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Aug. 21st, 2007 06:45 pm
I have had occasion, I believe, to comment about some of the interesting samples that sometimes appear at Ana-Lab. Well, today I saw what had to be the cutest looking samples that have ever come through login.
A half-dozen music boxes.
Yes, music boxes...of the sort you give to children[1]...decorated with elephants...and carousel horses...and ballet dancers...and bunny rabbits...and, somewhat incongruously, Betty Boop. Sent by a San Francisco importer to be tested for lead paint. (No doubt related to the current import crises with China...which is where these music boxes come from.) Which means that all that pretty paint is going to look not-so-pretty by the time the techs get through sampling and scraping. Ah well.
I wonder, though, what they're going to do with the mechanisms. Technically, all samples must be properly disposed of...but how on earth do you "properly dispose" of a music box? (Reminds me of the time some advocacy group sent in some frosting[2] samples to be tested for alcohol) Hmmm.....
Oh, and I heard that we're going to be getting more lead paint samples, possibly from this same importer; matchbox cars and other toys, etc. Should be interesting to see those come in.
[1] Usually, but not always, little girls.
[2] Yes, as in cake frosting. Boy did we have a lot of people volunteering to dispose of those samples. Alas, 'twas not to be.
A half-dozen music boxes.
Yes, music boxes...of the sort you give to children[1]...decorated with elephants...and carousel horses...and ballet dancers...and bunny rabbits...and, somewhat incongruously, Betty Boop. Sent by a San Francisco importer to be tested for lead paint. (No doubt related to the current import crises with China...which is where these music boxes come from.) Which means that all that pretty paint is going to look not-so-pretty by the time the techs get through sampling and scraping. Ah well.
I wonder, though, what they're going to do with the mechanisms. Technically, all samples must be properly disposed of...but how on earth do you "properly dispose" of a music box? (Reminds me of the time some advocacy group sent in some frosting[2] samples to be tested for alcohol) Hmmm.....
Oh, and I heard that we're going to be getting more lead paint samples, possibly from this same importer; matchbox cars and other toys, etc. Should be interesting to see those come in.
[1] Usually, but not always, little girls.
[2] Yes, as in cake frosting. Boy did we have a lot of people volunteering to dispose of those samples. Alas, 'twas not to be.
