Our biggest client builds offshore oil rigs. I've gotten a lot of swag from them, including a clear acrylic paperweight with about an ounce of crude oil in the middle. It was celebrating the millionth barrel of oil from some oil field or something.

It's cool. I'd never realized how "dirty" crude oil looked.

Since I quit the bookstore, I haven't gone to BookExpo America. Now, there was some great swag! I usually averaged 150-200 books over three days (many of which were crap, but I did get Cold Mountain before anyone had heard of it), plus lots of quirky doo-hickeys, including the rubber chicken that's hanging on my cubicle wall here at work.

I think on SVU Krav Lady was a witness. On Malcolm a girl kravved Reese so hard she got him to say "My body is made of snot!"

I used to get swag in the form of basball caps or nalgene bottles emblazoned with manufacturers logos. I still have quite a bit of it, as it's useful. Not worth being in sales to get, though.

Somebody gave me a squishy brain from a neurology conference that is probably my favoritest swag ever.

My favorite coffee cup swag was the set of 6 coffee cups my dad got from a management communication seminar that said Σκασμοσ και ακουσε , because without them I would not know how to say "Shut up and listen" in Greek. Though for years thought it was Egyptian.

Best swag I've gotten so far --

For working in the office of the Local, and helping to produce the makeup artist's union's awards show two years running I got both a guest gift bag and a presenter's gift bag.

The first year, I took my sister, and both the guest gift bags and the presenter's gift bags had a bunch of really nice, professional grade cosmetics and hair care products, all for women. I gave my sister first pick over everything, so she got a lot of good stuff, and then let Aimee have the rest, which wasn't quite as nice. Because of that, I swore that next year, she would get all the cosmetics and stuff from the presenter's bag, and my guest bag.

That second year, the union made a point of giving me a men's presenters bag, which netted me some really nice booze, a nice t-shirt, a Fossil watch, and a whole big box of Kiehl's men's skin and hair care products, a coupon for a free pair of specialty contact lenses (the kind that change the color of your eyes, or give you cat's eyes, that sort of thing) which the providing company refused to honor because I wasn't famous, and some very nice men's hair care products. The guest bag had some professional grade cosmetics in it, but the haul wasn't anywhere near as nice as it was the first year (as far as the cosmetics were concerned).

So, I never quite got Aimee the really nice cosmetics I wanted to give her, but she got some. Also, the presenter's bag the first year was a very nice Kenneth Cole bag, which I still have and use occasionally as carry-on luggage, and the bag the second year was a super-nice Fila sports equipment duffle bag, long enough to hold baseball bats or hockey sticks.

Hey there was great product in the bag you gave me. Plei has some of the Stila and Urban Decay stuff and I still use the styling wax hat came with it.

I've gotten a piece of solar panel or shield that was actually up in space!

Way back when they were melting the glass and spinning it for the 3.5 m telescope my dad was involved with, Corning let them keep all the reject chunks of glass. Mind you, these aren't formed blocks of glass. More like hacked chunks. So littered around just about everyone-who-was-involved-with-the-project's offices and homes are these wicked soccerball sized chunks of glass. They're gorgeous (a very slight opalescence to them) but very sharp edges. My family referred to them as icebergs.

Hey there was great product in the bag you gave me.

Yeah, I certainly didn't stiff you, but I still wanted you to have some of the really nice stuff my sister got out of the presenter's bag from the first year, it just never quite worked out that way.

We don't get great swag in our business. Sometimes subcontractors give us chocolates, but that's about it.

Yeah, I certainly didn't stiff you, but I still wanted you to have some of the really nice stuff my sister got out of the presenter's bag from the first year, it just never quite worked out that way.

S can make me a dress for Prom and I'll feel better and so will you.