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Context: Curious George, a book by H A Rey (Anyone stlll have a copy? Or anyone’s children, or grandchildren?)
On page 31 are two pictures, one above the other. In the first the Man in the Yellow Hat is sitting at his desk dialing the telephone; George is watching. In the second, the man has left, and George is standing on the same chair at the desk, imitating, dialing the telephone. What fun!
On the desk are three items: 1) a telephone 2) a semicircular block with a handle on top and a blotter on the rounded bottom 3) a thing which is a three-inch circular one-inch-high base, with a foot-long stick stuck into it that curves to horizontal at the top, and hanging from it is a four-inch string attached to a –-
That’s the question. What is that gizmo? The telephone is an old one, and I recognize the blotter, but what’s hanging from the string?
Anyone familiar with the book and still have access to it?
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I don't know, Dr Wofa, but if no one else comes up with the answer, I can check at the bookstore next week. Curious George recently hit his 50th (?) anniversary, so there's been a lot of hype, reissues, attached merchandise (I want the plush of him in a banana boat!) &c.
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I don't have a clue either, wofa, but where did you get those measurements? It's been a long time since my kids read Curious George, but I don't recall any pictures that gave dimensions for the objects illustrated. I'm confused..... 
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where did you get those measurements?I'll bet, being of a scientific bent, he visually assessed a 3:1 ratio and then decided on the order of magnitude appropriate to the size of the other objects. OK, out of my league, I'll go back to words now. 
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Dear wofahulicodoc: I can remember seeing in some offices
a pen hanging as you describe, to keep it from being swiped.
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...or, more precisely, guestimates, based roughly on the size of the telephone. edit: what Anna said. If you look at the picture see if you think my description was at all close !
I have the book in front of me; I'm just puzzled about what that third thing is on the desk. Maybe it's a dangling pen? edit: what Bill said (There isn't an ink bottle until six pages later.)
Actually it looks most like the pendulum you can use to trace pretty patterns in a tray of sand, except that the string is too short and there isn't any sand either... Besides, I doubt they would have put a Lissajous generator into a children's book!
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Okay... just looked through the Curious George Books in the house (all 7 of them). The "thing" on the Man with the Yellow Hat's desk is only in the first book. Although his desk is seen in three of the other books, the "thing" is not on it. My guess as to what it is? It looks like one of those useless yet amusing things that men sometimes have on their desks. They sell big around Father's Day when kids want ot get their dad's something, but don't know what to get them. You know... something that you push the end of and it swings back and forth and gives you something to stare and and do while you are on the phone, or whatever...
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limericks, double dactyls, and now ascii art! what next? 
formerly known as etaoin...
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Whilst I have no idea at all what the thing is, I do have to say that I am impressed with your art-work, Tross!
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Thanks Rhubarb... I had never done one before but looking at the picture in the book, it seemed like it would be pretty easy and then everyone would know what the original poster was talking about... However it was ridiculous to do here because everything you type justifies itself to the left, so where you normally would just use spaces, I had to put in dots to keep it from being smashed against the left wall.
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