I don't find money in my pockets...

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This same friend used to frequently keep a McDonald's cheeseburger in his front pocket, because he liked the strange looks he got when he was with a group of people and he had suddenly started eating a cheeseburger that he seemingly got out of nowhere.
I wish I had a friend who would be awesome enough to do that. Actually, a friend period would be nice right now.

Anyway, I often find receipts, and cheap headphones in my pockets.
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I usually find lint and old, low capacity (128 mb to be exact) thumbdrives in my pockets, along with the occasional <25 cents (wish keyboards had a cent symbol) coin.
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BoringSupreez wrote:I usually find lint and old, low capacity (128 mb to be exact) thumbdrives in my pockets, along with the occasional <25 cents (wish keyboards had a cent symbol) coin.
It is, you just have to do some voodoo to get it out. Hold down ALT and type 0162 then let go of alt. :)

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Hobie-wan wrote:
BoringSupreez wrote:I usually find lint and old, low capacity (128 mb to be exact) thumbdrives in my pockets, along with the occasional <25 cents (wish keyboards had a cent symbol) coin.
It is, you just have to do some voodoo to get it out. Hold down ALT and type 0162 then let go of alt. :)

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Oh, they really made that one easy to figure out. I can't believe I didn't discover that years ago. :roll:
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BoringSupreez wrote:
Hobie-wan wrote:
BoringSupreez wrote:I usually find lint and old, low capacity (128 mb to be exact) thumbdrives in my pockets, along with the occasional <25 cents (wish keyboards had a cent symbol) coin.
It is, you just have to do some voodoo to get it out. Hold down ALT and type 0162 then let go of alt. :)

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Oh, they really made that one easy to figure out. I can't believe I didn't discover that years ago. :roll:
¢ (It's so weird to see that on my computer)
I know, I was messing with you. Open up Charmap and some common symbols that are included with regular fonts can be typed with an ALT code. Select a character and look at the bottom if it says ALT+XXXX.
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J T wrote:
This same friend used to frequently keep a McDonald's cheeseburger in his front pocket, because he liked the strange looks he got when he was with a group of people and he had suddenly started eating a cheeseburger that he seemingly got out of nowhere.
If that guys name happens to be Dave, we live in a really small world. There was this guy in undergrad who lived in my apartment complex named Dave who carried a ham sandwich in his pocket. Definitely was odd when he'd pull the sandwich out, take a bite, and put it back in his pocket.
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Luke wrote: If that guys name happens to be Dave, we live in a really small world. There was this guy in undergrad who lived in my apartment complex named Dave who carried a ham sandwich in his pocket. Definitely was odd when he'd pull the sandwich out, take a bite, and put it back in his pocket.
Wow. My favorite sandwich is peanut butter and jelly. That would never work for me. First, the sandwich would quickly get smooshed and inedible, and second, I use natural peanut butter and it would leak all out the bottom.

Things I have discovered in my pockets (other than money):

old receipts
pecans (still in the shell)
pocket knives
antacid tablets
dum-dum pops
rocks
airline peanuts
an old flash drive with a long lanyard
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Limewater wrote: I use natural peanut butter and it would leak all out the bottom.
Isn't it great? Every other PB tastes like a sugary mess compared to natural PB. I love a good PB&J, preferably with apricot jam. But my jam/jelly preferences are always changing.
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Luke wrote: Isn't it great? Every other PB tastes like a sugary mess compared to natural PB. I love a good PB&J, preferably with apricot jam. But my jam/jelly preferences are always changing.
Yes. I've loved peanut butter and PB&J sandwiches all my life. However, a couple of years ago I switched to natural peanut butter and it's just amazing. I still can eat regular peanut butter, but I prefer natural by a WIDE margin.

My peanut butter of choice growing up was always Peter Pan extra crunchy. I was kind of fortunate in that, at least in Tuscaloosa, AL, where I did most of my growing up, the Wal-Mart "Great Value" brand of peanut butter was made at the same plant as Peter Pan and was virtually (exactly?) identical. I always suspected this growing up, and it was confirmed for me by the salmonella outbreak a few years ago.

Now I usually eat the Whole Foods Everyday 365 brand of natty PB. It's one of the things that is actually cheaper at Whole Foods than the normal grocery stores in my area. It's also the only brand I've seen that actually gives you 18 ounces of peanut butter in the small jar instead of just 16.

I usually go with Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat bread. Good apricot jam is very, very nice on a PB&J sandwich, but I usually cheap out on that part and get some bottom-shelf grape jam or jelly. I recently talked an Indian friend of mine into trying peanut butter. He just bought the Publix store brand (which I actually among my personal least-favorite brands), and loved it. He tried to make a PB&J sandwich, but he only had pineapple jelly, and he said that didn't work out so well.

I wish I had a count of the number of PB&J sandwiches I've eaten in my life. I know it's definitely more than 2500, but I don't know how much more. I'd say it's almost definitely fewer than 5,000.

During my Junior year as an undergrad, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a buddy and I had an hour break between classes that we had together. During that time, we would go to my dorm room and eat PB&J sandwiches. Since the song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" had recently become a big internet meme, we would refer to this lunch ritual as "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".

Looking back now, someone hearing two guys talk about "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" and then heading to one of their dorm rooms really could have easily gotten the wrong idea.
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