I should have mentioned my former boss’s office. She’s known as “the one with the toys.” She has: a giraffe collection (everything from wood to plastic to ceramic to stuffed to even a troll giraffe), a troll collection, a whole assortment of little plastic puzzles, a large drum made out of a tree trunk that’s wonderful to beat when you just HAVE to get rid of some hostility, and a computer gargoyle perched on her printer (it’s a little cathedral gargoyle earnestly peering at his laptop computer). The best office to play in I have EVER seen.
The entire Governor Quinn archives are scattered around my desk and computer. It’s a whole lot of writing that I’ve done, mostly relating to my interest in alternative worlds, all of it short, and most of it not understandable to anyone but me.
Desk?
I have a desk under this junk? WOW! I thought it was just a pile of old notes, papers, candy and CD cases that the hubby was balancing the computer on!
I do have however, a stuffed toy raccoon on one speaker. A March of Dimes cow on the other speaker. And a shiny golden, silky furred bear on the CPU.
I have a gazillion things, but my favorite is a large grasshopper figure from the James and the Giant Peach movie. He’s about 18" tall, and has fabulously articulated arms (all four of them!) and legs. He’s wearing a waistcoat with cutaway tails and carries a monocle.
Erin! Welcome, fellow new-bee!!! Repeat after me:
preview Is my friend, preview Is my friend, preview Is my friend:smack: (also easier to just hit the ‘quote’ button at the bottom of the ‘to-be-quoted’ post)
But as to your pin thingee … the things come apart with either Allan wrenches or pliers at the corners! You can take it apart VERY carefully (so as to not spill the rest of the pins!) and remove the bent pins and put it back together! Or if your are as engineery (read anal) about your toys as I am, you can Replace the bent pins with equal numbers of pins from each corner, there-by preserving the symmetry of the original impression space!
I have a friend who described the conference room in her office as containing a terrific assortment of various toys that live on the table. Folks just pick them up and fiddle with them when their attention wanes. They actually monitor the meetings that way. If more than a certain number of the toys are ‘in play’ at any given time, that speaker KNOWS they’ve gone on too long, and better wrap it up.
Now, THAT’s a management technique I can get behind!!!
(She’s the same friend that has commented when she and hubby and kids are visiting my house … Your house is so amazing! No matter how many times I’ve been here, I just kinda look around and there’s stuff I never noticed before! Toys and kewl stuff, hidden everywhere! And everything has a story with it! – She’s also One of the major contributors to the over 80, each unique, rubber duckies in the “Rubber Duckie bathroom” {not including the 40 little eraser sized duckies that line the mirror in the count, of course} but we were discussing desks, here, weren’t we?)
let’s see… I have a life-size plastic human skull and an “Eddie: the Trooper” model (it’s really an action figure… but I always said action figures are really dolls… and Eddie ain’t a DOLL!)… I like for my coworker to be a bit… disquieted in my presence.
Not to brag, Mo, but I have two giant Pez dispensers, a clown and a Homer Simpson.
walks off into the sunset, knowing he is now a hero to all he meets
I usually end up with so much paperwork on my desk, I don’t have room for toys. I keep a set of Rockem’ Sockem’ Robot pens and a slinky in the desk drawer for emergencies, though.
Jeez, now I’m jealous. I only have one - a hedgehog with a pull-string on it’s rear. Set it on the desk and pull the string and it vibrates and jumps around. I had to take it to work because the dogs wanted it too much.
I have a superball-type ball with an LED flasher circuit sealed inside that activates when you bounce it hard enough. I should take it in because it just sits in a corner of a bookcase at home.
My wife has several small stuffed animals with magnets in their feet and hands - they’ll cling to the edges of the cube walls. She always knows when her buddies from the night shift in the warehouse have been by - Goofy will be humping the manatee or something. The orca just sits on the monitor and bides its’ time.
-mdf
Well, it’s not normally at mu computer desk, but i have a hand counter ckicking thing.
I think it’s on # 2324.
- a magic eight ball
- a galileo thermometer (not really a toy, I guess)
- a pink plastic back massager shaped like a lobster (nicknamed “The Pleasure Lobster”)
I have a tub of ‘Bottom Mouisturiser’ (it was a gift, and it smells funny), but I’d rather have some Butt Paste.
Other than that I have a foot pump. I dont know why.
All I have is a miniature plush stuffed Cthulhu, perched atop my computer. No one ever comments on it. We gave one to our soon-to-be-six year old daughter, who sees nothing unusual in an octopus-headed, bat-winged Symbol of All Evil. She’ll grow up nicely warped.
A sterling silver duckbill platypus (named “Bill”) and a copy of the Far Side cartoon from Saturday/Sunday July 1/2, which deals with the invention of the duckbill platypus. I also have a tape dispenser with a roll of red tape (I work for the government). Two portraits of my personal hero - Thomas Jefferson.
I have a voodoo doll, a gargoyle, and about a million other things. I can’t list 'em all. Let’s just say it’s “eclectic”. Yep, I like that. Eclectic. I ain’t weird or strange (or almost an “Honorary Engineer because you’re as odd as we are” according to my co-workers) or nothing…
I have a rubber chicken that I keep meaning to hang from the ceiling (as soon as I learn how to tie a noose) in my monitor.
On my desk is an inflatable “Scream”, based on the Evard Munch painting, a 6" Hawaiian tiki, a tacky snow globe from Vegas, a martini glass with my company’s logo engraved on it and a cigar one of my coworkers gave me when he adopted his son (three years ago).
Oh, and on my bulletin board is my Credentials of Ministry certificate from the Universal Life Church.
I should probably be ashamed to admit how many toys/stuffed animals I have on my desk!
On top of my computer monitor are (all beanie baby size):
a pound puppy, a beanie baby goose, a panda bear, a lady bug, a lamb (that was my mother’s), a Pegasus and a wishnik troll doll
In front of the monitor (used to be on top, but I ran out of room there …):
a koosh figure and a GEHA penguin
I have a receptionist desk, and keep candy dishes on my front counter. The candy dishes are surrounded by stuffed animals (small ones); I have a Halloween witch and several Christmas-themed ones, but usually out on the counter are:
a Panda (larger than beanie baby size), a small black and white striped Furby, a chocolate bunny, and Ray, the guinea pig from the Blockbuster commercials, and yes, Ray talks when you squeeze his tummy. I also have one of those round things that makes a cow moo when you turn it over.
Not on my desk, but someone left a green stuffed frog in the ladies’ room about a month ago. I sat it atop an extra roll of toilet paper as a throne, and found a toy crown on the give-away table, and he is now King of the Ladies’ Room. Every so often someone gives him a paper-towel robe, or a tampon scetper.