# What souvenirs shall I bring you guys from my transdimensional raiding trip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382 "2009-03-14T00:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/61 "2009-03-15T03:00:35Z")
I came into this thread to ask for a Libby Burroughs continua device, but if that’s too much trouble, I could use a new Mr. Fusion. Oh, and a box of Acme portable holes. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/62 "2009-03-15T03:03:37Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > I thought of more. Could you be a love and get me a batarang and Bruce Wayne’s autograph? If you can get 'rangs from others in the Batfamily, that’d be cool too. I’ll pack a meal for you to take (wouldn’t want our go-fer getting hungry =^\_^=) You want me to go to GOTHAM CITY? :eek: Fine, but only because it’s you. But it’s gonna have to be the 50s Gotham, with the giant typewriters and whatnot. I’m way too big a sissy to go to anything after that whole Joker fish story. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/63 "2009-03-15T03:16:33Z")
Tak of the Bright Spear’s Bright Spear or Agni’s backpack, goggles, glove and wand or Shiva’s trident or Sam’s ring of lightning elementals from Zelazny’s Lord of Light Thanks ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/64 "2009-03-15T03:27:28Z")
Sklad, if you need near-infinite cargo holding capacity, you could always track down Arthur Dent’s “Thing your Aunt gave you but you don’t know what it is” a small, strange pocket-sized device that has infinite holding capacity and _cannot_ ever be lost, you can throw it away in one reality, and when you return to your primary reality it will be there in your pocket again, you _cannot_ rid yourself of it, luckilly it’s rather handy, aside from a small label that reads “Made in Ibzia” it has no markings or identifiers of any sort find a Thing and you would have no limit on what you could loot… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/65 "2009-03-15T03:29:39Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Sklad, if you need near-infinite cargo holding capacity, you could always track down Arthur Dent’s “Thing your Aunt gave you but you don’t know what it is” a small, strange pocket-sized device that has infinite holding capacity and _cannot_ ever be lost, you can throw it away in one reality, and when you return to your primary reality it will be there in your pocket again, you _cannot_ rid yourself of it, luckilly it’s rather handy, aside from a small label that reads “Made in Ibzia” it has no markings or identifiers of any sort > > find a Thing and you would have no limit on what you could loot… Except for S’kat, clearly no one understands that half the purpose of the trip is to see what I can carry that is (a) worth having and (b) will fit into an unmodified duffel bag that was (c) stolen from David Banner just to be a dick. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/66 "2009-03-15T05:22:35Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You want me to go to GOTHAM CITY? :eek: > > Fine, but only because it’s you. But it’s gonna have to be the 50s Gotham, with the giant typewriters and whatnot. I’m way too big a sissy to go to anything after that whole Joker fish story. You don’t have to go to Gotham. Bruce Wayne goes all sorts of places and you can probably get the 'rangs on the black market (or ebay). Heck if you manage to catch Batman’s eye, just look pitiful and ask him for one for your ‘dear sick sister back home.’ ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/67 "2009-03-15T05:27:27Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Except for S’kat, clearly no one understands that half the purpose of the trip is to see what I can carry that is (a) worth having and (b) will fit into an unmodified duffel bag that was (c) stolen from David Banner just to be a dick. 😃 So, store the duffel bag of booty _inside_ the Thing, it’ll fit, and you won’t look like a transdimensional looter, it’s win-win 😉 hmm, wonder what would happen if you tried to store a Thing inside another Thing… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/68 "2009-03-15T07:35:48Z")
What about a Gremlin egg? Or Oddjob’s hat? Or best of all, Rorscharch’s mask (washed, preferably)? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/69 "2009-03-15T11:07:56Z")
Ooh, I know. Can I have a genie bottle? With Jeannie included, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/70 "2009-03-15T12:09:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Except for S’kat, clearly no one understands that half the purpose of the trip is to see what I can carry that is (a) worth having and (b) will fit into an unmodified duffel bag that was (c) stolen from David Banner just to be a dick. 😃 Okay since you’ve nixed my other suggestions, how about you go visit the Culture and bring back a drone? Preferably one from SC… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/71 "2009-03-15T13:54:10Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > You don’t have to go to Gotham. Bruce Wayne goes all sorts of places and you can probably get the 'rangs on the black market (or ebay). Heck if you manage to catch Batman’s eye, just look pitiful and ask him for one for your ‘dear sick sister back home.’ Doesn’t matter. I am NOT going to contemporary DC-Earth with dimension-hopping tech. That’s just asking for trouble. But I’ll be happy to go to Earth-2 circa, oh, 1952 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/72 "2009-03-15T14:06:22Z")
As Rufo’s Black Box is a no-go, would you be able to get me Capt Jacks Time Thingy (Dr Who Verse) from his wrist. It should be fairly simple as when he’s having sex with you, you can just remove it while he’s distracted. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/73 "2009-03-15T14:11:40Z")
> [@Winnipeg](#): > > As Rufo’s Black Box is a no-go, would you be able to get me Capt Jacks Time Thingy (Dr Who Verse) from his wrist. It should be fairly simple as when he’s having sex with you, you can just remove it while he’s distracted. I’ll wait for him to have sex with someone else, thanks. Or, even better, use that hypo I grabbed for the S’katser to immobilize him. ---
**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/74 "2009-03-15T14:16:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ll wait for him to have sex with someone else, thanks. . I doubt you will have long to wait. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/75 "2009-03-15T14:42:25Z")
I’d like a babel fish, that hover board on _Back to the Future II_ and Ash’s ‘boomstick’. Also I think my girl would really like a tribble. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/76 "2009-03-15T14:58:28Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I’d like a babel fish, that hover board on _Back to the Future II_ and Ash’s ‘boomstick’. > > Also I think my girl would really like a tribble. No way I’m bringing a tribble to this Earth. I LIVE here. The only reasonable course of action upon meeting a tribble vendor is to immediately kill all the tribbles he has on display, interrogate him as to the location of any other tribbles (via torture if necessary) and kill all those as well. After his entire stock has been massacred, you then kill the vendor as an example to others. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/77 "2009-03-15T15:22:04Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > No way I’m bringing a tribble to this Earth. I LIVE here. The only reasonable course of action upon meeting a tribble vendor is to immediately kill all the tribbles he has on display, interrogate him as to the location of any other tribbles (via torture if necessary) and kill all those as well. After his entire stock has been massacred, you then kill the vendor as an example to others. Ahh, I see that Sklad has Klingon blood, good! someone else that recognizes these little balls of vermin for what they really are… …they are delicious when deep-fried though ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/78 "2009-03-15T16:13:16Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Ahh, I see that Sklad has Klingon blood, good! someone else that recognizes these little balls of vermin for what they really are… > > …they are delicious when deep-fried though They aren’t bad in stew either. Or stir-fry. Versatile meat and hardly any bones to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/79 "2009-03-15T17:11:41Z")
If you can find a cabbit that needs a home, I wouldn’t mind it. Failing that, a good copy of the Guide and a Thumb, since you’re passing through that neighborhood. Failing that, a blaster and/or a lightsaber. Failing that, uhm… Well, there was a bit of Kryptonian tech Supergirl sold to Batman, sort of a personal reset button that would reconstruct the owner with nanotech. If you can find it on Krypton, it’ll do, if you find the Waynetech version, it’ll do, too. Failing that… eh, suit of Iron Man armor, doesn’t have to be that new, it’ll fit in a briefcase, as long as it’s past Mark II. … Oh, can you get me that thing Arthur’s aunt got him that he doesn’t know what it is? It fits in a pocket, I know. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-souvenirs-shall-i-bring-you-guys-from-my-transdimensional-raiding-trip/489382/80 "2009-03-15T17:42:00Z")
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