# What's on Your Mouse Pad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966 "2001-02-11T00:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/21 "2001-02-11T02:46:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*I can’t remember the name of the artist, but mine is that surrealistic painting “The Scream”. When I was trying to learn how to use the computer it seemed so right. \*\* That’d be Edvard Munch, an expressionist painter. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/22 "2001-02-11T02:49:10Z")
Two cute little tiger cubs. And a mouse. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/23 "2001-02-11T02:55:23Z")
Black with a gel wrist rest at home, green with gel wrist rest at work. Ones I have used in the past: Dilbert “Technology: No place for wimps” and one with a kitty in a hammock. I prefer the color in my workspace to be in other places, really. Pictures and stuffed animals and toys and stuff everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/24 "2001-02-11T03:08:10Z")
It’s been awhile since I actually -looked- at it. It’s Duke Nukem! In the pose that’s on the startup animation for Duke Nukem 3D, where he’s got that pistol in one hand and the big machine gun in the other. I got it at a garage sale for the tidy sum of $1. American. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/25 "2001-02-11T03:31:16Z")
Thanks Frannie, for the heads up on Edvard Munch. I was pretty sure it was Ed something but couldn’t quite get it. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/26 "2001-02-11T03:44:41Z")
I have a trackball. Nicky’s computer has a mouse though, and the mousepad has golden retriever puppies on it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/27 "2001-02-11T03:55:48Z")
Grey with a grey gel wrist rest. It’s been through a fire, and looks like it. I have been begged to throw it out, because it causes my mouse undue hell, but I can’t do it…just out of nostalgia. And because it lived through the fire. At work, it’s a picture of a a little boy and girl, sort of in old fashioned clothes. It’s tacky, but was there when I started there. It has no sentimental value. I’d like to toss that one, but can’t. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/28 "2001-02-11T04:53:43Z")
Lot’s of lotion grease and general day-to-day dirt, some ashes from my smokes (ashtray sits right next to it), my mouse (of course) and my TV remote. Occasionally it will house my cordless phone and my glasses… Other than that I switch between four mousepads. 😉 A hot pinkish/purple one, a teal one, my Broncos one and one from the company that built both my machines…I think I need to clean each one and start the rotation again. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/29 "2001-02-11T04:54:35Z")
I also have a Powerpuff Girls mousepad. It’s just the girls there, Bubbles has Inky, Blossom is smiling and Buttercup looks like she’s about ready to kick booty. My desk at work is all Powerpuff Girls. I have a picture, the mousepad, a calendar and the three figures from Subway. I bought the valentines tonight to pass out at work. I probably won’t even have to sign them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/30 "2001-02-11T04:56:09Z")
Michelangelo’s David’s Ass - and a very nice ass it is, even if it’s marble. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/31 "2001-02-11T05:03:19Z")
A furry tiger-striped unevenly bordered mousepad! It’s ferocious! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mikey07005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@mikey07005](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikey07005)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/32 "2001-02-11T05:14:43Z")
I think i have the most “active” mousepad out of everyone… it has all of the following mashing into the normal mousepad size’d area: Mt. Rushmore Space Shuttle Launch Alamo Continental Congress building in philidelphia george washington monument capitol building marines raising the american flag some civil war cannons some sculpture of guys on horses ok whew, thats it… i’m all dizzy now, must get some sleep… -Mikey ---
**Author:** ![Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffrey_Hartnett)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/33 "2001-02-11T05:23:26Z")
Same as Silent Rob. Marvin the Martian claiming the moon for Mars. Mars rules! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/34 "2001-02-11T05:25:41Z")
My families last name, with crest. My wife gave it to me when she got down here from that yankee state she used to live in. 🙂 Oh, and a few years worth of dirt and drink, plus some graffiti by my son, age 2. It’s a well loved mousepad. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/35 "2001-02-11T06:55:41Z")
Mostly coffee cup rings, food stains, and more recently… cookie crumbs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/36 "2001-02-11T13:24:25Z")
There is a mousetrap on it and it has “Mice are dumb” written on it. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/37 "2001-02-11T13:43:16Z")
No mousepad. My hubby is a graphics geek, so we have a mousepad sized graphics tablet. Before that, we had a kitty on a park bench. ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/38 "2001-02-11T14:07:16Z")
A photo of two penguins on the beach, apparently preening each other. It looks like they’re kissing. I bought it because I thought it was romantic… my significant other thinks I’m nuts… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/39 "2001-02-11T14:20:08Z")
Mine is blue with the Dell logo. It came with the computer. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/40 "2001-02-11T14:25:37Z")
Oh yeah, ascii characters set. Love it baby, love it!.. I’m a dork… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966.md?page=3)