Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:51:53 +0900
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Best glue gun in the world?



> I hate to throw anything away.

Your justifiable wincing at the concept of disposables might be soothed 
by a rumor about the origins of hot glue sticks.
An old prop shop boss, who's appetite for obscure information earned 
him the nickname of "Dr. Science" on our crew, came up with a 
delightful swords-to-plowshares story that goes like this: after napalm 
got some bad press in Vietnam it just wasn't considered very cool to 
have around any more. Rather than wasting the stockpiles, a new way of 
using the stuff was cooked up, so to speak. Hence thermoplastic 
adhesives.
This is too much of a happy-sappy ending for me to accept the whole 
story at face value, but preliminary googling didn't shed any light on 
the subject. As with so many rumors, there may be an ounce of truth in 
there somewhere.
Anybody got a clue?
-G

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