How does paste differ from glue? What's on a sticky note? Which one are you? Are you paste, glue or the fleeting hold of a sticky note in a sweater factory?
Paste was that smelly stuff we used in grade school. It was white, had a funky odor and some kids really enjoyed the flavor (from what I'm told). It would hold paper together, but that was about all...and you had to be cautious about the amount used. Too much and it would never dry. Too little and it would act like it was going to hold but alas, you'd come back to find the mustache of your paper traffic cop sans mustache.
Glue was bottled in clever clear plastic bottles so we could mesmerise ourselves watching it glide ever, so slowly to the ribbed nozzle. How many an hour was wasted in my childhood coating my fingers with good ole' Elmer and then meticulously peeling that white snake skin away to see just how long I could I could get that strand? Some of the bottles are still labeled with the important title of "White School Glue". Now I ask you, do you think there are bottles marked, "White Bar Glue", or "White Church Glue", "White Trash Glue"? I guess you could make this a racial issue and ask if there is glue labeled for people of every race and creed? Where is the Chinese glue, gay glue, love glue? Same glue, different bottles.
Sticky notes are such a mind blowing thing. Does anybody erase them, re stack them and reuse them? People joke that they could wall paper their homes in sticky notes. But I wonder, could they really? Wouldn't they lose their stick over time? What if you smoke? Would the tar and nicotine coating your walls make your sticky note wall paper fail? Imagine perfecting your masterpiece, going to bed and wake only to find your Michelangelo snowing down on your head. I imagine I could write all these thoughts down on my sticky notes, but I get frustrated that I can't use the other side. Just feels wasteful. Maybe they should invent sticky notes with a secure strip over a glue edge on the other side - similar to a maxi pad strip has....then I could "activate" the glue when I wanted to. Save it for that special occasion. In school you could use it to order kids to "kick me" or I could profess my feelings :Me + U 4ever". Mark one side "OPEN" and the other side "CLOSED". Use as needed. So many applications, so little time.
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post it notes have pressure sensitive adhesive (psa). (i work in a paper factory.) they only lose the stickiness as the adhesive remains stuck to the object it has been removed.
ReplyDeletethats not really your point though is it?