Boing Boing Giveaway #whatsinthebox

Anonymous

Is it “hundreds of dollars” worth of peacock feathers? or rare truffles? Platinum ingots would be cool! Ideally it’d be something Boing Boing related. Maybe a robot cat spaceship.

Anonymous

I’m hoping for a collection of choose your own adventure novels, but I’ll settle for just having a box to add to my growing collection of boxes of various sizes and shapes. Contents are so unimportant, its the mystery that drives us.

asbuuu

I need to know what’s in the box because humans are really just like cats:
http://boingboing.net/2010/11/12/tiny-boxes-cant-thwa.html

Ok, well cats want to get in the box, and we want to open it. Thus explaining thousands of years of symbiosis.

MataHari

Gotta get ‘em all

larsius

I’m fairly certain that if I don’t find out what’s in the box then my head will explode.

I just hope my ladyfriend Pandora doesn’t open it first…

Bokonuko

I have no idea what is in the box. Mayyyybe something bad. Mayyyyybe something good. I guess we’ll never know. Because, you’re going to guard it. You won’t touch it will you?

Anonymous

whoa dude fresh i bet its something mega rad like a hot babe you can assemble or something.

Anonymous

I a have a collection of boxes that contain techie stuff and I want to add diversity to their gene pool.

Anonymous

This is my son Geoff Stearns birthday present. He works at Google YouTube and it is impossible to buy gifts for him. You know what I mean cause your relatives probably say the same thing about you!

Anonymous

BECAUSE IT MIGHT HOLD THE SECRET TO ALL THE WORLDS.

no, mostly because I LOVE GADGETS AND SWAG and cannot go to awesome industry things like you guys can.

LeSinge

Winners chosen at random right? Because there are some witty-ass comments in here. I’d love a mystery box, personally. Hopefully whoever gets it will post a full inventory.

apoxia

I must know what’s in the box as the customs guys at the airport will want an inventory when it arrives in New Zealand. They’ll also want to add tax and I’ll need to know the approx value of goods :)

felltir

I absolutely need to know what’s inside the box because I love animals, and dammit Erwin, I can still save the cat if you’ll just open the box!

Justin Smaz

I’m assuming it contains an entirely different universe where the common lime is treated as a near godly figure and thus considered priceless . . . or worth thousands of dollars. Maybe a ray gun!? OH LIME GOD PLEASE LET IT BE A RAY GUN!!!

MechaStewart

I am hoping there might be a series of smaller boxes in the box, and then a series of smaller boxes in the box, and then a series of smaller boxes in the box, and then a series of smaller boxes in the box, and then a series of smaller boxes in the box, and then a series of smaller boxes in the box.

And perhaps one more time, a series of smaller boxes in the box, but that would be it.

Oh, and a copy of Buckaroo Banzai.

Anonymous

Simply curious thank you.

innokenty

Because curiosity resulted in human evolution into our modern age of technology. I wonder what happens when I set off a nuclear reaction equal to 50 megatons of TNT? Sure we dont know if it will unbalance the earth, but lets just do for the HECK of it.

gingerbeardman

i don’t really mind what’s in the box… i just want to play with the box like mauru!

Waterlilygirl

My roof bowing from the snow, my cat cost me $819.00 because he had crystals in his urine, I have been walking around like an old lady because I pulled my back while shoveling, I don’t have a valentine, my life pretty much sucks so I NEED the box. It should go to someone pathetic like me.

Anonymous

Is it a robot?
A giant slinky?
*Please let it be Hugh Jackman…or Joaquim Phoenix’s beard*
I promise to be good to whatever is in the box…I will even recycle or reuse the box.

I want to know what’s in the box so I can torment my brother with the exact same game!!

Zoz

It’s filled with enough gold bullion to pay all my college bills. And I always did want a doctorate. And maybe a Macbook Pro. Those are as good as doctorates these days, right?

Br0dy

I absolutely must know what’s in the box, because I’m (im)patiently waiting to hear back with an offer from my dream job (I kid you not- exactly my dream job with my favourite company), and the suspense is killing me.

In the meanwhile, maybe I can open up the damned box and at least know SOMETHING FOR SURE. ::sob::

@brodyqat

prettyisin

Ohhhhh I must know what is in the box. I have a fever and the only cure is to know whats in the box.
Although, if we are going for the creativity of a commenter, I will give up the box for the very creative rest of the Boing Boing commenters.

Prufrock451

So who got the box? AGONY.

josh

I absolutely must know what is in the box because I because I’m curious like that. I’ll probably just give this “stuff” away but I’ll mess with it all first. If I don’t break it, I’ll find a good home for it all.

yepmatt

I need the box to fortify a blockade to keep my 9 month old away from stuff she could choke on or ruin.

Anonymous

I Must know whats in that box because my curiosity will drive me crazy for the rest of life if I don’t know….

Anonymous

I would like to see whats in the box but more importantly I would like to use it once emptied to help me start a fire in that great fireplace behind it.

jonathanbruder

Meatwad: See, check it. MC Pee Pants doesn’t just want [--] now, that’s childish. He needs it. And when you need something that’s a responsibility that only an adult (sees chocolate bunnies)..of my maturity.. Bunnies!

(let me use all your good stuff. let me repurpose all the bad.)

Nina

MUST. KNOW.

Anonymous

How’s Fred, Nina?

Anonymous

I don’t want to know what’s in that box. I couldn’t care less about what’s in that box. If that box disappeared from the face of the earth tomorrow, I wouldn’t even notice it.

sarkafarka

The crowbar next to my monitor started glowing when I opened this post. I need to know if this was a fake alarm or if that glow will lead me to more treasures in the future.

lizzi15

If I find out what is in this box it will make me cool.

Chris

It would be just swell if it was one of those fine wristwatches you post from time to time. But alas the box could contain another box… or this could all be the sneakiest way ever to clean out your basement. But my two kids would enjoy it very much if it was a box (future cardboard robot head or fort.)

Anonymous

There’s a bar or pedal in the box, when pressed, causes a little mechanism to release a food pellet into your cubicle. It’s totally free – technically – but they rig it so you get addicted over time.

In the beginning, you get food pellets very quickly for very little effort. As time goes on, you have to do more â€œworkâ€ to obtain the same reward, but by then you’re hooked and you keep playing to try to advance in the box. It’s easy to earn lots of pellets, but it’s hard to earn â€œCubicle bucksâ€ which you need to get the biggest advantages (more space, new stapler etc).

Mike

I must have it simply because I don’t know what’s in it. If you told me exactly what was in it…I would probably still really want it. But my point is since I don’t know, every fiber of my being must get that box so that I can find out what is inside. Every. Fiber.

Anonymous

It might be Ark of the Covenant.

Agent Beryllium

I am a time-travelling supervillain. I can’t tell you what’s in the box, but what I can tell you is this: Someone will do very dangerous, very bad things with what’s in that box.

I can promise that if that someone is ME, it will also be informative, intriguing and artful.

The choice is really one of blind greed and artful living. Both at once, to be frankly honest.

TurbineTech

I know it’s full of bottle caps. I need to replenish my supply since I bought those stupid thrust modules for the ghouls rockets from that crazy coot in Nipton instead of just stealing the key to the metal box. DUMB DUMB DUMB.

hairfool

I’m planning on winning a box of goodies from bOINGbOING and this box will be perfect for keeping the goodies in!

Anonymous

Because you can’t see the outside of the box from inside the box.

Anonymous

I have been searching high and low for this box. How did you get it?! I must have it….have it I must!
Is there a door #2? No? Then I have to know what’s in that box!

Anonymous

The box will be my new TARDIS. I will enjoy living in my new TARDIS. It will be spacious.

doingdoing

Because nothing brightens up the day better than opening a box of goodies…

kpurcell

I must find out what gris gris is. Please let me see what is in the box. Could it be parts from a broken MakerBot?

Ricardo Christe

It looks large enough to serve as a pedestal for my latest Styrofoam statuary creation. Plus, it is obviously messing up the architectural harmony of that photo scenery. By relocating the box to my current abode, you’ll never run the risk of messing up with the scenery, ever again.

jbob

I already have a boat so MYSTERY BOX!

Anonymous

I want to know what’s in the box so I can tell Julian Assange and he can post it on wikileaks.

Anonymous

Because like the Elephant’s Child, I am filled with satiable curtiosity.

Patricia

Not gotten a surprise gift in many many many years – need the thrill!

Anonymous

The contrast between the exotic background & the very plain box intrigues me.

Fnord.

yours,
Dan Bostaph

Anonymous

FNORD

Mister44

I already know what’s in the box: Schrodinger’s iPad

(cats would need air holes, sillys)

jfaehnle

Since the moment I read this post, thoughts about what’s in the box have been distracting me from the very little work I do at my job.

Also, I actually logged in to my Twitter account so that I could follow Boing Boing. It’s my 1st time logging in since I signed up years ago, and Boing Boing is the only person/entity who/that I’m following. That’s how much I want to know what’s in the box.

Anonymous

OMG, I must know what is in that box. It is eating me up inside not knowing.

Anonymous

My life depends on knowing what is in the box!

usonia

I have a rare neurological disorder which causes me to NEED to know what is in closed boxes. If I don;t find out, I could die! Or diet. Or something.

Anonymous

being a “cat person” curiosity is deeply ingrained through a happy mutation in my evolutionary biology. needless steampunk reference.

Mr Pitou

it’s totally random. Nothing cute or talented will work. totally random folks. Send it to me and I’ll sell it all on craigslist or kijiji and fuel my addiction for sub$30 guitars and model trains

IronEdithKidd

A new battery for my ipod (and the attendant shipping costs) would be lovely. Or a stack of EL sheets, wire, transformers and battery packs (natural blue, please). Maybe a Lego Death Star? Man, I’d love to get my hands on one of those, but I could never justify the expense. Ooh! I know! It’s a bundle of folded time! That would be mighty useful.

Something tells me it’s actually full of unicorn meat, and this give away is the reason it was out of stock at x-mas time.

YakHerder

I can’t stand not knowing if that poor cat is alive or not!

David Bousson

My cat would like the box, and maybe something inside. Sheâ€™s forcing me to type this.

Anonymous

I am a graduate student in Chicago.
When all is said and done, I will owe just under $200,000 for my college education.
That being said, I really, really love free things…

Anonymous

“Forget you” and your box.

Satai

I am just curious.

duskcheetah

Until I observe what is in the box, any of a huge number of things could exist simultaneously in quantum states inside! Send me the box so that the wave function into a single state of boingboing swag!

Anonymous

I’m really hoping the kitten is alive

Anonymous

Because it’s the only thing that will stop the voices.

Anonymous

Who wouldnt want to know what is in a closed box. Its the thrill and excitment of christmas morning of birthday presents in front of you…ooooooo weeeeee

Esther Sassaman

I need to know what’s in the box because it most likely has a cable to something that I already have, but do not have the cable for.

Also, stickers.

Leslie

I absolutely must know what is in the box because I love stuff, but more importantly, my boyfriend loves stuff. He’s been really sad lately and I’d love to win something like this because it would really cheer him up. Thanks for doing this!

Anonymous

oh oh oh.. whats in the box…. sounds like a question i had for an ex-GF

Anonymous

Is it a mystery wrapped in an enigma?

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box! Curiosity is killing this cat!

elbrucio

Upon reading this post, initially I was quite excited. It’s a box of surprize!

Then I realized I already have boxes of electronics sitting around here already, some of which need to be recycled. And if it is not something I already want in that mystery box, it’s just only going to add to my problems.

Sigh. I’m better off not knowing.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the mystery box. I have until next week to avert worldwide catastrophe (can’t say what it is, sorry), and so far the only thing I have to work with is an old box of fishing tackle. Anything helps!

max

i am convinced, that upon opening said box, a storm of unicorns and various garage-made cyberpunk automatons will leap out and bring about a new era of DIY lifestyle in an anti-Pandora scenario. i would like to have access to this box in order to confirm or deny that suspicion.

saehn

Foghorn Leghorn: (eyeing the woodbox) “I’m afraid to look–I might still be in there!”

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box or my face will explode.

xelacac

There’s probably a lot of useless stuff, so I absolutely need that box.

mikerbaker

I need to know what’s in the box because, as most happy mutants do, I have a curious nature, and it drives me mad when teh googles has not the answer.

Anonymous

#whatsinthebox
That box looks so epic it needs its own soundtrack. It needs the 2001: Space Odyssey treatment. The bit where Dave Bwoman is an old man lying in that baroque room knowing too much about everything. Thats how ‘ll feel if I got this box. I’d play the soundtrack as I was opening it…

Anonymous

I would love to find out the box’s contents, I’ve been looking for supplies for a random project! What a better way to start than an unknown box of stuffs!

dougr650

I simply must know what’s in the box, because it’s so big and blank and inviting. It is practically bursting with potential goodness, or at least I imagine that’s what it is bursting with.

Anonymous

Thousands of tiny boxes must be in there! I want em lol

Rob Beschizza

UPDATE: A recipient has been selected. Thank you, everyone!

jackruby1123

If I dont find out whats in the box my life is over. I guess ill just join the French Foreign Legion and start a new life under the name “Pepe”.

Anonymous

Because of course, I am no cat. I do not fear being killed by my curiosity and what is in that box I must know!

el_bob

because it could be puppies in that box, and if it’s puppies they could die, since i don’t see any air holes in that box. don’t kill the puppies! send the box to me overnight!

Anonymous

Why do I need to know what’s in that box? Simple. It cannot be kept a secret to the world. Information demands to be free!

askjacob

I must know what is in the box, as like the 600+ others already indicate, a mystery box is just so…. mysterious.
Plus:

Who doesn’t love getting a big box in the mail?
Who doesn’t like swag from events you have no chance of going to?
Who doesn’t like their browser crashing with gigabytes of comments added to a single BB article?

These things and more. Stuff has potential to make me happier :)

Cheers

Anonymous

I think I may have left my glasses in there. I’d like to take a look.

Anonymous

Is this “competition” open internationally, or just within the U.S.?

Evil_Samaritan

Hello Rob, I’m an avid box collector from Russia! Yes, I collect all kind of unusual packaging, however due to areal limitations of my living space, I have to restrain myself, when it comes to bigger boxes. For years, I’ve been hunting that particular specimen, trying to catch it on ebay, trying flea markets and pawn stores, but, alas, wasn’t so fortunate. Upon seeing this wondrous photograph and reading the well-versed description I was so overwhelmed with feelings, I forgot my password. At the same moment tears of joy uncontrollably bursted from my eyes, almost causing a short circuit, due to an opened PC case lid. And how not to cry here? Check Williamson-Drake’s Guide To The Box Rarities book (2009 ed.) on rare packaging, this baby scored 8.6/10 there! Rob, we all hope you’ll make a right decision tomorrow!

Always yours, E.S.

Anonymous

Maybe a cat… maybe not….

I am AC because I have no FB, I don’t twitter.
I don’t have a shiny jebus phone… and some how I do okay.

Ask yourself this… is what in the box enough to make up for someone handing themselves to Zuck to be marketed and tracked forever?

metaleaf

I’d like to know what’s in the box . . . it might be puppies. Or chocolate.

Anonymous

or chocolate puppies…. yum

Laura

Ok so all I can think about now is what’s in that box?? It’s driving me crazy…:)

qwrtish

If we don’t find out what’s in the box, mankind will never be free from the tyranny of the tree people. Obviously.

Sterno Dare

I promise to use it mostly for good and not evil, whatever it is.

maceochaid

Oh I don’t have to know, I’m already sure that my amazingly geeky boyfriend will love whatever is in it and I’m going to give whatever it is to him. Does that disqualify me?

Too bad I’m not dating Bluebeard.

mrgincrazed

I think I left my glasses in there. I’d like to take a look.

lummels

oh, no doubt it’s filled with “wonderful things,” but i’d love to find out myself! :o)

Giant

I don’t really care so much about whats in the box as the box itself. It looks rather large, and I hope to reuse it to store my vast fortune once it arrives from Nigeria. Prince Akjula from the Republic of Turai will be very pleased with my newly acquired storage device.

juepucta

It’s mostly the box i want, really :P

-G.

Anonymous

I would like it to help get over my fear of the unknown. I used to have serious anxiety issues when dealing with unknown situations and receiving a box like this could be a little therapeutic.

I also promise to give a lot of it away at random to people in the street :)

Anonymous

I think this box needs to be sent to John Klapak’s daughter.

-v

Anonymous

I’m not so bothered about what’s inside but I’d love to make a fort with the cardboard box!

firebush69

I have nothing in this world, not even a twitter account. This mysterious box of stuff would grant me the fulfillment that years of searching for enlightenment did not- I beseech thee to help me rid myself of desire by giving me the box. à¤¨à¤®à¤¸à¥à¤¤à¥‡ !

druse

Meh..donÂ´t need it really.

firebush69 got my vote

@firebush69: But if you ever find some of that enlightenment, throw some my way plz
- firebush69
  
  You got it, daddy-o

silencethenoise

If I don’t find out what is in the box I will surely know the futility of human endeavor.

cbwallday

It’s probably the only thing you can open from the internet where you won’t end up getting Rick Roll’D.

Smapdie

Because I sat here for 15 minutes trying to formulate an answer and my boss caught me and bawled me out for having BoingBoing up on my screen. The contents of that box and my future (at least at this job) are now inextricably linked.

Shaun Smith

I wonder if it contains bandwidth? I might be needing some if usage based billing ends up being approved in Canada.

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/canadas-internet-res.html

Shaun

Anonymous

I need to know because there is an innate desire in me to know the world around me, and knowing the box’s contents will fulfill that desire at least momentarily.

SCIENCE!!

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box to satisfy my craving for Global Domination. An agent of the U.N. hid the all-powerful Time-Cube somewhere on this Earth.

My minions have searched for years to no avail, so it MUST be in this box!

Should it be, and bring my cause to fruition, I promise to be a benevolent ruler of the planet!

ryuthrowsstuff

I could use the box because frankly not knowing whats in there is gonna eat at me. Like when you can’t remember the name of a song or movie. And you just sort of go “oh what was that…. wait wait… was it ghoulies 2? No no it wassss….” for hours.

Besides if its full of “CES Swag” then dollars to doughnuts its got at least a couple of those little, foam rubber, stress things shaped like computers/cellphones/human hearts/fruit. And damned if those things aren’t perfect for hucking at coworkers.

xzzy

Let’s see what’s in the box!

NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

STUPID! YOU SO STUPID!

jenb43

I need the box because I think it contains Gwyneth Paltrow’s head.

pauliepickle

According to Dr. Seuss:
Chicks with bricks, Chicks with blocks, Knox on fox in socks in box, Socks on chicks
and chicks on fox, Six sick bricks tick, Six sick chicks tock, New goo, Blue goo, Pig band! Boom band!, tweetle beetles on a poodle… and the poodle’s eating noodles..

Who doesn’t love an UNOPENED box…
Fun Game…Thanks Rob :)

Cor

I am studying Spanish in Buenos Aires and when I return home I will be broke, a step away from destitute. A box of techo-gizitry would lighten my spirit. Then as I am living out of my van and eating ramen I can distract myself from my crushing abject poverty with electronic what’s'it’s'nots numbing myself to shock of re-entry into US life.

Anonymous

It looks like it just might contain a pony, and I’ve always wanted a pony.

baghwanb

‘Cause it’s a closed box!!!!
Gotta gotta know!
And since BB has been a reliable source of interesting info and guidance for decades for me now (just found my stash of print copies).

Bruce “Gimme Gimme Boxy Toast” Young

PanzerGeist

Life is a constant mystery filled with wonders we can never hope to understand. From aspects of science we’ve yet to wholly grasp to considerations of a spiritual nature, everything should be explored. This exploration, however, can rarely result in truly “answering” the question that was asked. If I can find out what’s in the box, at least I will find the answer to one mystery.

cloudscudding

I need to know because I’ve seen far too many horror movies.

kweiske

Must! Know! What’s! In! BOX!

LeakyBucket

Because someone needs to observe the contents in order to set the state and end the mystery, and I am willing to be that someone.

Anonymous

Man, every witty comment I could think of has already been posted. Here’s hoping anyway!

Anonymous

I need to know if my missing purple wool sock is in the box and how about a ‘don’t have to enable $%^ing facebook’s apps’ link to do the facebook follow? You guys should know better than to encourage people to enable that cesspool of broken security. :-P~.

Hellosluggo

It’s Jimmy Hoffa… JIMMY HOFFA IS IN THE BOX!

I promise to send the box to the guy in Russia.

Anonymous

given that the walls nearby are splattered with blood, I’m guessing it’s something delicious!

Anonymous

it’s smashed up apple products* isn’t it?!

Wait, dont tell me….

no. do tell…

*still better than the working version of competitors

texasstyle01

Looks like a nice cozy box to crawl inside for a nap….

Susan Oliver

I CAN HAZ BOX PLZ? OKTHXBYE.

Anonymous

Because of course, I am not a cat. Curiosity wont kill me, it only makes me stronger. The only thing better is having the question answered!

Anonymous

Who doesn’t want to know what is in an unopened box. Plus the mysteries it could hold and the untold hours of playing, and tinkering, and learning with new gadgets.

hippichick

I’m a techno hag
and I think it’s such a drag
that you won’t give me a clue
’bout what you got in that bag

And I want to be chill
But I can’t get my fill
All that neural stimulation
gives me such a thrill

See I can’t buy the toys
made for rich girls and boys
I’m just an old mama
and I’ve got to keep on top
of all these weird
goings on in the world
so I am sending this plea
Do me a solid
and make my world

Yep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KezvwARhBIc

Anonymous

IDK what’s in the box but it is something that I want to touch.

RFPVJr.

zabonkbonk, doooooOOOOOOOOne nuh nuehhh. In kapoot das cunzai thisthisTHIS damano. Scoot geinturzein? a-HA! Gua tsai, oh. Meatmean kitkat. Sanks oooooo!

Anonymous

The contents of this box have pataphysical importance to me. And a chunk of that beautiful stone would be nice too.

Anonymous

Whatâ€™s in the box?!

I need to know what’s in the box!?!?

briandtaylor

I must know what is in this box, most importantly because I can’t figure out what’s in this other box that I have. It won’t open. But, when I shake it it makes a lovely clanking noise. I need a box that will OPEN.

ManageWA

I have no ability to control my desire to know everything and anything. By keeping this box from me, it will actually be horribly dangerous to my health.

Anonymous

I no longer have a Facebook account. I deleted it several months ago after much thought and consideration. I do have a Tumblr, however, and my reasons for deleting my Facebook, and never obtaining a Twitter account, can be read there. (http://youngmanandtheweb.tumblr.com/post/2433763317/my-retreat-from-social-networking)

Do you remember when you were a child and you’d frequent your local drug store or dollar store and there they’d have for sale, generally for $1, grab bags? What thrill and excitement existed within the $1 grab bag! The items that were found inside the bag were things that on their own you probably wouldn’t have purchased, even if for less than $1, but because they were bundled together and mysteriously concealed within a brown paper bag it made them fun. I remember being so eager to rip the staple from the bag and peer inside to see what items awaited me, and then removing them from the bag and laying them out and examining all the items at once.

When we grow and age from child to adult we often miss out or forget about the simple pleasures in life, like the $1 grab bag. Maybe that is because there aren’t really any grab bags out there for adults, and what items generally are bundled together are much more elaborate, complicated, and simply never as simple as what we’d find in those brown paper bags.

While I expect what rests in the box to be far superior to what I once found inside the $1 grab bag, I expect it to provide the same sort of excitement and pleasure. Opening the box and peering inside not having the slightest idea what rests inside.

I want to experience the same excitement that I once experienced when I was younger from the $1 grab bag. That’s why I’d like to receive this box.

Anonymous

This box is full of love; love in all different shapes, sizes and forms. It could be love in the form of stickers, or legos, or munny dolls. It could be actions figures, or Getter Robo toys, or crayons. It could be fuzzy love, or plastic electronic love. Love in the form of songs, or movies, or pictures.

Whatever is in the box, it will hopefully create “oohs” and “ahhhs” from whoever opens it up.

valiantrobot

I like to open boxes!! And my cat likes to play in them too

luxulterior

Inside the BOX is DOOOOOOOOOM
DOOOOOOOOOM DOOOOOOOOOM DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*coughcough*..er…OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Or a kitten. I like kittens.I want to see the kitten.
THE KITTEN OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

Anonymous

BECAUSE I NEED SOME NEW TOYS.

MechaStewart

I think our entire universe is inside that box.

BOOM.

Blew your mind.

Anonymous

If Gwyneth Paltrow’s head isn’t in that box, I will be sorely dissapointed #whatsinthebox?????

grump

Being from the south, if gris gris are anything like grits, then count me in.

Mmmm, I bet it’s cheese gris gris, with some bacon crumbled up in it. Yummy.

I need.

lobstergirl

For Science!

Anonymous

Because the end of “Seven” has had me hanging for years…

arvana

WANT!

alstair

Sure, with the boat you get a boat, but that box could be anything…

…even a boat!

I have to know what’s in the box?

TommyG

I have to have the box because I don’t have X-ray vision. And otherwise how will I know what is in it?

Lonin

If I don’t find out what is in the box I will die sometime in the next 100 years. Fear for me.

reeds&rushes

I absolutely need to know what’s in the box. I have only 1 electronic gadget, a 3rd generation iPod nano, as my cell phone was eaten by the snowpocalypse and I am currently unable to afford a replacement. Here’s hoping for a phone!

TommyHans

I need a new place to sleep…

DoktorFaustus

I loves me some mystery box!

Anonymous

I think there is a wookie in the box who will come to work with me and do my work!

Anonymous

it is clearly a human being it is exctly the size of the boxes that I would hide in.

Anonymous

I’m an old man. I haven’t won any thing in 58 years. I may never have another chance if I don’t win this. Don’t let me go out as a loser.

Evilbeard

Well, I’d like to know what’s in the box because I just woke up and for some reason I’m in a small dark confined space and…

Anonymous

Because over the last month, my Drobo has broken, my iPod broke, my doctor told me my cholesterol is WAY high (and yet somehow messed up my prescription 3 times so far), my car’s struts turned up broken, my car tires wore out, my group therapist has pushed back me joining group therapy nearly 2 months, I’ve been tagged for federal jury duty (2 weeks of jury duty!) and I’m catching a cold.

Not that I’m complaining, but I could use a little bit of a pick-me-up. :D

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box.

It is a matter of national security.

Anonymous

I already know what’s in the box, I just need to win this thing so that I can prove it.

Anonymous

comp sci student here! need to know what’s in the box so i can hack it!

Blazel

I need to know if Andy Kaufman is hiding in this box.

ururk

I am curious.

Anonymous

I need to know what is in the box because I actually thought it was partially foggy today, while looking out of my glass sliding doors. Then I looked again, and realized it was from steam, but only on one half of the glass.

Razzlebeezer

I need to know what’s in the box since I love to touch junk. I’m a TSA agent that submits info to Wikileaks in my steampunk outfit while taming wild monkeys and looking for planets that can sustain life. I just hope there’s a bottle of liquid ass inside.

Squid6

I need to know whats in the box because now I have the end scene from the movie Seven where Brad Pitts character in screaming “What’s in the box!” stuck on a continuous loop in my mind.

Felton / Moderator

I was thinking of Barton Fink. :-)

stephendavidson

I need to know because humans have a basic need to know and understand, in order to self-actualize and become what we are capable of becoming… Help a brother out, man; this is our species we’re talking about.

GP

Oh. OH! Do want. All your box are belong to me *^_^* Please.

Why? Because I adore Boing Boing and anything in that box is going to make me insanely pleased. Also, I have NEVER won anything in my life and if I win this than YIPPEEEE!

RedBloc

ooo… is the box filled with a sense of ennui? Or a chocolate wookie paw?

hockeybrad

Because I love a good gadget and with the exception of my EVO, I usually hold off actually buying them for myself!

Anonymous

ooooh boxy boxy boxy box…it is a most elusive box. And it went where-ever I did go…

Anonymous

Why? Well, why not?

sparkythewonderdog

Is it a BONE!? You lucky dog!!!

Anonymous

Is it bigger on the inside?

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because everyone tells me to think outside the box. Since I’m always thinking outside the box, I have no idea what’s inside the box in the first place.

adamcoe

oooooh boxy boxy boxy box…it is a most elusive box. And went where-ever I did go…

(edit: sorry, posted this already but I forgot to log in)

Anonymous

I’ll give it a try, what’s in the box?

videobored

I’m quite sure that there is a bowling alley in the box. I’ve always wanted a bowling alley of my very own.

grizlybexar

i need whatever is in that box! i’m fairly certain it will become part of my next sculpture or art project!

EnderQON

I’m sure I don’t _need_ to know what’s in the box – my life will continue unaltered if I never learn its contents.

However, I am fresh out of gris-gris, due to budget cuts and not being selected to attend an industry conference recently.

Also, I pledge to create an unboxing video so that everyone’s curiosity can be sated.

Anonymous

Since becoming a father 2 years ago, my life has changed in a number of ways. One of those is fiscally. I no longer spend money on myself or my hobbies. Another is time. I no longer dedicate time to myself – especially now that my wife is pregnant with #2 and is typically exhausted. The anticipation of receiving the box would be wonderful; the anticipation of opening the box would be fantastic; discovering what is inside of the box would be amazing; owning the stuff in the box may or may not be the climax. If anticlimactic, I’ll be giving it away on craigslist, one piece at a time. Please pick me. I need the excitement.

Anonymous

because pandora

Anonymous

There are so many people here who seem downright desperate to know what’s in this box of yours, so, as a gesture of humanity and a token of peace I offer this: when I receive the box I promise to document each and every item and give people what they all claim to want, the knowledge of what is in the box… also, if there are stickers I will totally freak-out.

jmontes

I want to know what is the box because it sound to be full of awesomeness … Wait a minute, I’ve been fooled like this before.

Lostastic

I know whatever it is in the box will blow my mind and nearly make me lose my mind! I’ll even get use out of the brown box; it will become my 3yr. old Godson’s new Bat-mobile!

Anonymous

See how much of a loser I am. I am an old man that hasn’t won anything in 58 years and I can barely remember to put my email address in. Please. I don’t want to be a loser. This box could be my last chance. Please send me the box and it’s contents.

Anonymous

i’d like to think ‘inside’ the box for this.

Grey Devil

I must know what’s in the box. Not because i must have it, but because i must know what is inside it. It’s not merely a want of free stuff, but because i have a deep love of found objects (new and old) and figuring out creative new uses for them. I don’t really care if they are cheap or expensive, useful or useless, as long as the box contains objects that are interesting to me.. and i think not knowing what the box contains and the mystery surrounding it makes whatever is inside very interesting.

My mind reels at the possibilities as to what i can do with, make, or use the items for. So ask you to pick me! I cannot demand but i can only dream and hope that i am lucky enough :)

Atvaark

Why wouldn’t I need to know? That, I’d like to know.

Anonymous

Seriously… Dude. What’s in the box?

Scott

I want the box because I love nice cardboard.

george57l

I don’t care what’s in the box, Facebook can pry my personal data from my cold dead hands and Twitter is too succinct to be usable by anyone with anything truly worth saying.

I guess I’ve self-disqualified myself from being able to enter.

What’s with the “you must have a Facebook or Twitter account to be an eligible person” attitude these days?

Anonymous

Oh! Rare and Wonderful Things Ahoy!
If I find the Potential this exciting, how could I not be enthralled were I to actually get to see what was in it?

latent_ravening_ferocity

I must know because I don’t know. What other reason could there be?

avoision

Man, if I win this… I can’t wait to drive my new car around the neighborhood.

Anonymous

WHATS IN THE BOX THAT ALWAYS ROCKS

Anonymous

My life depends on discovering the contents of the box.

For this reason, send it to me.

Thanks

Snipe

I have been locked away for the capacity of at least one week, studying logic and argumentation for an admissions test. I spent all of my Gil, Rupees, and Nuyen on tuition and grad school applications, so now I have to fight a boss to get my sweetheart a fabulous gift for V-day. Much in the same way I have been locked away inside an academic bubble, I feel the contents of this prize are detached from any specific reality. Fudging the results to allow me to laugh all the way to the bank with this Question mark Box (Ã la Riddler) would be a particularly moral action, in allowing all of my schemes to go to plan.

Anonymous

Would love to know what’s in the box as long as it’s not full of just bio degradable packing pellets.

apb

“The thing’s hollowâ€”it goes on foreverâ€”andâ€”oh my Godâ€”it’s full of stars!”

ianc7

I have 2 box loving cats but sadly I have only 1 box and so there is a never ending war over who gets to be in the box, now if I was to receive a second box certainly everlasting peace would be achieved.

mattw

I want the box so I can leave it sealed and display it. Unless it has an odor. Then I suppose we’ll have to open it.

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box because this isn’t a Monty Hall production.
This is BoingBoing.
And that means cool stuff in a box.
(and everyone likes and wants “Cool Stuff in a Box”)
-

Vidya108

Because whatever it is will be *perfect* for my Wunderkammer (everything on BoingBoing is).

Bookburn

I’m a science teacher. That stuff in the box is essential for the kind of top-notch curriculum I would like to establish. I’m training future particle physicists, roboticists, and farmers. Whatever is behind those golden corrugated folds is just perfect for my students.

GrandeeSubRosa

I need to know whats in the box because that box looks a lot like a box i lost, and im going to sue the shoes off you guys if thats my box
please choose me
Thanks

Anonymous

I must know if the cat has been killed by the poison.

Anonymous

Want please.

Anonymous

The fate of the Known Universe hangs in the balance!

fromnowon

I’ve been looking everywhere for any sign that things will change and optimism isn’t silly. Whatever is in the box, that’s what I’d see there.

mierla

Oh! Rare and Wondrous Possibilities ahoy!
If I’m this excited about the Potential, how much more could I delight in the discovery of the Actual?

diggerdoug

just in case.

jimmie proof

I’d like to know what’s in the box. Wait, it’s a dick right?

Bill

Because I could really use a pleasant surprise for once.

Anonymous

I don’t want what’s in the box. I just want to play with the box itself.

jsha

I must know what’s in the box because I work the for Federal Box Inspectors and I have a sealed FISA order.

This comment is also sealed, and any individual who reveals its contents is guilty of a violation under federal law.

Anonymous

send me box. i cant tweet from my jitterbug.

Prufrock451

My life is consumed by curiosity. I write encyclopedias for a living. I’m a former Jeopardy! champion. Pushing 37, I have a great job, a beautiful wife, a son who makes my heart seize up with joy. This is a good life, a lucky life.

But today, everything is in peril.

Rob: I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IN THAT BOX.

Do you understand? I have spent an hour staring at a fucking pebble with a loupe. Do you know what I would do to look inside that box? YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW.

Just… just hand over the box. Oh, God. Everything I’ve built and done. I will let the world burn. I just need to look inside that box. Just this once. Oh, sweet box. Oh.

Uncle Phil

I’m moving offices soon. I could use that box pack away my stapler and my Berlin wall paper weight.

Emma

Darling Rob,
I was once a child of fancy, of indulgent whimsy and imagination. A child that would stare at a box in delicious anticipation of the wonder that is within. That adorable kid is now gone, crushed under the cynical wheels of the Internet blog. For years I have found only joy in watching the hilarious failure of others. But now, from the destroyer, comes creation! A box that will boggle the mind and ensnare the senses! A box that will transcend life, the universe and everything! A box that will not betray itself with thinly veiled pop culture references! I need that box like a drowning man needs a drink of water, Rob, and I believe you are the man to make it possible. Bring back the twinkle in my eye, Rob.
Be my hero.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because it’s my job to find out what’s inside of boxes. I spend much of my life opening boxes, and I would find it an honor and a pleasure to open your box.

Anonymous

I need to know what is in the box because I am an English teacher. I need to learn more about tech and gadgets to effectively communicate with my students, and I am too improverished to ever buy new tech for myself. I am also a direct descendent of Pandora, so I need to open the box just to see if any hope is lurking within. We need more hope in the world. Free the hope.

Chris Petrie

Dang, I could really use a fine wood-pulp storage container like that! SIGN ME UP

Anonymous

Because as a PhD student writing his last chapter, I would do anything, literally anything, if it was a distraction. This included, clearly.

John McLane

Wrye

I for one love a good mystery box, and a well sticked random encounter table (which this thread is). Roll for wandering nerds!

Also, If this were a radio free Vestibule song, the contents would be a sandwich. I hope it is not a sandwich.

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box, because my monitor makes the box appear orange, and only GOOD things come in orange boxes. Also, my boss went to CES and didn’t even bring me a stinkin’ t-shirt!

Anonymous

I can’t get enough of the mystery box!

jackwilliambell

Hmm… I want the box. I’m willing to tweet it; actually not a problem at all.

The problem? I don’t want to follow you on Facebook. I use FB as little as possible and I avoid following anyone who isn’t an actual, real, personal acquaintance. I don’t follow businesses or celebrities.

Oh well.

Raines Cohen

What part of “OR” don’t you understand? (presuming that wasn’t edited from “and” before I got here)

As it is, I could tweet it and Rob would never know, because I choose my followers. Counterintuitive in today’s “share everything, max your circle” dominant paradigm, I know. But worth it for the quality of relationship.

Sure, I’ll throw my hat in the ring. I’ll post an unboxing video, shot at a hacker space (most likely the one nearest me, Ace Monster Toys), including what people decide to do with the contents.

Anonymous

I deserve everything in the box because I am the coolest and most awesome person you have never met. I have magic powers, big ears and throw beach parties. Once I receive this box I will take pictures of everything in the box with my toy camera and post them to your boing boing website so that everyone can see. Don’t be frightened by my autographed copy of the bible. My head is floating. Wolves good, quiche bad. Swimming sheep. Best,
Lord Dickie McBoogerton

procedura

no really, what’s in the box?
7omebody’s head?

Anonymous

Who wouldn’t like to know? I would because I need stuff.

Helena Handbag

Well, I was going to come here and quote the great philosopher P. Griffin on boats and boxes, but I see that at least three other people have beat me to the punch. So…

I want the box because I like stuff. A lot. Especially tech stuff. And this is a box full of tech-like stuff. Add in the mysterious nature of the box and the random chance, and the dopamine flood in my brain compels me to enter to win the box.

Patrickx814

I no longer have a Facebook account. I deleted it several months ago after much thought and consideration. I do have a Tumblr, however, and my reasons for deleting my Facebook, and never obtaining a Twitter account, can be read there. (http://youngmanandtheweb.tumblr.com/post/2433763317/my-retreat-from-social-networking)

Do you remember when you were a child and you’d frequent your local drug store or dollar store and there they’d have for sale, generally for $1, grab bags? What thrill and excitement existed within the $1 grab bag! The items that were found inside the bag were things that on their own you probably wouldn’t have purchased, even if for less than $1, but because they were bundled together and mysteriously concealed within a brown paper bag it made them fun. I remember being so eager to rip the staple from the bag and peer inside to see what items awaited me, and then removing them from the bag and laying them out and examining all the items at once.

When we grow and age from child to adult we often miss out or forget about the simple pleasures in life, like the $1 grab bag. Maybe that is because there aren’t really any grab bags out there for adults, and what items generally are bundled together are much more elaborate, complicated, and simply never as simple as what we’d find in those brown paper bags.

While I expect what rests in the box to be far superior to what I once found inside the $1 grab bag, I expect it to provide the same sort of excitement and pleasure. Opening the box and peering inside not having the slightest idea what rests inside.

I want to experience the same excitement that I once experienced when I was younger from the $1 grab bag. That’s why I’d like to receive this box.

Anonymous

There are grab bags for adults:
Goldmine Electronics also has some boxes of miscellany you can purchase, I’ve ordered at least two, they’re good fun, and have stuff you’d never think of using in a project, like laptop trackpads. I haven’t actually used any of the stuff, but someday… when I have time…

Paul Coleman

Man oh man. I need me some gris gris.

Skully

I’m sure the stuff in the box is awesome, and I would enjoy any and all of its theoretical contents (hopefully they don’t include a cat in a quantum state of existence).

But as the parent of a two-year-old, the main draw is, of course, the box itself. It’s a spaceship! A car! A house! A tree! It is boundless potential, plus you can draw on it with a white crayon!

Anonymous

Are the droids I’m looking for in there?

Anonymous

The future is inside that box, and that’s why I must know exactly what’s inside. The future.

Anonymous

(“Seven” reference)

eaphelps

The picture is setup to make us think the box is HUGE (ie the size of a doorway), but judging from the size of the floor tiles its probably about 15 inches wide. Therefore I don’t think there are any puppies, masked monkey waiters, or imperial walkers in there. However I’m not ruling out David Blaine. Boing Boing opened my eyes to the world of DIY tech wizardry, general wacky nerd stuff, and creative commons. I can only hope for a signed copy of the Axe Cop year 1 poster. I love Boing Boing, it is the perfect blog for me and I cannot wait to figure out whats in that box.

Anonymous

I just moved out of my house and need a place to live!
Also, you can all try to figure out if I am alive within!

Cat

ahmacrom

It’s as “dimensionally transcendental” as a Tardis. Being given away so that the Bescizzal can fulfill his Karmic destiny. The contents of the box will cause a paradigm shift……..Sorry, I stayed home today with the flu. I’m slightly hallucinating.

justinfwest

I want to know what’s in the box for almost the same reason Brad Pitt did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJcxMe1zWY

Anonymous

I have to know what is in the box because I am stuck at home due to cold, wind and snow.

Hank

I must know what’s in the box. Because I’ve just cleaned my closet of stuff that I don’t need. And now there’s room for more!

Joe Helfrich

I must know what’s in the box because I want to know what gris-gris is.

Also, I would follow you on twitter if it had any significant unique content. There’s no point in following an account that’s a primitive RSS feed. That’s what I have a reader for.

Boba Fett Diop

*chants*

Big money-big money-no Cenobites…

Anonymous

We are in the box, and when we open it the rest of the universe will be revealed.

Its that or SHINY STUFF!

Anonymous

I’d like to see what’s in the box because I inherited the nosy gene from my mother.

Anonymous

Inside is a Boxee Box. And a box of chocolates. And new-in-box gadgets. It’s a nearly infinite supply of boxes.

Anonymous

‘Cause I hope it’s Chase no Face! & hopefully SchrÃ¶dinger hasen’t killed her :S

guavajellyfish

I just need a box to make into a small fort in my room. There’s not enough space in here for a traditional blanket fort.

FriendlyNeighborhood

I must KNOW what’s in the box, so I can become the box. And in knowing, I gain strength. Strength leads to more knowledge, and soon I will know all boxes. I will be the king of cardboard, living in a sweet corrugated fortress.

Anonymous

I bet I know what’s in there.

Inside the box there’s a can.

Inside the can there’s some toast.

Inside the toast there’s a stick.

Duh.

Grahamers2002

Replying to this thread in 7 easy steps:

1) Laugh your ass off as you decide to make a cat reference. See 324 people have already posted it.

2) Do the same for Seven and “Box, Dick in A” references.

3) Think of posting “My god, it’s full of stars.” but try to come up with something else.

4) Try to work in “Christ, what an asshole!” but find it just doesn’t work for this.

5) Obvious contents are obvious? nah….

6) Decide to just post that I have 2 boys ages 2.5 and 5 that would love the box.

7) Almost click post until you change it to “It must contain all the normal and unimaginative thoughts in the history of man since the ‘inventive’ people are all thinking outside of the ox.”

Tada

Anonymous

I doubt they give away cats at CES unless Schrodinger was there, but I must really know the state of what’s in the box more than what is actually in the box.

Philipshade

Last time I was given an unmarked box it had a head in it. I’m hoping this has the rest of the body.

Anonymous

Hmmm….for once in my life, I could feel like SchrÃ¶dinger. I would love to receive this box so that I can have both a potential awesome box of excellence and a potential box of WTF? So long as the box remains closed….I can have it all! Of course, if you pick me…I’ma totally opening the box and hoping the cat ain’t dead! Yep. Cheers, from Bookish JoJo!

Crackermack

Solid Snake. I’m certain.

Von Haus

If I were to find out what was in the box I’d have had to open it first! I like opening boxes. Opening things is fun!

L.R Adams

#whatsinthebox
That box looks so epic it needs its own soundtrack. It needs the 2001: Space Odyssey treatment. The bit where Dave Bwoman is an old man lying in that baroque room knowing too much about everything. Thats how ‘ll feel if I got this box. I’d play the soundtrack as I was opening it…

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because Gris-Gris has been regrettably absent from my personal explorations of spirituality. Also, the techie bits would make great favors/cake decorations/hair ornaments for my geeky wedding.

foobar

I need to know because until I do the cat is a zombie.

Anonymous

What’s in the box could be of great importance to me. I will only know if I receive the box.

BachelorFrog

I don’t *need* to know what’s in the box, I just want to destroy its amateurish layer of security in the name of transparency. I’ve contacted the EFF and Wikileaks and filed a FOIA request, so do yourself a favor and just let me open the box already.

ck

There’s MY BOX!

I was visiting my friend in her luxury/doorman building and set down MY BOX in the lobby, leaving it to the doorman to watch for me. We left to go out to dinner whereupon I was called away suddenly for a family emergency, not returning to my friend’s apartment where I was set to pick up MY BOX.

You can tell it’s mine by the gentle scuffing on the side and slight indentation of the left, front, bottom corner which is how I set it down, exactly where it is pictured here.

Thank you for finding it.

Anonymous

I have been obsessed with mystery boxes for years! I constantly toll the internet looking for the fabled objects. Every year, I buy a mystery box from Archie MacFee and am never disappointed. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S IN THIS BOX!!!!

chrism

It’s full of unboxing videos.

Anonymous

Well, considering I am currently out of work a box of gadgets would really brighten my day. Plus, I’ll be home to accept the delivery.

talrlouche

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because maybe I could use it.

Anonymous

I simply must know what’s in the box. My kidneys are starting to hurt the desire is so strong within me.

I’m guessing it’s a box of double rainbows. And maybe an Arduino controlled Xeni lovebot.

neilfein

I have no need for anything in the box, unless it’s filled with money. Or ice cream.

Anonymous

Because an unmarked cardboard box like this has been designated as a suspicious object. Send it to me for processing and summary destruction. Thank you for your cooperation, Citizen.

damiank

Need to know, in order to finish work on my geodesic dome on orangutan island.

Anonymous

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because I think it’s some awesome banana paraphanelia but the suspense is killing me.

Ryan

I don’t want to know what’s in it, so much as I want to own what’s in it.

Nash Rambler

I must absolutely know what is in this box to make sure it’s not Schrodinger’s cat. Of course, even once I do know, it may or may not be Schrodinger’s cat. . .

Grahamers2002

Beat me to it.

Anonymous

I just
want to know

Anonymous

It’s office supplies you’ve pilfered from various jobs, isn’t it?

Anonymous

I just need to know what is in the box.

jibbles

There isn’t any reason to give me the box over anyone else, but this is just a random draw so I won’t claim that there is. But I am curious about what’s in the box.

Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xG5hSOMGn0

Anonymous

Because I am a cat and love boxes.

braininavat

> gris-gris

DO NOT WANT!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gris-gris

Anonymous

I must have the box and its contents because I currently do not.

Anonymous

It’s almost my birthday, so it would be a super cool birthday gift :)

Addyct

WHATS IN THE BOOOOOX!?!?!!?

Seriously, my life will forever be incomplete unless I know.

Anonymous

I was the kid always trying to peek at presents under the tree. Can’t stand suprises…HAVE TO KNOW!

Anonymous

I need to know what is in the box, because if it’s a cat and a poison pellet, then the cat will be both alive and dead until I open it up to find out which outcome has come to be in this reality.

wildebeest

Well, okay, I guess. I already have a lot of other boxes, but I guess I could find room for one more. Should I wait by the door?

RedShirt77

I am looking for a watch phone, an iPad, a blue tooth handset that looks like a bakelite phone, soem cool LED things so I can Style at next years Luminary Lopet, and a laptop with battery life. I have looked in all my boxes and came up with shit.

Anonymous

We’ve had Pandora, SchrÃ¶dinger, Se7en, all ideas that I thought would be unique and get me noticed. Blatantly I have failed so I need to know what is in the box to make me feel better after the realisation that I am part of the herd, however fab & geeky that herd is.

Ohh and I have to find out what the gris-gris is as my first thought was that you had some cool climbing gear in there until I checked and I was thinking of grigri.

Anonymous

It seems as likely a source as any for the secret to my life’s fulfillment.

Anonymous

THERE IS NO BOX!

WHATS INSIDE THE WALL?

or maybe its a box within a wall or a wall within a box?

I’d love to find out meself

Anonymous

I *must* know, for the sake of all that is fair and good. Puh-lease!!!

Here’s a deal: I’ll take a picture of box and contents by my office window that overlooks Times Square. That’s the best I can do!

John Burridge

Because I have to know if the box is filled with old cell phones and Barbies. If this works for you, my partner wants me to copy the process as a way of reducing the clutter around our house.

stack

There’s a 50/50 chance there’s a live cat in there…

I just want to save it…

Anonymous

What’s your pleasure, Mister?”

The box.

GIVE ME THE BOX!

OrdinaryUnicorn

A pony. Or maybe a robot pony.

A very small robot pony.

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box because I have a burning desire to know what’s in all unmarked packages!

Anonymous

schrodinger’s cat is my guess, but I have to know for sure….and think that no matter who wins, you have to tell us what was in it!!!!

drcatzenstein

I’ve had traumatic experiences with mysterious boxes in the past and need this to help move on with my life.

Anonymous

I want to enjoy the joy of opening unknown surprises!
If you let me have it, I promise I will share most of it with other readers! give this poor stressed out college student a break..

either way, I hope the reader shares his discoveries with everyone else…

ogvor

Because I never finished the movie Se7en.

sternheather

Why mustn’t I absolutely know what’s in the box? It must contain awesomeness. And maybe a unicorn?

Anonymous

That looks exactly like the box of expensive gadgets I accidentally dropped into a spacetime wormhole a few weeks ago. It could be the same one. That is why I must know what is in the box.

yours
Taylor Ashton

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box but more importantly, I must know where you took that photo!

Anonymous

i would like to know what’s in the box! i hope it’s a monkey that gives eskimo kisses!

Anonymous

I NEED to know because I am a geeky girl who cannot resist setting things on fire or blowing them up in the name of science. Also, my classroom kids have made a game of guessing. On group believes it is an invisible platypus with neon clothes and its best friend a purple glitter pony

wxl

I bet inside is “a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side…[with] one side…open – black and oddly frightening.” I want to find out if there really is pain inside.

Andrew

I just need to know what is in the box.

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box because my argument is invalid.

jackalopemonger

I recognize that box! I left my cat in there a few days ago, along with a geiger counter, a chunk of radium, a hammer and a vial of hydrocyanic acid. I wonder how the cat’s doing… no way to know until I open the box!

Some other

It could contain the first clue of an adventure! How in the world could I pass that up?

jamesmg

I have to know what’s in the box because I’m a TSA officer, ma’am. If you don’t let me know what’s in the box, you are directly supporting terrorism. My authority? Are you being difficult, ma’am? Please just let me see inside the box and then we wont have to get you arrested.

Mike

You say gris-gris, but it looks like ticky-tacky to me. And I need it! I wouldn’t say the need is addictive, though. It just helps me relax.

Anonymous

At age three, my daughter used chant incessantly “What’s in the box? Cheese!”
How did she predict this giveaway three years ago? Was she right about the cheese? The only way to find out is to win the box…

bbomb

I need to know what is in the box so I can buy food for my adorable new pet!

I’m currently stocked up on cat food, electrons, fertilizer and booze. There is a cheese log in the fridge, just in case.

I am following on Twitter, but it’s more fun to comment here. :)

Anonymous

I want to think outside of the box, but I can’t do that until I know what’s inside the box.

HR JohnnyMack

I’m hoping against hope that it’s a miniature Etsy style set of plushie versions of all the Boingboing editors, (And of course, Corey would be sporting his goggles and cape from the XKCD strip) or maybe it’s just some cool swag. I’m burning with curiosity! I CAN HAZ?

Anonymous

I really just want the box as I’m in the process of moving.

Slamuelson

I have to know whats in that box, Ive climbed to the top of everest, Ive made love to a beautiful woman, Ive enjoyed fine wine, Ive won the super bowl, and Ive swam for miles in a pod of dolphins, but i would trade it all for the wonderful mystery box…

Shibi

Why must I absolutely know what is in the box?

Why not?

(And, it would be fun to find out!)

papamonkey

I’m broke, have two kids, and love free stuff. And I’ll say thank you very nicely.

arielturnip

I must know what’s in that box because my head might explode due to sheer curiosity.

How did you think the cat died?

it’s really nothing

I’m quite sure it’s the formerly lost, now digitally remstered outtakes of The Sound of Music, which i absolutely have to watch.

If i do get the box and it turns out i’m wrong about the outtakes i certainly hope it’s no Apple stuff. I wouldn’t want that.

Anonymous

Because even if I don’t have to know what’s in the box, my cat does. And he claims all empty boxes as his sovereign domain. Thus it shall be emptied for the greater good.

KT

I can balance toothpicks on my eyebrows.

I believe this is reason enough.

Anonymous

What is this Gris-Gris… i need to know what contents the box holds or i will spend the next year of my life wondering what was in that magical box of mystery, that i needed so badly!

holtt

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

Before this posting, the box was an unknown unknown. Now it is a known unknown. Let’s make it a known known.

SPG

According to song, this box is full of lawyers.

druidbros

I absolutely must know whats in the box because as I type this my arm is in a sling (due to surgery) and I am looking out the window as the snow falls and I have been stuck inside = I AM SO BORED. Please I must know whats in the box PLEEEEEASE…..

Not to mention my curiosity quotient is extremely high and I might have a heart attack if I dont win.

Anonymous

Own the things in the box or not, I love to have more stuff! Send it my way please!

Ceronomus

Why do I need to know what is in the box? Why?

BoingBoing is the repository of all that is neat and cool. Obviously it could be the lost evidence of the existence of some remarkable cryptid, or a cure for cancer. Or evidence of a cryptid that cures cancer.

Regardless of what it is, I most possess this mighty bit of Boing Boing Magic

Anonymous

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because it’s my birthday this week, and I’m pretty sure it must be all for me!

Anonymous

The box is the unknown. I need to know the unknown so it is no longer unknown.

Anonymous

Still legal to mail whatever is in it? Not so interested.

GekWataru

What’s in the box? has been a primary motivation for so many adventures, and I’m sure this won’t disappoint.

Anonymous

I really need to know whats in the box or my brain will explode with over curiosity!!!!

galen

Here’s hoping for some adhesive from the future.

Anonymous

Few things are worse than just NOT FUCKING KNOWING! DEAR SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS! MUST KNOW!

The Bus

Inside the box is happiness. I want to be happy.

chgoliz

Love the pressed-tin fireplace mantel surround. Is that black marble truly colored like that, or is it a faux paint job?

On to the task at hand: my children are desperate to know what’s in the box, so your only two options are to send it to us directly or else require the eventual winner (if not us) to tweet/blog/email the content list…under pain of bull-goring, cock-slashing, and forehead-inflating.

Really, sending it to us is much simpler. And my kids will make an animated story about it, so everyone will find out what is inside in a much more interesting way that however anyone else would have done it. So there’s that too.

Anonymous

I already know what the box is full of! Anticipation!

mkultra

Because I’ve always had an unhealthy fascination with the Phil Harris song “The Thing”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcj16EGYYrs

That’s enough of a reason, I think.

BronwynMaye

I want to find out what’s in the box because I could really use a fun break from Library school.

Ruadhan

I need to see what’s in the box, because I need to destroy the time machine inside that box, because I am absolutely sick and tired of the time loop between now and 2/11/2011. I’ve changed my mind.

mrbrt86

I want to know what’s in the box to decrease the total entropy of the universe.
Humour is not one of my strong suites, but thankfully information theory is..

Anonymous

If the box just contains boxes that have other boxes inside, I would be 100% fine with that.

igpajo

I must know what’s in the box because curiosity killed the cat and even though I’m not a cat (I’m actually quite allergic to cats, but that’s beside the point) I can totally relate and I love techy crap and swag is great and there’s probably a ton of pens and little squeezy LED flashlights and superballs and my kids love that crap. It’ll be like a great big giant box full of Happy Meal toys, only for tech geeks.

mizhomegrown

I think there’s a fox in the box with a pox, and a bagel and lox.

mccrum

Because I must know if that theoretical cat is dead or if I’m stuck buying more catfood for the next ten years. So many states, so little time.

mccrum

So many cat comments in the minute we all wrote in. Must be something in the air.

In any case, as Lawrence Stern once said, â€œThe desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.â€ It’s not that I just want a nice box filled with shiny things, I must know what’s in it. Getting it ensures that I will know (can I trust others to report what is inside truthfully?).

Plus, I’d be the winner and able to lord it over everyone I know in a common, base, noveau rich way. Isn’t that what we’re all really looking for here? Except for TommyHans, who just wants to sleep in a box.

wylkyn

I must know what is in the box because I don’t have anything clever to write in this comment, and therefore I desperately need consolation.

Anonymous

“It’s just a box….” -Metal Gear Solid

JalahStern

Maybe there is a cat in the box… Maybe there isn’t. Until we see the inside of the box we can never truly be sure. So until the inside is observed there is both a cat in the box and not a cat in the box. We must know! Right now the inside of the box is a quantum entanglement!

Anonymous

I want to know what’s in the box, believe me. But if you send it to me, I will NEVER OPEN IT. It shall remain a mystery for ALL TIME. The secret will be YOURS and YOURS ALONE! MWA HA!

RyanH

I live a material life. The box and its contents would enrich it and give me meaning.

Anonymous

I am a college student. In college dorm life, your importance is dependant upon the amount of STUFF you have. Like building a nest. The more stuff I have, the closer I am to being an alpha dog, and learning the inner secrets that are in the supply closet. Give me the box, so I may ascend AND CONQUER THE CAMPUS SUPPLY CLOSETS!

Anonymous

The lost sock is in the box.

dampier

Gee I could really use this box …
My fledgling magic act does not yet generate enough income to replace the boxes and assistants that I saw in half fortnightly. This would address at least part of the problem.

Thanks!

Anonymous

A mystery box filled with Boing Boingy stuff has to be the best mystery box ever!

JohnnyNVA

I am addicted to grab bag style purchases. And while you might not want to feed the addiction of your friends, you really don’t know me yet so go for it!

MatthewFabb

I immediately thought what was in the box is a cat! Possibly dead, possibly alive. Of course this being BoingBoing many others have gone with Schrodinger’s cat comments.

So I’ll say that inside the box is a device running an app with another box and a cat that is possibly dead or possibly alive (aka the humane way to run Schrodinger’s cat experiment without the poison and radioactive source, etc.). :-)

To me swag most like says, quite a number of branded t-shirts, perhaps some branded bags, some branded pens and more.

JaySheff

I need to know what’s in this box because it would make an awesome Birthday present next week!

bibliotek

My job as a librarian is to remove/reduce barriers between people and the information they need. If I received the box, I would be able to let EVERYONE know what was in it.

Anonymous

I always miss the bag o’ crap sales on woot. I need to know what’s in the box.

Ruadhan

I need to see what’s in the box so I can use the time machine in the box to come back here and comment that I need to see what’s in the box.

I don’t know what happens to the world after 2/11/2011, but I have a feeling it’s nothing good. So I’m going to stick here in this little three-day time loop and be safe forever.

Ruadhan

And oh, yeah: sell AOL stock now.

Krutus

I need to know so I can tell all my friends what I won! Or missed out on… :(

lotsofeyes

We wants to know. We NEEEED it. Must know what’s in the precioussss…

Trackmarkedamoeba

I need this box to ship my assorted belongings home from college. You know, pieces of tin foil, old pencil shavings, bits of gnawed Balsam, and things of the like.

Anonymous

I need to know what is in the box because my natural human curiosity is the defining characteristic that separates man from the box itself. After all, one without said driving desire would be little more of a person than a construct of cardboard and tape.

dw_funk

I’ll cut the piano wires tied to your ankles
and wrap you into an origami flower to tuck
into my button hole. I’ll take off your clothes
with a pair of bronze scissors and wrap you
in foam peanuts and a brown unmarked box.

and weeks later I can open it and pretend
you’re a clockwork queen in a cardboard castle
or whatever you can become in the meantime.

inchworm

The only thing holding me back from becoming my neighborhood’s first vigilante is a lack of good gadgets and some swag for my costume.

Smiffs

I deserve the innards of the box because I am a loyal daily patron of boingboing.net.

beez

I need to know what’s in the box because it’s in a box. Now I’m curious.

Anonymous

I want to make sure it either is or is not a cat.

Anonymous

I want to know what’s in the box because it is bound to be delightfully weird.

Anonymous

I hope it’s kittens.

Dave H

Something in the box
Definitely something in the box
How many somethings in the box
Need to count the somethings in the box
Something in the box
Definitely something in the box
How many somethings in the box
Need to count the somethings in the box
Something in the box
Definitely something in the box
How many somethings in the box
Need to count the somethings in the box

Time for Wapner

SofaKing

I fear the unknown.
knowing would alleviate the fear.
information wants to be free.
The odds of receiving the box are better than winning the lottery or the HGTV dream home.
/never tell me the odds!

Hal

I really must know what is in the box because my kids won’t stop pestering me till I tell them.

pstarr

because boing boing really, really likes me.

Actionverb

Cause my wife probably won’t buy me any cool gadgets for Valentine’s day?

mimiro

The world is spinning waiting for me to know what is within the box. I have resorted to rocking back and forth in a corner mumbling ala Rainman but about the box, have to know what’s in the box, GOODIES, what goodies, while silently weeping in anticipation.

Anonymous

Is it SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat?

stephaniebeth

I would like this box because I would like to make a rocketship out of what’s inside and the kid on the first floor would like to make a rocketship out of the box.

docricketts

In dozens of parallel universes, I already know what’s in the box, and there’s a 50-50 chance it already killed me. I need to know what’s in the box in this universe if only to improve the odds!

nev282

selecting one at random he says

Anonymous

I will find a unique and awesome use for every item in the box, then document it and blog about it on boingboing as a guest blogging section on the usefulness of everything

Anonymous

I don’t care too much what’s in it. I just want the cardboard box for my kids. Hours of entertainment for them, and relative peace and quiet for all parental units.
Actually would love any new tech gear (no matter how cheesy or useless) as I have none, like I said, I have kids.

cawingcrow

I need the box so I can empty it for my cats, thus buying myself time to play with all the cool gadgets while they subdue the cardboard interloper and establish a schedule of who is in charge of keeping it safely held prisoner.

Anonymous

I need this box because I am moving, and this is the perfect size of box that I need.
I am also betting that the swag inside-i.e. unicorn horn, stickers, stuffed jack’a'lope, last known whereabouts of D.B. Cooper, A lock of Doug Hennings hair etc.-will be good enough to barter with to aid in moving my other boxes.

Although I am not sure about it’s ability to absorb moist materials, but I am willing to take this chance.

pstarr

plus i have always wanted to meet schrodinger’s cat.

hohum

I mostly want to know how many other boxes are inside the box.

Anonymous

i NEED to know!

Anonymous

To make sure it is and isn’t schrodinger’s cat.

Anonymous

C’mooooonnnnnnn! What’s in the boooooox!?!?

RoyalComa

Cardboard Boing Boing Box
Is Schrodinger’s cat inside?
or Apple iCat

advocateddrummer

BoxOfFreeStuff BBBox;
BBBox.available = TRUE;

while(!BBBox.available)
{
printf(“Pretty please may I have the box?\n”);
}

if(BBBox.winner != me)
printf(“Awww, too bad, thanks anyway!\n”);
else
printf(“YIPPPEEEEE!!!\n\n);

Anonymous

For the very same reason I read BoingBoing every day. To temporarily satiate my starving sense of curiosity.

Anonymous

because I’m curious like a cat

that’s why my friends call me “whiskers”

neilgg

I need this box to add to my basement box pile! At least a quarter of my 1000SQFT basement is covered by an ever growing collection of (mostly) empty boxes, and this one would be a perfect addition! Oh, there’s stuff in the box you say, cool stuff, hmmm Guess I can put that in the office or something. Really I’m all about the box. I’ll even send you a picture of this box one I add it to my pile.

hassenpfeffer

My young boys were fighting over empty cardboard boxes last night, ignoring the new b’day toys that came in them. Giving them a new box after I empty it might lessen the discord.

benjaminx

I don’t want to know what’s in the box, but I do need a new box fort, so…

Anonymous

Honestly? I don’t care. But I’d like free swag, free swag is kinda cool. And, I’ve never won anything before, so that would be cool as well.

Anonymous

I’ve got a box of knick over here. That looks a lot like a box of knack. Surely, these two boxes belong together!

JulieDrizin

I wish this box contained answers to the mysteries of the universe, secrets to happiness and world peace, radiant images of the feminine divine, and other cooler stuff. But, I guess I’ll be satisfied with just the “other cool stuff” for now. Plus, I promise to share (a.k.a. re-gift) most of it anyway.

relawson

I know whats in it!!! hundreds of dollars worth of stuff: gadgets, CES swag, gris-gris!!!

now gimme!! :D

pretty please??!!!!

skysky

If given the box, I would carefully document the entire contents of the box, photographing them in “Things Organized Neatly” fashion and writing detailed descriptions of the items. Then I would release this documentation to you, along with an account of how I plan to use the objects.

This makes your project complete because it creates a satisfying conclusion for the experiment, provides documentation for future generations, and will legitimize the project as having actually taken place.

Anonymous

Oh, but if I am picked we can become gadget-pals and I will send YOU random gadgetry and other interesting goodies… Plus – my wife would totally freak out of Boing Boing sent us something – we love you so much. Cheers,
Matthew (and Molly)

Anonymous

For the gadgets! I want in the box for the gadgets!!!

Anonymous

I’d like to know, will it blend?

KitchenCookiesRock

Are the contents alive or dead? I’d like to be the one to create reality, observing the opening of the box.

C. A. Bridges

Because I believe that the last thing in the box, after I plunder and enjoy all the swag, will be Hope.

delzey

after being cheated out of so many box secrets in LOST i really could use just ONE box, this one, that i can open and have my curiosity satisfied.

thank you.

JPick

Who cares what’s inside? It’s a box! Fill it with imagination and it could become a fort, a robot or the model of an annoyingly-inticing publicity stunt made from cardboard!

PMNW

I would really like to know what is in the box. Mainly because I am poor and it would be like cable for me. I would set in on the desk and watch it for hours. Maybe that cat would come out or maybe I would get bored and look for food or vitamins inside thus keeping me alive for a few days longer so as to enjoy more of the box.

Yotebeth

I must have this for two reasons.

1. I just lost my job, and need a little goodness in my life right now.

2. That’s a great looking box, and my cats like boxes. If I get the box I will post pictures of my cats in the box.

Anonymous

Why wouldn’t I want to know what’s in the box?

ScienceandtheCity

I am certain that what’s in the box is a dead cat… wait, then again, I am also certain that it’s a live cat, so I suppose I’m just generally uncertain about what’s in the box. On principle, I NEED to observe what’s in the box! But then would it be the same thing?

Anonymous

Anonymous commenters want to know what’s in the box.

Anonymous

i’d like to know what’s in the box cause i’m a nosy bitch! lol

Anonymous

Why? Because it’s there, of course!

fricative

I am the sort of person who cannot sleep when she is presented by a mystery. If I do not receive this box, I will die of exhaustion. Alarmist media will blow the incident out of proportion, condemning “the weblogs”. Sarah Palin will personally shoot Boing Boing dead.

So, really, I’m just thinking of you guys.

Anonymous

I have quite the healthy obsession with found objects, quarter machine toys, and any other variety of surprise :) Please send me ultimate mystery surprise box!!

Also ,I wouldn’t be greedy and horde all of the delights myself. I am a sharer. Hence, you would be giving fun to many instead of just to one!

Anonymous

I don’t have a cat to put in the box but if I had the box that would give me the excuse to go and steal/borrow a cat off the street.

auilix

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because it’s my laptop’s dying wish, and he’s served me so well until now. Perhaps it’s something that can save his life?

JPW

Because %$_~&^* Engadget has slacked off on their giveaways. . . .

Anonymous

I want to know what’s in the box because I want to know what’s in the box. I’ll probably just end up playing with the actual cardboard box, though… because mentally I’m basically a seven year old

JPeabody

I need to know what is in the box because I need to know what is in the box. I am curious. All the time. About everything. I’ve landed in many an unpleasant situation because of my curiosity. I heard the saying about cats and curiosity innumerable times in childhood. Until someone told me to reply to my mother with “But the satisfaction brought him back!”

So. Yes. What is in the box?!! You say it is swag. I like swag. I like gadget swag even more. Especially since, as a public service attorney, I can’t afford much gadget swag.

maddoxmisery

Typing this on a beat up droid so mistakes are expected, also my net is down.

Love my monopolistic cable company. I bear through this out of sheer childlike curiocity. Though the odds of scoring it are pretty astronomical I wanted to poke my head in and take a chance even if its a box of broken pez dispensers and old frosted mini wheats shrapnel. My cats could sure use a box to play in.

Id write more but this is insufferable on this laggy phone. Pray that things sort themselves out (after i yell at the cable company) its like the dark ages of 1994 up in this piece.

pupdog

C’mon, Gwyneth!

Pema

I have to know what’s in the box because i’m addicted to collapsing the wave function.

PBryden

I must have this box! It obviously contains the only known physical quantities of raw schadenfreude known to humankind. I of course will only use said materials for unicorn chaser creation and satirical clergy mocking.

Anonymous

I’m a college student who goes to school in a snowy, cold climate. I would love to receive these electronics to brighten my day. I would even review them on my school’s blog and help spread the word for the sponsors of the box.

grs8313

Why do I want to know what is in the box? Why not?

Anonymous

I have to know what is in the box because of the theory of entanglement!!
It could be SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat!
Or….SchrÃ¶dinger’s gerbil!
Or…Jimmy Hoffa’s Wallet!

Jane

I don’t really need to just know what’s in the box, but I’d very much like to have what’s in the box. Because you said it’s worth money and is most likely non-perishable and I like your style. WANT.

Anonymous

I’m a poor college student who has no patience due to the nature of my generation’s need for instant gratification. My brother would also be undoubtedly stoked because I would share since he is 1000 times more affected by Schrodinger’s cat.

infact he lives 1000 miles away and I haven’t spoken to him in a couple days… therefore, there is a 50/50 chance he’s in that box. In which case I want him back

mikegrb

I haz ocd, must know what is in the box… Most like 10,000 1GB usb thumb drives with media kits.

Chris

I need to know what’s in the box. I hope it’s more boxes. I love boxes.

Cybe

I like magical items, and I love BoingBoing!

Anonymous

Probably just a head a la Se7en.

Anonymous

Because it’s there, and I can’t see inside it.

Robert

I saw you with a box, what was in the box? No! What’s in the box! What’s in the fucking box!

BobbyMike

I have been indoctrinated by countless video games to instinctively break open any boxes or crates that I come across to get health and ammo.
I feel the need to do the same to this box.
Thank you and have a nice day.

b-c-e

WHAAA!!! They give out free boxes of bats at CES!?!?!? (The leathery winged kind, not the smashing stuff kind…) I absolutely must see what this looks like. I need that box! (& well… if its not bats, maybe I could use some the items ther-in to build some sort of bat trapping device (humane of course, likely involving free bugs for those bats who choose to attend).

Anonymous

I was cheated by the end of J.J. Abrams’s TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html) and since he won’t open his box I want to open this one.

lisa

I absolutely must know what is in the box because you said it has a gris gris and I haven’t the foggiest what that is but Google said it is a voodoo amulet that protects the wearer from evil and that would be very cool. And who doesn’t love gadgets?

Anonymous

If I don’t find out what’s in the box my cortex bomb will explode in 24 hours!

Sparrow

I need to add it to my collection of hoax devices. Or just leave it out on the curb until the bomb squad shows up.

Anonymous

I MUST KNOW FOR THE GOOD OF SCIENCE! THE WORLD DEPENDS ON MY HASHTAG BEING CHOSEN

cynicalifornia

I must know what is in the box because I have a feeling it contains **THE MOST FABULOUS OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE**

If not that then at the very least it could contain digital watches. If it does I shall gain an understanding of digital watches. And with that understanding of digital watches soon I shall have understanding of video cassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being!

Anonymous

My god, it’s full of gadgets. *CES* gadgets. You had me at gadgets.

TheJenna

I need to know what’s in the box BECAUSE curiosity killed the cat… but knowledge brings it back.

libelle

It is my belief that this box is actually a SchrÃ¶dinger cat-carrier. I simply must know if the atom did in fact decay.

Certiorari

Argh, must receive box. My Maru-senses are going nuts. Consider me a cardboard conservationist with a craving for which I will never capitulate, but maybe I’m just being facetious and I desperately need goodies and tech-trinkets to distract me from my life as a law student.

JamesMason

I would like the box so I could verify for everyone that it isn’t a “million box.” I’m hoping you know what I’m talking about and give me the opportunity to share.

Nessie

Some force, otherwise know as my husband sitting next to me, is compelling me to enter your mystery giveaway. Although if I am honored enough to win, I may or may not let him play with my new magical toys.

Anonymous

The box is a line that separates everything that is from everything that could be.

Paul Dreyer

It could be Justin Timberlake’s dick. And let’s face it, we haven’t seen enough of that, am I right? Who’s with me? High five!

*crickets*

(Only saying this because the Schrodinger’s Cat joke has already been done twice.)

Anonymous

i wanna know whats in the box!! i wish to write a review of whatever it is and take pictures!! i BLOG FOR YOU!!
personally i am hoping for chocolate. for that, i would as well write a review!

Anonymous

My sister, pandora, says she’s curious about the box.

Rob Beschizza

Wow I need to dust the fireplace.

teapot

Rob, I fear I will go insane if I cannot confirm my sneaking suspicion about the contents of the box:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8477/bbunicornchaser.jpg

Thanks to Flickr user margolove for the orignal horse image via CC license.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because it may be the final component I need for my time machine so I can travel into the future and find out what’s inside the box once someone gets it.

happyhourzero

i just have to know. period.

Gniobgniob

Moving soon. Don’t need the stuff inside, just the box.

Ray

I need a box for storage.

X10

I would like to know what’s in the box because I’m a nice guy and would like to do the right thing disposing each of the items in the appropriate bin for recicling. I’m just interested in keeping the box.

lobito

It’s a box whose content is unknown…
…
…
…
I want to know.

ChrisAndHisHorseBallad

I’ve recently opened a tiny museum in my front yard here in Helsinki, Finland. I only have five items so far, and all of them are still encased in ice. The items in the box will be put on display for the “Future Now But Also Yesterday” display, and will be sure to attract locals, foreigners, and polar bears alike.

Anonymous

I just need to make sure it’s not SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat.

Anonymous

I must know what is contained in a mystery package put together by someone with what is the most wonderful fireplace I have ever seen to date.

Anonymous

I have to know what’s in there- Actually, I already know what it is but need to know if I’m right. If I win and am wrong about the contents, I’ll tell you. Honest.

Anonymous

Mystery provides life with coolness. Solving mystery with even more, well, coolness. And a sense of accomplishment. And, of course, the mystery of how you could have been so lucky or smart as to solve a mystery. And then solving that, is . . . Okay, you get my point. Like sharing a magic penny, mystery never stops giving.

Anonymous

Is Schrodinger’s cat in that box? I can’t tell if it’s dead or alive. I have to know. SEND ME THE CAT!!!!

jrtinker

I need to know because I live in Alaska and work at a construction site building a prison. Cabin fever is setting in, and the box will keep me from going crazy.

Anonymous

i’m a cardboard box collector. this box is seriously sexy. look at those edges.

phead

Drat,too late again.

I of course don’t care what is in the box, but the cat likes empty boxes.

Anonymous

I have a feeling that this may be my long-lost companion box, with which I was forced to part…

cuda

I need to know what’s in the box because it could be mine!

Anonymous

I have to know if the cat is alive or dead so I know whether to buy kitty litter.

Anonymous

From Facebook….

In this box resides answers. In a parallel universe, the answers might all be blue, or start with an M, or be powered by energetic hamsters. In this one, answers take the shape of swag. If answers=swag, then questions=desire, and my desire for swag is the pure informational love of the diehard scientist. Whatsinthebox? Mustbejoy!

Anonymous

I need to KNOW what’s in the box to calculate… what’s not in the box.

hundred

i would like the box because i’m hoping theres a big red button inside just waiting to be pushed. and then i’ll let you all know what it does after i push it. yay!

Anonymous

Destroy the box, Rob. It’s the only fair thing.

Anonymous

Because you only live once, so why not open strange unlabeled boxes.

FrancoEx

I need to know what is in this box because my psychic abilities say it is filled with Narwhal tusks, and I would like to confirm. Thanks!

Anonymous

You should have given the box away on Boxing Day, then it have been cool. Maybe next year.

Aunt Babe

Swagswag!Where’stheswag?!Ismellswag!SwagswagGottabeswag!Onlyonethingsmellslikeswagandthat’sswag!SwagswagswagswagTHERE!Fromthatboxwhat’sitsay?!ICAN’TREAD!Pleasepleasegimmiewhat’sinthebox!ChewyyummysmokySWAG!

Anonymous

I’ve always wanted to know what’s behind Door Number Three.

dorkus1218

I suppose I’m pretty desperate to find out whats in that box…

Anonymous

I’d really like to know what’s in the box, as it’s important for me to know what’s in ALL boxes. I’m nosy that way. Additionally, I would like to be the OWNER of the box so that everyone would want to know what’s in MY box. I’m an asshole THAT way.

bjimba

If I win this box, my wife will kill me, or at least make me throw out an equivalent mass of basement matter.

I could live with that.

ChinggizKhan

Because if I do not know then I will curl up and forever ponder the contents of the box circling around over and over not paying attention to the cries of others, just thinking and circling, all the while curled up in my own head…

The cat has nothing on my curiosity…

twiggles

Well, seeing the box reminded me of the quip in the ‘Future War’ episode of MST3K where Crow says he’s ‘boxed in’, and then Mike replies that he’s ‘card-bored’, and I figure that anything that is good enough to do that is obviously pulling for me.

cymk

Thanks rob, for reminding me of this scene from Se7en:

William Somerset: [to Mills] Put the gun down.
[throws down his own gun]
David Mills: [to Somerset] I saw you with a box. What was in the box?
John Doe: Because I envy your normal life. It seems that envy is my sin.
William Somerset: Put the gun down David.
David Mills: No! What’s in the box?

Just what I needed this morning.

Anonymous

The box is closed and must be opened, after all it worked so well for that greek lady. I think her name was Pan… something.

Anonymous

I know what’s in the box; I am.
So please handle with care.

I do not really have a preference as to where to you might ship me, but I do admit I have always wanted to see the earth from above.
Do you by any chance have readers on board the ISS?

Best Regards,
Jacob

Please excuse the brevity and/or typo’s, this message was sent from a mobile device. In a box.

Descriptivist

The box contains the parts I am going to have used to build a time machine to send those parts back into the past, into that box. Thus, if I don’t get the box, a paradox will be created, ripping apart the fabric of the universe, ending all time and space as we know it. So we’ll all be better off if you just give me the box.

Anonymous

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?! Come on, what’s in the box…don’t make me be vengence, i want to be sloth, sloth of gadgets!

SofaKing

I’m quivering with anticipa…

Anonymous

Because curiosity kills :(

daveffreep

Morbid curiosity.

zikman

because I’m ready for the future

daryll

We can’t know if the cat is alive or dead until I open the box.

NrdyGrl

Curiosity killed the cat. And the NrdyGrl.

The Oz

I must know what is in the box as without it my life cannot have completion.

You wouldn’t want a man to suffer forever, would you? Well, even if you would, don’t and I’ll tell everyone you did.

Box me baby!

Capissen

I think this might be the most comments I’ve ever seen on a BoingBoing post. About 814 as of this writing. We should all get a prize when it hits 1000.

Or a unicorn.

Anonymous

its driving me crazy?!?

thetiptonian

Most likely I already own everything in this box. It would be good to open it to see what you people need so I can donate.

Anonymous

OMG WHAT’S IN THE FREAKIN’ BOX!!!! MUST…..KNOW….NOW!

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box

but.if.and.that

If we are allowed to see what is in the box, we’ll make a creative, collective article out of it on but.if.and.that (www.butifandthat.com). We’re suffering from seasonal affective disorder and need some good cheer. I’m also typing this after spending 14 hours in four different airports, hoping that sympathy will garner me some strange reward. And I’ll let my toddler play with the box while wearing a cape.

Anonymous

If I don’t get what’s in the box, can I have the fixture it’s sitting in front of?

Anonymous

I only have six months to live. I have made it my dying wish to gain the knowledge of what lies within that box…

TimDrew

Because I just want that damned wave function to collapse for once and for all- the uncertainty is too much to take.

Anonymous

What’s gris-gris? If I had the box contents, I could find out…

Rtarara

I need to know what’s in the box because it could be Schrodinger’s cat. I feel the need to let the kitty out of the box. That Schrodinger was not so nice to the cat and it needs some snuggles…or possibly therapy.

Barry Wilson

Show us what’s in the box! We must know!

Anonymous

It’s a problem, a compulsion, when I see or know about things I am not supposed to see or know about – I must see and know about them. Wikileaks is a problem for me because of this. Closed doors, unopened presents, those Japanese collectible figures that don’t tell you which item in the series you are getting, people’s minds…I want to turn it off. I want to tell the voices to shut-up about the freaking box, “SHUT UP ABOUT THE FREAKING BOX!”, but I know they won’t listen. they never listen. Just let me have the box, and I’ll Facebook it for all it’s worth so everyone can know what’s in the box, and the voices will be quieter…

blueplasticjess

The only thing better than getting packages in the mail is getting a MYSTERY package in the mail. I want to know if it’s good stuff or if you’re just cleaning the junk out of your office.

KurtMac

I want some taquitos.

Muse

Is it a robot?

Please let it be a robot.

I have always wanted my very own robot.

…or a monkey.

Wait, is it a ROBOT MONKEY??!!

I MUST KNOW!

Mathias Riediger

I need this box just to find out if there’s a box in the box with a box in the box containing a box with a box in it packed with a box filled with a box in which is a box boxed within a box that has a box in it…. down to the atomic level which makes this box so wonderful boingboingish special. Now that would be a tread!

Anonymous

It’s my birthday, so I deserve free stuff!

Anonymous

It is entirely possible that unless I, myself, am able to open the box and verify its contents, nothing will ever be the same again as the One Who Sleeps under the sea rises to swallow the universe.

pharbeson

I am curious to know what’s in the box. It’s likely to include things I would enjoy, and possibly even things I would find useful.

Nevertheless, for reasons I only dimly understand yet know to be true, it is essential that I never discover the box’s contents. If I receive the box –and I must — I will need to live with the daily, hourly temptation of opening it. I will know that to do so would be supremely easy, could even be easily concealed. No one would ever know that I opened the box. Yet it is vastly crucial that I do not.

Barring accident or disaster the box will continue to exist after me. Humans have many hopes, opinions, and even certainties about what happens to their awareness, their consciousness, their sense of self after physical death. One or more of these may be true. Many of these traditions are consistent with attaining knowledge of the contents of the box. A spectral extension of myself, after death, would surely be able to perceive, in its way, the contents. In some traditions, the departed soul learns secrets that are denied the living. Yet these means, too, must be denied most emphatically, because it is not just for the present that I must never know what is in the box. It is for ever. And thus the box must be preserved; its contents must remain safely contained, and must endure as enigma, if only to me.

There are enormous and powerful forces in the world, in the universe, that depend on this. I cannot know what they are, but I know the truth of this. I must own the box. And I must never know what it holds.

Anonymous

Because I think it is big enough to contain a live unicorn.

Anonymous

Even if everything IN the box is useless to me, that is a VERY nice box. But I can’t imagine there being NOTHING in the box I could use. At the very least, there’s probably stuff I can donate to Free Geek and get people to like me and think I’m altruistic.

kvetch

I cannot resist the candy sweetness of the box. The tantalizing jelly goodness of the box.

dmccardle

Until recently I thought that a woman could only get pregnant via heavy petting while sitting under bleachers (that’s what my 7th grade girlfriend told me that her mother told her). So…thinking we were safely distant from any athletic fields or stadiums, my wife and I ignorantly and blissfully enjoyed each others’ company. Little did we know that, not only was Jenny Sacamato’s mother wrong, but increased age also increases the likelihood of multiples. We were shocked….I was in denial…I swore that somehow the porn addicted teen next door was involved. I insisted that my wife see an oncologist (I just knew that they were tumors, not twins).

Alas…I was wrong. We may not be ready, but here they come. Twins…Jeez…still difficult to admit. Damn you Mrs. Sacamato!

Point? As a poor(ish) High School English Teacher suffering from severe techno-lust and some bad sex-ed lessons in 1981, I feel deserving of an expensive but mysterious surprise. My wife has put the kibosh on any new purchases not consisting of small doubles. How will I satisfy my need to stay with the tech curve yet still provide for my growing stable? It’s up to you Boing Boing. Mrs. Sacamato failed me…please don’t fail me too.

SuperRob

I have to know, because JJ Abrams is wrong; it’s definitely better to know what’s in the box than the limitless possibilities.

VibroCount

I absolutely must know what is in the box. Once I do that, my cat will get into the box, which is an imperative.

Anonymous

Tell me, good sir – what’s in the box?

reversial

Oops, that’s mine. I left it there by accident.

John Klapak

I’m an at-home dad, and BoingBoing.net offers a precious window into the world of people-whose-food-I-don’t-have-to-cut-into-squares.

I asked my 2 1/2 yr old daughter “Juliet, what do you think is in that box?”
She says: “I think a robot.”
“Anything else, honey?”
“a shirt… a gem…. and a snowflake.”

There you have it folks. Now you all know the contents.

Now she’s telling me: “Daddy, Please click on the box so I can see in there.”

She’s hella cute… if you saw her asking, you’d already have it addressed to her. If you do send it our way, I’ll post the videos of her opening it.

Anonymous

It’s my birthday, so I deserve free stuff!

Anonymous

ZOMG, just tell me what’s in there!

…and while you’re at it, tell me how you made that crazy marbled pattern on the wall behind it. That’s pretty nice!

ultranaut

My god, it’s full of viral marketing!

JArmstrong

I must absolutely know what is in the box because I am in a box and that might be the box I am in and if it is then I can get a free trip home.

Also:

why you absolutely must know what is in the box.

Anonymous

I just need a box…and this would be a great way of getting one.

d

I could use some new swag, frankly. The gadgets of my life are showing their age, and a gratis upgrade would be of assistance.

funkwit

As someone with a special, uh, ‘intimate affection’ for brown cardboard boxes, I want the box for my own personal purposes with which you need not concern yourselves.

You may keep the contents.

Anonymous

because the fate of humanity could depend on it!

whoknew

. . . because it is there!

Anonymous

I’m an architecture student and i need the cardboard to make a model and a chair…oh yeah, and the stuff inside would be cool :-)

nnguyen

I want to open it to check if it’s Pandora’s Box. If it is, then oops, but hey, at least I’ll know.

Anonymous

Because I’ve been dying to know the answer to the question “What’s in the box.” The short film of the same name is really good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

Anonymous

Because I loves the gris-gris!

Anonymous

Because I’m all out of gris-gris.

Jezebel Spirit

It’s not me so much who needs to know what’s in the mysterious box, but my staff of masked monkeys. They won’t serve the customers anymore, they spend much of their time looking at the box on my computer screen and touching the monitor so it’s all smeary now, and they’re back to flinging their poo.

It would mean a great deal to me–and the monkeys, who are now starting to get a bit bitey–to know what’s in that box.

tracytracy

Ok, I want to know what’s in there now. I’d prefer to find out in person. Fingers crossed!

Anonymous

If instead of plastic packing peanuts all the extra space in the box is filled with real candy…what’s not to be happy about…

Madelaine

My two cats need the box itself. It’s vital to their world domination plans. I need the stuff inside the box because at least 5% of it would help neutralize the dreary dullness of my cubicle.

da12vid

I could use a box that size.
It could make a cool, recycled steampunk computer case, or maybe to make a Haunted Mansion diorama.
I also like stuff, so that’s a huge bonus.
Thank you for the opportunity.

Anonymous

i wanna know if there’s a cat in the box ?

Talia

I’ve been taken prisoner by a gang of maurauding, fashion-savvy eco-terrorists and am being dangled by my ankles over a vat of really terrible cologne. My only hope is to answer the question they’ve posted to me time and time again: “What’s in the box, huh? WHAT’S IN THE BOX??”

Well, I suppose that’s a bit silly. But I didn’t think you’d buy my real explanation involving the FBI, Billy Ray Cyrus and a squirrel.

Anonymous

I hope there’s a printer in that box, mine is shot.

MajorMattMason

I would like this box precisely because it does NOT hold the severed head of Gwynneth Paltrow. (Probably.) Although that would be a cool band name…

Grind

A Box is a Box that is just a Box, this Box may be different containing all sorts of wonderous things, whats inside the Box…..
Have to open it or just break that seal & peer in to find out!!!!

J_champagne

I need to know to satisfy my insatiable
appetite for all things gizmo

Anonymous

i simply MUST own this box. ’nuff said.

Anonymous

I want to see if an alternate universe is inside of it, and if so, to see if the evil-version of me is clean shaven. Or am I the evil one?

Anonymous

I must, I must, what’s in the box. A fox, some sox, hopefully not the pox. I need to know, it irks my mind, I’m rife with awe and thoughts that bind, me to this box, my eyes, my heart. A bunch of junk or random part. Please let me know and send it here. I will not win this chance I fear. But box, with sox or fox, you know you’re mine. A valentine I’d wine and dine. Come to my home, I’ll let you in, and let the nighttime fun begin. Don’t be afraid, I’m not a cad, but don’t you think it’s time we had, a moment here, just one us two, I’ll be gentle, kind, and good to you. A box of wonder brought to me and filled with plunder I know you’ll be. Excuse my rhymes and faultless wit, I really really want this #@*%…

mexican cheese

As a child I would ask relatives if I could rummage through their stuff. My science teacher uncle had great stuff in his basement workshop. My librarian aunt had boxes of books in her closests. A rockhounding grandfather’s discard pile kept me happy for days one end. Various relatives had attics full of glass unicorns, brass telescopes and discarded toys. And to temper these worlds of wonder there were plenty of ignorant rednecked cousin/trolls who would yell at me for simply voicing my opinion, being a five year old athiest who hated cars was not easy.

Boing-Boing is my virtual childhood. That box could be my lost and future childhood.

Anonymous

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” So the box may hold the information I need since I am CRAVING AN APPLE PIE SO BADLY!!!!

Anonymous

Long-time reader, first time caller,
Being an industrious young fellow who believes in my good luck I hereby submit my application for this contest.
Tweeted, Liked, Commented.
I bet it’s a CR-48…

sinister

I must know what’s in the box because if it’s a cat, I’ll need to know if it’s alive or dead, or perhaps in some kind of quantum half-alive, half-dead state.

cupcakeandtea

I’d love to video tape me opening the box and posting it on youtube! finally the answer to SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat

Anonymous

A closed box full of unknown random crap? Of course I need to open it. It isn’t the robots or the zombies that will kill us off. It’s going to be curiosity. That last nerd who wonders, “What if I…”

freetard

I must know: is the cat dead or alive? If the cat is not in the box, is it in the hat? Is there a fox in the box? Does it contain Thing One and Thing Two? So many possibilities, so many questions.

One thing I can promise: if given the chance to open said box, I will not let the stories of Pandora’s Box frighten me one bit.

Anonymous

I’ve got to know whats in this box, I can handle that responsibility.

Nick

I don’t know whats in the box and I’m curious… I think that’s enough reason for me to want it.

Anonymous

I must know what is inside this box because I am eternally curious. The conundrum for me is that my mind will constantly fill and empty this box with odd combinations of various tech. My mind will spin as I contemplate the odds, reel through the statistical likelihood and chase wish-driven hunches. I may not sleep for the next few days as I pace the floor wondering… hoping… praying for a peek inside the box.

If I were to win the box, I would agree to chronicle it’s arrival and broadcast the opening ceremony in grand fashion on the web to help others that are similarly afflicted with curious minds.

crwatson21

What is in this box?
Love? Happiness? Inner peace?
Cash will do just fine.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box so that I can finally tell that SchrÃ¶dinger to leave me alone.

Jack Daniel

Single white mutant, 31, Jewish, green eyes, black hair seeking mystery box for wild romps on the net, candle-lit time-travel, and space colonization. All shapes and sizes welcome. Preferably Wifi-curious. Corrugated lining a plus.

evilbunnytoo

I’m a terribly, terribly curious person – to the point that my partner has learned not to taunt me with wrapped presents before my birthday or he will be subject to a barrage of questions and guesses. I must know what’s in the box. It’s taunting me.

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box because I’m nosy and it will drive me crazy till I know!

Sarahjd766at yahoo dot com

yclept

I need to know what is in the box because my thirst for new gadgets must be slaked!

Anonymous

I must know what is in this box, because I think it could save my life.

bruddacag

http://media.photobucket.com/image/spongebob%20idiot%20box/mr_sparks80/spongebob.jpg

This is why.

RebNachum

BECAUSE IT’S THERE.

Nword

I could use a nice mousepad, they’re still giving away things like that at tech shows, right?

mazirian

“Non-sense, whaaaa, there’s a whole universe in there.”

Briar

I don’t have anything witty to say to make you laugh and remember me as someone worthy of this mystery box. I’ve just been inspired to make something lately, and think whatever is in this box may help.

larryj

I’m hoping it a NEW CAR!!!

Anonymous

Hopefully nothing is in the box. I need to build a new Transmogrifier.

-Calvin

Anonymous

Dr. Schrodinger? I think I found that box you were looking for.

Anonymous

I bet there is a dead body in the box. Just sayin.

levancil

I must find the last piece of outsider tech to complete my time machine. Then I will be able to go back and solve all of your problems.

jonlee

I think I know what’s in the box. It’s either the new Kenneth Cole spring collection, or a groupon for a Tibetan restaurant

Shart Tsung

I need to open the box so that I can press the button and receive a million dollars (hopefully the person that dies will be an evil S.O.B.).

I promise to only press the button a few times.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because I think it may be some sort of earwax tool or unicorn chaser and I totally need one.

Cowicide

Warning folks…

GIMP IN THE BOX

sinister

Doh – everyone else beat me to the cat joke. Le sigh.

Adlib77

Even if everything IN the box is useless to me, that is a VERY nice box. But I can’t imagine there being NOTHING in the box I could use. At the very least, there’s probably stuff I can donate to Free Geek and get people to like me and think I’m altruistic.

Anonymous

Want box. So to have stuff in box.

Anonymous

I must know what’s in the box becuz the voicez in me hed told me I hadda no….

Anonymous

The Box is a lie!

or maybe not. In which case I need to know what’s in it.h

kerinbot

Parallelapipeds! Brown ones! JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY! Boxy repository of gadget-y goodness! I MUST HAVE YOU!

What could explain better than a Haiku?

Spring sunlit cardboard;
Your box of geek love calls me.
Boing Boing bring me joy!

Anonymous

I get it. It’s a trick question. The real question is “Who’s in the box?”

Not that I know the answer to that one either. Send me the box and I’ll answer it.

arp

I’m guessing it’s going to be a unicorn chaser, a banana some thing, just look at it, a ukulele girl monkey, angry monkey magazine, steampunk goggles, something with lots of knobs, buttons, and led’s, retro gaming gear, various wires and cords, a robot slave, and most importantly zombie apocalypse survival gear.

All of which I really need to add to my creepy cat lady/geek/mad scientist/hoarder air I have about myself. You anything that makes neighbors, friends, maintenance, delivery people sort of do the head cock wide eyes back up move before asking “What is…… that?”

Also I never win anything other than strange genetic defects doctors can’t fix or help….. which I never really NEED.

Anonymous

BoingBoing is a daily mechanized cornucopia, dispensing cutting edge ideas in science, DIY, art, genre literature, evil, good and snacks. I’ve followed it for some time, but especially in the last year. Since my sister, Kage Baker, died last January, I have clung to life with desperate, palsied hands – you have been one of my mainstays, keeping my hope up and my mind functioning. My year of mourning now being over, I want to stride forward armed for a new life – so I need STUFF! The Stuff In The Box! I need it as the foundation of a new and ever-expanding life.

Also, I suspect a potential cat is included, which is always a useful item.

Kathleen
kbco.wordpress.com

AdagioinDminor

The desire to fill in the black and empty spaces on the map. Inside that box may reside Monsters or Beasts of heretofore unheard of majesty and grace.

It is my sacred duty to expand the light of knowledge in ever widening pools, casting away the demons of doubt and ignorance.

That is why I must see what resides in the box.

Avi Solomon

a wax tablet!

Anonymous

must….. open….. box….

Anonymous

It’s too small to be the Ark of the Covenant…but maybe it came from the same warehouse! Please, I must know!

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because I have stated “I must know what is in the box”. I have perceived this to be true, so it therefore must be a reality. We must keep the threads of reality intact, or it may cease to exist. If I don’t find out what’s in the box, no reality, no box, no boingboing. Don’t you value the future of your site?

Anonymous

Because.

robulus

Wow. This giveaway sure is rendering the ‘latest 100 comments’ page completely useless.

Still, watching people walk the shaky tightrope between ‘geek hipster’ and ‘why I love Corn Flakes in 20 words or less’ is quite entertaining.

You probably wouldn’t ship to Australia anyway. Right?

Antinous / Moderator

This giveaway sure is rendering the ‘latest 100 comments’ page completely useless.

Movable Type is so angry about this. It’s refusing to publish more than ten comments at a time, and even that takes five minutes.
- robulus
  
  “Movable Type is so angry about this. It’s refusing to publish more than ten comments at a time, and even that takes five minutes.”
  
  You need to hail the bridge. “She won’t take much more of this Captain! The dilithium crystal converter assembly is going to blow! GIVE AWAY THE DAM BOX!!!”
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    If bad temper is an indicator, Movable Type will be the core of Skynet.

Needled

Because I’ll have eight more lives left.

skeptacally

i need to know…

is it unicorn parts?

IzeTheRube

I want the box so that I can make an Optimus Prime costume for Halloween and I’m sure the swag will make me more believable.

technogeek

Clicking your Facebook “like” button puts my copy of Firefox into an endless loop of page-refreshes. Sorry, but I can’t spend the time to debug it for you. If you give us a functioning way to indicate that we like BB, I’ll be glad to do so; until then BB and I both lose.

Grump.

Billegible

That box is full of PRESENTS. Presents have always been a a source of weirdness in my life. Being a black sheep, I never had birthday parties 9thus no heap o’ presents); being a kid of divorced parents meant that gifts out of season usually came with baggage and obligation and had to be hidden from the other parent.
And then I had one birthday party at age thirty and it was AWESOME. A table full of rowdy people! A pile of toys and books and STUFF for ME! That magical THING of seeing a pile of wrapped mysteries that were all mine to uncover and frolic with… stupendous.
This box, this magic box, is a tantalizing second birthday party. It hums to itself, a little song about Mystery and Stuff and Wonderfulness, while I stand outside the shop with my nose frozen to the glass.

elmizzt

A boat is a boat, but a mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!

Jason

It is weird how much I want this!

TravisBroyles

I need to know what’s in the box, cause I lost my copy of Pokemon Blue ten years ago so maybe it’s in there? I’ve looked everywhere else.

Luckier

If you send me the box, my cat will help to open it, dig all of the stuff out and then hide in the box, or put her toys in it, or jump in and out of the box like Maru. She really likes boxes.

the philosopher

I need to know the content of this box because I am learning how to work computers. After reading Little Brother by the boing boing editor Cory Doctorow i decided i had to learn how to work computers! I even got my own crypto key! With this box, the power of my computer skills could be unlashed.. So please with a cherry on top send me the box.

Anonymous

Is Maru in the Box? I don’t want it unless an adorable internet cat is inside.

Anonymous

I must have this for my wife for valentine’s day. We celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 15th – the chocolate’s all 1/2 price and we started that as students in the 80′s. My wife can’t resist grab bags or roadside lemonade stands. Love u sweetie.

I tweeted this – BoingBoing giveaway mystery box. I must have this 4 my wife @ <3 day She can’t resist grab bags & lemonade stands. Love u L #whatsinthebox

akumax

cause i wanna feel the sensation of receiving a “westpaket” – that’s what we eastberliners used to call pakages sent by our westgerman relatives (and 100% scanned by stasi > east german secret service), in that case my auntie bÃ¤rbel, who had a good sense for surprising us with amazing toystuff, (others in kindergarten wouldn’t have had anything like it anyway because western toys were really rareâ€¦)
gruÃŸ
max

Anonymous

Clearly it has something to do with the Artifact from Dead Space…

RichardS

Baby due in August – I really should get him/her a 0th birthday gift!

Brainspore

If I don’t find out what’s in the box Boing Boing will be directly contributing to the amount of ignorance in this world. Never take the side of ignorance, Rob.

oculus

Unboxings reveal
As much or little as we
Have buried in us

Anonymous

What what what is in the box? Must know! Must know! What could it be what What WHAT! What is it??!

Anonymous

What’s in that box?!: A Haiku

Perhaps it’s not what’s
inside, but that it could be
a really sweet fort?

Saint Fnordius

Just look at the banana in the box.
Just look at it.

Nawel

wonderful things, that’s for sure. I must know ’cause it might be the weapon to fight the 30 feet Vegan invaders… mmm maybe not. I wonder how it’s going to work since I have an e-mail for this comment account, another e-mail for Twitter, and yet another e-mail for the Facebook account.

Maybe there’s a special detector for that inside the box?

Rayknee

If I were to with said box, nothing would go wasted. I’m moving and could use a sweet box.

Julian

A thing! I love things! May I have it?

jarvis400

I’m only slightly curious what’s in the box.

Anonymous

BRAINZZZZ.

Anonymous

It’s a plastic leg lamp, isn’t it?

Rachel H

Why do I need to know what is in the box? Simple.

I need to know what is in the box because leaving something unanswered just does. not. compute.

What kind of boring existence would I have if I saw something of interest and just thought “meh, guess there is no way to know what that is.” No, I’m definitely the kind of person who will pick up a stick and poke it, take it apart to see how it works, and if it’s an unopened box, I’ll open it, gosh darn it.

There is *always* a way to find out what is inside the box. Conveniently, you could send me this box of wonder and I could easily find out what is inside. If not, I fully expect a lovely post showing all of the glory contained in the wondrous box, if only so all the rest of us can revel in the glory of discovery.

ehuelga

Because when my kids grow up, I want them to think fondly of crazy, generous Uncle Boingboing.

Rayknee

If I were to win said box, nothing would go wasted. I’m moving and could use a sweet box.

ablebody

Surprise me.

-v-

The little girl trudged down the long dusty hallway. She was wearing her favourite dress, the one with the puffy skirt that she called her princess dress. Her best doll wore a matching dress that her mom had made for her. Cynthia was getting heavy, and the little girl shifted her restlessly in her arms and she slowly moved along the corridor. It was dark; single bulbs made flickery orange islands that the little girl tried to stay in, rushing through the shadowy areas between them. There were no doors, but every so often a choice; left or right? The little girl tried to remember which choices she made but she was tired and confused. How had she gotten here? Left, left, right, left, the hallway never ended. She wanted to sit down and rest, but the floor was dirty and she didn’t want to bring the dust bunnies with her. She walked along, Cynthia dangling from one hand, making choices at random. Left, right; but was it random? She didn’t notice that it was gradually getting lighter, and maybe she was to tired to hear the vague murmur of noise ahead of her. She did notice the first door. It was pink; the first colour she’d seen, wherever she was. The doorknob was way above her head and she couldn’t reach it even when she jumped. The next door was blue, and she banged her knee on the knob before she saw it. She sniffled a little, the tried to turn it. Locked. She moved on. She passed a giant orange door, and a tiny green door. Locked. she passed a purple door that stretched far above her head, and a polk-a-dot door that had two knobs; one for the top and one for the bottom. Locked. She leaned against a wide brown door and asked Cynthia what to do. Cynthia didn’t answer. The girl sighed and started walking again, turning right, and then left; trying a zebra-striped door, and a door with a lightning bolt on it. Both locked. Now she could hear the murmur of noise. It sounded like voices. She hugged Cynthia to her, and walked faster. Left, right, right. And suddenly the corridor ended. A bright yellow door, just her size. And unlocked. She pushed, and went in. It was her bedroom, but it wasn’t. The walls stretched so far above her head that she couldn’t see the clouds Daddy had painted on the ceiling for her. The green carpet was dewy and full of flowers. The bears that sleep on her bed were walking around. Henry, the pirate bear her brother gave her last year came over and gently pushed her towards her table. The pink chairs were too high now, and Henry boosted her into one, and helped Cynthia onto another. She couldn’t see onto the table, so she stood on the chair, even though Mommy always said not to. In the center of the table, a box. She looked at Henry. He gestured to the box. All the other bears had gathered around the table. Some of them were using her tea set. Suzy, the one-eyed bear, handed her a cup. The little girl could almost hear them telling her to open the box. But they had never talked to her before. She hesitated. She looked at Cynthia, who seemed to wink. The little girl clambered onto the table, and sat beside the box. Should she open it? The bears moved in closer to watch, and she thought she could her other voices. Did Miss Jones from school want her to open the box? And was that Grampa? She reached for the lid, and pulled back the flaps…

What’s in the box, Rob?

carollaura

Boingboing is full of wonderful things, so I have high expectations for the contents of this box. I NEED to know what’s in the box.

Anonymous

Is it SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat?

Anonymous

Surely it contains secrets too great for the capacity of others. Give it to me and I will protect it from the ravages of time.

Bloo

I need to know what’s in the box, because right now only Bruce Schneier and SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat know what’s in it.

Once I know, will give most of it away again.

Anonymous

Box plz!

mofembot

More than I like cream cheese and lox,
I want to know what’s in the box.
More than I like to wear warm socks,
I want to know what’s in the box.
More than I need to go pee-pee,
I want the box and its gris-gris.
More than a cat wants in a bag,
I want that boxed CES swag.

I could continue at length, but at some point the ghost of Dr. Seuss would rise up in wraithful wrath. I make stuff (as in “artistic stuff”) with gadgets and swag and cast-off bric-a-brac. Knowing that this box holds stuff from boing-boing is a guarantee that I would likeâ€” if not everything, then a danged high percentage thereof.

MichaelRN

My 3-year old nephew just wants the box. To build a fort. Of course whatever is in the box would probably look really good inside a cardboard fort.

Anonymous

I’m running out of time to find a gift for my Valentine. I need to know what’s in the box; there might be something to express my love inside!

truehemingway

I must, I must, what’s in the box. A fox, some sox, hopefully not the pox. I need to know, it irks my mind, I’m rife with awe and thoughts that bind, me to this box, my eyes, my heart. A bunch of junk or random part. Please let me know and send it here. I will not win this chance I fear. But box, with sox or fox, you know you’re mine. A valentine I’d wine and dine. Come to my home, I’ll let you in, and let the nighttime fun begin. Don’t be afraid, I’m not a cad, but don’t you think it’s time we had, a moment here, just one us two, I’ll be gentle, kind, and good to you. A box of wonder brought to me and filled with plunder I know you’ll be. Excuse my rhymes and faultless wit, I really really want this #@*%…

Aloisius

I know what is in the box. I just need to prove it to my girlfriend.

folkclarinet

Because, quite simply, I must know.

mcicconi

My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box. My OCD DEMANDS that I know what is in the box.

Ito Kagehisa

You put CDO in the wrong order!

Fuzake

The box, it calls to me. Like a siren song, it sings of unknown shores. The madness it contains only makes the song sweeter, knowing that opening it could be the end to an otherwise drab existence. Finding what is inside would be it’s pinnacle, especially with the knowledge that it will end me. I do not fear the box, I embrace it. Please, I must see in the box, if only for a moment, then to become part of it, and to pass the madness on….

Laymen’s translation… “Can I haz box now…?”

jakerome

Why on earth would I want to follow the BoingBoing feed on Twitter? It’s dozens of messages a day would overwhelm the tweets of people I actually care about, and there’s apparently nothing in the Tweet stream that can’t be easily replicated with an RSS reader. It’s like everything that’s wrong about the way Big Media misuses communications tools like Twitter in post-ironic step. Boing should have millions of followers, but since it’s a nearly content-free stream, you’re left with tens of thousands of people that likely never read 1/10 of your Tweets.

I remember when Boing used to be cool.

Dean Putney

I’m looking to change this.

EdCS

I should like to know the contents of that box because it matches the description of the box that stole my families precious jewels. Knowing the contents would allow us to derive a motive and perhaps recover them.

Also, I have an uncommon affection for stuff.

smokingmammal

I hope it’s another box, slightly smaller.

mahsdad

To paraphrase Se7en…

Pitt – What’s in the Box!?!
Spacey – I just told you…

Anonymous

Because I love surprises.

Anonymous

I gotta know what’s in this box! I imagine it is filled with only the coolest gris-gris your blog has to offer.

Anonymous

Is it Pandora’s box? If it is I know Pandora, she is always going on about her box.

Low

Because I was told. Something happens when that box is opened, something horrible… We never knew what it really was, what really came out of that box, and i’m not sure anyone really did want to know. But something horrifying came out of that box, and i’ve been sent back to prevent it being opened.

I need that box so i can take care of it and make sure it never falls into the wrong hands.

Anonymous

I want to know – what’s in the box?

Aulesforge

I’ve been dreaming (or nightmaring) about that ding dang box for fifty-four years now…about time it became reality, or not.

jahxman

gone gone beyond the box
there is no box
gone beyond

eaddict

#whatsinthebox
Why do I have to know?

because

(that was a good enough reason for my parents!)

Anonymous

As a Tech-Addict,I NEED to know what is in that box… I can HEAR the contents calling me {grin} (and who can resist a good mystery!)

midtempo

no facebook, no twitter, no chance of finding out.

fringeouterwear

<---- Classic "random stuff" Re-gifter. Yep. I am queen of thrifting, dumpster-diving, coin-finding, and junk-giving, especially to people who will not know 1) what the junk is , or 2) what to do with said junk. And boxes are my favorite. Sort of like that cute cat.

xASPPx

I need to know for personal growth, plus I could use the box to re-gift some xmas gift cards I’ll never use!

Chasqui

Mystery Box! Please no head in the box!

macbrak

Tracy’s head

Anonymous

I just like new toys, and a Christmas in February would rock…

Anonymous

It’s the lost copy of Duke Nukem forever

Anonymous

As of right now the box contains everything and nothing at the same time until it is opened and its contents are viewed. The possibilities are endless and will keep me up at night wondering what?

bat21

Either a Slaver weapon or my burning, intense hatred of contests that require people to join trendy social networks.

RevoAlone

I need to know what’s in the box because I need a little more excitement in my life. Also, I’m incredibly curious. In fact, I wrote about curiosity on my blog:

http://thebigoldoaktree.blogspot.com/2011/01/earth-space-curiosity.html

Dread Pirate Robert

What’s in the box? I’m thinking possibly an electric monk, or maybe the script of the new Dirk Gently movie?

Anonymous

I will send you a box back.

mhulsebu

I assume there is a head in there, but until I know for sure I am like Brad Pitt – “What’s in the box?” “What’s in the box?”

Anonymous

Simply because I am quite nosy.

Anonymous

I’ve already looked in all the boxes I have, so I suppose I’ll have to look in your box now.

Anonymous

You says I would open it?

takeshi

Whatever it is, you say it’s worth hundreds of dollars. That’s why I absolutely must know what’s inside the box. Most honest answer I can muster. That, and I’m dying to know whether the cat is dead or alive, or in a superstate of positions.

Also, dig that presentation. That’s one serious box. It must contain some incredible stuff. Otherwise, why all the mystery? I swear, if it contains a video camera, I’ll make a zombie porno. Even if I don’t win.

Oh, dear God, what I wouldn’t give to know what’s inside that box. It’s become an obsession. I cannot be held responsible for what happens if I am not the sole recipient of the expensive contents of that box. The box is everything to me. Christ, I’ve only known about the box for a few minutes, and already I would KILL to know what’s in there.

Did I win? I will seriously die if you don’t send me the box. It’s mine. No one else deserves it. That box is the very key to my survival. I will throw myself in front of a garbage truck or drown myself in a bathtub filled with heavy whipping cream if the box does not arrive at my doorstep. I am prepared to go the distance. I will do whatever it takes to ensure that the box is mine. Anything you ask.

I will love that box eternally; nothing could ever change that. I’m the only person she needs. The box and I were destined to be together. Now that you’ve brought the box and its valuable contents to my attention, I honestly can’t imagine my life without her. I worship that box. Please, for the love of God, send me what is mine.

God help us if that box ends up in the wrong hands.

mamarox

I Must know what is in the box, because whatever it is, I want it!

And my ferrets will LOVE the box!

tonesfrommars

I think I know what’s in the box, but I’m not sure.

the.Mediatrix

If you give me the box, I promise to tweet, comment and FB about everything that was in it. Also, I love gadgets, trinkets, knick-knacks, and ephemera of all kinds. I will put it all to good use!

flcaddis

I need to know what’s in the box because gris-gris has been regrettably absent from my personal explorations of spirituality. Also, the techie bits would make great favors/cake decorations/hair ornaments for my geeky wedding.

Also want: where was that gorgeous box photo taken? The background makes the box seem so grand and mysterious!

AlexC

I’m hoping the box contains bits and parts I can use to either complete my current project or that will inspire me to make new ones. And a unicorn.

Anonymous

Boing me that box! I tweeted, I’ve begged, I NEED THAT BOX, I”m on my knees! Just Boing it to me…. Please!

dreamweavr72

Reminds me of the movie Se7en! “What’s in the box!! Oh, no, What’s in the box!” Do we really want to know? I do and I’m a poor 38 year old undergraduate who could use the gadgets to get ahead on campus!!

Anonymous

Because I need to know if the cat is alive or not.

:)

Anonymous

I am inside the box. Please let me out. Thank you.

Pantograph

I absolutely must know what’s what’s in the box because I made a bet with my imaginary pet monkey about its contents. If I’m right I’ll win a bag of peanuts.

Anonymous

As Schroedinger once stated, “Until one observes what is inside the box, I will start killing one hostage every hour.”

Anonymous

It’s not schrodinger’s cat, it must be Niels Bohr’s pants!

Anonymous

There should have been a clause whereby the winner had to let us know what was in the box… so we don’t all die of terminal curiosity.

Ito Kagehisa

Very clever, Rob, but I’m still not signing up for facebook or twitter!

Really nice fireplace there, by the way.

peterd

It’s a SchrÃ¶dinger zombie!

chris

I am poor, christmas is long gone, valentines day will be disappointing, and my birthday is far far away. I need this.

Anonymous

I normally don’t twitter, and use facebook only for a few select friends. I debated responding to this as it seems designed for a target market that does not include me. Perhaps the contents of the box are so wonderful it will make me reevaluate my lack of desire to tweet with the masses.

Anonymous

I absolutely must know what is in the box … because I’ve seen the movie “Se&en”!

tkalen

I must know what is in the box to discover the identity of this amazing follower so that I may in turn follow them!

subhan

I must know what’s in the box, so that I know if I am in Universe A or Universe 1.

gutternugget

i must have the box in the picture. i must have becasue of the same reason I must never tie the shoes on my feet and for the same reason i must enter all government buildings backwards. the reason for me to have the box in the picture is to prevent the gravity from going backwards and the things on the planet from going up. it is real important and it is the problem.

dreamweavr72

Look, tide comes in, tide comes out, you can’t explain it so give me the mo#(*F@)(‘n box!!!!

Waffles

For the protection of our Glorious United States of God in the Democratic Republic of America I must be one hundred percent certain that there are no illegal items in that box, including but not limited to: music, movies, toys, foreign news, anti-Glorious United States of God propaganda, atheist reading material, books, pictures depicting music or movies or books or toys, renewable energy, or Sudafed.

simian

the box is full of old newspapers. old newspapers i need to make a nest. please and thanks yous.

PS
i am always up for being surprised.

Anonymous

By giving me the box and its contents I will be able to continue my gadget addiction. Since every gadget is obsolete after 6 months I will be ahead on the next cycle fiscally since this round was free. Please give me the box. Pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee. Thank you.

Anonymous

I want to know what’s in the box….but I’m also curious about that big door behind the box.

Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE

It seems envy will be my sin if I don’t win this… Don’t make me end up like Kevin Spacey. Please?

JanieJones

(I can’t believe it took over 250 comments for someone to mention bananas! The comments alone are great entertainment.)

I’d love to know what’s in the box because it would make me feel like a winner!

rhoder

i need to know whats in the box cause i must know if the cat inside is dead or alive because of it

Anonymous

I want to do the unboxing of the box.

Laike

There could be a black hole in the box. If I open the box, I can confirm if a blackhole exists in said box. Also, it’ll bean I’ll be the second poor person sucked into the hole. After who ever tried to pack it in there.

robulus

Can we disqualify anyone who mentions Schrodinger’s cat?

Anonymous

Can we get some PERSPECTIVE on the size? Is that a fireplace background or a door? 12 inches high or 5 feet?

Astragali

I would like to have the box, and the contents therein, to see if my cynicism regarding the contents’ usefulness to me is justified.

todorrobot

I used to run a small press comic publishing company that had in the works a compilation/group project tentatively called “What’s in the Box?!” which would have contained stories about a box that never got opened. Unfortunately we went bankrupt before we could put the book out. If I get the box, I will write/draw a comic about what’s inside in honor of the “What’s in the Box” compilation that never came to be.

Anonymous

I’ve always wanted to be one of those screaming audience members on Oprah.

Anonymous

I am a box. Do you need a box? Let’s get some box time. Word to the box. All hail BOX!

Miphnik

Why do I want the box? In the words of George Herbert Leigh Mallory, “Because it’s there.”

cupcake_girl

i can haz mystery box?

LapisPezuli

I hope there’s a kitty!

Oh wait, I don’t actually hope there’s a kitty in there. Unless there’s kitty life support too.

Mel H

When i was a kid, the grab bags were my favorite. The Hope of getting something really cool… Well now I am older and I hate not knowing. It drives me crazy! I can’t plan for not knowing. SO TELL US ALREADY!!! WHAT IS IN THE BOX!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous

I HAVE to know what’s in that damn thing. Could it be a bunch of Zac Morris Phones? A real-life Transformer? Even if it’s just a string of metal-carved binary codes, I’ll plaster the walls with them; I haven’t won anything since my 3rd grade cake walk!

Impudent Warwick

Mostly because I’m too lazy to look up “gris-gris” and find out what it means. Hopefully I’ll know it when I open the box and see it.

dancanuck

I don’t want to know what’s in the box. I need to know what’s in the box. The stake of the universe depends on it. Choose wisely.

Araleith

Oh, man. This is like the grab bags of candy we used to get at the local corner store, but more awesome. :D

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BOX.

Anonymous

To liberate the contents of the box from the tyrants of Boing Boing!

Anonymous

I need to know if the parallel universe inside contains an alternate me who is clean-shaven. Does that mean I’m the evil one?

NGLGBR

why not?

you’ve found me by chance anyways. correct?

Tyrian Pike

Because comments in the mid #800 range never win!

Anonymous

I never get anything good in the mail~ I want Good news in my mail box.

Anonymous

GOOD

Cormac

You had me at gris-gris.

Anonymous

Well, my cat, Schroder and I are working on a theory. It involves quantum mechanics of which that box is crucial to our hypothesIs!

Grrrrrrrr8

I like tearing apart stuff and making new things from it. I already have enough gadgets. I just want an excuse to break something.

johnnycanuck

Because it could be something I want or need!!

Anonymous

“You took the box. Let’s see what’s in the box.
NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING!
STUPID! You are so stupid!”

Anonymous

I’m dying to know, because if it’s had Cory’s hands in it, I can lord the box over my writer friends, and if it’s had Xeni’s hands in it, I can lord it over my techie friends. I don’t even really need what’s IN the box, I just want the box.

jpollock

I’ve had some laundry accidents recently, and my dark shirts have bleach stains on them. Since I need new shirts, I’m hoping to open the box and find some nice conference shirts in there to replenish my wardrobe.

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box because I don’t know what is in the box. How can I not need what I don’t know? When can I expect it to arrive?

Clevergirl71

Please send me the box, boing boing! I am a faithful follower and would love to know what’s in the box!

Silveradept

Rob,
Once a number of years ago, I helped run a LARP on the east coast, where the players had to open a box. We ran around the field whispering in their ears saying “open the box” because once they opened the box, it would trigger the end game event and let the game continue. Rob, they NEVER OPENED THE BOX…I want to open this box, I want to open this box so bad. I want to see if a jolly, candy like button is in the box, so I can push it and maybe erase the mistakes of my past by erasing history. But I can’t even see if there is a jolly candy like button in the box, until I get the box and open the box.
I want to see what is in the box, please.

Ubitigrine

I absolutely must know what is in this box because I want to win it for the Metalab (Vienna Hackspace)^^!! I will soon to be a member; I found them because I wanted to learn about A.I./programming through osmosis. I was welcomed by eager boys (as there is always a need for more girls in this field ;) and now in the beginnings of getting to know and learn from this group of talented and ambitious people.

Anonymous

Why not? Only live once.

Pav The Fiddler

I absolutely need to know what’s in the box. It’s your fault I can’t focus on anything else now.

Kiteway

As a cat, I believe that denying my curiosity could potentially qualify as murder in several states.

Cat death or the box.

YOU DECIDE.

(pay no attention to the extra lives behind the curtain)

Anonymous

I used to work in a box factory.

Seriously, I did – nothing like the one from the Simpsons, with the preassembled boxes with lids open flying by on conveyors – way cooler than that.

There’s this enormous machine called a corrugator that makes the wavy part of corrugated cardboard with a combination of vacuum suction and mechanical pressure – glues it all together with a mixture of cornstarch and wastewater from the printing presses. This machine is over 100 meters long, could make over 240 KM of cardboard in a day and was LOUD – ear defenders and earplugs wouldn’t work if you were close enough.

I would stare at it for hours trying to figure out how the thing worked.

I loved the idea that our boxes would go out and be used by every part of industry – everything goes in a box.

I’ve moved on to other pursuits, but I still look back on my time there with fondness.

That’s why I need to have that box.

Oh, and the stuff inside. I bet it’s real neat.

Anonymous

…Because a box of stuff would momentarily save me from the tedium of being a graduate student.

draugr

I need to know what’s in that box, mostly because there is a possibility that I’m in there and if that is the case you can hardly ship me somewhere else.

Anonymous

I teach physics. If awarded the box, I would challenge all of my students to use each object in the box to measure the height of our building.

Anonymous

I’ve long suspected I might be in the wrong parallel universe; I’m hoping it’ll be Farnsworth Parabox…

morkl

SchrÃ¶dinger couldn’t stand the suspense; thus curiosity killed the cat.

That said, I don’t want to know what’s in the box because as long as i don’t know it might be just about anything!

Another Aaron

I must know what’s in the box cause I’m scared it might be a bunch of Vashta Nerada.

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box because YOU MADE ME NEED TO KNOW. YOU AND YOUR GODDAMN REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY!!

WHAT’S IN THE BOX? (prays it’s paltrows head).

Anonymous

Maru or a cat with a similar penchant for boxes/cardboard enclosures?

ONE CAN DREAM CAN’T HE??????

Anonymous

dear box full of stuff, I’m moving and could use another good box. Also I’m curious what you might contain.

danjite

I deeply love Boingboing and have been a reader since the print days.

It is unlikely that there is anything in the box as valuable as respect, thus there is no way I would spam my friends lists with this.

trebonius

If I don’t find out what’s in the box, I’ll go blind.

If I don’t find out what’s in the box, I’ll run away and join the circus.

If I don’t find out what’s in the box, I’ll fall down some stairs while texting my mom.

If I don’t find out what’s in the box, I’ll be trampled to death in an aphid stampede.

sporkinum

What is this point about increasing social network followers? I don’t get it. Is it some sort of e-penis thing?

Anonymous

I must know if its a cat. A cat in a state of flux. Neither dead or alive. Dear god let me know!

Aceofblue

I need to know what is in the box for two reasons. First, I am a poor university student. Second, I am a poor university student studying a discipline of science. My scientific mind demands to know what is in the box, so I can stop wondering about it and all the various permutations of objects which the box may or may not contain. Plus, a box full of gadgetry would be fun to play with. ^_^ Whoever said girls can’t enjoy science and math and technology can go play elsewhere.

Anonymous

What’s in the box? WHAT’S in the box? What’s in the BOX?!? What’s in the box? *tear* What’s in the booooxx? *look* *murderous glare* Bang Bang Bang

mrchild

I need to know what’s in the box, for I am a significantly gadget-less geek. I live in a terribly repressed world with comics on paper and increasingly skinny newspapers and magazines.

MY FINGERS ARE STAINED WITH THE INK OF THE PAST!

Please help me.

bitstop

Some gear would be nice, or a nice shepherd’s pie, or a job. I’m not so keen on teh kitty.

Anonymous

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but ignorance killed the dog!

Anonymous

I must know, boxes bug me

Anonymous

I need to know which universe I’m living in. Today, it feels like that cat must be dead.

Slightly Askew

Whatever is in that box, it’s the only thing I ever wanted…although in my experience, boxes are usually empty, or maybe with a little cheese stuck to the top. And one time, pepperoni. What a day that was!

sbarnes2

Ohmigod omigod omigod! BB has pointed me in the direction of countless awesome stuff; I barely dare to dream what’s in that box. Gamma Go swag? Vinyl art? Sci-fi novels? Steampunk goggles? Aaaauuuggghhh, WAAAAAANNNNNNTTTTTT!

bas bleu

Because it’s a veritable treasure chest, and who doesn’t love those? I mean, it’s an actual box of mystery, and my inner child is itching to explore it!

francoisroux

I don’t really care what’s in the box, as long as I can have it!!!

PJ Rhymeswithsausage

I must know what’s in the box so that I can tell my son what he shouldn’t be playing with. Then I will put him in the (emptied) box and everyone will be happy.

Anonymous

I want the gris-gris box, and I want it NOW, DADDY!

gobo

“What’s in the box?”
“What’s in the box??”
“You wanna know? …. it’s my BROTHER.”

greenwindow

Contents could be magical. I like magic.

Finchypoo

There is a cat in the box, but it’s state is currently unknown to me.

Hobbinski

I need the box quick because I forgot to pick up a gift for my aunt Pandora’s birthday.

IbogaDan

The existence or non-existence of a parallel universe may be, perhaps held within the confines of said “box”.

Winning this box could, perhaps, lead to me enlightenment. Let me explain.

My curiosity in the box has been spurred on by trans-personal explorations of time and space through ketamine, LSD, mushrooms, peyote and ibogaine. This exploration has led me to know the following:
-reality as we know it is an illusion
-the internal universe is equal to or greater than the external universe
-the external universe is accessible through the gateway of the inner mind
-the only thing that matters is the moment, is the moment
-I choose my reality
-time and space are constructs of our present reality system and are a myth

Back to the box: On many levels it’s contents are a mystery. On other levels it’s contents are “known” since they were dumped into the collective consciousness of humanity (aka GOD). Those contents not only exist in the moment, but in the past and the future. So I know what’s in the box right now – but with my limited, constrained consciousness I cannot yet access that information.

Back to parallel universes: that box and it’s contents exist on two planes. This one (here/there) and as anti-matter.

By me being the winner of the box and the contents, this may, perhaps, create a personal epiphany of the “moment” of duality of existence. This moment could create an opening for me to attain “rainbow body” – I will be enlightened. So therefore winning would be nice. Rainbow body would be nice. If I win this box enlightenment may be just around the corner.

I want the box and I want to be enlightened.

Thank you.

Anonymous

it contains my long-lost sense of wonderment !

Anonymous

because Christmas comes but once a year

Cigarsam

I must know because that’s just the way it is. :-)

Anonymous

Well according to SNL “junk” is in the box..

Anonymous

I really need some random crap. I hope it is a monkey.

Anxst

If I don’t find out what’s in the box I will shoot one hostage every hour. Just like Archimedes. http://xkcd.com/857/

Anonymous

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Vigenere whatsinthebox

Suicidal Zebra

Is it the head of a Superbowl Half-time Show dancer?

If so, I don’t want what’s in the box :(

Elliot Morris

Throughout history things of intense interest have been hidden in boxes and the response has always been, in the words of the sage Brad Pitt ‘What’s in the box! What’s in the box! Come on, come on; What’s in the darn box’ or so I paraphrased.

I believe it is time we listen to Mr. Pitt’s pleas and like Mario searching for his latest fix we catapult ourselves into the box and claim our prize, may it be some sweet swag, a anthropomorphic flower or even [INSERT ‘SE7EN’ SPOILER HERE).

Anonymous

You don’t wanna know why I need to know what you know about what’s in the box.

SonOfSamSeaborn

Facebook or Twitter? Fuck you, BB. I thought you were cool.

robulus

Uh Oh. They’re turning. Still, might as well see this thing through to 1000 now.

JamesProvost

Every ‘unboxing’ video on YouTube encoded on punchcards, obviously.

ChrisP

I don’t care what is in the box, I just want a chance to do something with the items that the manufacturer never intended.

Anonymous

My life will be incomplete till i discover what is in the box.

Anonymous

if YOU tell ME what’s in the box, I’ll tell YOU why you need to send it to me…

g0d5m15t4k3

Please I hope its not a Pox. There, that’s my Nightmare Before Christmas reference.

But I truly must know what it contains. And I’d like to get to know in person when I open it in my apartment. I would like some awesome tech and boingboing swag.

Anonymous

I’ve always just been kind of curious I guess.

Anonymous

I will tell u guys what is in it after checking

Anonymous

I need a box, and I need stuff!!

Anonymous

Who can resist the allure of the Mystery Box?

Anonymous

I hope the box contains cake to share with my friends!

ProPuke

I like boxes.

That is all

Anonymous

Because I need it. I don’t know what it is or what it does (yet!), but I know I need it to do my work better, faster, stronger.

rbsmadrid

I must know whatÂ´s in thebox cause now that I know that there is a box full of goodies lying in an empty room I cant live with the uncertainty of not knowing whatÂ´s inside… besides that IÂ´m also in the process of moving from home and I need a box exactly of that size to move my books…

Phil

I must unravel this mystery! It must be solved.

That is a great looking box…

nilloc

I’m hoping it’s a large box filled with other smaller boxes, which in turn are filled with still smaller boxes, and so on, until at some point approaching atomic size, they stop being boxes, and start being spheres. In the shape of an iPad or something of course.

Anonymous

It’s doubtless something awesome. Isn’t that reason enough?

thibault00

Because I’m a master of reverse psychology.

Fine, I don’t want to know what’s in the box…

Andrew

because Christmas comes but once a year

Anonymous

I know what is in the box. It is the terrible horrifying secret of the universe that leads men into madness. I must have to box in order to save them and the world from the knowledge that would destroy us all.

Anonymous

I can’t afford gadgets right now, baby formula is zapping my cash. Help, gadgets are much more fun then baby formula.

Posthuman

Because i need those Dave Bowman’ bones!

moscoblitz

I would like to know what’s in the box, because I’m a dirt-poor student in high school with a passion for things in boxes. I’m hoping that there’s some extra bandwidth in there..I’m from Canada and apparently we have a shortage up here.

Chris

Who cares what’s inside. That’s the most magnificent box I’ve ever seen! I’ve just got to have it! (I’ll take what’s inside as well).

thoth23

Few things in life hold as much potential as an unopened box or as many memories as one that has been closed away.

Anonymous

I am the box. The box is me. Or at least, the box contains some cool stuff!

awjtawjt

I do not want the box. And I do not want to know what’s in it.

Anonymous

Sure hope it’s one of them waiter monkeys.

brassandlace

I’m following on Twitter as BrassandLace, but I also agree that it’s more fun to post comments here.

I absolutely must know what is in this box because my boyfriend’s birthday is coming up and it just might be the thing he’s been wishing for but never knew until now. In fact, it might be that thing that I bought him but never arrived. Maybe they sent it to you by mistake?

It might also include the birthday present of another person who, well, if you saw her you’d know that anything “gris-gris” absolutely belonged with her.

Besides, I promised my cat Boris he’d get a new Boo Box when everything finally came and we just don’t want to think about what would happen if I failed to follow through…

~Natasha

Anonymous

I love surprises and what better way to get one than from Boing Boing? You know there has to be all kinds of strange and exotic items hiding inside. I mean seriously who remembers anything boring on Boing Boing ever?

Anonymous

Gris-gris sounds tasty, and I like tasty things so I must have the box.

Anonymous

I just want a copy of portal 2 lolooololool or whatever is in that box
, james steel

Anonymous

I REALLY need a box, and I REALLY need some stuff!

5onthe5

I must know what’s in the box and if you won’t pass it through my naked box scanner voluntarily I will feel its junk in order to find out for myself.

wierdbeard

Because J.J. Abrams convinced us all the mystery box was SO important in his TED talk, and somehow I still thought he’d wrap things up at the end of LOST. And you know what? I’m STILL ticked we never found out what the (expletive) was going on in THAT (mystery box) island. I NEED ANSWERS.

deathpickle

I need to have this box, but alas the box is a lie

Eric

I’m curious. Also I need the cardboard box to fix the transmogrifier.

gothfru

I must know what is in the box. The voices in my head scream “NOTHING!” but as a QA engineer, I KNOW BETTER. NEVER TRUST THEM WHEN THEY SAY IT’S JUST A BOX.

*ahem*

I’m betting there’s something…shiny. Possible…two..shinies. Must..possess…shinies…

thesunneversets

Only by discovering the contents of the box, and the subtracting them from the set of all things that exist, will I finally be able to answer the question “what is outside the box” to my satisfaction!

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in to box to know what I’m missing out on. Because whatever it is, I’m probably not eligible to get it, because I live in Australia.

archmagetrexasaurus

I must know what’s in the box because I must know what’s in the box. [== true]

Anonymous

I feel like there’s a good Schrodingers joke in here somewhere… probably in the box.

I need to know what’s in the box! Whoever wins this had better do an unboxing video. AND I hope this person is as gadget-ly-clueless as I am too so that everything that comes out of this box of mysteriousness is reacted to with cool confusion.

Anonymous

curiosity killed the cat; but satisfaction brought him back.

thekinginyellow

i think i really must know what’s in that box.

SkiniCanuck

Having just rewatched Logan’s Run, I know ALLLLL about Box. And I want to make sure there’s no frozen people in it.

Luke

> pick up box

You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
**** You have died ****

The Alien Guy

Why I want the box? Greed, pure greed!
And because i loved Se7en!

red

I know one thing for certain: I am not in the box. Ergo, everything other than me is, and is not, in the box. Including, and not including, my cat.

jpmilner

Because I must satisfy my gadget addiction.

johnpaul

You can give it to me if you want, but I am probably just going to end up playing with the box.

Edgar

I need to know what the new tenant has done with the place.

Anonymous

“The thing’s hollow! It goes on forever, and… oh My God, it’s full of stars!”

DaBurrus

Every part of me is tingling with the thought that I might win!

dinobot

If the box came my way it would be an excellent example of luck and semi random chance for my 9 year old daughter. Her mother and I were married because she (my wife) won a trip to Las Vegas a little over a decade ago. I got to see the Germs and meet Don Knots because of a coin flip. OK I know that I’m already lucky, I mean I was born in America in the last half of the 20th century, what more do I need right. Anyway its more for my progeny. Being born 3 days after 9/11 she needs all the luck she can get.

nirvan

I’ve always had a thing for mystery boxes.

2 examples:

1. My favorite Sesame Street video is The Mystery Box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE

2. I made a film noir stop-motion film called The Box Man: http://nirvan.com/theboxman

Also, I will paint the requisite question mark on the box before opening it. [?]

edison234

Why did Woot send you my bag of crap? Thanks, pre-she-ate-utt.

Anonymous

I must know because my sense of self worth depends on it!

BTW is it
(follow or like) and (tweet or comment)

or
((follow or like) and tweet)) or comment

I’m assuming the latter so I hope I am eligible!

I must know…

bigdaddyPJ

I must know what’s inside the box, because the box already knows what’s inside of me… the circle must be completed.

emmany

Schrodinger and Se7ven aside, I’ve been unemployed for over a year, for the first time in my adult geeky life. What’s in the box? Joy, hope, and the future.

Anonymous

Is it Pandora’s Box? If so, please do not open.

moniker42

Just the opposite I am insouciant to what is in the box. It could be a quite living feline caught in the perverse machinations of some sadistic would be Mengele, tangled in a sick web involving quantum decoherence and poison most foul. To be curious would be to be cruel. But… now that I think about it… what if the poor kitten is alive in the box? Why?! Why?! We have to get it out of the box? But how? The implications are too cosmic to ponder! Poor Kitty! You psychos! Call the ALF!!! CALL THE ALF!!!

thatbob

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because I am training to become King of the Nerds; sources indicate that something inside the box might help me in my training: but what?!?

Anonymous

#whatsinthebox

Kitteh!

Anonymous

Trying to think outside the box, but it’s not working.
Please help by giving the box to me, then I can expand my horizons!

Brett0

I don’t really need to know what’s in the box, but I’m always looking for new ways to procrastinate, like replying to this post.

retrojoe

I need to know what’s in the box so I’ll what NOT to think about. If I win it I can take them outside the box and then think about the items.

seyo

I want some of your junk in a box for Valentine’s Day! Oh wait, that didn’t come out right…

GunnerClark

tell us why you absolutely must know what is in the box
Two reasons. I could really use a good hit of happiness right now….and my cat would love the box…really….do it for my cat.

EddieO

You got me! One more member added to your pose! Whether it’s Schrodinger’s cat, or Pandora’s box, I gotsta know. N’ome say’in?!!

Anonymous

“Hey, Cookie Man!, what’s in the box?!”

euthanaut

When I was young, my father told me this day would come. Glory! my box has arrived.

Anonymous

I very much need to know what was is in the box. No one has ever let me know, for example, what the magic word is or even what the secret password. It has seemed my default position in a game of Piggy in the Middle has been very much front and centre, ‘La Grand Piggy’ if you will.

World! it’s time to turn them tables, I’d very much like to know what is the box.

I’ve never known a secret handshake for which I am probably glad, my favourite shoes have always been bought a day after the cool clock stopped. Oh what to do.

If the contents of the box turns out to be a punch in the face, I do and I will, take every effort not to sob, but on the bright side, finally I will know!

sworm

The box will shield me from the elements as I sleep rough on the street.

pmonkallstars

By Odin’s great beard! I have sought to answer the mystery of this box for years: I scoured ancient texts for signs that might prophesy its contents, I had my mind reprogrammed to tap into the collective unconscious, I broke all of my legs and three of my arms on an expedition to gain a better vantage point on what is contained within.

You see, it is the final requirement for crafting a black hole which will unlock a parallel dimension where I believe I will finally be able to trick gods into powering automobiles with zero waste.

Crazy. I know it sounds that way, but this is all backed up by extensive research and experimentation. I can’t explain to you exactly how it will all be done: your mind would be thoroughly blown. But to prove that my methodology is indeed sound, I can tell you this: it involves the use of safety goggles.

Please, for the love of all mankind, I must know what is inside the box.

AEIUOsometimesY

While what is inside is important (and I will not deny that I am significantly more than curious); only by opening it can we find out what is NOT inside. And that my friends, is the crux of all that matters.

Anonymous

I need to box to help me think outside of it.
As it is now, thinking about what’s inside of it has consumed me.

Please Help! :)

andyhavens

I never travel without *my* box.

In the first drawer I keep my magic stones.
One carnelian against all evil and envy.
One moonstone to make you sleep.
One red coral to heal your wounds.
One lapis lazuli against quartern fever.
One small jasper to help you find water.
One small topaz to soothe your eyes.
One red ruby to protect you from lightning.

If you give me your box, I’ll give you one small jasper. Since everyone needs water.

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

Okay, I’m going to make an attempt to try to guess the actual contents of the box:
-A handful of corporate branded USB thumbdrives
-At least one mousepad
-Various peripherals (keyboards/mouses [I choose to say mouses, because it allows me to use the phrase 'headless noun' when explaining my decision]/headphones/USB humidifier/et cetera)
-iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch cases. Maybe even an iPod Nano wristband.
-Some form of branded tool (screwdriver/bottle opener/et cetera)
-Going to go out on a limb here: a product from the Gorillapod line. I don’t know why, but Joby seems like a company that gives a lot of its products away.
-A low-end digital camera.
-T-shirts/hats/bags, tote or otherwise/coozies/stickers/Zoll’s hat/foam #1 finger

As for the box itself: depending on its configuration, it can either be a device which clones, travels through time, or changes its user to his or her desired form.

justawriter

Because there is SWAG! I am a total swag hag. At any conference I go to, I use the two pass method of swag collecting. The first pass is to evaluate the quantity and quality of the swag on offer and then collecting the cream of the crop on the second pass. After all, with bag weight limits, you have to be selective at larger conferences. Plus, unless you are selling them, pens are not worth picking up anymore, unless they are top of the line quality or have a cool mod like a built in laser. So I. WANT. IT.

standingstill

I’m hoping whatever is inside will fill the those tiny, vacant places in my soul.

darkstar70

I’m pretty sure I will die if I do not find out what is in the box. Although I am not 100% sure, I’d really rather not risk it, so please, please, send me the box.

Anonymous

The internet is probably in there.
http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dd_internet_20081215_p.jpg

Or Rick Astley…

UncleBeard

I hope it’s a box full of broken NESes. I need the parts to fix my other box of broken NESes.

Epiphany

I need this box, so that I can NEVER ever open it.

For years, this box will remain sealed, ripe with the possibility of what it could hold. On days when I’m melancholy, I’ll savor the infinite realm of options which the box contains. I will take solace in the fact that, in a world where almost every mystery and miracle has been studied and analyzed, debated and canonized, there is *at least* one thing that will forever remain unknown.

Anonymous

I must know, for unopened boxes play havock with my ocd.

Anonymous

Without knowing what is in the box, I may never have a neat idea for a project based off of what is in the box.

don

If it’s gris-gris, I know exactly what I’m doing with it. If not, I just want the fun of getting something in the mail that I don’t know what it is. Either way, I simply *must* know what’s in the box, or it will haunt me for the rest of my days.

Broodmdh

I bet it’s SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat. Send the box to me and I’ll find out. I bet it’s still alive.

JEcklar

Because I work at the National Aviary, and the parrots dig cool boxes! (Also, I will let you pet a penguin if you come visit me after delivering the box!) :)

Sayes

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because I teach high school and want to sponsor a Makers Club with a box of abandoned electronics.

Anonymous

A secret box is like secret presents. And adults don’t get secret presents anymore. I mean, it’s nice to know you’ll get something you really need for christmas/birthday etc. instead of hideous penguin pajamas, but secrets make everything so much more fun….

Zack

I imagine that what lies in the box is some sort of SchrÃ¶dinger’s cat style experiment, meaning that the contents both exist and don’t exist.

I am eager to know which it is.

piccadillyst

I must know what’s in the box just to see the wonderful gadgets that my third-world salary won’t let me buy =(

Anonymous

Box is the only thing that matters!
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-of-cake.html

Anonymous

I am in the box writing this to you from my mobile. I just want to go home.
I really need to see my family. If you could please just mail the box to my home address.
I really do not want you to send me to someone else and they in turn would most likely enjoy a better gift from boing boing than me. i really am starting to smell and i need to go to the bathroom real bad. get this over quick please. help me. my battery is about to die. no funny stuff alright, you know why I am in here and the joke is getting old fast.

Anonymous

Before me lies a box. Plain brown. No markings. No indications of the treasures or horrors inside. I look around. It’s surroundings are somewhat foreboding, all black marble with undecipherable inscriptions. Yet, it provides no clue to what is inside the box. The box!

I must know. I need to know. Is it my future? Is it my doom? I must know.

I tear into the box, listening to the whoosh as the air inside escapes. I look in side and ….

Anonymous

I have been slowly losing the ability to distinguish pixels from atoms. I want to bring the box into my living room, log on, and, as I remove each article inside, read any related manual, reviews or Wickipedia entries. Then, maybe, I’ll know the difference.

Anonymous

We are inside the box, duh…. I want to know what is outside of it.
— Wonko the Sane

Anonymous

Mayhaps a cat? Nickels? I figure it’s got all my hopes and dreams in it.

Anonymous

What’s In The Box…only the most intriguing
fulfillment of destiny to date!

Anonymous

I must have the box because I love stuff.

Anonymous

I need this box so I can satisfy the human need to know what is inside an unmarked closed box. Also, I really like stuff.

Red Leatherman

I have dozens and dozens of boxes like that full of stuff.

kyfho23

I love a mystery!

neo1

I hate this box. The last thing I want is an ugly brown box. So, don’t give me this box, okay!

Anonymous

If it’s my wife’s head, I’m gonna be pissed.

Godfree

Look at that amazing box! Just look at it!

tas121790

I need this box.

Mim

As a librarian, I fear that the first thing people will do with new tech is try to use it in a lame, malinformed manner to “promote library resources and pursue outreach.” If you send it to me, I swear to not let this happen.

kt

Uh, I think that’s my box …

- jj abrams

http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html

FumarMata

I am launching a game that I made, and to promote it I will do exactly the same as you, but for each gadget.

PS. I will probably keep something for me ;)

TimDrew

Because I just want that damned wave function to collapse for once and for all- the uncertainty is too much to take.

michaellau

Reading Boing Boing is like every day seeing an ever changing gallery of ideas I’m not familiar with, places I’ll never visit or perhaps never existed, and objects that I am far too poor to own.

Owning this box would be like changing for one moment from the circumstances I am in to the circumstances I see and envy in which dwell those for whom I work, those next to whom I studied, even those to whom I am so painfully, closely related, and especially those whose writing I read every day on this blog.

For one moment I would have physical relation to something which has had and will continue to have forever afterward a veil of gauzy white GUI between us.

Plus, maybe its got a computer I can give to my girlfriend, hers broke a while ago and she cant afford a new one.

moe

oh man, it’s like that BIG RED BUTTON with the DO NOT PRESS sign!

i MUST know what’s in that box!!

Epizephyrii

I want to know what’s in the box because I’m insatiably curious and a complete gadget nut, but I never have the money to really satisfy my desire to have way too many gadgets.

*crosses fingers for the heck of it*

Anonymous

I will not rest until I know

Anonymous

I will lay awake tonight thanks to my brain running wild with speculation on what is in that box! If I don’t know what’s in that box I may end up not getting a wink of sleep for days, nay, weeks! Only you can prevent the fallout from not knowing…mail…me…that…box! Avert certain disaster and help me get a good night’s sleep!

Anonymous

I think I should have the box because I tell everybody about boingboing, in fact most of my more interesting stories come from things I’ve read on Boingboing…but does simply being a fan warrant the box? no but more to the point I’m quite sure that whats in the box, based on my affection of your site means that I will be tantalized and excited to no end by said items…that and I love cardboard!

Anonymous

I just want free stuff, duh.

armandocapo

Everyone, keep your hands off my box.

I’ll let you know what’s in it as soon as I get it.
:-)

meg

I MUST have this box!

voerdus

I need the Box to make an awesome unboxing video to satisfy all the curious people arround here. So i need to know whats in that box to let u know whats in the box

Lester

I need the box because I want voerdus to make an objective, dispassionate unboxing video about someone else opening the box. I want that someone else to be my adorable son.

Grencia

I need to know what’s in that box because my formative years consisted of movies like se7en and Ronin. Only, when I saw Ronin in the theatre the projector burned the film a few minutes from the end and when I finally saw the whole thing, I developed a complex about mysterious boxes.

ChuckTV

Because I need to get to Apokolips!

Anonymous

Simple, really. Been reading since 1995.

AdrenalineSleep

[Joke about Gwenyth Paltrow's head]

What’s in the bOOooOOOX!!
NooOOOo! NOOOOO!!!

(Please send it to me, SRSLY!)

Nadreck

Well, if there’s anything I like more than my favourite two things, it would be some third thing: which could be inside the box. Also, I generally think outside the box and this would be my opportunity to expand (contract?) my horizons and think inside it.

Anonymous

Correct! This box contains our own universe!
Yes, all that is and ever shall be is in that box.
And the box is probably worth something too.
We must cherish it, as we cherish every moment of our lives…
– Professor Farnsworth

Anonymous

What is better than Tradeshow Santa? Tradeshow Boing Boing Santa!!!

Shayder

I need to know because if I don’t 3 small kittens may die.

oh not anymore

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because after many years of the price is right I still can’t shake the urge.

Anonymous

I Want this thing. I must have it. I have always wanted since I was this wee tall.
Its a gogdamn box, who in their right mind could not want to pry in it and learn its secrets. Do i want this box?
Repeat with me in Nic cage voice. “I WANT IT.”
Sides, if it turns out to have all the sins in the world I want to be the one to open it up and get my name in history.

Anonymous

I don’t know have any idea what is in that box, but I really want to know. The suspense is killing me.

Anonymous

i’m not that bothered about the contents of the box… i just think the box looks like the perfect size to play in like mauru!

Anonymous

I must know whether or not the cat inside is alive or dead.

Anonymous

there’s a smaller box inside this box. and so on. until theres a box so small, the folds would take all the room inside!

Anonymous

I have searched the world over for the man who killed my father and gave me this scar. He was a small, extremely flexible man.

Listener

I would like to know what’s in the box. I don’t have a clever note about what might be in it because this is BoingBoing and the smart people have already used my references. So here’s my top ten list of reasons I want to know what’s in the box:

10. Even if there’s nothing in it, I will still be able to sniff it and get a whiff of the rarefied air of BoingBoing.

9. No one ever mails me anything except bills. It’d be nice to get a package with something fun in it.

8. I’m pretty sure it’s not a d**k, but if it is, I’m sure I can find someone to regift it to.

7. It’s got to be better than the last mystery box I won (from another site), which contained an iPod Mini charging dock. I couldn’t even GIVE that away.

6. If I get it, I promise not to do one of those silly unboxing videos like people do when they win Woot Offs.

5. My mother-in-law will make excellent use of the box once I’ve emptied it.

4. I will have a new boring story to tell at parties about how I once won a box of cool stuff from BoingBoing. People will then say, “well, that was a great story” and uninclude me from their conversations. But at least I’ll have the cool stuff with which to wipe away my tears of forever-alone-itude.

3. I bought one of Cory’s books. That helps, right?

2. I promise not to Rule 34 it, or anything inside it, unless it is intended for that purpose.

1. I’m going to be stuck on the highway for many hours tonight because the First Lady’s visit ends at 5pm… right at rush hour… in the 8th largest city in the U.S. Whose bright idea was that? Anyway, I’ll be sitting in that backlog, and it’ll be a nice way to brighten my evening.

There you go.

Anonymous

I must know what is in the box because I am woefully under-gadgeted and terminally swagless. Help me, BoingBoing, you’re my only hope.

Burntgerbil

I just moved recently and while I’m sure that the box’s contents are awesome – if it’s anything I can’t use, I can give them away to new friends.

meanderingwolf

As a preservice teacher working on licensure at a Title I school I’m sure I could find something useful to do with a box full of new tech goodies and swag. If nothing else I could just shake the box and have my students guess at what is inside (5th graders are oddly like puppies in that way).

sylvar

Half-dead cats are gross. I want to open it and resolve the issue.

Unanimous Cowherd

Perhaps the box contains another box, within which is a smaller box. And inside that might be another, slightly smaller box. Of course, there could be yet another, even smaller box inside of that one. But who would guess that inside that box was another box. Though perhaps I would…

Anonymous

I must know, because the gadgets will be useful and repurposed if not. For their sake not my own, the contents of the box must be known!!

bgivens

Well, I’ve just received my Zelda style life meter t-shirt (a long-time nerdy desire). In light of that, I feel the need to hold the box proudly over my head and then smash it on the floor, all considerations of vandalism, destruction of public property or basic human decency be damned. I hope its full of over-sized gems or arrows.

TJ S

It’s a closed box full of Boing goodies! I don’t even want to keep most of the stuff in there (probably), but I have to know what’s IN the box. My friends and sister can have the stuff, as long as I get first dibs on anything extra-boingy.

SofaKing

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hepcat

I need to know because the family motto is: If it’s free, take it. If it’s a sack of sh*t, throw it out on your way home.

Tina

I like mail. I like making things. I like gadgets. I don’t like not knowing what’s in the box.

oh not anymore

I absolutely must know what’s in the box because after many years of the price is right I still can’t shake the urge

Greg

The little voice in my head just tells me I need to know and have! Make it stop!

artofmulata

If I don’t find out then how will I ever impress anyone at metafilter ever again?

Anonymous

I need to know whats in the box because I suffer from anxious- needstoknowititis.. It could be fatal, would you want my blood on your hands?? Please, relieve us both :)

Anonymous

I need to know what’s in the box so I can use it to decorate the box fort in my basement.

whatsupmonkey

I don’t know if I can live in a world where I do not know the contents of that box.

Squatlo

Because not knowing would be like wondering what’s behind Door Number Three on Let’s Make a Deal just after you’ve passed on the new car…
Besides, the one gadget I need to solve all the world’s problems might be waiting for me inside that box. The mysteries of the universe could be solved, diseases cured, verifiable proof of the existence of intelligent life in Alabama might be discovered, and someone somewhere might have their life forever improved from the simple scientific advances I might provide, given the contents of that one box of goodies.
How can you deny humanity this opportunity?
That, and I’m just nosey…

Anonymous

WHATS IN THE BOX? I just have to know! Maybe a severed (robotic) head?

Damon

Aaaagh – so many projects! My mind is a dizzying blur. What is next? Will I make a lunar tide-clock? A 6 foot flapping dragonfly? A shoal of silver fish weather-vanes? Wrinkly potato sculptures? Time-lapse Springtime landscapes? A pod-cast? I must know!

Only the contents of that box will let me decide…

Anonymous

Forget Woot bags of crap I want a Boing Boing box of awesomeness!

louispound

5,000 thumb drives shaped like TARDISes.

Anonymous

I am sure that the objects in the box are so valuable and obscure as to totally blow my mind…

Anonymous

I haven’t had a nice surprise in a while…

Anonymous

Initially, I came here to make a joke about Se7en or Schroedinger’s cat, but I see that territory has been covered.

I need to know what’s in the box because I covet technology that I can’t afford and don’t need. But gee whiz, do I like toys.

Anonymous

Because receiving a mystery package from Boingboing would be epic!

penguinchris

When there were ~300 comments, I was going to read them all so I could say “I earned what’s in the box by reading all 300 comments before me.”

I walked away from the computer for a few hours. I logged in to write my comment, and upon refreshing suddenly there are 616 comments.

So: I need to know what’s in the box because… I’m lazy?

Dewi Morgan

I must have the box, so that whoever commented immediately before me doesn’t get it! Because they smell of wee.

ninemoons

The box MUST be bigger on the outside than on the inside. And if not it should have jammy dodgers, a fez, a sonic screwdriver, a Roman centurion’s armor, some lipstick, and a nurse’s uniform!

webbmark

If I don’t find out what’s in the box I will grow old and eventually die. You don’t want that to happen, do you?

mold2000

I know what’s in there, young man, you can’t fool me. It’s boxes all the way down.

Adrian

I want that box because there must be a lot of bubble wrap in it… must have… and pop.

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