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What's in your keyboard?

Take your keyboard, hold it upside down over a flat clean surface, and give it a good shake. Report in detail exactly what falls out of it.

Previously done as http://surveycentral.org/survey/10546.html and http://surveycentral.org/survey/4089.html



VotesAnswer
12Hair
2Dandruff
3Boogers
7Food
2Cosmetics
1Fingernails
9Something else (please specify)
1Not telling
7Nothing at all. Honest
1I refuse to do this test. My keyboard contents being kept as emergency rations in the event of world war three.
2I refuse to do this test. The world is not ready for such horrors.
0I refuse to do this test. The last time I did it, I was grounded for a week.
0I don't have a keyboard
1I refuse to do this test. I am using a computer in a public place.
8The 'other' answer...

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Iseult Survey Central Subscriber Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 11-Sep-2002 11:45am  
Just dirt, and a trait of nail polish. I can't get the dirt out, and I tried everything (that doesn't include taking the keyboard apart).
romkey Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 11-Sep-2002 11:45am  
cat fur, hair, dander, schmutz.
grmbrand
posted 11-Sep-2002 12:16pm  
Unsurprisingly, more of the same.
Lex
posted 11-Sep-2002 12:20pm  
The top three options. Quite clean actually for me.
darkshadowsseeker
posted 11-Sep-2002 12:36pm  
I'm unable to do this as this is my roommates computer and he would have a conniption fit!
teatree
posted 11-Sep-2002 1:16pm  
I don't think the library would appreciate me doing this!
mikehunt696
posted 11-Sep-2002 1:19pm  
Nothing as far as I'm concerned. I regularly clean my keyboard with canned air.
bandit1cat
posted 11-Sep-2002 1:59pm  
Food mostly, have murdered two keyboards so far with coffee.
Lahdee Survey Qualifier
posted 11-Sep-2002 3:51pm  
a crumb
justjulie
(reply to bandit1cat) posted 11-Sep-2002 3:52pm  
you and heyzeus should get together, he's murdered a couple w/ beer! * smile *
Lahdee Survey Qualifier
(reply to bandit1cat) posted 11-Sep-2002 3:53pm  
I ruined one with Coke. A bunch of my letters wouldn't work and I had to use $ for S, @ for a and stuff.
Iseult Survey Central Subscriber Silver Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
(reply to bandit1cat) posted 11-Sep-2002 3:55pm  
You keyboard killer. I killed one with coca-cola.
Biggles Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
posted 11-Sep-2002 4:15pm  
Hair - both from the head and, um, other regions (I don't even want to think how they got there - I share this computer.....)
Bits of food - just small crumbs
moonstone
posted 11-Sep-2002 5:32pm  
 * laughing out loud *
juliw
posted 11-Sep-2002 6:09pm  
nothing
Amanda
posted 11-Sep-2002 6:52pm  
I actually just cleaned my keyboard a few weeks ago. It hadn't been cleaned in over a year, so it was rather nasty. It's amazing how dirty the keys get and I wash my hands ALL the time. There was dust and other gross stuff under the keys. I used Q-Tips to clean in the crevices and soaked the keys in alcohol. Now, it's as good as new.
LuridHope
posted 11-Sep-2002 7:00pm  
A little dead bug. Hahahaha. It's true.
Jemmy
posted 11-Sep-2002 8:21pm  
Just some dust.
mandy
posted 11-Sep-2002 9:06pm  
Don't wanna
mandy
(reply to bandit1cat) posted 11-Sep-2002 9:08pm  
I killed one too...with rum and diet pepsi!
confetti
posted 11-Sep-2002 10:06pm  
Nothing. It's freshly laundered  * smile *
Zang
posted 11-Sep-2002 11:21pm  
Nothing this time. I just did this recently because I noticed a little brown wad of fluff between the keys, so I guess I emptied everything else out too.
harekrishnadasa
posted 12-Sep-2002 12:57am  
I am not at my keyboard.
dora
posted 12-Sep-2002 2:45am  
Bread.
Cat's hair.
Cigarette ashes.
Dino
posted 12-Sep-2002 8:05am  
Hair (in the Autumn of my years I'm malting more and more)
Crumbs (due to my ongoing addiction to coconut macaroons)
Ash (I'm a smoker)
bandit1cat
(reply to mandy) posted 12-Sep-2002 11:36am  
Yuck. I hate diet sodas. I'd rather drink water, anything else.
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 12-Sep-2002 11:44am  
oh, I am using a public computer but I did the test anyway. shhh, no ones looking  * wink *

all that come out was a little bit of dust, thats about it.
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 12-Sep-2002 5:36pm  
One small, unidentifiable piece of shmutz. I must have cleaned it recently.
ASB Bronze Star Survey Creator Survey Qualifier
posted 13-Sep-2002 2:26pm  
hair dust tobacco ashes
wolfchik9
posted 18-Sep-2002 8:19pm  
Hair & dust... nothing special.
Bibliophile
posted 23-Sep-2002 12:43am  
I was surprised. I expected crumbs and dust, but nothing came out.
Cain
posted 27-Sep-2002 12:17pm  
I'm in the university library with an attendant watching me becuase she thinks I have my mobile turned on. I don't think it would go down well if I shook it just now.
Biggles Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
(reply to Cain) posted 27-Sep-2002 12:22pm  
Be a rebel! Before I go to uni, I've had to sign an oath that I won't light a fire in the library - didn't mention anything about not breaking the computer keyboards though......
Cain
(reply to Biggles) posted 28-Sep-2002 9:06am  
She was a particularly mean looking library attendant!! Had visions of her coming over and kicking my head in.............as library attendants often do!
Biggles Bronze Star Survey Creator Gold Qualifier
(reply to Cain) posted 28-Sep-2002 2:27pm  
 * laughing out loud * Okay, perhaps you better had behave then  * wink *
sonikJ
posted 29-Sep-2002 5:26pm  
cigarette ashes...:(
weepydebacho
posted 13-Oct-2002 11:16pm  
My dad cleans the keyboard often and nobody is allowed to eat or drink near the computer.
leegee
posted 1-Nov-2002 12:58pm  
dust
LocoXXL
posted 10-Nov-2002 10:06pm  
Nothing, yet this isn't a suprise. I have a rubber keyboard (interesting?) designed to be spill/hair/food/other-unknown-substances proof. But to amuse you, I turned it upside-down to see it turn into a blue jello in my hand. I thank you, though, because I found $1.75 which I used to buy a 1-Liter of Diet Pepsi. I'm in your debt!
RGirl
posted 4-Feb-2006 12:38am  
Dust.
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