Did the Lava Goop leak out? Did you play with it? How do you clean up Lava? (With Lava Soap?)
Radio Shack Illuma-Storm plasma globe, circa 1988, before they wussed them out
lava lamp, one red lava bottle, one black lava bottle
Hoberman Sphere
Dodge Viper die-cast car
“Build it yourself” battery powered Backlash battlebot model, the wheel really spins, motor driven
Super Soaker Max-D 5000
McFarlane Freddy Krueger action figure (still in original box)
Tippmann Model 98 Custom marker with Tippmann expansion chamber and 16" J&J Ceramic barrel, 12 Oz CO2 tank (i need a shorter barrel, the 16’s too long for woodsball)
Playmates Toys Star Trek ships;
Ent-D
7th season “gold” Ent-D
Klingon BOP, K’Vort class
D’eidex class Romulan Warbird
DS9 station
Voyager
type 1 Phaser (TNG)
Klingon Vor’Cha
Radio Shack Illuma-Storm plasma globe, circa 1988, before they wussed them out
scroll to the bottom for the plasma globe pics
lava lamp, one red lava bottle, one black lava bottle
Hoberman Sphere
Dodge Viper die-cast car
“Build it yourself” battery powered Backlash battlebot model, the wheel really spins, motor driven
Super Soaker Max-D 5000
McFarlane Freddy Krueger action figure (still in original box)
Tippmann Model 98 Custom marker with Tippmann expansion chamber and 16" J&J Ceramic barrel, 12 Oz CO2 tank (i need a shorter barrel, the 16’s too long for woodsball)
Playmates Toys Star Trek ships;
Ent-D
7th season “gold” Ent-D
Klingon BOP, K’Vort class
D’eidex class Romulan Warbird
DS9 station
Voyager
type 1 Phaser (TNG)
Klingon Vor’Cha
I have a basket full of beanie babies, mardi gras beads, and small toys. Some days are just better when you wear a tiara, especially if it’s cheap and plastic!
and a 3-D puzzle grandfather clock - that actually works!
But my favorite? A floozy coozy. Mine is purple with purple beaded fringe around the top and white maribou feathers around the bottom. (You can’t put feathers at the top!! They’ll stick to your lipstick!)
I have a foam-disk shooter, courtesy of Hamadryad in last December’s Doper Gift Exchange.
I also have a mini Bert (of Bert & Ernie fame), from a box of cereal.
And a Rubik’s Professor (the 5-layer Rubik’s Cube). I re-scrambled it yesterday.
I recently moved cubes, so most of my stuff is still packed away. Out right now I have:
My Frigits Deluxe set
Jay & Silent Bob (w/Walt Flanagan’s Dog)
Lego Darth Vader and Palpatine
Godzilla vs. Darth Maul
I have one of these too, with a former employer’s logo on it. I’ll toss it from hand to hand, etc. when on the phone. Or in lighter times, it would get tossed around the office and I’d be stuck yelling “Ok, who has my brain?!?”
I have um… no geek toys really but:
a rainbow slinky
a hologram-ish mouse pad of the Enterprise starship
2 Buddha statues
A green jizo statue
a tiny Zen rock garden with a little rake and rocks
a small stuffed Big Bird
a Statue of Liberty statue
a green plastic frog
a stuffed monkey (MINKEY!)
The geekest thing I have: our old Radius server for when we were a teeny tiny ISP. Our head geek said “Here, this is borken. Take it apart and play with it if you want.” As I took a screwdriver to it and started spinning the shiny platters he came by and said “Hey, do you still have that drive? I think I know whats wrong with it…” Oops. He had all the stuff backed up, etc. so it was fine but dude, of course I tore into it as soon as he gave it to me!
Do you say it in a Peter Lorre voice?
This is going to make me look like such a dork but…
my coolest toy is my stapler. It’s Staples brand. It is a manual stapler but it feels like an electric. It can staple two pieces of cardboard (probably more but it’s all I’ve tried). I also got it to staple a 1/2" thick wad of papers. I have to hide it every night because some of my coworkers are coveting it.
Fortunately, the lamp hadn’t been in use, so it was cold and the lava (red) was in a big hard blob at the bottom.
When she dropped it, it fell on its base and remained standing, so it did sort of a volcano burst when the top came off. It was full of oil, (undoubtedly of a precise specific gravity, or so says the master), and I didn’t want any of it spilling on anything, so I carried it upright outside to the dumpster and bid it adieu. No Lava soap necessary :).
[Milton in Office Space] I kept my red Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire. [/Milton]
Sorry, congodwarf. Somebody had to say it. 
If you hadn’t, I would have.
Well, you realize of course, that by describing my office toys, I am giving away my identity to any of my fellow cow-orkers who are reading this thread…
Especially because I am well-known for my office toys and mementos.
In no particular order:
- A spinning diffraction grating trippy toy from some science museum store somewhere. Because I frequently work with diffration gratings.
- A complete collection of random number generating polyhedra (aka gamers’ dice), including a glow-in-the-dark set of percentile dice. For making those important engineering decisions known as SWAGs.
- A triangular piece of hybrid rocket engine fuel. My favorite trick is to light it on fire with my bic lighter and seeing the panic in people’s eyes. But since it has no oxidizer, it just kinda sputters and melts.
- A partially melted latching relay recovered from the remains of the rocket I helped build in 1989, that caught fire on its Vandenburg pad, tipped over, burned up, and sent a huge black cloud over Santa Maria, CA. Mounted on another piece of rocket fuel.
- A Purring Tribble from the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. Pull a string and it vibrates, ahem, purrs for 5 seconds. I think Nevada sex toy laws prevented them from making one that purrs longer, say 20 minutes.
- A talking Taco Bell Chihuahua with a rose in its mouth that says “I think I’m in love.” Received as a gift from an old girlfriend.
- A foam rubber stress toy in the shape of a human brain. Schwag from a Photonics convention somewhere.
- Another rubber stress toy in the shape of a human brain. Except this one is best described as a doggie squeak toy without the squeaker, encased in a clear rubber membrane, and partially filled with red liquid. Squeeze it, and it makes disgusting slurping and gurgling sounds, and the red liquid oozes around inside the clear rubber. Purchased impulsively at Vons one day…
Actually, I guess there was a particular order… from left to right on my desk.
DeVena, you are awesome.
I work with a man who looks and talks just like Milton. I cracked up the first time I saw him. Even after 3 years, I still giggle as I pass his cubicle. I think he thinks I’m insane.