Re: Also, If He Tore Them Open And Licked The Insides, He Would Get High

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Reminds me of this.

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Does it say that there is something deeply scarred about my psyche that the title of this post seems very sexual-violent?

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Sil- Do you want us to answer that?

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Or just tear you open and lick your insides?

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Gross.

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Well, yeah. That was the point.

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I guess this would be the right time to say that I have absolutely no idea what this post is about.

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A guy with a collection of the bags dealers used to sell heroin in, with different logos on them?

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I am confused by the word "glassine."

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I have absolutely no idea what this post is about.

Paraphernalia memorabilia.

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Cane toads. Tearing them open is unnecessary but fun.

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9: The kind of plastic the little bags that drugs come in are made of. Based on very limited (non-existent) personal experience, I think cellophane sums it up.

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Is it a coincidence that I was intercepted with a full-screen anti-drug ad on the way to the article?

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So it is. I should look things up in the dictionary sometimes. I thought "glassine" related to "glass", (see, e.g., bears --> ursine) and was thinking, gee, that's a very fancy package for drugs.

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If you tear open bears and lick the insides, you will get very high indeed. Or die tryin'.

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1: Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of.
Mmm, globes.

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glassine really looks like wax paper, basically. translucent, papery. the "bags" are just that, like tiny grocery bags but folded over into an envelope shape. I always wondered about those, too; did drug suppliers have their own machines to produce them? martha stewart weddings suggested using slightly bigger ones with a few jordan almonds inside and your names printed on them as a wedding favor, and I almost had it done, but I thought it was just too depressing, though hilarious. also, re: glass packaging, people do sell crack in vials sometimes.

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No, glassine isn't like cellophane: it's more like waxed paper. Like the kind of envelops the post office gives you when you buy stamps.

I read that NYT article and thought the same thing about the Taschen book.

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this post worries me

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Pwned.

You can buy glassine envelopes. After all, the USPS uses them. I imagine big dealers just buy them wholesale?

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Wow, they really are all the rage at weddings.

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You can get them with your stamps.

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Glassine is the stuff that makes up the windows in envelopes that have windows in them. That's the only context I've ever seen the word in before.

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I knew what glassine envelopes were (from reading American crime novels) but also thought it was some sort of cellophane. Slightly startled to realise now that I sent out Christmas cards in glassine envelopes a few years ago. (They came from Habitat.)

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Also, "rassafrackin" is a great word.

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I remember the first time I saw a sandwich in a baggie - initial thought: How clever - not just for weed anymore!

But that was very long ago, when really good weed was about $20/oz. Had I but known, I could have saved all those baggies and paper-towel roll bongs and opened a museum...

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Logos on dime bags? Curious. Is that a New York thing, an American thing, or more widespread than that?

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Speaking of paper towel roll bongs. I never owned a proper bong or pipe. Just a cardboard toilet paper tube with some aluminum foil.

The guy I bought pot from in high school would give you an audio tape case (always the Stray Cats for some reason). The pot would be in a plastic bag in the case. You'd give him the case back with money in it.

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11: Ah, it harkens back to my distant semi-rural upbringing that my thoughts were exactly along these lines.

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