Who doesn’t have a business card? These days, it’s almost impossible to be part of the functioning and functional world of the gainfully employed and not have a business card. The business card is, after all, who and what you are to the business world. It’s your half-minute shot at recollection, your 30-second opportunity to sell yourself and your abilities and at the same time, establish a social network.

Naturally, you can’t have business cards and not get desktop business card holders to go with them. There’s nothing more annoying than creased or half-torn business cards; and if they’re all you have to pass out to new acquaintances or prospective clients, then you would be better off not handing out business cards at all. It’s rude - if not suicidal - to give out business cards that are not crisply professional - paper and data-wise.

Most desktop business card holders come in somber designs that ooze “serious about getting the work done” from every pore. These are the card holders you wouldn’t hesitate to plunk down your desk and show off to clients, bosses, and underlings alike. Every now and then, however, a business card holder design comes along that gives you the rare chance to turn heads - not always a bad thing, more so if you’re known around the office as “that uptight piece of work in Door B who wouldn’t recognize a joke even if it hit him in the face.”

Want to poke fun at yourself every once in a while and show people you can appreciate a good laugh, too? Then give yourself a Kobe beef business card holder. You can then watch poker-faced as people’s jaws drop and their eyes widen the moment they set eyes on the thing that’s keeping your business cards crisp and immaculate - a piece of hide. Of course, you’d have to be discriminating who to show off the Kobe beef, too. The senior partner of the law firm you’re clerking for would not think it’s funny if you proffer a card he thinks has beef all over it - literally!

Oh yes, even the somber business card holder has its fun moments, too.