[Ipg-smz] Tchotchke

[Tom Henderson]

Long ago and far away, for the Networld-InterOp Daily News, I was asked 
to do an article on tchotchke. Usually, I wrote what *I* thought was 
interesting. A request from ON HIGH, as the concept of branding was 
coming into vogue, asked if I could do such a piece. I demurred. It was 
an easy piece to write.

Few other pieces I've written have provoked such a strong reaction, a 
cavalcade of tchotchke ratings, complaints, hoarder museum pieces, and 
more. After everyone got past /WTF Is Tchotchke?/, most everyone had an 
opinion, including: recycling the stuff (the food chain of trade show 
t-shirts was interesting), water bottles (Junior's going to look cool 
with this in middle school), and the onerous: these are bribes with logos.

A couple of wags related how they waited until the show was about to 
close, then offered extraordinarily low-ball offers to just take the 
booth demo units home with them, sometimes benefiting in the tens of 
thousands of dollars from weary booth personnel. Some were gifted stuff, 
as in here, just take it.

Knowing the drayage costs, I can see why.

Tom

On 1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
> Yiddish continues to fade, as Israel discourages it in favor of modern 
> Hebrew.
>
> Modern Hebrew is surprisingly similar to Arabic, btw, when you square 
> off the letters.
>
> Also, Sahara means desert in Arabic.
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net 
> <mailto:ipg at satchell.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/23/19 9:09 AM, Steve Wexler wrote:
>     > Chutzpah: "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts',
>     presumption
>     > plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can
>     do justice
>     > to".
>
>     I always think of the word as "leading with your chin, and getting
>     away
>     with it."
>
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