bought in Amsterdam with naked ladies on it Japanese print, symbol of loyalty small Japanese prosperity cat fake flowers knife 2nd shelf- candles photo of my sweetie name plate from an old job calendar statue of Snoopy at a typewriter magic wand worry stones file envelope with bills that have been paid box of floppies paper fan calculator 3rd shelf- box of random paper stapler and remover hand lotion more oils for diffuser note cube check book, stamps bubbles ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/27 "2002-06-10T22:46:13Z")
at my desk at my old job at Major Big Suckwad Inc. , I had a 12" section of a rear motorcycle tire with a 14" rusty spike stuck through it that i picked up in a race once. I rode about 16 miles with that mother lover in the tire. always good for a conversation starter… * * * She said she loved me like a brother. That’s great, cause she’s from Arkansas! ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/28 "2002-06-10T23:08:15Z")
I thought I had a lot of stuff on mine until I read this! :eek: Address book. Air freshener. A few pages ripped from magazines. Childs scissors. Monitor. Paperweight my daughter chose all by herself for me. Nail varnish. A tiny book titled “In Praise of Parents”. Plastic cat. Hair clips. Lip balm. Driving instructor’s card. Sweet wrappers. £20.12 Horse stickers. Keyboard. CD’s. A piece of paper given to me by my daughter on Mothers Day which says “I think my mum is great”. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/29 "2002-06-10T23:38:18Z")
Took [this](http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/yojimboguy/vwp?.dir=/My+Photos&.src=ph&.dnm=compdesk.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/yojimboguy/lst%3f%26.dir=/My%2bPhotos%26.src=ph%26.view=t) picture about 10 minutes ago. From top to bottom (desktop): 1. Cat 2. Center speaker 3. Maglight 4. Software: IL2; Delta Force Trilogy; Novalogic’s Air Attack Pack 5. Partial roll of speaker wire 6. Phone books 7. Can of bean bag juggling bears 8. Bottle of Intensive Care Lotion 9. Music CDs 10. Software CDs 11. Blank CDs 12. Power supply for digital camera 13. Webcam 14. Microphone 15. Monitor 16. Joystick 17. Tumbler of loose change 18. Kleenex 19. Power strip 20. Hutch (rests on desktop) 21. Answering machine 22. Telephone 23. Cell phone/charger 24. DVD - Terminator 2 ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154/30 "2002-06-11T02:26:25Z")
On my desk (not the computer desk because there’s nothing on it besides computer stuff) there’s: a stack of old schoolwork a catalog of pilot gear a flight magazine a Mathcounts pencil holder full of pens and pencils a gyroscope several sheets of loose graph paper glue a little ceramic box with a swan on top I got from my mom a glass Snoopy bank a piece of green cloth with a Russian pin attached a Barbie too many books highlighters, pens, and pencils in a small pile next to the aforementioned pencil holder scraps of construction paper and notebook paper construction paper several rolls of film CDs a waist pouch a pack of fabric paint a deck of Harry Potter Uno cards a box that’s theoretically supposed to hold photos, but doesn’t a CD player colorful index cards beanie Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse several glass jars full of small unidentified thingies postcards and pictures taped onto the desk jessica [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-got-on-your-desk/113154.md?page=1)