Conspiracy, or maybe just folks coveting their neighbor's goods?

I have another question for youall: Who in the hell keeps messing with the Bill of Rights?

No, not those bastards in the gubmint -- I'm talking about my personal copy of the Bill of Rights, the one that is posted over my desk. It's not one of those fancy facsimile copies, just a transcript that I typed out and printed for my own personal reference. A souvenir, sort of, as I sit here and read the news and watch them slip away.

I figure I can cross them off one by one. It'll be a game -- sort of like hangman, I'm thinking.

But anyway, they keep disappearing. The copies, I mean. I have no idea who's taking them. Housekeeping? Probably not. Sneaky colleagues? Are they being hostile, or maybe making fun of me, or do they really just want their own copy?

A couple of people (n=2) have asked me for a copy, so I printed a bunch out and there's a stack of copies in the top tray of my inbox so that people can help themselves. Do they take those? No, they keep taking the one off my bulletin board.

If you want to make your own copy, you can find a transcript here. Or you can go here to download a high-res copy of any of your favorite Charters of Freedom documents. Amendments 11-27 are posted here in case you want to check those out before somebody starts chipping away at them too.

I guess I shouldn't worry too much about it. The copies disappearing from my bulletin board. It's easy enough to post another copy. And whoever it is doesn't seem inclined to take anything else -- not even the Abbie Hoffman postcard that I put up when one of my colleagues suggested that I didn't have enough flag-themed articles decorating my cubicle. Not even my pink 'Hello Kitty' glasses case -- which I gotta figure that a lot of the guys here in the tech dept secretly covet -- or even one single one of the antimicrobial pens that I hand out for laughs at meetings. Calculator, scissors, staple remover, PMS tea -- all right here.

Although, now that I think about it, didn't there used to be a whole bunch of fortune-cookie fortunes tacked up there too?

What happened to them? I was going to have a lucky weekend in bed, dammit.