@Briar Lee: Well you have answered one question. OCB cigarette papers are without gum and the only way to get them to stay rolled is to crimp the end of the cigarette in the fashion you have shown. I preferred Wheat Straw papers back in the day since they also did not have gum and relied on the gluten in the paper to stick together. Did you know that OCB are still popular with French Horn players since they use the paper as a wick to soak up moisture? In the words of Michael Cain ... not a lot of people know that!
When I wa a boy, my father would take me to the barber shop and there was always a group of old men and most were loafing but some were waiting for a hair cut, and you couldn’t ever tell who needed a hair cut.
Why America has a literacy crisis is because wives don’t put the fear of death in their husbands for their children repeating the fantastic lies and impossible stories those old men made up from the whole cloth.
I loved my Daddy so much I knew not to repeat tales of 100 mile per gallon carburetors and hoop snakes and the New World Order having a death grip on America or what was left of it after the Communist fifth columnists and fellow travelers and hippy subversives got through ruining us from within, if Christ didn’t return soon.
My Mama would have blamed him for me saying stuff like that, and she had persistent and recurring anger issues of what might happen when she trusted me to his care. We knew that the law wouldn’t hold a beautiful, young Christian schoolteacher in jail long, regardless of what murder or mayhem she did.
Mostly Prince Albert or Velvet seemed to be smoked in little Dr Grabow pipes but if an old man had lost an arm, usually to a hay baler, he was sure to roll his OCB cigarettes one handed, perfectly that looked like tailor mades, and then light them with a match from a penny box of matches. It was quite a show, for a little kid to watch.
I asked Daddy why was that, and he thought it was to show the world they could.
It kept me, far away from hay balers and other dangerous machinery on the farm, it surely did.
Tom T Hall, was a prophet poet philosopher among us mortals:
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