Weirdest items on your desk:

[LaraMN]

Mine:
-bag of cottonballs
-Mr Potatohead's eyes
-Boggle cube
-shoelace that has been sucked on.

[Shine]

1. I've got some ash that Sai Baba materialized from his hands

he's big in India, I'll leave it at that. :D

[GirlinContempt]

2. A nail file printed with leaping dolphins

ala grade school stickers

a plastic bag containing one single reeses peice.

a hideous fake stainless steel heart shaped pictureframe, encrusted with fake jewels, empty, upside down.

[Nikia]

Some spices and a rubber ducky

And the big roaster fork that I grabbed the other day when my husband wasn't home and I got scared.

[AlCzervik]

3. 5 marble eggs on little stands, i collect things in odd numbers.

but thats not weird, no not at all.

[LeftyMom]

4. a plastic dimetrodon

[NMDemDist2]

5. heck I don't know, my desk is in the other room

my laptop is next to my easy chair on one of these, but I do have two hair scrunchies on the pole :shrug:



and no, that's not me, that's their pic on www.airdesks.com

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. A plastic model of Stonehenge,

a small bronze bust of Dante, several model airplanes (a Cessna 172, a DC-9, two Concordes and a Space Shuttle), a little plastic astronaut, and a plush toy rat. These are on my desk at work. Everyone thinks I'm nuts.

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. Stonehenge!

How very cool!

[gizmonic]

55. Stonehenge? Hope it's not in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!

:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

69. It's one louder.

Stonehenge
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live
And they do live well

Stonehenge
Where a man is a man
And the children dance to
The pipes of pan

Stonehenge
'Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face

Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils
Fill the midnight sky

And you my love
Won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry
And the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

[Nicole]

7. My bra

that I just took off. :P

The bra is not weird but it is a weird place for it to be. Nothing else is on my desk except this computer & a phone so the bra wins by default. :rofl:

[Goblinmonger]

8. My red stapler

a la Office Space which inspired my avatar.

Nobody seems to know what this thing is though I use it every day:

though mine is orange and not grey.

I have this action figure on top of my monitor (wrote my master's thesis on this guy):

[GirlinContempt]

12. It holds paper so you can type from it

or look at it. Or whatever.
Duh.
Everyone knows that :P

[Goblinmonger]

13. You win....

something. What do you want for a prize? That is probably the best 5 bucks I've spent in a long time.

[GirlinContempt]

14. 12 red jellybeans.

[Goblinmonger]

16. I do believe there are 12 here

if you kinda squint at the top left corner you can see the 12th.

[GirlinContempt]

17. Not good enough

:P

[Goblinmonger]

19. Wow, high maintenance or what?

Better?

[Connonym]

42. I've got one in red :-P

you're right, it's genius. I freaked out when I thought I lost it in my move because I haven't been able to find them at the store again.

[Bassic]

52. Oooh, Captain Planet

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

75. Um, I was told that I could get a piece of cake!

I... I could set the building on fire!

[NightWatcher]

9. darvocet, a 45 cal model 1911, and some taco sauce

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. A Snapple bottle that is full of urine.

It was really cold and I didn't want to get out of bed. It has been sitting behind my iMac for a few months. I should do something with it soon.

edit :: fucking vowels

[Goblinmonger]

15. TMI

though I think you win this contest, though.

[wildhorses]

11. at this moment

my toothbrush
and 2 sobe caps
and the rest of it kinda resembles gore's without all the cool technolgy

[gr8dane_daddy]

18. 8' X 10' pic of LaraMN!

;)

[LoveMyCali]

20. My desk at work has

- a Charles Barkley celebriduck
- a Mike Piazza bobblehead
- a Mets Mr. Potato Head
- various Vikings and Phoenix Suns action figures
- a Wheaties box with Pedro Martinez's picture on it
- a tea pot
- a piggy bank
- two magic 8 balls (one is actually a Pirates of the Caribbean skull magic 8 ball).

[meegbear]

21. Fake pine tree with the bottom in a burlap bag ...

to look "natural".

[TommyO]

24. Don't forget to spray it with fake pine scent from time to time

You have to keep it as "natural" as possible.

[meegbear]

25. I string it with lights for the holidays ...

makes it so festive!

[TommyO]

28. Ah, Solstice with an artificial tree (count me in!)

[meegbear]

31. LOL! You got it!

:hi:

[TommyO]

33. I've dealt with dead trees long enough

I use the pre-lit artificial kind and it works great, and looks pretty darned "natural" as well.

[LostinVA]

22. Stuffed Tasmanian Devil (the real kind, not Loony Tunes)

[TommyO]

23. The glasses that I got when I went to see Meet The Robinsons in 3D

[dropkickpa]

26. You really don't want to know

Between preserved animal body parts, samples, my toys, and instruments, it sounds like a serial killers workspace.

[querelle]

27. Week Old Used Kleenex

- leftover bowl of popcorn from Sunday night.
- stacks of old paid utility bills.
- staple gun.
- 2006 desk calendar.
- a cup of pens that have long since dried out.
- hairbrush (wanna look good when I'm on webcam).
- bunches of paint chips from Home Depot
- assorted tools (allen keys, wrenches, screw driver, etc.)
- empty wine bottle.
- small flashlight
- some dried out containers of Liquid Paper.
- non-functioning calculator.

I keep my house quite neat but my desk is the one area where I allow myself to indulge in sloth.

Q

[BarenakedLady]

29. 3 lb handweights

3 bird books
1 monkey (naturally)
1 tiny Littlest Petshop turtle
1 disembled lock set in a baggie
1 glowlight (light therapy thing - never used)
1 pink child's sock
1 spongebob bandaid
National Georgraphic magazine

[Heidi]

30. Okay:

- Swiss Post box full of Moon Pops (moon-shaped suckers), waiting to be mailed to my nephew in Oklahoma;
- A Swiss Post box containing a birdie-flyin' garden gnome waiting to be mailed to a certain someone in Virginia;
- A book of gold leaf;
- A package of 25 plant fertilizer spikes;
- A bottle of Talens liquid masking film for watercolor.

(Yeah, I'm waaaaaaaaay behind on outgoing mail. x( )

[av8rdave]

32. An eyeglass holder shaped like a nose, a gargoyle business card holder, and

a bizarre paperweight.

[My Good Babushka]

34. my toddler.

He's pretty weird.

[Heidi]

40. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[My Good Babushka]

61. Thanks!

Thank you for the nice welcome.

[Rambis]

35. Three pine cones, a french vanilla flavoring bottle

a crosheyed box we got as gifts (with candy in it) and rock I picked up on the beach in Ireland.

[LynneSin]

36. Sponge Bob & Patrick Star Play-Doh

I play with play-doh when I'm stressed at work

[bertha katzenengel]

37. a Jack ball wearing an Angels' helmet and blowing a bubble gum bubble

also ten beany babies, but they're not that weird.

A Jack ball is an antenna ball from Jack in the Box.

[LynneSin]

38. I forgot this one - a champagne cork with the date 12/08/2006 written on it

The champagne was Veuve Cincquot, which is a pretty good champagne (not Dom level of champagne but definately nowhere near Andre Cold Duck).

Anyhow, 12/08/2006 was the last day of the republican majority. I was in Tampa at Ramsey's house and we toasted the end of tyranny with some great champagne. For some bizarre reason I kept the cork

[stuntcat]

39. okay I brag! :blush:

I have Linda Greenhouse's New Yorker magazine on my desk :blush: I sat next to her on a flight I took a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't stop myself from chatting with her, I started with "aren't you on tv sometimes?" that was a smooth line for a Pulitzer prize winner I think. Then I tried to just read through the flight, not bug her too much (well I did a little) then when we got off the plane she gave me her New Yorker! So I said "it's got your name on it!" like such a Dork..

so I've got that.. and a broken fridge magnet I have to glue together. and a cellphone holder I got for $1 at Target that I might not use but it's got a pink cat on it.

[Connonym]

41. a clay dragon incense burner my daughter made

A garden stepping stone engraved "imagine"
a bottle of Nail Envy
toothpaste, floss and a gum stimulator

[AllegroRondo]

63. does smoke come out his nose?

funny, my daughter made one in Girl Scouts when she was 7.

[Connonym]

65. Yup :-)

I'm a bad mom so I can't recall if this was from school or scouts

[Gormy Cuss]

43. Slime and cattle

beans.

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. A mini wind-up Energizer bunny...

a small plastic Tigger, and a picture of Jake Gyllenhaal.

[underpants]

46. GOLD! and a "digital pen holder"

The gold is in like a snowglobe thingy (turn it over and shake it up) from my folks Alaska trip a few years ago

and the "digital pen holder" is what it was called on the box-that makes no sense but it was from my employer so that explains why it makes no sense.

[commander bunnypants]

47. I gave mine to my wife for mothers day.

plus a video camera


CB

[MissMillie]

48. a hockey puck

dental floss
a bottle of olive oil
a gumball machine

[stuntcat]

49. lol

just seeing olive oil make my stomach growl like I feel like I would drink a bottle if it was on my desk! I better get lunch.

[Deep13]

50. A few things:

An ashtray from the 1960s with a lihograph of a couple making-out by a pool while a film crew looks on. The caption from the woman read, "I'm sorry Mr. (my name), but I make it a rule never to date business associates." I found it in a second hand shop. Another old ashtray from Caesar's Palace full of paperclips. A clear resin paperweight with a scorpion in it. A yo-yo.

[asthmaticeog]

51. Digital presskit for "Blades of Glory," set of dollar-store steak knives.

[Inchworm]

53. Hmmmm

- tub of cool whip from 5 days ago (had strawberries)
- a universal joint out of a pick-up truck my bro left here
- a plastic lemon for "flavored water"
- a crock of Taco Bell sauces
- Tabasco sauce
- a softball that I found floating in the river

theres more, but I'm getting embarrassed :D

[gizmonic]

54. Broken saw blade, ashtray from Mexico a customer gave me, Amazing Randi voodoo doll,...

Hello Kitty calculator
Knitting needles

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

56. My photo of the Marx Brothers...

Not weird, just sentimental. My college roommates gave it to me as a going away present when I went off to get my first "grown up" job after college. It's been on my desk (through several projects and employers) for the past twenty years.

[CottonBear]

57. An original Howard Finster folk art piece: it's an aqua colored wooden cut out stegasaurous

with writing and little pictures all over it.

It says:

"God is a Creator of Life."
"When you are borned into this world it is God giving you a chance to be something. Do your best to make yourself worthwhile."

I love this artwork.

I also have an green and pink ceramic business card holder with seahorse on it, a orange hardhat and a green metal medical ID badge that my dad put on his car for purposes of identifying him as a doctor who could park in the reserved spaces at the hospitals where he did rounds and surgeries.

[baldguy]

58. An orange play-dough egg

a mini etch-a-sketch
14 small rubber balls

[Zuiderelle]

59. A playmobil pirate, glitter glue, an empty shoebox, a replacement lawnmower piece, a saxaphone

[billyskank]

60. My binary-coded-decimal clock, of course

Visible to the left of my monitor:



I guess the juggling bean bags are a bit weird too. :D

[Tikki]

62. These:

A wooden back scratcher.
A piece of paper with my son's ex-wife's driver's license number on it.
A piece of paper with the proper spelling, pronunciation and definition of "badonkadonk butt ".
Four straw hats.
A dozen cough drop wrappers.



Tikki

[Call Me Wesley]

64. Weirdest item right now:

A roll of paper towels since I have a cold.

But people might think four Buddha statues are weird, too. Or a golden/silver 9mm full metal jacket bullet. ;)

[greatauntoftriplets]

66. A leftover piece of the black granite...

that is a remainder of what was cut off the Vietnam Memorial during the sculpting process.

It is very precious to me.

[TXteacher]

67. Finding Nemo DVD and a skull

But I am a teacher and we just watched the DVD in leiu of having a final...

And the skull was my hall pass for a while. I like using random things so that kids will not want to leave class. I had a huge Kinky for Gov. poster as the pass for a while.

[HEyHEY]

68. A condom! (Not used)

For some reason I just haven't put the damned thing away and outta sight.

[Guava Jelly]

70. My desk at home

A saucer with what was once two veggie corn dogs
A shot of tequila that i brought back from vacation
A Rubik's cube
lotr Ring wraith on horse,The mouth of Sauron on Horse,Gollum/Smeagal talking figure
My late Mothers watch and my grandfathers Ball trainmasters watch
1 bottle of prescription pills..:evilgrin:
And my wrist

[Xipe Totec]

71. A deck of Spanish playing cards

Here's a few:

[Spirochete]

72. Nothing too weird

Glasses case
Windex bottle
electric outlet cover
AAA battery
dead SATA hard drive
Netflix envelope

[achtung_circus]

73. It normally doesn't look quite this bad.

This photo was taken in the middle of a paperwork clusterfuck and I have also finally been provided a bookshelf which has mitigated things somewhat. Hey, messy is the new neat and permits mental linkages not possible to the anally organized.

Still, weird? There's the pink bouncy toy that goes BOING, tehre's a bottle of Febreze, a bottle of hand disinfectant, a magnet for insertion into a cow's stomach and a used horse hoof. Horse having np further use for same it is a useful demonstrator for hoof anatomy and shoeing technique.

Oh, I just noticed a horseshoe. I wonder where that came from.

[Roon]

74. A harmonica

that Marlboro sent me.

[Initech]

76. Several new car brochures

But then again, I'm buying a new car in a few months, so it's not really THAT weird per se...