NPPF - Golden Paste

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 29 11:46:33 CDT 2003


>From the N-list:

From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us at yahoo.com>
>
> Yes, I remember eating the paste. When you used it
> you'd get some excess on your fingers and it would
> harden into a second skin which you would lick off
> like scales.Also the rubber tip reminded me of a
> sensuous flexible nipple.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel at cox.net> wrote:
> > EDNOTE. "How fully I fdelt nature glued to me   /
> > And how my childish palate loved the taste /
> > Half-fish, half-honey of that golden paste! / My
> > picture book was at an early age. 
> > ------------------
> > I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that was called mucilage that
used to be common in school rooms and used by kids at home through most of this
century and probably the last for pasting together their art junk.
> >
> > It came in a bottle with a reddish rubber sort of a nipple that you rubbed
on whatever surface you were going to stick something to, say, a photo snipped
from Life magazine into a scrap book.
> >
> > I would bet almost every kid who used this stuff tasted it at some time.

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