Comments on: HANDS OFF.

By: James Sicard

James Sicard — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:13:36 +0000

All generalizations are false, including this one.

By: John Lagoy

John Lagoy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:03:24 +0000

You have a unique perspective.

By: Liz Kressel

Liz Kressel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:02:24 +0000

Oh this article rang so true. A very relevant story early in the history of CQ: After growing out of our prior space, we moved to sunny, new offices. I decided at that time to bring my 1930’s desk into work since we now had room for it. Well, one of my staff meaning to be helpful, told me after I had come back into my office that he couldn’t believe “how much dirt came off the top of my desk”. I panicked and as calmly as I could asked him what he used on my desk. It turned out he had used a Windex type product and took off most of the veneer. When I started to acknowledge this (read: freak) he told me I could just use furniture polish to shine it up again.

Well, now you know where the inspiration for our upcoming videos on when to leave well enough alone. Maybe we should title it “Hands “Off” and give Derek a production credit.

By: Collin David

Collin David — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:31:56 +0000

That cylinder-bursting clip always gets me…. right here.

My niece learned very early on that there are some toys you play with and some you don’t touch, and she’s really respectful of that. The non-touching things? That’s ’statues’ or ‘collectibles’. Everything else is TOYS. And I’d feel kinda bad about this control over things meant for play, but I bestow upon her tons of playables.

In college, my desk full of toys was constanly bumped into and things would clatter to the floor, or people would come by and, GASP, play with the action figures! I like to think that I’ve loosened up since then. I was a total ass in college.

I saw this thread on a message board yesterday and I was grateful that this hasn’t happened… yet.

http://www.toymania.com/toybuzz/messages/21943.shtml