Klarinet Archive - Posting 000665.txt from 1997/04

From: Kimberly Joan Kriston <kjk0003@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Cigarette paper? Was Re: Sticky pads
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:09:31 -0400

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Karl Krelove wrote:
>
> > You're right. My students have trouble getting cigarette paper, too. Their
> > parents usually are willing to buy it for them. In this area, it's actually
> > getting harder to find it - a lot of stores, in keeping with the move to
> > discourage smoking, are not carrying it (or cigarettes) anymore. To make
> > things a little harder, you have to be very careful if you use gummed
> > papers, or you have to take the added step of cutting the gummed edge off.
>
> There is something that can substitute quite nicely for cigarette papers,
> and in fact seem to work better. These are used at hairdresser's salons,
> and are called "end papers." (I don't know exactly what they are
> originally designed to be used for, as I have never patronized such an
> establishment, and my wife has not communicated that secret information to
> me!) ;-)
<**I think they are used for perms. You put them on the rollers when
perming your hair. (i don't advocate this, but i have known a few people
who have sneaked that paper out of a home perm box at the grocery store).
>
> These papers are _not_ gummed, and they are larger and more absorbent than
> the infamous cigarette papers. They are available at barber-and-beauty
> supply houses, and I recently was told that they can be bought in the
> women's cosmetic section of such stores as Walmart and K-Mart.
>
> Ed Lacy
> el2@-----.edu
>