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[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_satchel">Wikipedia</a>"]Magic satchel is a term often used in reference to computer role-playing games. It refers to the use of a character's inventory in the game, which can often contain more items than is physically possible for the character to carry (or are simply too large), without any visible means to hold or transport them. A similar concept is hammerspace, the term used to describe the seemingly invisible place from which fictional characters, such as cartoon characters, pull out very large objects, such as mallets. The Norse god Thor's hammer Mjöllnir is described in the Prose Edda: "...when (Thor) wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic." Technically the term hammerspace is not used to refer to a magic satchel itself, but rather the area or pocket of space that a magic satchel utilizes; a magic satchel is like a door to hammerspace. When an object is produced from hammerspace, this is sometimes known as "hammertime".[/quote] According to <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hammerspace">TV Tropes</a>, which is the place where this sort of SHIT needs to stay, the term "hammerspace" originated in the Ranma 1/2 fan fic community. I still have no idea where "magic satchel" comes from, beyond "computer gamers" or "the internet".[/quote]