# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/41 "2001-02-11T14:27:14Z")
At home, no mouse pad. I use a laptop with a touch pad. At work, I have the logo of a fairly well-known clothing company. I don’t really pay any attention to it though, because it’s just part of the background clutter. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/42 "2001-02-11T16:10:58Z")
I don’t really use it anymore, since I now have a laptop with a trackpad, but back when I was a major mouse-user, my mouse pad was heat sensitive. Ordinarily blackish, it would react to the heat in you hand (or whatever else you placed on it). Do I win the “geekiest mousepad award”? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/43 "2001-02-11T17:15:53Z")
Pooh. I also have a Pooh mouse. It was part of a Pooh CD-ROM thing that my dad got my daughter for Christmas. It’s cute. A lady I work with has a mousepad with a picture of her daughter on it. I want one like that! She didn’t know where it came from–it was a gift. Anyone know where I can get these customized mouse pads? ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/44 "2001-02-11T17:25:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Solkee \* > \*\* > Mine has Kenny from South park, saying “Dude, that kicks ass!” > -S \*\* I have the same one, but mine has Stan, not Kenny. Rose ---
**Author:** ![Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandi_s_Mind_101)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/45 "2001-02-11T17:26:12Z")
Anyone know where I can get these customized mouse pads? Ya, check at like [kinkos.com](http://kinkos.com) or your local photo store, i have seen them everywhere. You know those booths at the mall where you can get your kids pic on a mug, i have seen them there too. I have FLORIDA GATORS mousepad, although I have had many, from Cartman, plain and a airplane sky thing with the ORLANDO MAGIC logo across it. I have to admit, i have never bought a mousepad for myself. I bought my dad for xmas a mousepad with ATLANTIC COAST LINE train loco on it. Very pretty. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/46 "2001-02-11T18:06:16Z")
I don’t use a mousepad, as I have a laptop with that God-awful nub-thingy. I also have a real mouse, but it’s optical, and I just use the back of an old notebook. I, too, write many notes on the thing, for lack of something better. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/47 "2001-02-11T18:16:37Z")
Trackball user here, with a black gel wrist pad for comfort… However, my telephone is sitting on a mouse pad - some sort of outer spacescape. ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/48 "2001-02-11T18:21:46Z")
At work - plain red. At home I alternate between a circular one that looks like a popped Budweiser bottle top, and a New York Yankees World Series 2000 champions. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/49 "2001-02-11T19:44:23Z")
Mine is a big Gay Pride rainbow, bringing the number of rainbow artifacts in my room to three, including the big rainbow flag I use as a curtain and the little one hanging from my bookcase. People keep buying them for me… I don’t know why. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/50 "2001-02-11T19:46:31Z")
lint. mouse droppings. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/51 "2001-02-11T19:51:51Z")
Mine’s a former circuitboard, cleaned up and cut into a square and with a layer of plastic over it. I at least think it’s pretty cool… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/52 "2001-02-11T22:59:00Z")
An M. C. Escher print, the one with the tesselated lizards crawling up off the drawing and around the desk. I don’t remember what that one’s called. Oh, and by the way, **Icewolf** , Skylab is the thing that looks like a windmill with one wing, if that’s what it is. Another likely possibility is the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a long cylindar which gets narrower suddenly halfway down the length, and has solar panels on the wide part. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/53 "2001-02-11T23:43:38Z")
My current mousepad is a detail of the Monet painting “Water Lilies”. For a photo, you can buy a mousepad with a clear top. Just insert the picture and voila! ---
**Author:** ![Wozzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@Wozzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wozzo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/54 "2001-02-11T23:53:15Z")
Star Wars Episode 1 cast. Now that I know there’s such a product as a plastic put-in-your-own-photo mousepad (thanks, zgystrdst - sp?), I’ll probably have Rob Zombie and/or Dragonball Z. (I never wanted to hold a management position, anyway…) ---
**Author:** ![SallySimpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@SallySimpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallySimpson)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966/55 "2001-02-11T23:53:26Z")
The cover of Abbey Road. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-mouse-pad/53966.md?page=2)