BS: What's in Your Pocket?

Subject: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:28 PM

What do you normally carry around in your pockets?

I usually have a rock of some type...most likely malachite and whatever else strikes me as interesting that day, chapstick or lipstick depending on my mood.

How about you?

ML

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM

mobile phone, small change (never carry a change purse), bus pass, work pass... sometimes a penknife.

Never any icecream or lollies though, and lipbalm gets all warm and sticky in there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM

Lint. A coin purse. A pocket knife (size varies). Carmex. Keys. Various other things, depending on where I am and what I'm doing. My wallet in my hip pocket.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:30 PM

It ain't rocket science . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:42 PM

An amorphous lump of paper pulp that may have been identifiable before it went through the washing machine. It was probably either a receipt for an inconsequential purchase or a grocery list, but I always worry that it might have been something important.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:54 PM

Not much... wallet in left back pocket... hankie in right back... I have a WW2 British MKVII gas-mask bag as a 'man purse' for carrying my darts, a journal, smokes, zippo, Leatherman Multi-tool, various keys, back-up-popcorn-bag, and what ever else I might need to pack around with me... (Occasionaly MD player and a few disks, maybe a digital camera)

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: khandu
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 11:20 PM

I have a rock. Also car keys, loose change, cash, knife.
I carry my smoking dope in a tanned bovine codsack dangling from my belt...but, wait...that was a few decades ago...nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 11:24 PM

guitar picks, lip armor is the brand of lip balm in there right now,
rubber gloves, bandana, mini-leather-person tool, hair rubber bands.
Sometimes car keys, but the caribiner is a bit large to fit IN my pocket so i clip it on my belt loop. It has keys to mailbox, vehicle, fire station, and also a flashlight on it. In my jacket pocket there is some spare change, anhd often adog treat as i am in training--i mean my dog is.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: John O'L
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 11:28 PM

Nothing. All the crap I used to carry around in my pockets always wore holes in them long before the pants were worn out, so now I carry it all in a bum bag.

It's much more convenient, but I don't much like the bum bag itself, so I'm looking for a sporran now. I'm not Scottish or anything, I just like the idea of using a sporran instead of a bum bag.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 05 - 11:42 PM

Eleven keys on chain with car lock fob, 88 cents in change, jacknife, comb, ballpoint, handkerchief, little round pill holder. Billfold goes in the shirt or jacket pocket now if it fits, as sitting on it messes with my hip and leg.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: number 6
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 01:13 AM

A zippo lighter

a receipt from an Irving gas (petrol) station

... and that's it.


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Chip2447
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 04:12 AM

My tiniest ocarina, always. (wonder if that counts as a lucky charm for that thread, spare change, Zippo, no cigs since I ditched em, pocket knife, Keys are clipped to a belt loop, wallet in the right rear pocket. Does 2 pair of needle nose pliers and a pair of lineman's snips in a belt holster count? Like Clinton, I carry a man purse, mine is an Ancient us army surplus canvas bag, with a couple of small notebooksand a couple of pens, maybe a cd player and cd's, formally cigarettes, a water bottle and an assortment of little metal rings in 35mm film cans for working on chainmail jewellry when things get slow, hence the pliers from above.

Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: kendall
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 08:03 AM

Wallet, coins, small stones from Jacqui and Morticia. Keys, pen and a Swiss Army knife. (The enlisted man's model, no nuclear warhead)

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:19 AM

I'm just glad to see you!

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:23 AM

I've usually got a mini-Leatherman on my key caribiner, and a full-sized one (with a two-headed screwdriver and a mini-Mag flashlight w/headband) in a pouch in my briefcase.

(I say usually because I'm flying a couple hours and they confiscate mini-Leatherman tools as deadly weapons.)

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:36 AM

My keys and a pocket watch, because I don't like wearing a wristwatch.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: John Hardly
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 09:52 AM

Ink pens in a pocket protector.
Slide rule and Texas Instruments calculator
Electrician's tape for re-taping the bridge of my horn-rimmed glasses.
Handkerchief (used repeatedly)
Bicycle clip for my pants leg
Luden Bros cough drops
Photo of Mother
Kerry/Edwards button

*snort*

...same as everyone, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 10:22 AM

mustard
salt [I can manage without pepper]
a spoon

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 11:10 AM

Well, lessee here.......Feels like a flatpick, a thumbpick, two quarters and a nickel I think ans..............holyshit...

SNAKE!!! SNAKE!!!

.........

OHMYGAWD...GEEZIZ FUCKIN'A......IT'S HUGE.....3 or 4 FEET!!!!!!!..SUNNAVA..

............uh, bitch?........hmmmmmmm.....................Well gee, the jokes on me....Just old Joe Smackers curled up and resting and here I thought my old buddy was a snake.............sorry..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 11:41 AM

Amazing how many of you carry rocks in your pockets. I have my rock in my shoulder pack. (I'm glad to see I'm not the only one!)

I agree with the remark about stuff in your pockets wearing out your pockets faster than the rest of the pants. I have streamlined the whole operation so I carry the essentials in my Eagle "fling" one-strapped shoulder pack. Frees up my pockets some. (If that link doesn't keep working, the site is http://www.travelcountry.com . I looked for a long time before I found this small, tough, well-designed pack.)

In my left pocket now I carry my house and post office keys (no work keys--they're on a separate ring in my pack--the size of a couple of those keys would cause serious groin injury if they're tangled in a pocket). In my right pocket I carry a folded linen handkerchief and my truck key and opener. I separated the keys when I found it too easy for the wad to set off the red button of my truck alarm when I dropped my pants in the bathroom. My Old Timer pocket knife doesn't ride in that pocket for the same reason. I carry it in my back pocket (though I carry it less now after 9-11 because for a while I was afraid that I'd lose it at some checkpoint during the day).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Severn
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:03 PM

How many of the ladies STILL have that something in your pocket that belongs upon your face-a Great Big Brownie Smile?

I had four sisters and later a daughter and some stepdaughters that were Brownies and sang that song. I still dread it!

Definately Folk by now, though!

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:31 PM

In my jeans pocket I have a mobile phone, some loose change, a hankie and a pen knife. In my coat pocket I usually have a stone or two and a lot of baler twine, a pen, bits of straw...

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Scoville
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:40 PM

I had safety pins in my pocket yesterday (not sure why).

At work I usually had two ballpoint pens, one ultrafine Sharpie, my pain-assesment slide rule, a cheap pendant-watch (I hate wrist-watches), and that stupid packet of index cards that I had to have signed whenever I did something for my training (ha! no more! new job, here I come!). And a lot of Post-Its. I lived by Post-Its.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 01:11 PM

A falling star?

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 01:39 PM

I don't have any pockets :-( having said that I have just come back from the gym and my gym clothes don't have any pockets! Normally I have my work ID card, bus fare and house keys in my pockets.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 02:02 PM

This time of year? Tissues! (ah-CHOO!)

~ Becky in Tucson
(They used to come here for the clean air, but too many of 'em came, and they brought their blasted plants with 'em!)

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Firecat
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 02:30 PM

Just hunting in them now, but usually I keep my stuff in my handbag.

OK, I've got a used tissue and an orange and blue sock with a picture of Eeyore on it!

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 08:14 PM

My rocks are all in my head where they belong!

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 08:23 PM

... except for a couple I forgot about...

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Bunnahabhain
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 07:21 AM

Rocks? strange people the lot of you.....

Random bits of wood, at least on karibiner with keys on, and a useless amount of small change are the only constant things. everything else varies

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 08:40 AM

In my left pocket there is a nice piece of haddock, and in my right pocket there is some baked beans.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:03 AM

Always have a pocket knife, even when I'm swimming, I feel naked without it. My current favourite is a Spiderco lockback. Also have a Fred Kelly thumbpick, Dunlop flatpicks, hair elastics, spare change like a couple of loonies or a toonie or two, keys with a Goderich Celtic Festival key fob containing emergency picks and a pay phone quarter, often my rings and bracelet if I'm working in the yard or shop, tools... Rarely carry my wallet as it rarely has more than moths in it anyway. Also on my person will be a Gerber multitool pliers, sometimes a discman (just got an MP3 player but haven't used it yet), and if I'm away maybe a ruck sack, courier bag, or sling sack with drinks, reading material, cds, pencil, glasses, another knife, whistle, hat, screwdriver, plastic bags for the dog's business...

The eternal Boy Scout?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 07:22 PM

Spaw, you are a naughty person.
Fools, I agree. The traditional carryall for rocks has always been my head.
Hey there, O Best Beloveds. I been out of pocket for a bit. Hope everyone's OK.   Tw

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 07:26 PM

Rock of the Day: Moss Jasper

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Tannywheeler
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 08:18 PM

My pockets boast no cookies, apparently.   Tw

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:23 PM

What, you Dick Tracy, 'er what? You gotta a search warrent?

Awwww, jus' funnin'...

Hmmmmm, no, looks like I ain't...

Think yer gonna need that warrent afterall...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 10:47 PM

Left front: nothing. Right front: a Swiss Army knife with a nail clipper tied to it. Left rear: a folded paper towel. Right rear: 3 keys on a lanyard. (I also have two large walletlike things hanging on my pants, but I don't suppose those count.)

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: If you think you've said something smart about the mind-body problem, try it out on the wave-water problem. :||

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:05 AM

My wife usually has half a dozen or more slabs of rock in her back pack because she's a stone cutter. The only idd thing I carry is a 1963 Morales Peso (Mexican).

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 04:33 AM

What has it got in it's pocketses?
My Precioussss?
Robyn from Hobbit country

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Gray D
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:53 PM

Custard, sponge, jelly . . . I'm a trifle confused.

Gray D


("jelly" probably AKA "jello" for the 'mergins)

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 05:11 AM

I keep all my rocks on various shelves.... surrounded by dragons.

Interesting to hear of all these men carrying handbags.. yes.. they are HANDBAGS!!! Forget all this 'manpurse' stuff.. it's a CHUFFING HANDBAG! Live with it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,#42
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 10:34 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 01:16 PM

an MNBA credit card I don't use

BECAUSE THEY COLD CALL ME, REMOVE THE CASHBACK FEATURE, AND SEND ME CHEQUES I DIDN'T ASK FOR - THATS WHY.

The longer I keep it, the less they will profit. Serves them right for being unrepentant when I tackled them on the issues.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:36 PM

Wallet, change, and all my keys:- House keys, car keys, hankies, donkeys, monkeys.........I'll get me coat.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Kaleea
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 07:53 PM

Uh, I'm wearing a dress which does not have a pocket. No pocket protector, either. I had a pickpocket in my purse (the little guitar pick shaped leather thingie in which guitar picks may be stored) but my nephew liberated it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 08:25 PM

So a pickpocket picked your pocket pickpocket?

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: KateG
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:02 PM

Keyring with tiny Swiss Army knife, card case that serves as a wallet, and a cell phone. I try not to carry a purse whenever I can get away with it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Kim C
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:36 PM

I have this gold ring that I found in an underground cave.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:03 PM

Keys, wallet, fluff, a hole.

Subject: RE: BS: What's in Your Pocket?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:26 PM

Well... um, smokes and a lighter (two lighters, if at all possible), rizlas, money, id, keys, phone, chewin gum....and sometimes some very strange objects that the beer monkeys leaves there. Like beer mats, and police crime scene tape. Oh, and some other things that i refuse to mention in case i incriminate myself...