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From: Alan Hall <oldeddoc**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (18 articles)
Date: Jul 18, 2018 21:09 UTC
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Good story. You get it. I think GooGone was invented a bit after Silly Putty and maybe in response to it, who knows.
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial HygienistPresident: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSENew York, NY 10012 212-777-0062
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From: Meg Osterby <megosterby**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>Sent: Wed, Jul 18, 2018 2:25 pm
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (18 articles)
Monona,One of my kids fell asleep years ago with a large chunk of Silly Putty in hand, and you're right, it's hard to remove from any textile it gets embedded in. It is removable with a long soak in a product called GooGone, though, which I found after much experimentation, since at the time I couldn=E2=80™t afford new bedding for the child's bed, and it was all ruined if I couldn't get the Silly Putty out. Of course, then one has to get out the residue of the GooGone, but that comes out easily with detergent and an enzyme cleaning product like Shout.Since that time, I=E2=80™ve found that GooGone also removes grease stains on clothing, including in some cases, spots you missed the first time and that went through the dryer and got "set". You still need the Shout and detergent to get rid of the GooGone. (They won't come out after several times through the dryer, but often do if only one cooking.)I once, as a teacher education student, made Slime for a bunch of high school students, and had them hide it on their persons to remove it from the room. They deposited it around the school on water fountain handles, door handles, you get the idea, and I learned well the lesson that kids will do really dumb things that entertain them, regardless of whether a thinking person would think it safe. It took me hours to find all the slime and collect it and clean the surfaces where it was deposited.I learn so much from reading what you have to contribute on any subject. Wish I lived close enough to hear you at the training in August.MegMeg Osterby
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"It's better to be careful 100 times than to be killed once.." Mark TwainFrom: Monona Rossol
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 12:59 PM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (18 articles)Well... Alan,...maybe not. I NEVER played with dolls and grabbed every amphibian, reptile and rodent that got close enough. Pond scum was fascinating to me, especially the kind made up of tiny round flat thingies with wee roots hanging down under them. Hell, that's where all the neat critters hung out like the mosquito and dragon fly larvae and the hydrae..No amount of skin rashes, bites and scratches could deter me. And since I often traveled with troupes that had bigger animals, I had some rather substantial injuries over the years.I never got to be a Girl Scout because I organized a strike against the food service at a Brownie camp when I was between gigs. I was drummed out of the corps -- a wise move on their part.I ruined a carpet with a plastic product that would bounce if thrown, but flowed when left still. Silly Putty, I think was the name. Once this stuff embeds in fabric, it's like over for the fabric. So I probably would have adored slime and figured out a truly nefarious use for it.No one knows better than I do how very much we need to make sure children are given things to do and products to use are safe and hard to abuse. Children absolutely cannot be trusted to use good judgement. Deep inside each child hides a crazy person. And any parent dumb enough to trust their child is likely to find out how bad an idea this is.Now parents, don't start with me. If you think your kid never did a really dumb, dangerous, bad thing, he/she is still not leveling with you.Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial HygienistPresident: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSENew York, NY 10012 212-777-0062