Use a neodymium magnet on a long string to place the paper clip near the bottom of a long vent duct.

Sort of cheating - flush it down the toilet.

Playing by the rules - turn it into dust with an angle grinder.

Drop it in the back vent of a TV.

I unfold it and then skewer it into the side of a drop ceiling tile.

I have a bag in a drawer with about 100+ pens of all kinds that I collected over the years. I'd straighten it out and stick it in one of those. Good luck, detective!

Into my weiner hole.

Cat litter box, or the bottom of the hay bag for my guinea pig.

inside a really weird sex toy.

Open fridge, find bag of sweet peppers, poke paperclip into pepper, return to fridge.

U bend of the toilet we don't use. Can fish it out with a magnet if I need to reclaim it later