you know how you can get toilet paper in individual rolls? wrapped in a paper of sorts? we used to use that for rolling papers for our buglers. the smokes i smoke now, i do still roll my own about half the time, are rolled with flax. good stuff.....

I think paper technology may have advanced since y'all's days. They look like rice paper Elements to me. Stuff is seriously see-through.

http://www.rollingpaperwarehouse.com...afic_paper.gif

Well, whats the blue bit at the thin end then?

crutch, roach, filter, whatever.

I'm so out of touch. I don't know what a crutch is, except when you have a broken leg.

Ibby, when I was your age the height of smoking fashion was a paper printed with designs of tie-dye or leaf patterns that was made with flavored inks.

I guess with the price of weed these days (I was paying $30-40/ounce) you want a thinner paper.

christ. It's 300/o in burlington, or between 15-20/g

I've also found that the lingo is different just between states, too. Like, in Maryland, when you finish a bowl, you say it is "chaff" or "char", whereas in SoCal and at Bennington you say "it's cashed" or "I cashed it." I learned roach as a rolled piece of card or stiff paper used to make a filter, but elsewhere roach refers to the finished product and crutch refers to the filter. My drug slang is sorta pieced together from taiwan, socal, bennington, burlington, new york, boston, and maryland, so...

:rolleyes:
Funny but on the floor to the left is an old Chinese carpet that once resided in my grandparents bedroom and later ended up in my house. It got so worn and frayed that I no longer wanted it in the house but could not bring myself to discard it, I figure it is over 100 years old and made the trip from China to London with my grand parents in 1929 and then on to New York in 1956 and to Texas in 2008. Something classy about having a Chinese carpet in your work shop!

Didn't see any of those papers in Amsterdam, but then I was buying pre-rolled.
At the girlie end of the market.

Filter? Are you kidding me?

In my day, the roach was both the rolled smokable as well as the itty bitty tip left at the finish. A doobie was smokable product in paper. A roach clip was used to hold the roach, could be an alligator clip with a bunch of feathers hanging off it, or something specifically designed for the purpose. I had a lovely roachclip made by Jerry Samuels, aka Napoleon XIV (They're Coming to Take Me Away). I preferred to smoke from bowls or bongs. One hitters or party bowls. Like most of my generation I had a lovely Mexican Onyx bowl. That's lost to the mists of history. I think I still have the roach clip in a box somewhere.

I am unable to dredge up from my memory how we referred to having expended all the smokable product ... kicked, maybe? Guess that shit does cause memory impairment.

Yes, I am OLD.

But I am always grateful that I grew up when weed was cheap and cocaine was unobtainably expensive. Around $250 to $300 per gram, if I remember.

I usually smoke from pieces, but I actually am pretty partial to metal bowls/stems with plastic chambers, simply for durability's sake. I also prefer hoses to necks, but not hookah-style product-on-top. I also have a handful of one-hitters that look like cigarettes (and a zippo with a false inside chamber that holds about 3/4g), that i have literally smoked standing between a secret service officer and a cop outside the vice-president of taiwan's house. heh. But when I roll, I roll about like those, with either hemp or rice paper (better flavor), and a good sturdy crutch at the end about the size of a cigarette filter, so I have something to hold onto and so I know I'm not wasting any product at the unsmoked end.

I was wondering about that carpet.

I also notice your vice had little shock absorber sound deadening plastic rings on the handle shaft. I'd never seen that before, and think it's a neat idea. The loud clink when the handle slides down after you turn it is mildly annoying.

When I started smoking, regular Mexican was $15/oz, and we rolled in stone tablets.